Angelina Ballerina Halloween Costume

Our family loves literary Halloween costumes.

When our daughter announced that she wanted to dress up as Angelina Ballerina from Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig’s classic children’s books, I was thrilled. We already have the white ears and tail from last year when she dressed up as another white mouse from literature, the feisty Lily from the Kevin Henkes picture books.

We found a pink, frilly princess costume at a second hand store and replaced the princess cameo button with a picture of Angelina dancing. I would have liked to seal it on with Mod Podge Dimensional Magic, but our daughter insisted we use double sized removable poster tape, so she could see the Princess cameo underneath again in the future.

We laced her white tight clad legs with pink ribbons:

and painted her face:

and voila! Our daughter transformed into the great ballerina Mademoiselle Angelina!

Happy Halloween from our family to yours!

9 thoughts on “Angelina Ballerina Halloween Costume”

and short hair!

(the rain boots are an excellent touch :) )

Great work mama!!!! My 4-y-old has those same shoes, and she wore them with her mermaid costume today!

Happy Halloween! Tonight while Jonathan was cooking pumpkin soup I was wearing a pink tutu doing the dishes and I said, “I want to go look at the Creative Salad together.” Yay….love it!

absolutely adorable!!!!

i love it! the leg ribbons are a wonderful touch :)

Love it all!! Hope y’all had a fun day!!

How creative! I love this costume and the thought and fun that went into it!

What a fantastic costume! She looks brilliant!

I loved that book when I was a little girl – I think it’s why I started dancing :) Mwah – Erika

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