For my homemade Planters Peanut Woman Costume, I cutout two peanut shapes from beige felt and attached them with fabric strips, and drew in the texture with permanent marker. I made the cane out of an old Christmas candy cane wrapped in black hockey tape.
My son really wanted to be Mr. Peanut and since I couldn’t find a peanut costume I tried to make my own. I bought gold colored felt and cut two shapes of a peanut out and sewed the two together. I added some black felt for the peanut markings. I bought a hat monocle and … Read more
The idea for this costume came from looking at house hold items such as planter’s peanuts. I started with using garden fencing, wired it up in the correct shape. I paper mached it, painted it applied the face and lettering and I was done. The total time for making this costume was about 15 hours. … Read more
I like to make my own costumes out of bed foam…. and wanted something unique for my boyfriend and myself. So, I made up a “Mrs. Peanut” and of course Mr. Peanut.. Good luck with your own homemade costumes!