Crocodile Costume - Halloween - Peter Pan

It's Halloween time again!

Since I work at the Instructables lab, my son expects a lot of creativity and DIY. Talk about pressure.... This year He wants to be the crocodile from Peter Pan, which now means I need to make 2 costumes, the crocodile for him and Captain Hook for me. I'm also planning a new ending as I don't want to end my halloween being eaten alive by a crocodile.

Ingredients:

1. one very energetic and creative child
2. large sheet of 2 inch foam
3. lots of cardboard
4. styrofoam eyes
5. lots of tape - we used a combo of Shur-tape and Scotch Duct tape to connect the head pieces and the teeth
6. green gloves from Jo-anns
7. velcro from jo'anns
8. Krylon Olive Green Spray
9. styrofoam balls
10. green pants and shirt
11. love of Peter Pan

time: 2 weekend afternoons


The First step is to sit-down for a costume discussion to plan things out...

Step 1 Time for the sit-dwon discussion

We've got to plan out this costume.  so far, we've got some elmer's glue, an empty box of eggs - which we could use for a mouth and some styrofoam eyes which we definitely want to use.

Comments

[hhyman]

Uncle Lee, i always knew that you have had the energy to do fun stuff when you want to. Great job on the costume and remember to work on your captain hook impression. By the way, my mom isn't too bad either at making costumes.
-Evan

[sunshiine]

Very creative and you have made a little boy smile!

[angelabchua]

So.... Im assuming you didn't get eaten at the end?

Great costume! Very original!

[SHIFT!]

That is awesome! You know, for next Halloween, if you wanted to you could rig some simple lever system so the mouth opens and closes. That way he could eat other kids to gain their power!

Make sure to give your son a ticking clock for completion!

[mikeasaurus]

haha, that's a great costume!

[Carleyy]

Awesome costume!!

[canida]

Looks great!

Chomp chomp. :)