Cactus Costume

What's more appropriate than dressing your pet hedgehog up as a cactus for Halloween? Answer: Nothing!
So here's an Instructable on how to do it. This was super easy and only took me about 45 minutes.

**And please, supervised play time only**

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Step 1: What you need:

-2 pieces of felt, different shades of green. One roughly 5x3 when folded in half and the other can be smaller.
-1 small piece of felt
-About a handful of stuffing
-Hot glue gun
-Seam ripper (or scissors will work)
-Sewing machine or needle and thread (minimal sewing-you could probably even use the glue gun for this)

bigfork says: Apr 15, 2012. 2:05 PM

SUPER CUTE IM GONNA MAKE THIS!

mauricio_b.c says: Dec 14, 2011. 7:10 PM

oooh my goood! amazing ! :)

tqwerty says: Nov 4, 2011. 3:31 PM

...AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

pwillett1 says: Nov 3, 2011. 5:27 PM

It's adoraable. Now if I only had a hedgehog!

birdbrain5381 says: Oct 30, 2011. 3:34 PM

This is pretty cute. We have an albino hedgehog named Tails. My fiancée is Planning to make this for her. That, or angel wings since she's albino and it would fit. We'd still use your underbelly strap idea! Kudos!

TristaGee (author) in reply to birdbrain5381Oct 30, 2011. 5:49 PM

Aww, that would be so precious. If only there were some way to do a halo too.

flimda says: Oct 30, 2011. 3:42 PM

This has to be my favourite thing of all time ever.

I salute you TristaGee, you are a God amongst mere mortals.

TristaGee (author) in reply to flimdaOct 30, 2011. 5:46 PM

Oh garsh :3

kbukovac says: Oct 30, 2011. 2:02 PM

haha, cute and easy... you could also use this technique on some cheap green sweatpants and a hoodie to make a human cactus costume!

TristaGee (author) in reply to kbukovacOct 30, 2011. 2:50 PM

Ha! Great idea. Then you could be matchy-matchy, lol.

Technolio says: Oct 27, 2011. 12:29 PM

One question: Does he mind wearing it? otherwise, Awesome hedgie and really cool costume, keep up the good work :)

TristaGee (author) in reply to TechnolioOct 27, 2011. 12:50 PM

Once it was on he mostly ignored it. The piece of fleece used as the "tie" was really stretchy and soft so I don't think it was all that uncomfortable, and it was loose enough to where it wouldn't hurt him.

I'm unsure if this link will work or not (if not, I can upload it to YouTube), but here is a short video of him roaming around a bit.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1577206246792&set=vb.1734710816&type=2&theater

merijnvw in reply to TristaGeeOct 30, 2011. 7:26 AM

whaHAHA this is the most awesome instructable ever!! I don't have a hedgehog but I do have a cactus, I think I will make a follow up how to dress your cactus as a hedgehog!

TristaGee (author) in reply to merijnvwOct 30, 2011. 12:55 PM

Rofl, brilliant!

flyingpuppy says: Oct 30, 2011. 12:22 PM

Ain't that redundant?

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canida says: Oct 29, 2011. 4:00 PM

This is so ridiculously adorable! And what a cute, happy little hedgehog.

the_burrito_master says: Oct 26, 2011. 8:37 PM

Dawwwww, I want hedgehog :D

Flintlock says: Oct 26, 2011. 3:29 PM

Adorable!

the_burrito_master in reply to FlintlockOct 26, 2011. 8:36 PM

GUMSHOE!

MidnightSon says: Oct 26, 2011. 3:28 PM

Seriously you have a HEDGEHOG PET ??? That is so awesome. You should get 5 stars just for that, but the cactus costume idea is so great too. Please keep up, and say hello to Persi for me.