Malissa and I are used to spelling out our names for people. Even before I had a super long Dutch last name and Malissa had a pretty French one, we had one of those names where people say, “Huh?” when they hear it. So, after we spelt it out once or twice and they still couldn’t quite visualize it we were known to say, “It’s like Candyland, without the Y.”
We always felt a particular affinity for Candyland because of our similar last name and I have always wanted to be Princess Lolly for Halloween. Several years i began making the costume but never got very far. I was deterred by all the sewing I’d have to do. But this year, I found this perfect yellow dress at H&M for $7! Now faced with minimal sewing {and this could easily be made with no sewing at all!} I just knew this year was the year I’d be making my Candyland dream come true!
Now a few years ago, they re-designed all the characters in Candyland and while I’m all for updating things, I really feel like the new Princess Lolly is a gigantic step down from the first versions in terms of cuteness. So this costume is based off of the vintage Candyland games, the ones with a Lolly that looks like this:
She’s so cute, am I right?! Let’s get dressed up!
- Materials
- Yellow dress //
- Felt //
- Red, Orange, Green, Yellow, Pink, Blue, Purple and White //
- Thick gold ribbon //
- Thin cardboard or cereal box //
- Hot glue and gun or fabric glue //
- Purple hair spray or purple wig
First we’re going to make the suckers that line the bottom of the dress. Cut circles from red, orange and green felt, cut sticks and little slivers out of white. Line them around your dress alternating green, orange then red and having every other one face up and the rest down. Use fabric glue or hot glue (be sure to only hand wash the dress if you use hot glue) and attach the slivers to your circles to make a glare look and then glue the sticks and circles to the dress.
Cut two big red circles, 4 medium orange circles and 2 small ones of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and pink. Sew all these circles together, leaving an opening and turn right side out. Cut strips of white about 1″ by 3″. Apply hot glue to the edge, roll over, add more glue and roll over again. Insert the tip of this into a little circle and stitch it closed. Apply little white slivers to all these suckers as well.
Cut out one more big red circle and two more medium orange ones. Trace something that is circular and about 1″ smaller than the circles and then cut that inside portion out. Glue this on to your puffy circles and then cut out more, bigger slivers in white and apply those. Then glue these circle to the top of your dress, orange underneath and slightly lower than red.
To make the crown, cut a strip of a cereal box about 1.5″ wide and about 18″ long (shorter for little heads, longer for…bigger heads…). Use hot glue to glue it in to a ring then cut two strips of thick gold ribbon the same length. Apply hot glue to the inside in a strip and stick a sucker to it. Stick another one directly across from the first one and then evenly space out the other four. Glue your ribbon to the outside and the other ribbon to the inside.
Our Princess Lolly costume is complete! Curl your hair and spray it purple or find a purple wig to wear!
Now galavant from door to door and gather yourself some real candy!
