Introduction: Care Bear Coat
The Care Bear Coat is the coat that hugs you back! You just can't be blue when you've got a passel of Care Bears swarming you. Plus I can truly show I Care-a-lot while Battling the Freeze Machine.
Back when I made the Baby Care Bear Costume, I also began collecting smaller Care Bears to one day assemble into a jacket. It took four lots from eBay and two different understructures to pull together (Care Bears are deceptively heavy when gathered en masse!), but I was finally able to realize my dream and present to you, dear audience, the Care Bear Coat.
The coat uses 45 Care Bears (from 6"-8" in size), and easily weighs 12 pounds. I made a stuffed rainbow collar to finish the look and planted a few plush clouds along the collar to add a little extra cuteness (which it was clearly lacking, right?) I pinned the Care Bears to the coat and sewed them in place from the inside.
So, ok, you might ask "why?" "Why, Scooch, why." The only answer I have is because I had to. I just did. And I've learned by now that when the creative voices start speaking, it's best to just listen to them and get out of their way.
Besides, it's200th Instructable. I can do what I want!
Where will I wear it? No idea. Somewhere, some day when I feel like I need to receive a lot of hugs from strangers and children. Did I mention two of the bears talk?
And if nothing else, I bet it would be a big hit at Burning Man!

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55 Comments
7 years ago
you better get some rights for this! looks like some Jeremy Scott stuff. very awesome :D
8 years ago
I wore that and my four year old little sisters started acusing me of murdering care bears my mom couldn't stop laughing
9 years ago on Introduction
Your getup would show super well at the Burning Man.
See some desert costumes in The Secret of Soot.
A Burning man ible that I shamelessly toot
Bear Coat & your winning ibles, I'm a longtime fan..
9 years ago on Introduction
saw this in the newspaper a few days back..
https://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FS5/SK8X/H4VQDC67/FS5SK8XH4VQDC67.THUMB.jpg
9 years ago on Introduction
These are the first thing I thought of...
Flea's (Red Hot Chili Peppers) Muppet Skin Pants...
9 years ago on Introduction
Dang, 200th ible - I've got to get my behind back into gear!
Reply 9 years ago on Introduction
Me Too! (I have a lot of work ahead of me, though!)
9 years ago on Introduction
I find this extremely disturbing. You don't happen to have a necklace made out of ears do you?
Reply 9 years ago on Introduction
Not yet, but inspiring!
Reply 9 years ago on Introduction
The necklace made out of ears comment is an obscure reference to a B movie one of my screen heroes is in:
Universal Soldier
Dolph Lundgren has a necklace of ears made out of his victims in it, which at one point he shakes, and says, "I'm all ears ..." I think it was supposed to be creepy, but it was very campy too!
9 years ago on Introduction
Aww so cute I don't have this many care bears but is it possible to make a curtin out of these things?
9 years ago on Introduction
Is anyone else feeling weird about this, I suddenly find care bears very sexy!
Reply 9 years ago on Introduction
That's a bit creepy
Reply 9 years ago on Introduction
Agreed ;-) Sexy!
Reply 9 years ago on Introduction
Strangely, yes, I do too :O)
9 years ago on Introduction
I know it would be a hassle, but can you 'gut' the carebears & re-stuff with tiny (smaller than a BB) styrofoam balls? I thinking scraping them off a piece of styro insulation & pack them inside the bears bodies? I think you'd reduce the weight of the coat by an easy 75%
Reply 9 years ago on Introduction
I did begin by gutting the bears, thinking I would use just the pelts. But that looked really weird. And the process of gutting them is surprisingly intense. These bears are seriously engineered!
9 years ago on Introduction
I just can't stop looking (at the coat ) So many bears !
9 years ago on Introduction
Just four words!
Out of this world!
9 years ago on Introduction
This reminds me of Flea's pants (Red Hot Chili Peppers).