How to Make a Simple Easy Adult Dinosaur Costume

Make an adult dinosaur costume to accompany young dinosaurs trick-or-treating.

You can create easy dinosaur dress-up costumes for a party or to wear at Halloween by using everyday items of clothing as a base and adapting them with a few basic crafting skills. You don't need to sew anything, as you can use glue to fix the accessories in place. Bend your arms and keep your hands in front of your chest like short dinosaur arms. Don't forget to wear your most menacing dinosaur expression and growl a lot.

Things You'll Need

• Green sweatpants
• Green sweatshirt with hood
• Yellow, white and green craft foam
• Two Styrofoam balls
• Black marker pen
• Hot glue
• Green fabric
• Fabric glue
• Batting or plastic shopping bags
• Cardboard
• Green gloves

Instructions

1. Wear oversized green sweatpants and a hooded sweatshirt as a base for the costume. Place the hood up to look like the top of the dinosaur's head. Hot glue Styrofoam balls to the hood for the eyes. Add eyeball markings using black marker.

2. Add triangular teeth cut from white craft foam around the edge of the hood, using hot glue to fix them in position.

3. Cut out a long, narrow triangle of green fabric to make the tail. Fold it in half lengthwise, with the right side of the fabric facing in, and use fabric glue to join the long seam. Turn it right side out, and fill with batting or plastic shopping bags.

4. Hot glue or pin the tail to the back of the sweatpants.

5. Cut spike shapes from cardboard and glue yellow craft foam onto them, then hot glue them to the hood, the back of the sweatshirt and the top of the tail. Graduate the size of the spikes for a more professional finish.

6. Cut long claw shapes from yellow craft foam and hot glue to the fingers of the gloves.

7. Cover shoes with dinosaur foot shapes cut from green craft foam. Add claws cut from yellow craft foam.

Tips & Warnings

• Purple, brown or blue are also effective colors to choose as a base for a dinosaur costume.

References

• Kids Party Paradise: Dinosaur Costume Ideas
• Coolest Homemade Costumes: Coolest Homemade Dinosaur Costume Ideas