DIY Bam Bam and Pebbles Costumes

Since Halloween is right around the corner, I figured I would share the costumes I made for my husband and I last year. We didn’t have a lot of time to pull these costumes together, but I think they turned out pretty well.

Supplies:

For Bam Bam:

• Orange Fabric
• An Orange Hat
• Brown Fabric
• Safety Pins
• A Small Dog Bone
• A Medium Sized Dog Bone
• Black Felt
• Hot Glue
• Scissors
• Cave Man Club

**We found the plain orange hat at a hat store that custom embroiders hats. We found the Cave Man Club at Spirit Halloween. The Bones are all Nylabone bones. You can get them at WalMart,Target, Meijer, and Petsmart.

For Pebbles:

• Green Tank Top
• Light Blue Body Con Skirt (or blue shorts)
• Black Felt
• Medium Sized Dog Bone
• Hot Glue
• Scissors

Directions:

For Bam Bam:

1. Start by measuring around the waist of the person who is going to be wearing the costume. Then have them measure how long they want their costume to be. Keep in mind that you will be cutting pieces off, so be sure to find out how long it needs to be for them to be comfortable.
2. Next cut triangular shapes out of the orange fabric.
3. Have the wearer tie the fabric around their waist where they want to wear it.
4. Measure from the front left hip bone, over the shoulder to the right side of the lower back. Add about two inches and cut out a strip of brown fabric. Cut triangular shapes out of the brown fabric.
5. Safety pin the brown fabric to the orange fabric. (Be sure to pin it so you can’t see the pin.) Hot glue the medium sized bone over the front safety pin.
6. Cut out various sizes of triangles out of the black felt.
7. Hot glue the black triangles all over the orange fabric.
8. Cut out smaller triangles for the hat.
9. Hot glue them all over the hat.
10. Hot glue the small bone on the back of the hat.

For Pebbles:

1. I found my green shirt at Plato’s Closet and ended up liking it too much to want to hot glue anything to it. So for mine, I cut triangles out of black felt that hat sticker backing. It didn’t really work as well as the hot glue, but it saved the shirt.
2. Wear green shirt with blue skirt or shorts.
3. Complete look buy wearing the last dog bone in your hair. I hot glued a bone to a hair thing.

It wasn’t the most difficult DIY i have ever done, but we were able to pull the two costumes together quickly and with very little money. I can’t wait to see what we come up with this year!