Coolest Homemade Skeleton Costume Ideas
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Amy Martin
Newton, NC
This skeleton costume was from a pattern from Simplicity. There were 4 different costumes in the pattern and I liked the skeleton the best.
I bought the black and white fabric on sale for about $1 per yard. I bought the gloves on a $1.00 table. They were a little big, but they glow in the dark and my son loved them. He was only 1 year 4 months when he wore this last year. The Simplicity pattern number was 4467.
You have to sew the bones on separately. You could use a bonding material and save the trouble of sewing them on, although at the time, I didn't have any on hand. It took about one full day, including cutting out the pattern pieces and then placing them and cutting them out and then sewing it all together.
I really enjoyed makeing it and all the neighbors couldn't believe it wasn't store bought. In the picture, he doesn't have any shoes on, but I chose a pair of boots that we already had. It was actually only the second piece of clothing I had ever made.
Total Spent: $10
Valerie B.
Castle Rock, CO
This abduction skeleton costume is ONE person. The legs of the boy in blue are fake, as well as the scary person behind him in the skeleton costume mask.
The abduction costume was created by putting a backpack carrier (the type you carry a child on your back) on the boy, and putting a blow up doll (the type you buy at a costume shop) in the backpack. This, therefore allows the head to be about 2 feet above the real person.
We then dressed the skeleton doll in a black cape with a hole cut in the front of the cape for the boy's body to come through. You cut a hole in the back of a pair of pajamas with legs and feet. Dress the real boy in only the top portion of the pajamas and stuff the legs with newspaper.
So in essence, the boy's legs are under the Cape (not seen) and the boy's upper part of his body is in the pajamas.
Buy cheap hands of some sort and tie them to the fake body's arms with shoestrings. Cut a hole in the palm of the hands and tie them together under the child's arms to look as if the monster is holding the child.
This really is an easy skeleton costume to make and very comfortable to wear. My child had a blast with it at school and even his teachers thought there were two people! Although we were very disappointed, he didn't win the contest we took him to, I think the judges thought his daddy was literally carrying him around!!
Total Spent: $30-35
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