DIY Lawn Flamingos in Halloween Costumes!

Eeeeeek! I am so excited about my newest Halloween decoration/the cutest little lawn flamingos I’ve ever seen/this post! haha, I sure hope this post makes up for the colossal break we’ve had since the last post. I kinda think it might….I mean..

Look at these little cuties! So last year I saw several people sharing around skeleton lawn flamingos and they were so awesome! I was thinking how cool it would be to have a whole fleet of them in my yard for Halloween. But then, I thought “why not make them all into different Halloween-themed things?!” A flamingo can dress up just as good as a human can and I believe this post proves it!

And in the end, I didn’t even make a skeleton haha! Honestly, it seemed like more work than I wanted to do and I wanted to put out a wholly unique set of Halloween lawn flamingos. So! We have a black cat, a ghost, a devil, a mummy, a superhero, a witch (probably my fave!), a jack o’ lantern pumpkin, frankenstein, bride of frankenstein, and a hippie (ok, maybe this one is my fave!).

I’m pretty enamored with these little guys! I think any one of them would be a great addition to anyone’s Halloween decor but the whole party of em is pretty dang fun, wouldn’t ya say?!

I grabbed this set of 10 flamingos from Home Depot, right here. Instructions (and closeups!) for each flamingo is given below. Not included in all the materials lists is a hot glue gun (I used it on every one).

Superhero Lawn Flamingo Costume

• felt in two colors//
• paint in one of those colors//
• scissors

1. Cut one color of felt into a little cape shape (seen below)
2. Embellish with the other color in any fashion of your choosing
3. Paint around the flamingo’s eyes a superhero mask

DIY Black Cat Lawn Flamingo Costume

• Black spray paint//
• Yellow acrylic paint//
• small paintbrush//
• toothpicks//
• black marker//
• pre-made cat accessories or black and pink felt

1. Paint flamingo black.
2. Paint the eyes yellow.
3. Color in the pupils black with a marker.
4. I found this awesome cat accessory pack at Dollar Tree but you could easily make your own ears and tail from felt. I cut the ears down quite a bit and attached with hot glue. Attach tail with hot glue too.
5. Use black marker to color toothpicks. Cut in half. Attach to face like whiskers using hot glue

DIY Lawn Flamingo Devil Costume

• Red spray paint//
• Devil costume accessories or felt felt

1. I nabbed this great set of pre-made devil accessories from Dollar Tree. But you could easily make little horns and a tail from red felt.
2. I cut the horns down a lot smaller.
3. Attach accessories to flamingo with hot glue.
   

   

DIY Lawn Flamingo Jack O’ Lanter Pumpkin Costume

• orange spray paint//
• green tape//
• black paint and paintbrush (I actually ended up using a sharpie instead!)

1. Paint entire flamingo orange.
2. Use a black permanent marker to draw a classic Jack O’ Lantern face on each side of the flamingo.
3. I used green painters tape to just make a little stem and hot glued it on. You could paint any small cylinder green.

DIY Bride of Frankenstein Lawn Flamingo Costume

• black and white spray paint//
• black permanent marker//
• white paint and paintbrush//
• black spiderwebbing

1. Paint flamingo head white.
2. Paint body black without worrying about taping off (unless you want to).
3. Make a little “wig” by cutting off a cylinder of black spiderweb. Paint a white line up the sides of this hair. Hot glue to head of flamingo
4. Use black marker to make “stitches” around face and neck.

DIY Hippie Lawn Flamingo Costume

• A few fun colors of spray paint//
• floral fabric//
• peace sign necklace//
• fake flowers

1. Spray paint flamingo in a tie dye type pattern with some fun colors. It was much easier to do this than I thought it would be, just spray in random places with colors like purple, turquoise, green, yellow!
2. Pull off fake flowers and attach randomly all over flamingo with hot glue.
3. Hang peace sign necklace/s over the flamingo’s neck.
4. Attach a tied strip of floral fabric around head with hot glue.

DIY Mummy Costume for a Lawn Flamingo

• Off white fabric

1. Tear fabric into strips.
2. Wrap around flamingo, attaching with hot glue.

DIY Frankenstein Lawn Flamingo Costume

• green and black spray paint//
• black permanent marker//
• black spiderwebs//
• aluminum foil//
• push pins

1. Spray paint flamingo head green.
2. When dry, tape off at the base of the neck and spray paint the body black.
3. Make a little hair coif out of black spiderwebbing and hot glue onto head.
4. Push pins into the neck.
5. Cover push pins in aluminum foil.
   

   

6. Draw random stitching on Frankenstein’s face and neck.

 

DIY Lawn Flamingo Ghost Costume

• White fabric//
• Scissors

1. Cut white fabric the right length for it to drape over the flamingo.
2. Mark where eyes are on the fabric and then cut little eye holes out
3. Attach fabric to flamingo with hot glue.

 

DIY Witch Costume for a Lawn Flamingo

• Green and black spray paint//
• mini witch hat (got these cute hair clips at H&M)//
• Small wood dowel//
• twine//
• scissors//
• mini cauldron (optional)

1. First spray paint the head of the flamingo green.
2. Tape off around the neck, then spray paint the rest of the body black.
3. Make a mini broom with twine and mini dowel.
4. Hot glue mini witch hat onto flamingo head.
5. Hot glue mini broom into place on its side.
6. I found the mini cauldron at Walmart.

So which one is your fave?!