{"id":17308,"date":"2017-09-22T08:13:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=17308"},"modified":"2017-09-27T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T12:35:39","slug":"costumes-naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/09\/22\/costumes-naturally\/","title":{"rendered":"Costumes, Naturally: Creative holiday getups for nature lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

U<\/span>sing materials I had at home, I skipped the costume shop last Halloween and floated <\/span>through the holiday as a jellyfish. There\u2019s no shortage of spirit and creativity among natural resources staffers this time of year, either. Below I\u2019ll share how I made my outfit from scratch, and show you what some colleagues came up with as well! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Jellyfish costume; department photo<\/p><\/div>\n

What I used<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/span>Bubble wrap, clear tape, foam board, hot glue and glue gun, white cowboy hat, iridescent and metallic tissue paper, sheer white fabric, two thin wire battery-operated LED lights, variety of ribbon, white duct tape and white grocery bags.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u00a0 <\/span>I\u00a0 <\/span>did<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span>I started by creating the top of the jellyfish. I took the foam board and cut out a circle with a 20-inch diameter. I carefully cut a hole in the center for the top of the hat to fit through, making sure to cut it to the size of the center of the hat for a snug fit. Then I applied hot glue around the top of the rim and glued the foam board circle onto the hat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, I poked two holes on the underside of the hat: one on each side near where my ears would be in order to thread through the lights. Then I glued the battery case underneath the hat, making sure the tops were left exposed so the batteries could be accessed. I didn\u2019t place the lights until the top of the jellyfish was built up, so for the time being, I just left them hanging off to the side.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jellyfish costume lit up; department photo<\/p><\/div>\n

At this point, I saw I needed to make the hat look like the puffy top of a jellyfish. I took some white grocery bags and placed them on top of the hat. Once I achieved the shape and height I wanted, I attached a variety of tissue paper with clear tape.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time for the lights. I laid out the strings in no particular pattern; just spreading them out evenly over the top of the tissue paper and attaching them with clear tape. I then covered the entire top of the hat with large bubble wrap, bringing it over the edge and attaching it underneath with hot glue. Then for the very top, I used an old, white sheer curtain to cover the entire thing, leaving enough fabric underneath to glue to the hat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last were the tentacles. First I cut the ribbons in varied lengths, but at least long enough to reach my knees. I attached the ribbons underneath the hat with hot glue and tape. I alternated ribbons, so that the jellyfish would have a unique look. Then to blend in with the costume, I dressed all in white.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pollinator Pack, The Old Man and the Sea, and Shark Tornado; department photos<\/p><\/div>\n

Article by<\/i>\u00a0Karin Dodge<\/i><\/b>\u2014webmaster<\/i>.
\nAppears in Vol. 20, No. 4\u00a0of the Maryland Natural Resource magazine, fall 2017.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Using materials I had at home, I skipped the costume shop last Halloween and floated through the holiday as a jellyfish. There\u2019s no shortage of spirit and creativity among natural resources staffers this time of year, either. Below I\u2019ll share how I made my outfit from scratch, and show you what some colleagues came up  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3824,3825,3823,3168],"class_list":["post-17308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","tag-costumes","tag-green","tag-halloween","tag-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17463,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308\/revisions\/17463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}