For Halloween this year our family decided on SpongeBob as our theme. Our youngest wanted a homemade Gary the Snail Halloween costume. The main body, spats, mittens & hood were based on a bear pattern (minus the bear ears), with a green oval shape added to the belly section. For the shell piece – the … Read more
For Doug, my boyfriend ordered the green vest off of ebay. It cost about 12 dollars plus shipping. He had the white t-shirt, the shorts, and the white tennis shoes. For Patty, I found the blue top at Walmart for five dollars. I got the pink felt from Ben Franklin for 25 cents a sheet. … Read more
I made this DJ Lance Rock costume for my son who was 7 months old for his first Halloween. His big sister was fascinated with Yo Gabba Gabba and wanted to be Brobee. I bought a pair of orange pants, an orange onesie, and an orange hat. I purchased some felt and cut and used … Read more
I decided to dress as Dora the Explorer for Halloween because I’ve always said I looked just like her when I was a kid. My boyfriend then jumped on the opportunity to dress as Boots and so we created these homemade Dora and Boots couple costumes. To make the homemade Boots costume I hit up … Read more
SpongeBob is one of our favorite fictional characters. He is a little silly but innocent, honest, hard-working, kind, and friendly. Our 5 yr. old daughter loves Spongebob, so we built a Spongebob Halloween costume for her at home. It was a great craft project for the family. The design choices we made were related to … Read more
My son wanted to be Squidward for Halloween. There are no Squidward costumes to buy at all. So I had to make one. I am NOT a seamstress,however, I accomplished this task using my neighbors sewing machine. I went and bought 2.5 yards of cotton material and used my sons jammies as a pattern to … Read more
I was inspired by this website to make a homemade Spongebob Square Pants costume and so I did… I work with the after school programs and guess who was our monthly guest speaker? You guessed it! Spongebob Square Pants! The total cost was only $10 in materials and about a day’s work of putting it … Read more
For this Spongebob Squarepants Halloween costume I used a large piece of foam and cut out a shape for his head, with little indentations cut in to make the sponge. I spray-painted the square yellow. I then hot glued that square onto a yellow ski cap. I cut out felt for the eyes and eye … Read more
My 16 year old son, Erich, asked me to make him this costume based off of the Invader Zim cartoon. The character is called GIR and one of his disguises is this DOG costume. To make this costume I started with a pair of solid black sweats. I bought some lime green fleece material and … Read more
For Halloween my son decided he wanted to be Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba. I like to homemake his costumes every year and this homemade Plex costume was going to prove to be a lot of work! First we went to a fabric store and scoured the bargain bins. Finally I found a yellow pleather … Read more
This Dancing Dora Costume took me about 3 days…100% home made. The head part of costumes are always the hardest but gets done. The body, well couple of pillows always work wonders..lol. Won first prize with this at a local bar. Was fun to do & keep on making homemade costumes. Keep Halloween spirit going.
It’s Spongebob! My son likes to draw Spongebob and watch the shows. We couldn’t find the costume in the stores and I had just bought a sewing machine, so I decided to make a Spongebob Halloween costume. This costume is made entirely out of felt over cardboard to give it some shape. The cardboard covers … Read more