We decided to make this Homemade McDonald’s Characters Group Costume this year for a friend’s costume party. After going through several group costume ideas, we all fell in love with the idea of making costumes from our favorite childhood restaurant. I made my boyfriend’s Grimace costume with felt, a hula hood, and safety pins. I … Read more
Hamburglar(ette) was a pretty simple costume with a jail outfit and a cape. But, the real challenge for Officer Big mac was creating the head. We basically built a huge BigMac Pillow from felt and stuffing around a reinforced baseball cap. The result was great!! Especially since people didn’t really know who Officer Big Mac … Read more
I enjoy coming up with great unique ideas for my children’s costumes and last year we decided on Hamburglar from McDonald’s! I couldn’t find a striped shirt and pants like I wanted so I used a solid black turtleneck that my son already had and bought a plain pair of black pants. I then used … Read more
These Homemade Wendy and Ronald McDonald Costumes really played to my infatuation with fast food. All in all, it took a bit of digging and the help of my girlfriend’s sewing ability to create these fun costumes. We got plenty of laughs, plus we raised awareness of Ronald and Wendy’s secret tryst. Since we could … Read more
I’ve always wanted to make a Halloween costume from one of the McDonald’s characters. It took me awhile but I settled on a Grimace from McDonald’s Costume. As I was making the costume, I decided to add a twist to the costume and made him Grimace’s cousin from Mexico, Pedro. So I fitted him with … Read more
Our company decided to have a Halloween party in lieu of a holiday party so we knew we wanted to be something obscure as there was to be a contest! So we decided on Hamburglar and Officer Big Mac Costumes. For the Hamburglar (ette), I used the striped top and bottom from a prison costume; … Read more
This year I decided to dress in a Homemade Hamburglar Halloween Costume. This was a fun costume. My buddy Shawn went as Mr. T, another very good costume as well!!! This was so much fun. I went to McD’s and ordered, well… HAMBURGERS!!! We got pics of it and everything. Also we went to West … Read more
I purchased the purple suit for this Homemade Mayor McCheese Costume at my local Goodwill, they have great clothing for costumes. I made a tie out of some yellow fabric and also used the same fabric for the yellow rim on the hat. The hat itself is just cardboard, wrapped in the fabric, I used … Read more
My 7 year old daughter was obsessed with McDonald’s Happy Meals. She would eat them every day if I’d let her. So when Halloween rolled around last year, she was very clear that she wanted to be a McDonald’s Happy Meal. We began our search for ideas on how to create the most incredible Ronald … Read more
This Homemade Ronald McDonald and Hamburgler Costume was a HUGE hit at the office, and trick-or-treating. It was very simple to make, and not very expensive to buy the accessories. I bought white zip-up painters coveralls, spray painted the main body yellow. For the arms, I took regular paper tape, and colored it red with … Read more
Created this homemade Ronald McDonald Halloween costume idea with the help of my grandma (whose excellent at sewing). We purchased the fabric needed for the costume at a local fabric store. She sewed the costume up to my body dimensions starting with the yellow main part first working outward going to the sleeves and then … Read more
For Halloween 2010, friends and I decided to turn ourselves into the McDonaldland Gang! If you were a child of the 80’s, you absolutely know the names “Ronald McDonald”, “Grimus”, “Birdy the Early Bird”, and “The Hamburglar”. Here are instructions for each costume: Ronald McDonald costume: Required my excellent face painting skills on my husband. … Read more