Any animal costume can be made with some basics like a sweat shirt, sweat pants and or leggings, a pair of socks for ears and tail, headband or ski cap to hold ears, and some face paint.
Also look at our ANIMAL BODY PARTS section for alternatives to making animal sections.
DALMATION PUPPY
MATERIALS:
White Sweat Shirt
White Sweat Pants
Black Felt
White craft Fur
Scissors
Fabric glue
Thread and needle or sewing machine
White ski cap
Face makeup in white and black
2 pairs of socks
Cotton Batting
- Cut out irregular size spots from the black felt
- Tack or glue them to the sweats
- Cut the white craft fur in a wide strip and lay flat.
- Lay cotton batting on material.
- Fold fur over and sew edges.
- Tack tail onto back of sweat pants. (Can also use a white sweat sock stuffed with cotton batting.
- Apply white face makeup to child’s face.
- Add black face makeup for dalmation spots.
- Stuff two white socks with batting. Add a few black pieces of felt for spots. Or- cut out two ears from white fur or black felt.
- Tack ears to either side of white ski cap.
- Have child wear one pair of socks on hands and one pair on feet.
USE THIS PATTERN TO MAKE ANY TYPE OF DOG COSTUME.
Just use brown, or black or what ever colors you want for your dog.
CAT
MATERIALS:
Brown, tan, gold, white, or black sweatshirt and sweat pants or leggings
Craft fur in color matching sweats
Fabric glue or hot hot glue gun
Needle and thread
Felt in color matching sweats
Plastic headband or ski cap in matching color
Scissors
2 pairs of socks in color matching sweats
Wide felt marking pen
Face Paint or makeup
- Use marker to draw stripes on sweats.
- See our pattern for cat ears.
- See instructions for making the ears using felt and craft fur.
- Cut small oval of fur from craft fur for the tummy area and glue on.
- Make cuffs and neck collar from craft fur. Use the cuffs, and neck ribbing on the sweatshirt as a guide for how wide and long you need to cut fur strips.
- Attach strips to sweats using glue.
- Cut a long tail from either felt or fur, stuff with cotton batting and sew it closed (see animal parts section for instructions).
- Attach tail to back of pants with glue or stitching.
- Have child wear one pair of socks on hand and 1 pair on feet (see animal parts section for instructions on more elaborate paws).
- Apply makeup to face. Eyeliner is great for making whiskers.
BUNNY
MATERIALS:
White, Brown or Pink Sweatshirt, and Sweat Pants or matched Legging
Craft fur
Pink Felt
2 popsicle sticks
Powder Puff or Pom Pom
Fabric tape or hot glue gun
Needle and thread
Plastic headband
Ski cap to match sweats
Plastic Carrot or real carrot
- Glue large cotton ball or pom pom to back of pants for a tail.
- Use our pattern for bunny ears and see our animal parts section for construction. You will be cutting a pattern out of 2 pieces of craft fur and 1 small pattern of pink felt for inside of ears. Glue a popsicle stick to center of inside of fur patterns to help hold ears up. Sew pieces together and hot glue or stitch to headband. Floppy ears can just be attached to sides of a ski cap.
- Cut a piece of fur for tummy and glue to shirt.
- Carry a carrot.
SHEEP
MATERIALS:
White Sweatshirt (hooded or not) and Sweat pants
White ski cap if shirt is not hooded
Cotton batting or stuffing from a pillow
White or black felt for ears
Fabric glue or hot glue gun
Needle and thread
2 pairs of white or black socks
- Apply glue in strips up and down the sweat suit.
You could also use double sided tape for this.
- Attach cotton batting in clumps by pressing into glue or onto tape.
- For the ears, see our pattern and animal parts instructions or cut 2 triangles for either black or white felt and attach to hood or to a white ski cap.
- Have child wear 1 pair of socks on hands and 1 pair on feet. Or follow our animal hooves instructions to make your own.
- Apply white face paint or makeup. Black for nose.
TURTLE
MATERIALS:
Green Sweatshirt and Sweat pants or Leggings
3 pieces of green or brown poster board or craft foam board
Scissors
Craft Paint or thick markers
Hot glue
Green ski cap or hat
Face paint or makeup
- Cut one piece of poster board into a large shell.
- Trace out line of that shell and make a second one from the 2 nd piece of board.
- Draw large wobbly circles on the 2 shell pieces.
- Go over outlines with markers or paint to accentuate.
- Cut 2 long, fairly thick strips ( 1-2 inches wide) the full length of the 3 rd board.
- Using hot glue, attach the strips to the top of the inside of the back shell. Run the strips over the child’s shoulders as straps and attach to the front shell piece. Allowing enough room for child to move comfortably.
- Apply green make up to face along with several red and yellow stripes to neck as turtles have.
- Put on green cap.
COW
MATERIALS:
White Sweatshirt and Sweat Pants or Leggings
Black or brown fabric/felt for cow spots
Short piece of rope or 10-12 strands of black yarn, braided or a piece of rope
Dog Collar or old belt
Bell
2 pairs of black socks
Hot glue
Needle and thread
