For the past five years we have gone to some really great Halloween parties and it takes us months to figure out homemade costume ideas. In 2005 we decided to be Beaker and Professor Honeydew Melon from the Muppets. The professor was easy, just a white lab coat, tie and some light green face paint … Read more
I was quite intrigued by the idea of being a hand puppet! This larger than life costume was made with one piece of bedding foam, a few Styrofoam balls, some kind of fake snow stuff for the hair, a few cans of paint, some spray glue, and plenty of TLC. This Homemade Beaker from the … Read more
Beaker is my favorite Muppet and really he gets all the laughs so who wouldn’t want to be him? I got the idea to make this Homemade Beaker Halloween Costume from your website but added my own twists to it. I bought a twin sized egg crate foam bed pad from Target and everything else … Read more
I started of this Homemade Beaker Halloween Costume Idea by dying the felt pinkish color and then I glued it around the Bristol board with a glue gun. I made Beakers nose out of my fuzzy sock and stuffed it with more socks. Also put panty hose for the mouth so I could see out … Read more
I am a huge Muppet show fan so had to come up with some homemade costume ideas for this Halloween. I used felt and Styrofoam. The hair is a feather boa and I bought the outfit at a discount store. Beakers head sat on top of mine and my eyes were around his chest area. … Read more
After a simple but effective Kermit costume the year before, I decided to stick with the Muppet theme and try out one of my favorite characters this year – Homemade Animal Muppet Halloween Costume! Right away I knew that the head would be the hardest and most time-consuming part. I found a head pattern online … Read more
This is my beaker costume from 2008. I went out in San Francisco and people loved it. I was stopped every two seconds to take a picture with someone… I made it with construction paper, fleece material, carve-able foam, lots of hot glue and spray glue. The top was made with a plastic bowl that … Read more
I have a reputation of always having great costumes. I feel the good pressure every year to come up with something brilliant that makes people say “She’s done it again!” This Homemade Muppet Miss Piggy and Kermit Couple Costume was one of my husband and my best costumes we have ever done! We had a … Read more
I wanted to heckle people all night with this Homemade Waldorf from the Muppets Halloween Costume. No costume is better than one of the critics in the balcony on the Muppet Show! Made out of paper mache, felt, fur fabric, lots of glue.
Our family is crazy for the Muppets so I tried my hand at crafting a Homemade Muppets Group Costumes of three of our favorites. Kermit was by far the easiest. I searched the web for an appropriately green hoodie and leggings (my son is young enough not to be horrified at wearing girls’ leggings.), purchased … Read more
I came up with the idea about a day before the party I was going to and I went to the store spent about 12 dollars total on the Kermit the Frog costume. 6 dollars for long johns (pants) and I bought a ping pong ball for the eyes – 50 cents. I got some … Read more
Bork Bork Bork! I first started this Homemade Swedish Chef from the Muppets Costume with white Antron fleece, which is the fleece they use to make actual Muppets, then dyed it in a washing machine with koala brown and rose pink to get it a flesh color. I had another piece of white antron fleece, … Read more