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A Pillowcase Superhero Cape – No Sew!

February 27, 2014 by Sarah 10 Comments

Superheros are becoming rather big around here.  It started with Sammy’s firefighter fascination and grew into a fascination for any sort of hero.  Sam loves running around (and jumping off of things), being a superhero, and ‘saving the day’!  Of course, baby Benjamin – who has somehow become almost a year and a half – follows right along.  So of course, my lovely tea towel apron quickly became a cape.  What is a mother to do? Never fear – the pillowcase DIY Superhero cape is here!

pillowcase for a DIY Superhero cape how we learn

This DIY Superhero cape was made in less then 5 minutes – and sewing was completely unnecessary!  If you have a pillowcase and scissors you can have a superhero cape (in fact 2) in less time then you can say: BAM! POW! ZAP!

Materials for this DIY superhero cape

For this DIY Superhero cape you will need:

A pillowcase

Scissors

Optional: felt or fabric for decorating the back of the cape.  We cut a yellow star out of felt.

How to make a Superhero cape

First, choose a pillowcase the has a folded edge at the opening.  Almost all of them do.

Then, cut the pillowcase in two.  Lay the pillowcase down flat, and cut off the seam, cut along the bottom of the pillowcase, and up the third side, so you have two rectangles.

how we learn cutting the pillowcases for the DIY superhero cape

Next, cut a thin strip off of the bottom, or one side, of the pillow.  This will be the capes string.  We cut the strip from the bottom, which was good for tying the superhero cape around the back of shirts.  To tie around necks, the side strings would probably be better.

Finally, thread that cut off strip through the top of the cape (the folded down part at the opening of the pillowcase).

how we learn an easy homemade superhero cape

And there you have it! A five minute, pillowcase, DIY Superhero cape.  You can decorate the back of the cape with cut out shapes, felt, or even have your little superhero colour on it.  We used felt stars, which Madeline, the budding seamstress sewed on.  They could have easily been glued on as well.

how we learn an easy homemade super hero cape

I ended up tying the cape strings around the back of the boys shirts – pulled out their shirts and tied the strings around sort of like a pony tail.  I don’t like anything tied around their necks – except, of course, to get a good picture 🙂

how to make easy super hero capes how we learn

Never fear, good citizens of the How Wee Learn blogging community! We can all sleep soundly tonight knowing the world is free from little superheros without capes!

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Filed Under: Art, Create, Mama Creates Too, Toddler, Toddlers Tagged With: cape, pretend play, superhero

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Comments

  1. Carla says

    February 28, 2014 at 8:24 am

    Oh, that’s so clever!! I love it! I think I’ll be making about six! 🙂 Pinning too!

    Reply
  2. Amie says

    March 5, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    Great idea! Thanks again for sharing 🙂

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      March 9, 2014 at 2:27 pm

      Thanks Amie – and thanks for having me share!

      Reply
  3. Claire says

    March 13, 2014 at 9:09 am

    These are adorable!! Love how no sewing is involved, or that the sewing doesn’t have to be perfect – great for a budding seamstress, like your little one (or me)! 🙂

    Reply
  4. Chanda says

    March 18, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    Love this! I actually think I could make it!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      April 3, 2014 at 12:32 pm

      I promise you can Chanda — SO easy! Good luck!

      Reply
  5. Naomi says

    July 2, 2015 at 6:35 am

    That’s amazing! Thankyou so much, you’ve just saved me loads not having to buy several costumes for a school superhero party!!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      July 5, 2015 at 10:13 pm

      Yay for saving money!! And that party sounds fun – have a blast! Thanks for reading Naomi.

      Reply
  6. Allison says

    September 2, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    Great idea! Do you use anything on the edges to stop fraying or is that not an issue?

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      September 3, 2015 at 7:25 pm

      Hi Allison – we did nothing special at all and haven’t had any issues with fraying! Though if you did, I suppose you could just fold the sides over and add a bead of hot glue {hot glue can solve pretty much any issue I’ve found!}

      Reply

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