Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Costume: a blog about how to create a costume for your kid based on the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This is a great Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Costume idea for Halloween.

Willy Wonka, Charlie, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, Augustus Gloop, Mike Teavee – Kids love dressing up as their favorite characters from the book.

Here are some ideas for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory costumes for kids. They’re easy to make and cheap too!

The easiest costume of all is to just wear orange overalls with a white shirt underneath. Tie your hair back with a piece of cotton and carry around a bar of chocolate.

To dress up as Willy Wonka you’ll need to wear an old fashioned purple jacket with tails over white trousers. You can find these at any second hand store or thrift shop such as Goodwill or Salvation Army. Add a top hat, cane, large magnifying glass, and your golden ticket! And get ready for lots of candy!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a classic children’s novel and a Roald Dahl favorite of all time. If your child is a fan, this Halloween could be the perfect opportunity for them to dress up as one of the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

If you’d like to make this happen for your kid, here are some tips for creating a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory costume:

Make an Oompa Loompa Costume

If you have a child that is going to be dressing up this Halloween as one of the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I’ve got some great costume ideas for you. My daughter and her best friend are going as Violet Beauregarde and Veruca Salt, respectively, and I’m sharing all the details with you today on how we made these costumes.

Our inspiration came from these photos we found online. We purchased blue leotards (surprisingly hard to find in October) and light blue tights and dyed them darker blue using Rit dye. Then we added white details (straps, stars, dots) using fabric paint. The girls also made their own white belts with star buckles out of foam board, which they painted white and added silver glitter glue to.

We bought the wig on Amazon (they are somewhat difficult to find), but most of the other accessories came from thrift stores, including the shoes and jewelry. The girls also painted their faces light blue for the party… don’t worry, it washes off!

And now for just a few more photos of my sweet girl dressed up as Violet Beauregarde…

You’re a good parent. You want to make your kids happy. So for Halloween you bought them costumes, thinking it would be easy-peasy and fun. But now that you’ve got the costume home from the store, it looks like a sack of flour with some holes poked in it and a picture of the character on the front.

Surely there must be another way!

And there is: just follow this simple tutorial for making costumes based on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It’ll take no more than an hour (plus drying time), and your kids will love you forever.

What You’ll Need

1 regular-size package of M&M’s

3 sheets of green felt (or other fabric)

1 sheet each of yellow, blue and red felt (or other fabric)

1 pack of cotton balls

2-inch foam ball (for head)

2 sheets of black craft paper

Fabric glue (such as Aleene’s Fabric Fusion) or hot glue gun and glue sticks

Scissors, pencil, straightedge ruler, paintbrush (optional)

I’d like to share a few tricks and tips on how to make an awesome Mr. Willy Wonka costume for your child this Halloween.

1. Find a great wig.

My husband found this amazing curly wig on eBay that was perfect! We measured my son’s head and bought the right size. The wig is a little long, but the curls are very tight and my son has a small head, so it still worked out perfectly.

2. Find a great purple jacket (and maybe some gold buttons).

I searched high and low online for purple jackets, but they were either not purple enough or too expensive. I wanted to make sure it was a true purple color like Willy Wonka’s jacket in the movie, so I decided to make one myself! I made my own jacket pattern from tracing an existing jacket, cutting it all out, sewing it together (with gold buttons!), and then topstitching the seams for extra durability.

3. Find or make a great purple vest for under the jacket!

I actually only found one purple vest online that was close to what I wanted – and it was $60! Luckily I was able to find some matching purple fabric at JoAnn’s and made this vest by tracing an

My six-year-old daughter is madly in love with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She wants to be one of the Oompa-Loompas for her school’s Book Character Parade.

We’re going to need a ton of orange face paint!

I’ve seen costumes that people have made, but I wanted a no-sew version. I’m not a sewer, and my husband has zero time for arts and crafts. And when it comes to DIY projects, I am constantly afraid I will run out of time or supplies and end up with a half-finished project. So I set out to make an easy costume that would look good in an hour or two.

I started with this dress:

M&Ms dress from Justice (2)

It already looked like an Oompa-Loompa uniform! The straps are the right color; we just need to make them more Oompa-Loompa-y. I used green felt fabric and cut little triangles that resembled leaves. Just cut triangles and hot glue them on the straps! (I know hot glue is not the best for fabric, but I wanted something I could pull off easily after Halloween.) My craft skills are suspect (my preschool

**STEP 1:**

1. Cut the blue fabric into a square.

2. Lay the M&M’s down and trace around them, making the circles about one inch apart from each other and from the edges of the fabric. (You’ll use this to cut out your holes for the M&M’s.)

3. Cut out the circles for your M&M’s.

4. Cut a hole in the center of the fabric for your head to fit through.

5. Tie a knot on each end of about six inches of twine so it doesn’t fray.

6. Thread a needle, tie off one end of your thread to one knot, and thread it through all of your M&Ms, tying a knot at the end so they don’t slide off but making sure it’s still loose enough to fit over your child’s head. (I used hot glue to attach a few of them in place as well.)

7. Sew along each edge of your fabric with a zigzag stitch, making sure that you sew over the selvage edges so they don’t unravel and also sewing up any holes you might have left in attaching your string of M&Ms to your shirt.

8.*(Optional) Att