As a child I loved Beaker from the Muppets. I took a heavy piece of poster board and made the tube. Applied tan foam sheets, a layer of batting, ivory colored fleece. Cut out the mouth and used black mesh and left open at bottom to be able to use a tube (straw) to drink … Read more
This Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Band Group Costume was a blast. We started by putting plastic bags over two ski-doo helmets and two large balloons. We paper-mached over them a few times to make them strong. Then applied various ridges etc. and continued to paper- mache over and over again til the forming … Read more
For Bunsen Honeydew: First I got a big ball from Walmart and paper mached it. Then I cut the mouth big enough so my daughter would be able to see out of it. I used clay to paper mache the big nose and ears and glued them on and painted it all green. I grabbed … Read more
I constructed this homemade Animal Muppet Halloween costume idea using paper mache, an old fleece blanket and yarn. The nose and eyes are plastic Christmas ornaments with paint and felt, and the teeth and spikes are carved foam. The t-shirt also has a custom “rock fingers” stencil spray painted on for the punk rock look. … Read more
This year all my friends decided to be Jim Henson characters for Halloween and my friend asked me to make him a homemade Super Grover costume. It was actually pretty easy to make, I found a free drawstring pants pattern online and made the pants with blue silky furry fleece material. For the top, I … Read more
Based solely on the mental image of one of my masculine, tall male friends dressed as Miss Piggy, I urged my friends to join me in dressing up as various characters from the Muppet Show. Everyone agreed, but one of them only under the condition that we were characters from the spin-off of the Muppet … Read more
Had a Halloween party to go to this year. I love Halloween and love making my own costumes. This year however I was really running behind. So the night before the party I still had no idea what I was going to be. I thought about being a Fraggle, which then led to the Muppets. … Read more
For this Animal Costume, I first cut out a large circle out of cardboard (about 19 inches in diameter). Then I measured the circumference of my head and drew a circle that size inside the larger circle that was already cut out. I cut an “x” out of the small circle and folded the flaps … Read more
After thinking and thinking about what to be last Halloween I came up with the idea of a Homemade Beaker Costume. He is by far one of my favorite characters on the Muppets so it was a perfect choice. I have seen Beaker costumes before but all of them completely inclosed the persons head. I … Read more
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