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Whoooo wants to make an owl costume for pretend play or Halloween?

Make an owl costume for pretend play or Halloween.

Super cute owl costume headband for kids to make and wear. Owl halloween, owl dress up, owl pretend play.

DIY Owl Costume Headband

This little hoot was so easy to make. For less than $1.00 and about 10 minutes of time (depending on how many helpers you have)  you can make one too.

These owl headbands are great for pretend play in the garden and could be a start to a Halloween Costume.  

The first thing you do is cut out the owl shapes from felt. You need an owl base, outline for owl eyes, white portion of eyes into two connect circles, two smaller circles for eye pupils, and then a triangle for the owl beak. Here is our owl headband pattern

To start sewing, begin with the eye center.

Then switching thread color, you’ll sew around the white eye portion.

The next step you will take your scissors to fringe around the brown portion of the eyes to make it appear like features on this owl costume.

Now it’s time to add the owl beak!

Place the owl beak at a right angle under owl eye and starting sewing from the middle down. Then you will move the left side down below the eye to create a three-dimensional effect for the beak. Sew from the middle down to the other side to attach to owl headband.

The last step is to attach the owl to the headband on each side of the owl you’ve made. You will also want to go under the fridge you’ve made to hide it to attach to the band for extra wear and tear for kids to use again and again. Just make it the size that fits your child’s head.

This type of owl headband costume works well for kids that are not hat or mask fans.

Watch the Video Tutorial for Owl Costume Headband

You could probably do this on your own – but why not let the kids help?  I let both kids choose their own fabrics. My 5 year old also helped set it up and fringed the felt around the eyes too (check out the video to see her in action).

I do the machine sewing as the kids are not quite old enough in my opinion to sew with a machine.

Pretend Owl Costume

Here is our owl headband pattern

Owl Activity for Kids:

Owl Costume Tutorial for Halloween or Playtime

Owl Books for Kids

Snuggle up with your little one in their owl headband and a good owl book. Tons for storytime fun together all about owls.

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  3. How cute! Thanks for sharing! My daughter wants to be a ninja but maybe I can talk my two year old son into being an owl… :0)

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  4. Fantastic! I think I will keep this in my back pocket for a rainy day! Thanks for the brilliant idea and for sharing it with us at Rub Some Dirt On It!

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  5. Hope my novice tutorial was helpful =) Can't wait to see your creations. We just added a new tab for pictures of our projects done by our readers. If you make something and want to add to our page, just send us the picture =) If you want us to link back to your pages, please make sure we have your url too =)

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      • Hey Nicole, we just embedded this owl headband tutorial back into the back, there was an issue and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention. Can’t wait to hear how your owl headband turns out!

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  13. OH NO! I can't either! Gotta love technology. Will try to fix the link when the kiddos go down to sleep. Thanks for letting us know!

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  14. The pattern should be updated. I didn't know Google Docs changed. SO sorry – Let me know if you are having problems with anything else and I'll see what I can do!

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