My youngest daughter Sarah was obsessed with SpongeBob Squarepants. Since I always made the costumes, she begged me to turn her into SpongeBob. This was when he was pretty new and the store bought costumes just weren’t there. I worked in a restaurant, so I never had a bunch of money. I did, however have … Read more
I have a 3 year old grand baby that lives with me and was watching Spongebob on TV. She said, “Mammal can I be Spongebob? So I sat down one weekend and had a box and started cutting it out. I wanted to make a costume for her but not spend a boat load of money. I … Read more
We used paper mache to make the hat, then painted it. We just looked up some YouTube videos on paper mache hats and just tweaked them to suit our needs (the black bill and the height). The actual Spongebob body we bought, then we got some mid calf socks and painted the lines and wore … Read more
My son loves Spongebob Squarepants, so he chose Spongebob Squarepants in a motorboat wheelchair costume for his Halloween costume. To accommodate his wheelchair, we decided to have Spongebob sit in his motorboat. The Spongebob costume we purchased at a local Target. We used two large sheets of cardboard from a refrigerator cardboard box, stretched it around the chair in … Read more
For this Spongebob Squarepants costume we used felt material for the main part of the costume, then we added a hat to the interior to hold the suit in place. Then we added a pair of old dress shoes (worn once for a wedding), a pair of white socks, and red and blue electrical tape … Read more
For this homemade Spongebob Halloween costume idea I used a corrugated box from Staples delivery, covered it with yellow cloth purchased at a Fabric store. Then I captured an animated photo online and enlarged it into four 8″ X 10″ quarter panels. I glued the printed sheets onto the cloth-covered surface. I also cut out … 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
This is me and my wife in our Homemade Sponge Bob and Patrick Costumes.
SpongeBob: He was made out of a cut down refrigerator box from a local Lowe’s… got that for free :) He was painted with regular acrylic craft paints and I added some dimension by cutting his belt, tie, eyes, teeth, etc out of cardboard and gluing them on. Underneath we put my son in some … Read more
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
I made this Homemade Spongebob Halloween Costume for my 3 year old daughter who absolutely loves Spongebob. I made it out of a box and materials from a craft store. Most of it is made from felt and glued on with fast grab tacky glue.
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