Countess Quack-ula: A Vampire Porch Goose

We’ve been working on a series of rewards for my kiddos doing well in school. And I don’t want to always be buying things for them. Instead, we’ve been doing some various craft projects. One day my son asked me if we could turn the porch geese into vampires. And I said challenge accepted. So when he got home the Countesses Quack-ula were waiting for him.

Vampire Porch Goose Transformation:

The biggest impact and dead giveaway (pun intended) is the vampire teeth. Grab a bit of felt, bunting, white paper or card stock. Whatever you have on hand works, especially if your geese are out of the elements. Fold it in half and trace out what you want your vampire fangs to look like. Then hold it up on your goose to make sure it’s a good fit.

Cut that shape out while your glue gun heats up. It really is as easy as gluing the teeth on. I can’t tell whether this will affect the paint or not, but I’m going to have to touch mine up sooner or later so this wasn’t a huge issue for me.

To Cape It All Off

Wow these puns. Okay I promise I’ll stop. I had some black felt fabric on hand from before Joann herself poofed into another dimension. So I grabbed this for the outer layer of the cape. For the inside, anything will do as it’s not super visible. I would try to stay with the color scheme of black, white, or red.

Take some paper and cut out a collar shape. It kind of looks like a paper coffee cup sleeve laid flat if you think about it. This will become your pattern template for your goose cape collar. Cut three of these: One in our outer layer of fabric, on of the inner layer, and one of something stiff like felt to help the collar stand up. Sandwich the right sides of the fabric together and lay your stiffener on top. Sew around three of the edges and turn it all right side out.

For the cape. I draped my fabric on my geese for a relative size estimate and then sketched out half of my cape shape to make a template. Then I folded my fabric in half and cut an inner and outer layer. Honestly, I think I made mine a bit too big but that’s okay. Place these right side together and sew. Trim your edges and turn them right side out.

Because this is a porch goose and not a real garment, I didn’t stay up all night like Drac himself finishing it. Instead, I gathered up my cape edge and pinned it to my collar, with right sides together and sewed to join them. Then I glued the edge down to help the collar stand up. To finish it off I found a bit of ribbon and glued that to my cape so that it would stay on the goose!