Go on a African Safari adventure without leaving your chair! The fierce and majestic animal costumes featured here will astound and amaze you. The love that went into these stunning homemade Safari costumes resulted in truly captivating designs.
Trek across the Serengeti and stare into the eyes of proud lions, gigantic elephants and striking zebras. Not all wild animals have to be so fierce when it comes to costuming. For instance, you will also find happy hippos, sweet cobras and baby lions.
In addition, you will also find fantastic instructions on making adorable monkeys and how to create impressive height on a giraffe costume.
If you are looking for a sexier costume idea, you will find plenty of inspiration here. Some examples are sexy leopards and sultry snakes.
So get in touch with nature and check out these incredible homemade Safari costumes for your wildest Halloween!
We purchased material and pattern at a local fabric store to make this organ grinder monkey costume. Fortunately for us, Grandma is a great seamstress! Add a red vest and red hat (created with cardboard to keep the round shape) out of felt, add a little, unbreakable mug, and you have the cutest organ grinder … Read more
As an animal lover, I decided on a Homemade Zebra Adult Costume Idea for Halloween. This is a really cheap costume idea if you are tight on cash like me! I’ll start from the top. I bought a wide headband from the dollar store for $1 (big surprise I know). Then I covered it with … Read more
For this Giraffe Costume, I altered a free pattern I found online, adding a halter neck and the fishtail skirt (which I thought could imitate a tail). I have no idea what kind of fabric I used, it was just whatever was on sale. It took me about a week to make and cost around … Read more
This homemade tiger costume is almost entirely handmade. For the ears and tail, I bought some thick bendable furry stuff (kind of like a really big pipe cleaner) at ACMoore and painted it with acrylic paints (orange and black tiger stripes) after bending the ears and tail how I wanted. For the shirt, I had … Read more
My giraffe costume is made up into 6 different pieces. 4 stilts (one for each arm and leg), a neck/head piece, and a body piece. The back legs are construction boots connected to brackets on wood that creates a 3 foot stilt. The front legs are crutches that are extended 3 1/2 feet. All of … Read more
For ninth grade school spirit week on extreme weather day, I wanted to stand out in the crowd (besides being 6’4″). Instead of wearing the average rain poncho or ski suit, I went with the hot and dry desert clothing and made a Homemade Safari Tour Guide Costume. The walking stick, aviator sunglasses, and cowboy … Read more