Animal Muppet Costume
This easy Animal Muppet Costume tutorial is perfect for creating a DIY costume this year. Animal was a huge hit at school for Halloween because of how much fun he is!
Yield: 1
Materials
- Round head base
- ½ meter black cotton fabric
- 4 pieces of orange felt 8×11
- 2 red pieces of felt 8×11
- ¼ piece of a pool noodle or 2″ round flexible foam
- 3 Styrofoam balls 3″ in diameter
- 7 triangles cut from white foam board
- 8 ″ black Velcro
- Black feather boa
- Red feather boa
- Orange feather boa
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun and lots of glue
Instructions
- Create eyes by cutting 2 of the Styrofoam balls into 2/3 the size. Wrap and glue orange felt around two pieces of pool noodle approx. 1″x4″ in size.
- Wrap and glue two pieces of orange felt around a large piece of pool noodle the size of the bottom section of your mouth opening. My foam piece was approx. 3″x30″.
- Wrap and glue a piece of red felt around the third ball of Styrofoam.
- Glue the seven triangles to the large bottom “lip” that you previously created.
- Glue the black cotton to the bottom lip of the head base.
- Glue Velcro to the inside of the top lip and to the inside edge of the top of the black cotton. This creates the inside of the mouth where the top can be velcroed into place or removed for better visibility.
- Glue the features (eyes, nose and mouth) to the head. Cut a tongue shape from red felt and glue that into the mouth on the black cotton.
- Glue feather boa everywhere! Black feathers for eyebrows and red and orange everywhere else. I cut some individual feathers to place around the head strategically as well.
- Draw pupils onto the eyes with a black Sharpie.