Costume-making Party!

## IT'S COSTUME TIME!!! 🧟‍♀️✂️✨

Stick around after rehearsal for our annual Chicago Thriller Costume-Making Party!
We'll get crafty, messy and a little sparkly as we bring our 2026 zombie look to life together.

### WHAT WE'LL DO:

• Shred and distress our blue costume shirts
• Make sparkly leaves, moss and other creepy-pretty embellishments
• Make leaves and moss for hair w/ bobby pins
• Make white arm/hand braces
• Assemble take-home costume kits for zombies who can't make the party
• Decorate our official Chicago Thriller "float" — the wagon that carries our speakers through the streets!
• Eat pizza, have drinks and hang out with our fellow zombies 🍕

Pizza provided!

### WHAT TO BRING:

• A bag to take home your costume pieces and supplies
• Your creativity — perfection is dead. 💀

We'll provide the blue shirts, black belts and specialty costume supplies.

### WHY COME?

This is where our costumes go from clothes to CHICAGO THRILLER.
We'll have LOTS to do, so even if you're not crafty, please come! There will be a job for everyone, and many zombie hands make light work.
Plus, it's a pizza party. 🍕🧟‍♀️

### IMPORTANT:

Please review the attached 2026 Costume Guide before the party. It explains what Chicago Thriller provides and what you'll need to purchase or pull from your own closet.

### THIS YEAR'S LOOK:

Our 2026 zombies are beautifully overgrown and undead — inspired by MJ's The Way You Make Me Feel video, but after a few decades in the grave. 💀
Think shredded blue shirts, moss, leaves, sparkle and creepy organic details, carried into our hair and accessories so the whole horde looks like we crawled out of the same wonderfully haunted place.
Come make a mess with us.
The horde needs you. 🧟‍♀️🌿✨