This homemade Peanut Butter and Jelly family costume first started when I purchased this store-bought Wonder Bread costume for my youngest son (in the center). I wanted his two older brothers to have something that “complimented” the theme.
The inside frames of the costumes are both pop-up hampers (the Jelly one was hemmed up for the little one). They were both then covered in polyester batting and appropriate colored fabrics. To recreate the jar labels, I used foam sheets and felt and free handed the words and designs onto the different colored foams by looking at the real peanut butter and jelly jars. Some of the small details were drawn on with Sharpie markers.
I then cut out all the letters and logos and hot glued everything to a large rectangular foam sheet. This often required several layers of foam in some areas of the label (which is difficult to see from the picture). The fabrics and labels were then glued and/or hand sewn in several areas to finish the costumes. Holes were cut out for their heads and arms.
It was a lot of fun to do and received rave reviews on Halloween while trick-or-treating. Many people walking and driving by stopped and asked to take a group picture of the boys on their cameras and cell phones.
Happy Halloween!
Theresa what a wonderful job, well done, you should get into that business of your own, seems like you really enjoyed making the costumes for your sons. I give you a big 10.
Awesome Job. You are so creative but don’t you dare leave your day job, what would we do without all that talent.
How much did this cost? Was this easy? How much time did it take up? Thanks!
These are the coolest peanut butter and jelly costumes I have seen – would you be interested in selling them?
Thanks for the offer but I’ve given them away already. They’ll show up again on someone I’m sure. Wasn’t too hard to do just takes a lot of patience with recreating the labels with the foam and felt sheets. Good luck. :)
Hey Theresa…i love your costumes!! I’d love to make them for my kids for my holiday…would you be able to give me some tips? You can email me at iceteaesty@yahoo.com. Thanx!!