A fancy dress competition  for your child around the corner, or a unique get up for the Halloween? How about a corn cob costume? The yellow, green, and cream combination, with ‘bobs of kernels’ , would sure make your kid  the cynosure of all eyes.

So are you ready with your needle, thread and scissors,  to make the best costume?
Read the instructions below on how to make a corn cob costume.
•    Firstly you need to get a yellow-cloth ready for the base. A full-length skirt will serve the purpose.
•    For the kernels, you need to prepare bob like structures with yellow-cloth, which is of a darker shade than the base cloth. To make the kernels ->
•    Decide on the body length and space as to how many kernels you would be requiring, and make a suitable dimension to cut out squares a big one and a small one which is 2 inches lesser in length.    
•    Fold these squares into quarters, so that you can cut the corners off to make a circle. You will get one set of big circles and another set of small circles.
•    Place the small circle on top of the big one, so that one part of it is lined with the bigger circle and pin it up.
•    Now, with a proper spacing, tag both the circles with pins, (pinning up both the circles), as it’s shown in the image below.

•    Once the circles are appropriately pinned, you can sew them together using back-stitch. But remember to leave a gap of two-inches to ‘insert’ your stuffing and also turn the kernel inside out. This is an important step in how to make corn cob costume
•    Repeat the same procedure for other circles as well.
•    Once the kernel bags are ready, (turned inside out) you stuff them with polyfiber stuffing and hand-sew the remaining open-seams(for the stuffing).
•    Your kernels are ready. Just as you would sew buttons on a shirt., you take the skirt-base, lay it on the floor and position the kernels the way you want them to appear as corns on the cob.
•    Stitch up the kernels from the back-side and make it sturdy by adding a few extra stitches if needed. You want to make a corn on the cob costume, which doesn’t drop off, at a drop of the hat(with your child bounding up and down or bouncing around).
•    For the down-part of the skirt, you can use some fabric-paint(green shade), to make it appear as a part of the husk, and also make gathers or make a provision for a draw-string, so that the corn cob costume is tapering at the end.
•    And for the remaining part of the husk, you could get a cloth of the same green color and make it into a jacket, with slit, full sleeves.
•    As for the feet, you can also make a leaf-like covering for the shoes your child will be wearing for the D-Day.
To get more idea about the base work of making the kernels for the corn cob costume, you could visit instructables.com
Well, now that you have some idea about a corn cob costume, there is no need to be  on pins and needles thinking about the perfect costume for your child. You just need to thread the needle and sew along the instructions for how to make corn cob costume.

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