How to Make Poppy Troll Costume (with video)

This Poppy Troll Costume Tutorial will make your little troll the hit of the party.  You can have this Poppy Troll costume done in about 2 to 3 hours and you don’t need to be a pro to make it. Also, you don’t need a pattern and will fit any size. Cool right?

My girl went crazy about Trolls this year, how about your kids? My girl went from Frozen obsession to Poppy craziness.

She asked me so many times to be Poppy Troll and after looking everywhere for the costume under a decent budget without luck I said, what the heck, I’m making it.

You might also love these other sewing ideas: DIY Owl Halloween Costume, Halloween Black Cat Softie, and DIY Felt Raccoon Pillowcase.

DIY Princess Poppy Troll Costume

The troll’s movie caused such a buzz and there was no kid who didn’t want to use a costume with their favorite character. My girl was no exception.

This Poppy costume is crazy easy to make. Even if you are not a professional sewer, you can pull this off in a couple of hours or so for the dress and about 30 minutes for the wig.

I included in this tutorial a video and step-by-step photo for the outfit and then only a video for the wig.

Confession time:

I was going nuts between video and photos at the same time! LOL.

I loved Fleece Fun’s Costume super cute, but Angel used a pattern for it, and even though it was super easy to make, I wanted something super easy to make and that would fit any size.

Then I got hooked with Color the Moon Wig Idea, here again, I hit the wall because those tulle rolls here are super expensive. So, I kept digging and looking for alternatives!

What makes this Costume tutorial so special?

Well, there is no pattern for this tutorial because since every girl might have different sizes. What you need is a sleeveless dress, like the type I used here that you might already have in your girl’s closet, and some other supplies.

Some supplies are a bit expensive here like the tulle (unless you can find it in a dollar tree), so for the pink wig, I bought a cheap {really cheap} tulle skirt from the party department in cheap stores. All the other supplies are common and easy to find.

You can add or remove details, it’s always about what you like and your imagination.

I was short on time so I did it as easily and quickly as I could. Hope this helps you too.

How to make this Troll Costume?

Let’s do this!

Supplies:

• A sleeveless dress {that you might already have}
• Blue and light blue Felt {how much? That will depend on your kid’s size}
• Tulle skirt {any size will do just make sure is really thick}
• A small piece of white yarn {Thick}
• Headband
• Teal Foam
• Hot glue gun
• Needle and thread {white or light blue}
• Large cup {those really large}
• Pen or pencil, ruler, and scissors.
• Pins
• Lots of Love!

Optional:

• Pink Sweater and pink tights {for Poppy skin}.

Fabrics Alternatives

You can use numerous types of fabric. I used Felt because is cheap and warm. Also, the felt is stiffer so it keeps the shape. You can also use: Fleece if you need it warmer, or Cotton or knit for warmer weather.

Instructions:

Poppy’s Dress:

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Take your pretty dress and fold it in half lengthwise.

Fold your blue felt enough so your folded dress will fit fold with the fold.

Draw your dress shape on the felt.

Then hand-draw the shoulder flap. Just extend one of the shoulders giving kind of a drop shape.

Cut the felt and cut off on the shoulder’s flap. If you see it in front of you should cut off the left shoulder flap.

This would be your back part of the dress.

Repeat the process using your already cut piece but without any flaps. This will be your front part. Here I suggest cutting off a bit of the neck so it’s a bit more open.

Then place your light blue felt at the bottom of the front part of the dress. It should take a maximum 1/4 of the height of the dress.

Draw onto the light blue felt shape of your dress.

Then using your cup draw the waves about over an inch from the bottom edge. Try to have at least 4 peaks.

Cut and set aside.

Now let’s practice a bit more hand-drawn. Draw One large drop about 1,5 Inches long {more or less depending on your dress size} and one smaller drop, 1 inch or so. It should look like shown below.

Cut your drops and then use them as a pattern to make 1 large and 2 smaller for each peak.

Once you have them all cut, place your light blue piece on top of the front part of the dress and place your drops following the following pattern.

Pin them in place.

Hand-sew each piece to the dress. It doesn’t have to be perfect stitches.

I made them as invisible as I could by inserting the needle on the blue felt but as close as I can from the light blue piece and pushing it back through the light blue piece and so on.

When you are done sewing you should have something like this.

You can repeat this process on the back if you would like. As I said I was short on time so I left it blank.

Now put your front and back pieces right side together and stitch the right and left side and only the non-flapped shoulder.

Finally, stitch the flap. You should still have your shoulder line drawn so what I did was putting the cut shoulder end right on that line but as if it continued the felt. Hope this makes sense. {Check the video where you can see better what I mean}.

Then cross stitch along the shoulder line as follows.

The last touch is the white stitch on the flap. Using a thick yarn and a yarn needle, make a large stitch making sure both ends meet on the wrong side of the flap.

Tie with a knot on the back.

There you go! Your Poppy Troll Dress is ready!

Poppy’s Hair Wig

This is the final touch to make this Poppy Troll Costume awesome!

The wig is only explained in the video. So feel free to watch it and let me know your thoughts or if you have any questions.

Here you go your Poppy Troll Costume is ready to rock!!!!

Not bad for a last-minute costume right?

Let me know your thoughts in the comments, I would love to know!

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