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
My 13 yr. old daughter suggested we make a Homemade Broby from Yo Gabba Gabba Costume as a joke. I took one look at this crazy creature and told my daughter we could do it. I bought foam sheets from the craft store and made the shape of the torso, legs and arms with the … Read more
My daughter teaches Kindergarten in a local grade school. This school has a great idea – before Halloween, all the staff vote on a ‘theme’ for their Halloween costumes that year. This year’s theme is ‘Rock Star’. My first reaction was ‘great – that is so simple – I am off the hook this year … Read more
These Homemade Kermit and Miss Piggy couple Halloween costume ideas came to my fiance and I because we wanted something cute and not often done for Halloween. Kermit: We found a green hooded sweater, green pants and a light green T-shirt. We then crafted the light green T-shirts into triangle shapes and placed them around … Read more
Our family is crazy for the Muppets so I tried my hand at crafting a Homemade Muppets Group Costumes of three of our favorites. Kermit was by far the easiest. I searched the web for an appropriately green hoodie and leggings (my son is young enough not to be horrified at wearing girls’ leggings.), purchased … Read more
I wanted to be big bird!! Here’s what I did to create this homemade Big Bird Halloween costume idea. I bought 8 yellow feather boas and sewed them on to a mini tube dress (that I had in my closet since High School, lol) I just put in a stitch about ever 6 inches or … Read more
I’ve been a fan of Pee-Wee since I was a child ..so putting that thought into my 4 year old son Dillon’s Halloween costume I came up with this look. I bought some grey suiting fabric from my local Joann’s fabric store, made a 2 piece boy’s suit and purchased a white button-up dress shirt … Read more
I made these paper mache Fraggle Rock characters for my friends and myself to wear out to a club for Halloween. It was a real treat trying to figure out how to make them wearable but with a little brain power I was able to do so successfully. I used baseball caps sized to my … Read more
Here’s our Banana in Pajamas costume. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. As a mother of young children I was always on the look out for great ideas for the kids. Bananas in pajamas are an Australian cartoon (see picture) and also a TV show and seeing the live characters sparked my imagination. I … Read more
We wanted just a simple,easy costume so the Bill and Ben costumes was a great choice. The body is obviously just a big garden pot with the bottom cut out for our legs to go through. We made four holes,two on the front, two on the back and threaded and tied some rope to go … Read more
Ernie and Buddy Bert Inspiration After being inspired by Sesame Street costumes we saw posted here on your site, we decided to make a Bert and Ernie couple costume this year. I wasn’t exactly sure how to go about it as I never made a mask before. So we took a trip to Michael’s. We … Read more
So after doing Animal in previous years I wanted to move on to my other favorite Muppet, Beaker. He’s real simple, just a cylinder, sorta. But here’s how i make it complicated: -I want the eyes to light up -I want the mouth to operate as I meep And thus I began the construction of … Read more