The Dream Team's Best Halloween Costumes: Pingu the Penguin
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Disney Family.com's Dream Team parents always have great tricks up their sleeves. So for Halloween, they've shared the secrets and stories behind their favorite homemade costumes.
What I loved about this costume:
At 7, our oldest son wasn't too cool or easily bored to humor his little brothers by watching their TV shows, including Pingu (pingu.net) the lovable claymation penguin featured on PBS Kids Sprout. For my part, I kept his Pingu fandom a secret from his school friends.
"Can we be Pingu for Halloween, Mom?" asked Jackson when FamilyFun magazine arrived in the mail featuring a penguin costume.
"You're going to make their costumes?" asked my husband, remembering the time I promised to sew a button on a pair of khaki pants when we were newlyweds. Ten years ago.
"These are no-sew costumes!" I said, not bothering to hide my defensiveness.
With a few modifications to make the penguin more Pingu-like (we skipped the bow ties — that's not how Pingu rolls), I succeeded, making a penguin suit for each boy. And sewing never entered the picture.The results would've made any claymation penguin proud.
You will need:
Steps:
- 1. Follow most instructions and templates for FamilyFun's Perky Penguin costume, substituting orange craft foam for yellow, to make the costume more like Pingu.
2. We ran into trouble with the double-sided tape. It didn't stick to the sweatshirt fabric. (I began picturing the boys dropping body parts around our Victorian town square like penguin zombies.) Instead, I used a hot-glue gun to secure eyes and beaks onto the hoodies.
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