You Pinspire Me
My 4-year old recently decided he wanted to have an Incredible Hulk Costume for Halloween! As I’m not a fan of buying entire costumes or spending a lot of money, we decided to make his own. How hard could it be?
As usual, we did a quick Pinterest search for some Incredible Hulk Costume inspiration (and ignored the “Hulk Hogan” costumes) and got to work.
It is a fairly simple idea. Green body. Purple shorts. Giant muscles.
We started with the muscles. We already own a very well-loved Spiderman costume with built-in muscles.
So we put that on first to create the big muscles (obviously skipped the mask, though).
I hit the second-hand stores and found a long-sleeved green shirt and some purple pants. I cut off the pants in a zig-zag pattern.
When we put it together, we got a great result! Huge green muscles, tiny Hulk shorts, and one happy 4-year old. All that’s left is to add a bit of green face paint and we’re done!
Do you buy costumes or make them? Or maybe a combination of both?
Marya R
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That came out really good. I love how easy it was to make yourself!
That did come out really great! Much better than the Spiderman one. We also do a combination, find an old costume and update it!
Adorable! Don’t you just love Pinterest for ideas?!? We have bought all of our costumes second hand since I am not crafty enough to make anything.
What a great idea! We usually buy clearanced costumes because I am not that creative.
What a cute costume! Love that you made it DIY instead of going out and buying one.
very cute – we made our own costume this year too – max was a chicken out of boas!
OMGoodness…that is the CUTEST costume…I love the purple pants, and you can really see the muscles. It’s also really cute that he wanted to be the Hulk.
Very cute. What a fun and creative way to make a hulk costume. Thanks for sharing.
That was a genius way to create the look. I’m so impressed!
That is such a cute costume. He looks so cute