This Pee Wee Herman Costume was a last minute idea for me. Went to a few local thrift stores/good-will and picked up the grey suit for less than $10. Bought white shoes from Sears for $10, Red bow tie for $10 and had an extra white dress shirt laying around. Used my mom’s make up … Read more
After being inspired by the Jim Hensen exhibit, my friend and I knew we had to try and make our own Snowth costumes from the famous Muppet Show sketch “Manah Manah” (also spelled Mahna Mahna). Looking online it seemed like several people already made Snowth costumes, but very few, if any, made them well. We’re … Read more
This Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Band Group Costume was a blast. We started by putting plastic bags over two ski-doo helmets and two large balloons. We paper-mached over them a few times to make them strong. Then applied various ridges etc. and continued to paper- mache over and over again til the forming … Read more
I was quite intrigued by the idea of being a hand puppet! This larger than life costume was made with one piece of bedding foam, a few Styrofoam balls, some kind of fake snow stuff for the hair, a few cans of paint, some spray glue, and plenty of TLC. This Homemade Beaker from the … Read more
I made this Homemade Oscar the Grouch Costume actually the day of Halloween! I came up with the idea when my teacher offered 10 extra credit points for anyone who comes into class in a costume. I decided to stand in a trash can and say I’m Oscar the grouch, so I thought to myself … Read more
We decided to go as Bill and Ben and then our friend Leanne wanted to join in so she came as the Little Weed. We went to B and Q and bought some flower pots and bought some saws for 20p in the sale. We came home and sawed off the bottom of the pots … Read more
I was asked by my children’s school to make a Bill and Ben costume for the opening of a garden. I bought two big flower pots and drilled out holes for the arms and a big hole at the bottom. I sprayed the pots red and on the back I wrote their names with a … Read more
This year my fiance and I decided to go all out for Halloween since our wedding is next weekend. All of our friends decided that a Jim Henson theme would be awesome. I have always loved cookie monster and Oscar seemed like the next obvious choice. To make my costume I bought blue furry fleece … Read more
After thinking and thinking about what to be last Halloween I came up with the idea of a Homemade Beaker Costume. He is by far one of my favorite characters on the Muppets so it was a perfect choice. I have seen Beaker costumes before but all of them completely inclosed the persons head. I … Read more
This Homemade Creepy Bert and Ernie Costume was fairly simple to create but a huge hit! We started by buying some old, obnoxious sweaters, corduroy pants, and turtle necks from a local thrift store. We then purchased some bald hats (can get at any Halloween shop or online) and glued them down over our hair. … Read more
The administrators at the special needs school I work in needed a fun group costume idea. Who doesn’t love the Fraggles?!?! We searched and found some highly priced costumes to order then we came across a few how-to’s and went to it. The best part was choosing who got to be which Fraggle character! Loud-mouthed … Read more
Every year I exploit my creative side by creating off the wall costumes that you would never see anywhere else. I view Halloween as a day you can be anyone or anything you want without any consequences…to a degree. One day I came across a picture of a woman that was a futuristic cookie monster … Read more