How to make a DIY Harry Potter Basilisk Costume Perfect for Halloween

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Kids always want to be the most random things for Halloween. And sometimes the costumes do not exist. You’ll search high and low only to discover that there’s no such thing as a Harry Potter Basilisk costume. So you’ll just have to haul out the sewing machine and make one!

How to make a DIY Harry Potter Basilisk Costume Perfect for Halloween

My kids love all things Harry Potter. The books are always must reads around here. And the movies? Well, reading the book is a requirement before watching the movie version.

Just in May we made the trek down to Orlando to explore Harry Potter World at Universal Studios. Was it ever a fantastic place to adventure!

I most definitely recommend going. Especially if you are a Harry Potter fan. However, it will be a few years before we return. We also went to the Disney World parks while we were in town. And while I’m sure we will be returning to Disney sooner than a few years, we will be skipping Universal on those trips. Universal Studios is great fun, but it’s not really a park that is a good fit for a toddler. There was absolutely nothing for the littlest in our family to enjoy. And family vacations should be for the entire family. So one day we will return to Harry Potter’s world in Orlando. Just not anytime soon.

When it comes Halloween costumes kids always want to be the latest and greatest. For many years now Harry Potter costumes have been at the top of the list. There are just so many costuming ideas to be found in the Wizarding World. Let’s open the Chamber of Secrets with a Harry Potter Basilisk costume!

Last year my daughter absolutely insisted on being a Basilisk from Harry Potter. Of course she did. Ha! She’s always asking for her Halloween costume to be unique and different from everyone else’s. It really can be exhausting at time.

This was the first time I made a Harry Potter Basilisk costume. While it did take a lot of work to come up with the concept.

Of course the face mask needed a Basilisk fang. Favorite characters.

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Easy To Make Harry Potter Basilisk Costume

Such an easy DIY!

What you’ll need to make a Harry Potter Basilisk costume:

• Green snake print fabric
• Fiber fill stuffing
• Sewing machine
• Needle and thread
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Pins
• Elastic (if you want to make a face mask)
• Yellow lens sunglasses

What you’ll do to make a Harry Potter Basilisk costume:

Step 1: Cut out a long piece of narrow snake skin fabric and then fold right sides together. This will create a long tube shape. It can be any length or width that you desire. I used a dark green and black snake skin printed fabric because the Basilisk from Harry Potter is known for being dark green in color.

Step 2: Sew long the edge to create a seam from top to bottom.

Step 3: Use a ruler and scissors to cut two angled lines to create a triangle shape at the bottom of one end. This will create the pointed look of the snake’s tail. Then sew the tail end completely closed.

Step 4: Pull fabric right side out.

Step 5: Stuff with filler.

Step 6: Cut out a hood for the top of the snake body/tail.

Step 7: Sew hood to the top of snake body/tail.

Step 8: Cut out, stuff with filler and sew triangles to use as spikes on the top of the Basilisk hood.

Step 9: Use a needle and thread to attach spikes to top of hood.

Step 10: If you’d like to make a face mask for your costume then you can always stitch Basilisk fangs to it!

The pandemic was still in full swing so having the fabric snake print face mask was such a great addition. And I was able to attach Basilisk fangs directly to the face mask!

Harry Potter Basilisk Costume and Hermione Granger Costume

Put the hood on and wrap the tail around your body! It’s that easy to create a Basilisk snake costume for Halloween!

This was also the perfect Halloween costume to pair with her little sister!

How to dress like Hermione Granger

It’s really simple to create a Hermione costume

What are the top Harry Potter costumes?

You’ll see more than a few Harry Potter costumes this year, but you’ll also But will you see any Basilisk costumes out and about??? Be sure to let me know if you do!

Who are the most well known Harry Potter characters?

It’s no surprise that the majority of the most popular characters from the Harry Potter books are in fact also members of the Hogwarts student body.

• Harry Potter
• Hermione Granger
• Ron Weasley
• Rubeus Hagrid
• Severus Snape
• Lord Voldemort
• Sirius Black
• Remus Lupin
• Dolores Umbridge
• Molly Weasley
• Draco Malfoy
• Luna Lovegood
• Neville Longbottom
• Ginny Weasley
• Colin Creevey
• Fred & George Weasley

Everyone has a favorite. Mine just happens to be Severus Snape. Always.

What are the most popular Harry Potter costumes?

1. Harry Potter Costume Hogwarts Robe

Albus Dumbledore costume

Minerva McGonagall

Rubeus Hagrid

6. Hogwarts Gryffindor

Syltherin, Hufflepuff and

Ravenclaw Colors

Severus Snape

8. Bellatrix Lestrange

Voldemort

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