The air dry clay is perfect because it’s lightweight. For Twilight’s ears and horn, I used simple $2 air dry clay that I found at a craft store (Crayola Model Magic could also work), sculpted the shapes, let them dry, painted them purple, and hot glued them to a purple headband. Then I hot glued them around the wire wings and stuffed them with cotton. I looked at a reference picture of Twilight’s wings and cut pieces of felt out to match. Twilight’s wings were made using dollar fairy wings as a base, then I just cut the wire into lines that could be bent as needed. This is helpful for when the baby is in a car seat and you don’t want the tail in the way! (A reference picture of Spike was helpful!) For Spike’s tail, I used a second onesie in the same color and cut it into a triangle, then used the onesie’s snaps to attach it to the rear end. My Little Pony Twilight Sparkle Costume Step 1: Build the Headpiece. I also cut out wiggly ear shapes and put them on the hat. The spikes were stuffed with cotton and sewed on by hand. Next, I cut out a large green oval and triangles for spikes and sewed them to the onesie and the hat, using purple embroidery thread to create scale lines on the belly. Then I found cute purple accessories to spiff up my Twilight outfit at 99 cents, like leg warmers, fishnets, and a dress up tutu. I found a purple onesie and beanie hat at 99 cents only, and bought a large adult size tee shirt to use for the spikes. I found old brown clogs and repainted them purple with acrylic paints, even adding a diamond cutie mark.

For Spike’s costume, I looked for baby clothes in purple, and found some cute pants. I even found purple pants! Had I not found any, I had planned on choosing white clothes and possibly dying them. Twilight Sparkle’s character is a little geeky, so I picked out a cute sweater vest for a “schoolgirl” kind of look. First, I found as many purple and lavender items of clothing as possible in my size. Wanting to stay within a small budget, I bought most of the costume materials (except for the wig that was Ebay) from the local 99 cent store and Goodwill.

Now that I’m finally a mom (we adopted our son this year and were so excited for his first Halloween) I thought it would be cute to do a mom/baby costume that was cute for both of us, and as a big My Little Pony fan, I had the perfect option… Twilight Sparkle the unicorn and Spike the baby dragon! And our proportional size difference worked in our favor.

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