Fast Easy DIY Wild Kratts Creature Power Suits, No Sew!

Today Emmitt wanted to do some dramatic play with his favorite show, Wild Kratts. I decided to spruce up the two power suits I made a few years ago by adding the creature disks like in the show. I also needed to make a thrift suit for Ella, who is now a huge fan like her brother's.

I printed  on card stock the creature disks available from PBS website here and cut them out.

I used my laminator to laminate them and saved the extra plastic I cut off for a later step. If you don't have a laminator use clear packing tape on both sides to create a protective layer. I will link my laminator at the end of this post.

Now you are ready to make the suit. I use fleece because it doesn't unravel, no hem is necessary. You can get a yard from the store, or cut up on old fleece throw.

I can technically sew, but it's not a strength of mine and neither is measuring or following patterns. So I just eye ball and free style this kind of stuff 😁.

I cut a rectangle to make a very basic best, size it to fit your kid. You want at least 5 inches to fall behind the shoulders for stability and make the from the length of their shirt. I cut a wide slit for the neck.

Here you can see the original I made, and I'm using it as a template to cut a new one.

Next I cut out a circle, I used a lid to trace the shape. It's about 4" in diameter.

Then I cut out three more. I used a quarter to help me draw a circle, but it's larger than the quarter, I'm guessing about 1 1/2" in diameter.

Then I used hot glue around the edge to glue them together. The glue bonds great, it's best to get the glue close the the edge as possible and press down to get a good stick.

The last step is I took the extra plastic from laminating the disks and managed to cut out a desent sized rectangle. I glued the bottom and side edges to make a clear pouch for the disks.

And DONE! It took me 20 minutes to made the disks, add punches to the two existing suits, and creat a third suit from scratch.

I got inspired for these from Mom Endeavors blog post here, but she does hers different, so check it out.

I love my laminator,  I got it on sale from Amazon, and the laminating sheets also on sale from the Amazon Basics line. I paid $10 for my laminator (sale!) And I like to pay about $9 per 100 for 3mil laminating sheets. Shop around on Amazon because their prices are constantly changing.

I like to buy my card stock and colored printer paper from Walmart at the beginning of the school year when all the prices are the best.