Five fun, easy, creative pairs of holiday pajamas to make yourself for Christmas, Valentines, St. Patrick's, Easter, and Halloween. Instructions, tips and ideas included.
Basic Supplies
For each pair of pajamas, sweat pants or shorts, specified under each particular heading. A matching sweatshirt or t-shirt
Various colors of felt
Scissors
Threads in assorted colors
Sewing needles or sewing machine
Fabric Glue
Fabric Paint
Fabric safe glitter glue
Assorted trims including lace, buttons, yarn, assorted colors of pom-poms
Wash and dry according to directions all pants and shirts prior to decorating. If using fabric glues, glitters, and/or paints, follow all directions on containers to help maintain finished products.
Valentine Themed Pajamas
Red shorts
Pink t-shirt
Red felt
Lace
Glitter
Sew lace trim around the bottom of each short leg. Cut two hearts out of pink felt. Decorate felt hearts with the fabric safe glitter glue, with your name and your valentine's name. Sew side by side on the front of the t-shirt. If you really want to make it easy, just glue the hearts in place.
St. Patrick Themed Pajamas
White sweatpants or shorts
White sweatshirt
Green felt
Gold glitter
From felt, cut two shamrock shapes that will fill the backside area of the pants. Decorate with glitter and sew in place. With the sweatshirt, cut a v-shape in the front, but leave remaining collar intact to decrease necessary sewing. Fold edge of v-cut in; sew edge down towards inside to prevent rough edge from sewing. Sew green lace to inside of v-shape. Decorate front of shirt with an Irish saying, such as "˜Erin Go Bragh', which translates into "˜Ireland Forever', or "˜Happy St. Patrick's Day', with fabric paint.
Easter Themed Pajamas
Any pastel colored sweatpants and matching sweatshirt
Two large buttons
Small amounts white, black, and green yarn
Glitter or fabric paint
White, pink, and orange felt
Cut two ear shapes out of the white felt. Cut two matching shapes, slightly smaller, for the insides of the ears, out of pink felt. Glue pink felt onto white. Cut a nose shape out of pink. On front of shirt, sew button eyes onto chest area of shirt. Sew bottom of one ear slightly above and offset from one eye. Sew other ear on opposite side, both on the bottom of the ear and slightly above so ear does not completely flop over. With yarn, fashion both whiskers and mouth. Tack in place with thread. Cut carrot shape out of orange felt. Decorate carrot shape with glitter or fabric paint. Sew or glue near mouth shape. Top off with strands of green yarn.
Halloween Themed Pajamas
Black sweatpants
Black t-shirt
Glow in the dark fabric paint
Two black pom-poms
Small amount black yarn
Halloween is a favorite holiday and with growing festivities every year, any new projects should be kept as simple as possible. So keeping that in mind, be creative with this project, but no need to elaborate, as this will look as good as it was easy when finished. Lay out shirt and pants as if wearer was inside of them. Using glow-in-the-dark fabric paint, draw a giant spider web across the front of shirt and down onto top of pants. Once dry, glue pom-poms together and onto web center. Form legs out of yarn and tack in place with thread. Finish spider by adding eyes and leg joints and tips with glow-in-the-dark paint.
Christmas Themed Pajamas
White sweatpants
White sweatshirt
Assorted colored pom-poms
Green fabric paint
Another fun but very simple design! With paint, draw a string of lights at random over the front of shirt and pants, and onto edges. With scissors, carefully shape pom-poms so they are peaked at one end, resembling a Christmas light bulb. Glue at intervals onto your "˜string of lights'.
