Coolest Homemade Sock Monkey Halloween Costume

Using photos of an actual sock monkey for inspiration, this Homemade Sock Monkey Halloween Costume is made out of two women’s long sleeve shirts. For the body of the costume I used a shirt that was a few inches past crotch level in length. I cut the sleeves off a larger shirt and sewed them to the bottom of the other shirt, with the shoulders of the sleeves coming together in the middle to make the crotch of the costume.

I put a 7 inch zipper in the back of the shirt so that the child could step into it. I used red and white felt to make the butt and hand sewed it onto the costume. I used the body of the shirt that I had cut the sleeves off of to make a tail and the head.

For the tail I stuffed it with poly-fil and sewed part of a child’s sock to the tip, then safety pinned it to the butt of the costume. I used a stocking cap as a pattern to make the head out of the leftover shirt material and stuffed it with poly-fil to make it stand up. I made ears out of the same material, stuffed with a bit of poly-fill, and hand sewed to the head. For the nose/mouth, I made a fist-size pillow out of the same material, sewed red and white felt on for the mouth then hand sewed the whole piece to the head. I used big black buttons for the eyes. The hat on the monkey is just a baby’s knit hat from the dollar store.

We finished with men’s white socks put over the child’s shoes.

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