My friends and I wanted to go out for Halloween in a group costume so we brainstormed and came up with a Homemade Sesame Street Group Costume! We all purchased colored hoodies and I transformed them into each of the characters, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Oscar the Grouch, using fabric, paint, and Styrofoam … Read more
For this Animal Costume, I first cut out a large circle out of cardboard (about 19 inches in diameter). Then I measured the circumference of my head and drew a circle that size inside the larger circle that was already cut out. I cut an “x” out of the small circle and folded the flaps … Read more
Our family are huge fans of the children’s TV show called “Yo Gabba Gabba” and one of our favorite characters is Plex the Robot, so we created this homemade Plex the Robot Halloween costume. The body is a recycled cardboard trash box for leaves. We covered the body with some bright yellow fabric and had … Read more
When my daughter, Sarah, was young she loved the kid’s show Bananas in Pajamas”‘ and said to me she wanted to grow up to be a Banana in Pajama though she won’t admit to it now, at 19 years old. So I was surprised in September when she showed me the cartoon picture of B1 … Read more
We were looking for a group costume and were inspired by all of the awesome ones on this site! We decided to be the Sesame Street characters and make the majority of the costumes out of sweat suits. The base of the Cookie Monster, Grouch, Elmo and Big Bird costumes all started with a sweatshirt/sweat … Read more
I created this Swedish chef costume out of a Pabst blue ribbon box, a ball of yarn and some fabric for the hat. The paint was the cheapest acrylic paint I could find and the paper mache was made using newspaper powder. I made it because I’m a culinary student at the Culinary Institute of … Read more
While strolling through the Jim Henson exhibit at the Smithsonian, my two friends and I decided we needed a Muppets Halloween costume. And not just any Muppets, but the best Muppet’s ever: the Mahna Mahna Muppets. They are also known as Mahna Mahna and the Snowths. For the Snowths we made the heads out of … Read more
Last year was the first real year I could take my little boy trick or treating. I wanted to make my very first attempt at making his costume myself. One morning while watching Sesame Street, it came to me. And the Big Bird Costume was born. I started out with just a plain zipper up … Read more
My friends and I wanted to do a wicked group costume this year- the Muppets! We were the hit of the party all night, everyone wanted to have their picture taken with me! The whole Homemade Beaker Costume was made for under $10, using supplies from local thrift and Dollar stores. The head is just … Read more
Beaker is my favorite Muppet and really he gets all the laughs so who wouldn’t want to be him? I got the idea to make this Homemade Beaker Halloween Costume from your website but added my own twists to it. I bought a twin sized egg crate foam bed pad from Target and everything else … Read more
I wanted to find the perfect outfits for my boyfriend, son and I for Halloween, so I came up with Bert & Ernie. My son loves Elmo, so he was supposed to go as Elmo in a costume my mom had gotten for him. However, the costume was too heavy for him, and he hated … Read more
I’ve always wanted to do a BERT costume because, well, everyone usually call’s me Bert so why not! I googled ‘Bert costume’ and found this awesome website. Looked through the other submissions to get a Bert Unique Halloween Costume Idea, how to make and instantly set off to buy supplies Bought everything from Joanne’s (THANK … Read more