When my daughter was three, she became enthralled with a kids show called Lazytown. The two heroes of the series are Stephanie and Sportacus, and they spend their days trying to motivate the residents of said lazy town to be active, while trying to thwart the lethargy-inducing schemes of Roddy the Rotten. (If you haven’t … Read more
I built this Big Bird costume in about three months. I used chicken wire for the body, a globe for the head and a piolon for the beak! I decided to make this costume because its just never been done right. Hope you like!
This year for Halloween we all decided to do Muppet characters for a group theme, The dog Rowlf from the band is one of my favs so I chose him. The DIY Rowlf Halloween costume is made from brown furry fleece sewn into a hoodie shirt, and his head is just felt glued on a … Read more
Surprisingly, this homemade Sesame Street Yip Yip martian costume was one of the fastest and easiest costumes I had to make. No sewing required, only a good bottle of fabric glue! Here’s what I did. The majority of the costume is like making a “ghost” costume – it’s a drape of fabric over your head. … Read more
Hi everyone, Old school muppet fever!!! This Beaker Costume was created by myself. I am a huge Beaker fan, so off I went. This took about 15 hours to make. The head is made of fleece, painted fleece for the hair, Styrofoam eyeballs. The mouth has black mesh so I could see. The shoes were … Read more
I decided to make a Fraggle costume because I found one to order online and it was over $100! No way was I paying that much money! Basically I got yellow tights, orange shorts, red turtleneck and orange gloves all from Goodwill. Then I bought a red baseball hat and covered the front with this … 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
These Captain Carl and Miss Yvonne Costumes from Pee Wee’s Playhouse was from Halloween 2007 – my boyfriend and I went as Captain Carl and Miss Yvonne from Pee Wee’s Playhouse. His costume was super easy because he borrowed most of the clothes from his Dad. We used some cotton for the eyebrows and painted … Read more
Every year I am challenged to find a costume idea better than the year before. Then comes the part of bringing the idea to fruition. I am a huge advocate for homemade costumes that display creativity, ingenuity, and just good plain fun! Having other people come up to you and say how great your costume … Read more
We wanted to do a family theme, so we decided on Sesame Street. My husband really wanted to wear a trashcan so of course he opted for Oscar the Grouch! I started making the costume by paper maching a punching balloon. I then covered it in green furry fabric, cut out the bottom so his … Read more
This year my friends and I decided to do a Muppet theme and my friend decided to be Beaker since he has always been her favorite. She asked me to help so we rolled up out sleeves on Saturday and got busy! To make his head we bought a sheet of foam and hot glued … Read more
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