DIY Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costume

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon has not lost popularity for almost 30 years. Its first season was released in 1987, and comics appeared even earlier - in 1984. Since then, films, animated series and full-length animated films about the adventures of four brave warriors have been released with enviable regularity. And it is not surprising that not only children, but also adults are happy to put on a costume of ninja turtles for theme parties, matinees, gatherings of fans. Demand creates supply, and you can easily find a factory outfit, but it will cost a lot. How to make your own ninja turtle costume We will talk about this in the article.

Fun family

What if dad, mom and kids want to wear a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume for a holiday? It's as simple as that: there are a lot of characters in the series, enough for the average family. For example, dad can be dressed as Shredder - what man would refuse armor, and even the famous villain? And the image of April O’Neil will suit my mother, perhaps you don’t even have to sew or buy anything, the girl’s outfit is quite casual. Well, the children are happytransform into any of the four warriors - Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael or Michelangelo. Here is an example of such a family:

For inspiration

And here are a couple more options for how the ninja turtle costume might look. The photo shows that all the details are easy to make at home, it is worth putting in a little effort.

This is a costume that will take a lot of time to make, and if you're looking for simpler ideas, check out how the girls played with simple pieces of clothing and foil uniforms.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costumes

Do you want to make your child an inexpensive and comfortable outfit in which he can show off not only at the holiday, but even play with friends? Then take note of this option:

You will need:

• Green pajamas (if you don't have one, just a T-shirt and panties will do).
• Thin felt of different colors: coffee, orange for headbands (if you are doing Michelangelo, but in general each turtle has its own color and weapon).
• Baking dish.
• Green spray paint.
• Brown chalk.
• Toy nunchucks.
• Adhesive thermal tape.
• Iron.
• Velcro.
• Scotch.
• Glue gun.
• Scissors.

Costume workflow

1. Cut out an oval from coffee-colored felt to make a "turtle" belly. Melkomdraw a press on it.
2. Pajamas are used here, which fastens with a zipper. Therefore, the felt was glued to the right side on a thermal tape, and Velcro was sewn on the left. So you can conveniently unfasten the false belly and take off / put on pajamas for the child.
3. Now we take ordinary plastic nunchucks and use a glue gun to decorate them with brown and coffee-colored felt.
4. Let's move on to the shell: the height of the sides of the form is too big for a child, so they should be cut off and treated with tape so as not to cut yourself. We paint the foil from the can in green. When it dries, glue the Velcro on top and bottom, we do the same on pajamas so that the shell stays on the child's back.
5. If you can't find such a foil shape, then you can get by with a painted cardboard shell or sew a small oval-shaped pillow.
6. Cut out a mask, elbow pads and knee pads from orange felt, and a belt from brown felt.
7. The latter is useful to additionally fix the shell on the back of a little fidget.

Older boys will love a sweatshirt decorated in the same way:

Costumes for adults

Simple calculations show that children who watched the first episodes of the animated series in 1987 have reached middle age, younger fans are people around 30 years old. And they continue to love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. An adult costume can also be made independently. It can be of different levels of difficulty, depending on the event wheregoing to wear it. For example:

• You can be "in character" at least every day if you combine clothes of appropriate colors and use large colored glasses instead of blindfolds:



• For a small themed party or a bachelor party, you can get by with a fairly simple version: pick up T-shirts, shorts or green leggings, draw a belly and press with fabric paints. Make masks on the face with watercolors, put on green stockings, and make bandages on the elbows and knees from the fabric of the corresponding color. The laziest can pre-order a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt.



• And here is another example where the girls approached the task more carefully, making foil shells and cardboard bibs. Added plastic weapons and the image is ready.



• In the warm season, the most daring can not spend time and money on making a costume, but simply paint themselves. Of course, the impressive muscles will only be a plus.

Make it harder

For fan gatherings or large parties, you need a more serious Ninja Turtle costume. You can again use a large baking dish as a shell, but it needs to be beautifully painted.

Most adult homemade costumes use elements made from papier-mâché. As a rule, thishead, arm, legs, armor and breastplate. Enthusiasts can also add muscle made in this technique.

To make this costume, a lot of thick paper was taken. The head and arms are made of papier-mâché, which was pasted over an approximate blank of cardboard glued with adhesive tape. Then newspapers, flour, water and glue were used. For the eyes, we took one ping-pong ball, cut it in half and painted it. The feet are also made of papier-mâché, but old sneakers were used as the basis.

I had to buy a one-color green suit, then the ready-made elements were painted with acrylic paints to match it. If you do this outfit, do not forget to immediately mix a lot of paint, because if it runs out, it will be difficult to repeat a particular shade.

For the shell, a more complex technique was required: first, each of its elements is cut out of cardboard, then glued with hot glue from a gun (carefully, you can get burned more than once). This results in a convex blank, the volume and relief of which was given with the help of brown bags for sandwiches and paints.

The bib is made from several layers of cardboard and foamiran (foam for needlework).

This Raphael costume took about 2 months of spare time work to make.

For beautiful fans

But such a costume of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for a girl can be made in two hours:

You will need:

• Tulle in different shades of green.
• Elastic band.
• Scissors.
• Needle and thread.
• Baking dish.
• White sports top and knee socks.
• Green fabric spray paint.
• Watercolor.
• Black lace.
• Old T-shirt.

Production order:

1. First, paint the top and knee socks green.
2. Then we make a skirt: cut off the elastic around the waist (keep in mind that it stretches). We sew it in a circle, cut the tulle into thin strips. Fold it in half and fasten it with an elastic band. So repeat until you get a fluffy skirt.
3. Painting the aluminum shape green, threading the laces to wear it as a backpack.
4. From an old T-shirt of a suitable color, cut out strips for the head, elbows, knees.

The result is a great costume. DIY ninja turtle is ready. It remains only to paint the abdomen and back with green watercolors, and make the cubes on the press a lighter color.