This Yip Yip Costume Tutorial has detailed step-by-step instructions and even includes a free downloadable pattern to follow.
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Are you possibly as excited for Halloween as I am??!?!? The boys’ Birthday is October 26th which totally adds to the fun factor! Check out these Yip Yip costumes that I made for the whole family this year.
Awesome hey!? We’re all going to be Yip Yips – from old school Sesame Street!
My original inspiration was from Disney’s Family Fun site. I had intended to make costumes for just the man and I but had enough fabric left over for the kiddos too!
First off, I have tried to make these instructions as clear as possible with free patterns that you can download at the bottom of this post. Please keep in mind that this tutorial was originally written in 2010 with a few updates over the years for clarity.
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Supplies for this costume:
- Queen size fleece blanket **
- 20″ x 30″ roll of cotton batting
- 13″ x 13″ of black sheer material
- 2 – 4″ Styrofoam balls
- 2 – 1/2″ Styrofoam balls
- 4 pipe cleaners
- black paint
- paint brush
- pins
- coordinating thread
- hot glue gun
- sewing machine and accessories
** cut into 70″ x 35″ for the top of the costume and for the bottom, three pieces 70″ x 12″, 70″ x 16″ and 70″ x 20″.
How to make a Yip Yip Costume:
1. Cut your fabric as shown in the pattern. Start with the body and pin the right sides together.
2. Sew along the dashed lines shown on the pattern, creating the head of the Yip Yip.
The mouth is left open at this point.
Here’s what the costume will look like turned right side out.
3. Cut the tentacles into the three pieces of extra fleece. The tentacles should be left about 4″ from the top of the fabric and 2″ in width.
Now let’s work on the mouth.
4. Pin the black fabric to the opening of the mouth, right sides together.
5. Sew the black mesh mouth to the opening of the mouth in the fleece. Turn right side out.
6. Now roll up your batting and pin it on the inside of the mouth, wrapping the fleece around the batting.
7. Whip stitch this into place.
It will look like this.
8. Sew the tentacles onto the bottom, layering the longest at the back.
9. Hot glue gun the eyes into place.
10. Twist two pipe cleaners together and hot glue gun a 1/2″ Styrofoam ball to the end. Repeat.
11. Twist the two antennas together and hot glue gun them to the eyes.
12. Paint black pupils onto the styrofoam eyes.
The finished Yip Yip Costume should look something like this.
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Yip Yip Costume Tutorial
Materials
- Queen size fleece blanket
- 20" x 30" roll of cotton batting
- 13" x 13" of black sheer material
- 2 - 4" Styrofoam balls
- 2 - 1/2" Styrofoam balls
- 4 pipe cleaners
- black paint
- paint brush
- pins
- coordinating thread
- hot glue gun
- sewing machine and accessories
Tools
- 1. Cut your fabric as shown in the pattern. Start with the body and pin the right sides together.
- 2. Sew along the dashed lines shown on the pattern, creating the head of the Yip Yip and leaving the mouth open.
- 3. Cut the tentacles into the three pieces of extra fleece. The tentacles should be left about 4" from the top of the fabric and be 2" in width.
- 4. Pin the black fabric to the opening of the mouth, right sides together.
- 5. Sew the black mesh mouth to the opening of the mouth in the fleece. Turn right side out.
- 6. Now roll up your batting and pin it on the inside of the mouth, wrapping the fleece around the batting.
- 7. Whip stitch this into place.
- 8. Sew the tentacles onto the bottom, layering the longest at the back.
- 9. Hot glue gun the eyes into place.
- 10. Twist two pipe cleaners together and hot glue gun a 1/2" Styrofoam ball to the end. Repeat.
- 11. Twist the two antennas together and hot glue gun them to the eyes.
- 12. Paint black pupils onto the styrofoam eyes.
Hi heather, working on them right now , greetings from Amsterdam!! They’re great!
Wonderful!!
Hello! Im working on these, but its the first timw for me following a pattern, so if I have a 70×70 I have to fold twixe to get 35×35, is this correct? And where in the pattern will the mouth go? Thank you!
Hello! I’ve updated the post to clarify – please let me know if you still have questions :)
Heya, I’m trying to locate the pattern and it hasn’t come through to my email inc junk! Are you able to send them to me?
I’ve added you to the workflow – be sure to check your junk folder.