Spongebob and Patrick (homemade)
- Contest Photo by: HunterandEmilysmommy
Description
The results made even me amazed. From a distance, the costumes look amazing. I've even gotten asked where we bought them. During trick or treating, we added a fish net for Patrick and a spatula for Spongebob.
The most important part of these costumes? Being able to create something that my children love!!!!
Materials
craft foam (black, red, brown, white, blue)
yellow spray paint
permanent spray adhesive
tube socks
fabric paint (red and blue)
two small pieces of cardboard
Hot glue
Instructions
For Spongebob: Cut hole in middle of egg crate mattress for head.
Using spray adhesive, glue mattress pad ends to strips of cardboard on the side. This gives it substance and keeps the sides together.
Cut round holes on each side for arms.
Spray paint the mattress pad yellow.
Cut brown craft foam to fit around the bottom.
Glue a strip of white craft foam to the top of the brown for the shirt. Add black foam details for the shirt collar and a red craft foam tie.
Glue the pants section to the mattress pad with spray adhesive.
Cut eyes (using small plates as a template) from white craft foam.
Cut smaller circles for the blue parts of the eye, and even smaller circles for the black parts. Glue them together.
Glue the entire eye to the foam with spray adhesive.
Make a mouth of out brown, white, red and black craft foam. (add teeth, tongue)
Glue to mattress pad.
Take a small scrap of mattress pad and spray paint it yellow and glue to the face.
Let dry.
Take tube socks and using fabric paint, paint a blue stripe and red stripe.
(This is not shown in the picture)
For Patrick:
Cut out eyes using white and black craft foam.
Cut out a thin mouth using black craft foam.
Cut out eyebrows using black craft foam.
Hot glue to the hood of a bright pink sweatsuit
Pull swim trucks or brightly colored shorts on top of the sweat pants.
You're done!
- Avoid clutter. Keep the background simple -- your costume is the star!
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