Aladdin Halloween Costumes

Halloween last year was sort of "lost" a bit for our family since we had recently moved to a new house in a new town (we moved the 7th of September, 2009). I had wanted to make an Abu costume from Disney's "Aladdin" for our youngest (a son), but I knew I didn't have the time to devote to it. This year, I figured it would be my last chance to get the Abu costume done for him while he was so little.

I love to have all of our family match, so that meant I would also want to create costumes for the rest of the family to match the "Aladdin" theme our youngest would have. I decided since my youngest is going to be Abu, my husband should be Aladdin, which meant that I would be Jasmine. I chose Genie for our oldest (a son).



I knew our daughter wouldn't want to be anything other than the Princess, so I made a Jasmine costume for her as well, but I made a different outfit (the one Jasmine wears at the very end of the movie).



I'm not 100% finished, I have to make some "shoes", but other than that, I'm pretty much ready for Halloween!

Here is the fabric, laid out by costume, cut out and ready to be sewn:

My oldest son wanted his picture taken when I was test fitting the [incomplete] Genie on him:

The finished Jasmine for my daughter, and Abu for my youngest son:

The Genie costume for my oldest son:

The Aladdin costume for my husband and my Jasmine costume:

I'll be sure to post pictures of us wearing them on Halloween.

Cinderella

For her 2nd birthday party, I am making my daughter a Cinderella gown. The theme of her party is going to be...you guessed it: Cinderella!I'm using some satin fabric my Mom gave me from my aunt. I guess my aunt was going to make a dress for my cousin years ago but for one reason or another it never got made. There were about 6½ yards of beautiful blue/aqua satin fabric and several yards of matching blue/aqua lace with scalloped edges.

Our daughter is going to be so cute in this little dress! I can't wait to have it done and put her in it for her birthday party in June. I am using Simplicty 4949 for the pattern:


Though, to make it more like the movie dress, I am leaving off the yoke & collar and the lace at the hem. I am making the sleeves and peplums out of the matching blue/aqua lace, for a cute girly effect even though those dress elements weren't made of lace in the movie version.

Update 6-2-08:

I worked on Anna's Cinderella gown last week for a couple of days. I have it finished except for the zipper, which I haven't purchased yet. Here it is, without the zipper.



I'm sure it will look better when it is being worn. I haven't tried it on her yet, because it still doesn't have the zipper. I made the size 2 for her.

See the dress on our daughter here