This year I doctored up my son’s sweats to create his Halloween costume. He is a HUGE (I repeat HUUUUGE) Muppets fan. He favors Kermit, since he’s sort of the leader of the pack, but would have been happy being Fozzy or Animal. While searching online for Muppets costumes, I found a serious lack of cute ones available for purchase (for toddlers). I stumbled upon a craft site that had a picture of another mom’s Kermit creation. It looked easy enough, and after having copied the creative mom’s idea, I can say it really WAS easy.
First off, where the heck are the green sweats??? I had to dye some heather gray sweats. No big deal - it worked perfectly with RIT’s Kelly Green dye powder. My friend suggested I use styrofoam balls as the eyes, rather than the stuffed eyeballs the costume in the picture had. This worked great. I just glued on some black “Kermit pupils” and used a Tapestry/Upholstery needle to sew them onto the top of the hood. I then cut triangles out of lime green felt and sewed them around the base of the hood.
Ta-Dah! Kermit:
