Spongebob Costume

for a bachelors party

Posted by Anria O.

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I made this costume for some friends for a bachelors party. They dressed the groom in this suit and made him run through the isles of a toy store searching for Patrick!

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You Will Need (8 things)

  • Glue
  • Tiger Tail Wire
  • Paint Brush
  • 1 Needle a nice large one
  • Yellow, White, Red, Pink, Black, Blue Craft Paint (and brown, or you can just mix paint to give a brown colour)
  • Scissors
  • 1 large sheet of Sponge
  • Cardboard

Steps (7 steps, 960 minutes)

  1. 1

    Important: If you are going to work on the floor (as I often do, because I don't have lots of space) FIRST VACUUM!!! I had to learn the hard way - every hair or dust particle that is on the floor will cling to the sponge

  2. 2

    Cut the sponge so that it looks like this

  3. 3

    Draw spongebob's face, shirt, tie and trousers on the sponge.
    Tip: test your pen on a piece of sponge scrap. I used a fineliner and when I started painting the ink started to smudge

  4. 4

    Paint!

    I laid some refuge bags underneath the sponge just to make sure the paint did not seep through to the carpet

  5. 5

    Fold the sponge over itself where the dotted lines were and sew 1-2cm from the fold. I did the sewing on the inside, but if you sew on the outside, the costume might have a more rigid box shape

  6. 6

    Fold the 2 flaps above spongebob's head over one another and sew them together. Then cut a hole, big enough to push your head through, at the top. Sew around the edges of the hole and the arm holes to make it a little bit more sturdy. I also glued some pieces of cardboard to the inside to act as shoulder pads.

  7. 7

    And Viola!

    Now find a groom and make him carve a house out of a pineapple and let him try and convince a real estate agent to sell his home