This SpongeBob Squarepants costume was made by using an “egg-crate” mattress pad (spray-painted yellow) over a cardboard box. Holes were cut out of the box to allow for arms and head, the bottom left open for better mobility. Colored foam poster board was used to make the eyes, mouth, and clothes. Black rubber outlines the … Read more
These days SpongeBob and Patrick is all it’s talked about at home. So, there was not a surprise when the kids picked a SpongeBob and Patrick costume for Halloween. I searched for some ideas in this website, but the kids were “determined” how they wanted the costumes to look. My son wanted to have his … Read more
When I saw that toddler SpongeBob costumes were $40 online, I decided to put those four years of high school art classes to work and put together a DIY Spongebob Halloween Costume Idea. I bought a few colors of acrylic paint that I didn’t already have and an exacto knife, and went to work on … Read more
For this Spongebob Squarepants Halloween costume I used a large piece of foam and cut out a shape for his head, with little indentations cut in to make the sponge. I spray-painted the square yellow. I then hot glued that square onto a yellow ski cap. I cut out felt for the eyes and eye … Read more
My 3 yr old daughter Olivia loves watching Sponge Bob and asked to be him for Halloween. After seeing the costumes available I decided to make her an even better one. I went to the fabric store and purchased 2 yards of 1″ green upholstery foam and 2 yards of yellow felt. At home I … Read more
We wanted to dress up as Homemade Spongebob and Patrick Costumes. The ones that they sell at the store are lame. We used PVC pipe to build the frame for Spongebob. Then we covered it thin foam . On top of that we layered it with yellow fleece. Then finished it up with details. We … Read more
I was inspired by this website to make a homemade Spongebob Square Pants costume and so I did… I work with the after school programs and guess who was our monthly guest speaker? You guessed it! Spongebob Square Pants! The total cost was only $10 in materials and about a day’s work of putting it … Read more
For Halloween this year our family decided on SpongeBob as our theme. Our oldest wanted a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants Halloween costume. The framework was made out of ½” PVC pipe. Measurements of the frame was 24” wide at the top, 23” wide at shoulder height section & 20” wide at the bottom (for a taper … Read more
I made the coolest life size (for a 10 year old) SpongeBob Squarepants costume. It has been a contest winner for 3 years, on three different kids and 2 adults. I took two foam pieces from the sofa/upholstery shop, some paint, and some foam sheets from the craft store. My son added his step-dads fishing … Read more
My son wanted to be Spongebob for Halloween and I thought it would be cute for his brother to be Patrick Star! I looked at lots of ideas online for Homemade Spongebob and Patrick Star Costumes and decided the easiest thing would be to buy some yellow and pink fleece and attempt to put something … Read more
This Homemade Spongebob Squarepants Costume was for an anything goes party and I LOVE Spongebob Squarepants, so made this outfit! I took two small cardboard boxes with the flaps cut off and covered one with brown and white pillowcases for the shorts and shirt. The other I cut out arm holes and covered with sponges … Read more
For Halloween this year our family decided on SpongeBob as our theme. I was elected to be Patrick. It was a bit of challenge, since we didn’t have a pattern to base the homemade Patrick Star Halloween costume on, so I had to come up with a lot of paper patterns for the costume first. … Read more