The making of Robin Hood and Maid Marian!

For Halloween, Ryder requested to be someone with a bow and arrow and she wanted to be a princess, so we went with Robin Hood and Maid Marian.  So far, this is the most creative I have gotten on the kids costumes and to be honest,  I thought it would be such a pain, but it has been so much FUN!

Here is the making of Maid Marian for our Eden Marie:

I found this blue and green fabric on the remnant shelf for $5 at Joanne's.  It was a little over a yard and was the perfect amount for what I needed it for:

(I had EVERYTHING else for her costume: the thread, ribbon, elastic, and everything for her flower wreath.  That made the project even better!)

 Every project is so much better when you have a helper...♥

 Until I had made the elastic band, it was really hard to get the length right and I had to keep trying it on her so there are very few photos of that process:

Since I didn't want to go with a complicated head piece, I decided to make her a flower wreath instead:

I kept the top simple with one of her shirts with a bib necklace that I have that had.
Here is the finished product of our Maid Marian:

Here is the making of Robin Hood for Ryder:

For Ryder's Robin Hood costume, I decided to keep the sewing simple with green and brown flannel and some green skinny jeans that he already had.

I splurged and got a hat on Etsy because I just couldn't get the felt to go right and I really wanted it to look better than what I was able to do.
We ordered it through the seller GoodsPlace, and Billie was amazing to work with us when I accidentally had the first one sent to the old house address and it got lost.  She made one specific for him and he was ELATED!
(Ryder looked at the picture on her shop and said, "That lady doesn't look very much like Robin Hood but the hat's really cool!!!" 
Oh that kid...♥

(Seriously, if you saw what I had attempted, it would have been one of those "Nailed It" pictures from Pinterest...♥)

Then I just used some scrap fabric for bag for his arrows:

 

So here is the finished product of our Robin Hood:

 

 

Sherwood Forest just got a whole lot cuter!