Spirit Riding Free: Costume DIY
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Anyone who has met my daughter has probably also met Pru, her very favorite doll who goes with us just about everywhere. Pru is her favorite character from Spirit Riding Free on Netflix. It’s been her favorite show for years and we’ve acquired a pretty large collection of all things Spirit around here. She plays with at least one set of PALS every day. Last year, she started asking for a Pru outfit way early so I had planned to order some things here and there for Halloween. Once it got closer to Halloween, however, she decided that I needed to dress up as Lucky and Ryan had to be Abigail! LOL! Here’s how we pulled it all together.
PRU
For Hattie’s Pru costume, I found a turquoise long sleeve shirt on Amazon, yellow rhinestone stickers from Dollar Tree to put on the seams of jeans she already had, and a Princess Jasmine wig. I took the hair bands out of the wig and braided the bottom part to match Pru’s hairstyle. She wore her black Chelsea style riding boots that she already had. To make the shirt, I cut out a “V” and also cut out a collar area on a cream-colored t-shirt I was going to give away. I used fabric glue to secure the collar area under the turquoise shirt’s V-neck area. It would be way easier to just have your kid wear a t-shirt underneath the long sleeve shirt, but I knew Hattie would not go for that. The last thing I did was to embellish Pru’s shirt with yellow t-shirt paint. Hattie has the early reader Sprit books so I looked at those for reference, but you can Google images of Pru and zoom in to see the pattern that way.
LUCKY
We started looking around for costume ideas and I realized that I already had a white peasant shirt from Target (years and years old), along with brown leggings and some older brown boots I wouldn’t mind putting a sticker on – we’ll get to the details of that later. I was pretty much set, except for the small details. I even had a red t-shirt to wear under my peasant shirt just like Lucky. For kids, I would look for a white peasant or puff sleeve shirt, plain brown leggings and brown tall boots.
The big challenges with Lucky’s costume were how to add the red horse design to her shirt and how to add the fire design to the boots. I didn’t want to permanently paint either one, so I decided to design them in Illustrator and print them on sticky paper. It was a bit tedious cutting them out, but I loved the way they looked when I got them on. It really made her costume feel official. And, since I didn’t want to go through all of that work and keep it to myself, I’m linking the printables for you below!
Sources: white peasant shirt | white puff sleeve shirt | brown leggings
ABIGAIL
Ryan ended up finding some blue plaid pajama pants that looked similar to Abigail’s and then we ordered a pink ladies’ shirt from Amazon, a blonde wig, and a pink headband! If I were making this costume for kids, I’d purchase a pink puff sleeve t-shirt and use pink t-shirt paint to make the floral design. Plaid leggings or pajama pants would work, along with any brown tall boots you could find.
Sources: kid’s shirt | shirt paint | men’s pants | juniors pants | wig | headband
THE PALS
And here we are, all together with our horses! Hattie and I wore ours out trick-or-treating but Ryan chose to go as a cowboy from Miradero once we left the house. haha! Hattie still asks to wear her costume on a weekly basis and it’s not uncommon for her to ask me to put mine on with her as we go on adventures. I’m planning to make her another shirt as soon as she outgrows this one because she loves it so much. We found our mini horse stuffies at Target, but there are similar versions on Amazon. We also love the Spirit Halloween book that came out this year – Spirit Riding Free: A Tricky Halloween.
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I’m happy to share my PDF files with you for your own Lucky costume! I’d love a credit or a link back when you post your awesome costume photos. If you print them at 100%, they should fit perfectly on an adult shirt and adult boots. However, it will require some scaling down and test printing for kids. My advice is to measure from the ankle part of the boot to the top and scale the file accordingly.
I hope you enjoy the files and I can’t wait to see everyone’s costumes!
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