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Step 9Finishing touches
While inside the costume, have someone start sealing up the sides with safety pins. Fold the flaps inward and close them up. The safety pins can be about 6-8" apart, going down the side. Just clean it up however you feel comfortable, as long as you can keep others from seeing into the costume from the sides. Don't close it up too tightly though, you need space to move around, and to maintain the Yip Yip look. It doesn't have to be super neat, the Yip-Yips have a pretty sloppy look. And in the end, you're still essentially just wearing a sheet over your head. (Commenters have opted to sew up the sides or use velcro strips, both which work fine. Safety pins are probably the fastest option. In any case, you may want to leave a hole for you to let your arms stick out in case you'll need them)
With the sides sealed up, you can get to work on the front and back edges. What I did here was cut vertical strips up length-wise like a flier with tear-away phone numbers. I also cut out strips from left-over fabric and attached it to the ends. The more the better, it will help to cover up your feet and legs. Not too long though, you don't want to trip over it. The idea is just to give the costume that ghosty-alien look. You can either hot-glue the extra strips on, or use safety pins, whichever you prefer.
That just about wraps it up. If you need to adjust how the costume fits, you should be pretty comfortable by now with how much flexibility you have; I used safety pins pretty liberally as they aren't easily seen anyways being fastened on the inside. When not wearing the costume it seems easiest to handle it with your hand inside the beanie like a puppet; this way none of the headgear flops around too much. Feel free to give me feedback, or share any ideas you've added to your costume.
yipyipyipyipyipyipyip...uh huhh, uh huhh
With the sides sealed up, you can get to work on the front and back edges. What I did here was cut vertical strips up length-wise like a flier with tear-away phone numbers. I also cut out strips from left-over fabric and attached it to the ends. The more the better, it will help to cover up your feet and legs. Not too long though, you don't want to trip over it. The idea is just to give the costume that ghosty-alien look. You can either hot-glue the extra strips on, or use safety pins, whichever you prefer.
That just about wraps it up. If you need to adjust how the costume fits, you should be pretty comfortable by now with how much flexibility you have; I used safety pins pretty liberally as they aren't easily seen anyways being fastened on the inside. When not wearing the costume it seems easiest to handle it with your hand inside the beanie like a puppet; this way none of the headgear flops around too much. Feel free to give me feedback, or share any ideas you've added to your costume.
yipyipyipyipyipyipyip...uh huhh, uh huhh
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one modification I was going to do is to drill out the base of the eyeballs and glue a wooden dowel like you use in furniture assembly in to it so i can screw up through the material with some small screws and maybe a washer for a more permanent fixture .
what do you think ??
Thank you very much for these instructions! my sister have made 2 yip yip costumes for this halloween (2009).
a few things we did different were....
1. we sewed up the sides of the costume....we found that this was harder to get into but it became more sturdy....we left a 8" gap so our arms can come out but it folds over so you can't see the gap.
2. we couldn't find a foam peace so we purchased some 1" styrofoam and made it into tombstone shape and placed a stick in the middle, wrapped it in duct tape and attached it to the mouth.....still allowed it to be flowing and allowed for a handle as well.
3. we wraped gardening wire around the pipe cleaners so that we could get more structure in the cleaners themselves.....
Here is how one of our costumes turned out!