My 6 year old son Connor wanted to look like his favorite cartoon character on nickalodean’s Avatar Aang. His Grandmother made his Avatar Aang costume out of yellow,orange and brown felt, and put cardboard under the collar to make it stiff and stand up. He put on a dark tan sweat shirt underneath, and wore … Read more
All the people in the photo are teachers at a day school for children with autism and developmental disabilities. Most of the kids in the school love all the Dora the explorer videos. For Dora’s costume it was simple, a hot pink t-shirt and orange sweatpants. She bought yellow ruffle socks and wore white shoes. … Read more
I made the coolest life size (for a 10 year old) SpongeBob Squarepants costume. It has been a contest winner for 3 years, on three different kids and 2 adults. I took two foam pieces from the sofa/upholstery shop, some paint, and some foam sheets from the craft store. My son added his step-dads fishing … Read more
My son wanted to be Spongebob for Halloween and I thought it would be cute for his brother to be Patrick Star! I looked at lots of ideas online for Homemade Spongebob and Patrick Star Costumes and decided the easiest thing would be to buy some yellow and pink fleece and attempt to put something … Read more
When I saw that toddler SpongeBob costumes were $40 online, I decided to put those four years of high school art classes to work and put together a DIY Spongebob Halloween Costume Idea. I bought a few colors of acrylic paint that I didn’t already have and an exacto knife, and went to work on … Read more
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