For this homemade Oscar the Grouch child costume, we used a fluffy green scarf (it was very cheap scarf we got at the dollar store) and pinned it along a green long sleeved shirt and green jump suit. We used foil around a sonotube and foiled a plastic lid to cover Oscar’s garbage can. Then … Read more
I love Halloween and I really love creating unique and original costumes. Every year I try to think of something fun and out of the box. This year I decided to make a Homemade Animal Costume from the Muppets. It was a HUGE HIT. Everywhere we went people went crazy for it. It was really … Read more
My 5 year old son wanted to be Yo Gabba Gabba’s Plex for Halloween this year. Okay, so we went looking for things that might work to make this Homemade Plex Costume. We came across the blue foam bed roll that people use for camping. Love this stuff so easy to work with, you can … Read more
Every year I try to outdo myself on Halloween costumes. I was ALF, Roger Rabbit, and Sloth from The Goonies previous years, so I wanted to make my own Do it Yourself Beaker Halloween Costume this year. Everyone loved the Muppets, and Beaker looked like the easiest. Making the head was the most work out … Read more
I am a HUGE Muppets fan, and never seem to like the store-bought costumes. So I decided to make my own Sgt Floyd Pepper costume. Using lots of floral wire and yarn, I built this mask. I wrapped yarn around a THICK piece of floral wire and super-glued it at both ends (a GEL super … Read more
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