This is a Homemade Where the Wild Things Are Couple Costume. We made the head from a hat with lots of foam and stuffing molded to make it big and scary. The pants are lots of scales cut out of fabric and sewn on. The Max costume is pretty easy, kind of a footed pajama … Read more

My husband and I decided on a Homemade Carol and Max Couple Costume from “Where the Wild Things Are”. We made Carol’s head with paper mache on a big blow up punching ball. We added rolled up newspaper and styrofoam balls to make the facial features and to add dimension to the face. The horns … Read more

MAX: I purchased adult sized footed-pajamas and made several alterations to recreate Max’s “Wolf Pajamas.” A hole was cut at the back where a black feathered boa was hanging out from. Four large white buttons were sewed onto the front of the pajamas. Two pairs of stretchy white gloves were used – one for pointy … Read more

We all love so much the monsters in Where the Wild Things are and, since my twin daughter’s really wanted to be two of them, I made these Homemade Where the Wild Things are Costumes. I started out with cardboard, old fur coats, fur remnants, a leopard costume from years ago, animal house slippers and … Read more

Instructions for my Homemade Carol Costume from Where the Wild Things Are: I made the head by using paper mache, painted it, covered it in fur and added the horns. The fur suit was made from a couple of blankets that I bought from Walmart. I added the stripes to the top and feathers to … Read more

Ever since I heard that ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ was coming out in the movies I decided to put together a costume for one of the monsters. I had seen many Max costumes, but not too many monsters. After seeing the previews, I knew I was going to do a Carole costume. I started … Read more

This Homemade Where the Wild Things Are Halloween Couple Costume is straight from Maurice Sendak’s world of imagination, no Spike Jonze here. They roar their terrible roars and gnash their terrible teeth and roll their terrible eyes and show their terrible claws, their terribly awesome homemade teeth, eyes, and claws. The splendor of these costumes … Read more

“Where The Wild Things Are” was my favorite book as a child and I must have read it over a hundred times as a boy. I have a three year old son now, and he loves to read this book at least two or three times a week. For Halloween this year he said he … Read more

My girlfriend and I spent 10 hours building this Homemade Where The Wild Things Are Costume from scratch. We came up with the idea after seeing the trailer to the movie. However we went more towards designing it from the book rather then the movie because we wanted it to be less dark. It took … Read more

My daughter wanted to be “Max the King” from “Where the Wild Things Are”. I could not find a costume anywhere so I had to whip it together. She already had a hoodie with faux fur inside so we just flipped it inside out. We flipped her tan sweat pants inside out. For a tail, … Read more

My two year old son, Hunter, is a huge fan of the book “Where The Wild Things Are” so when the movie came out, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to take him to his first movie. He absolutely loved his Homemade King Of The Wild Things Halloween Costume and since then, is hooked … Read more

This Homemade Carol from Where the Wild Things Are Costume is 100% made from scratch. First, the head was formed with paper mache around a 65cm workout ball. The details on the head were then created with paper mache pulp. The eyes were just painted on. All the fur and fabric was ordered online. Then … Read more