Yoshi Egg and Super Mushroom Baskets

Halloween last year I completely forgot about the baskets until the night we went out.  I ended up just using an orange bucket we had laying around.  This year I wanted something that matched the costumes that we were making.  For Yoshi I decided to do an egg for his basket, and for Baby Mario a Super Mushroom.

After working with this plastic mesh during a failed Yoshi head attempt I felt it would be a great material for the baskets.  Since I have done some papercraft stuff in the past, I thought it would be great to use that as the templates for making the baskets.

I am extremely happy with how good these turned out, and think I will be doing this from now on.

These could also be used for Easter.

Step 1: Build Materials and Tools

Materials:
11" x 17" Printer paper
13.5" x 22" Plastic Mesh - Joann
White Yarn - Already Owned
Red Felt - Joann
White Felt - Joann
White Fleece - Left overs from costume build, could just use Felt
Green Fleece - Left overs from costume build, could just use Felt
Thread

Tools:
Computer with Photoshop, 11" x 17" print, and internet
Sharpie
Scissors
Large Needle for yarn
Needle

Comments

[canida]

Cute, and a great idea!  I'd love to see them with the costumes. ;)

[craineum]

www.instructables.com/id/Yoshi-Mascot-and-Baby-Mario-Costumes-for-Toddlers/ 

[iPanickedTGG]

OMG! Amazing! I loove Mario. This is so cute I need to try this sometime :)