Roger rabbit costume kids Patch#
Roger rabbit costume kids trial#

I used the same 1/2 circle flower foam for the rounded top of the head cylinder. I cut a hole in the top for the top section of the head to sit down in, and a hole in the bottom for Marty to be able to put it on. I started with the cheeks first - which I basically made a cylinder of foam I glued together, and 1/2 round flower arranging foam were the rounded parts on the end.

Roger rabbit costume kids trial#

The head was definitely the most challenging part of the costume, and it took a lot of trial and error to get it right! I started with sheets of foam, I used 3 separate sections to make up the head - which you can see in the photo before I attached the fur.

We decided to attach the bow tie to the bottom of the mouth so it stayed in place easier. I cut out yellow circles from felt and glued them on.

The bow tie I cut out two large bow shapes from felt, and sewed them together, leaving a hole to stuff it with stuffing for some dimension. An elastic piece on the bottom fit snug over the shoes so it made it easy to walk, and they didn't end up getting too dirty. I then put small black felt strips to accent the toes. These were made out of pieces of foam with the fur fabric glued over it. I then put small black felt cartoon accents on the tops of the hands. The gloves I just drew out an oversize glove pattern, cut two pieces of yellow felt out in the same shape, and sewed them up together to create a glove.

Roger rabbit costume kids Patch#

I cut the felt into an overall shape, and had my husband try them on, take them off, try them on, take them off, until I got the shape down and the fit right! I put large yellow buttons on the front, and a blue patch with a ball of the fur fabric on for the tail. I started with the overalls, which were made out of a large piece of red felt. there is a hole cut in the mouth part so he can easily breathe and drink - but he had to drink beer from a straw and basically put the entire beer up the mouth so he could get the straw to his lips, it looked like he was just eating the beer everytime he took a drink, ha ha! My favorite part of making an elaborate costume it the reactions I get from everyone while we are out! My favorite part of the Roger Rabbit costume was watching him drink. No one believed that the Roger Rabbit head was handmade! What drunk adult doesn't love running into one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters! We got to play the role, Marty had his 'p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pleeeeeaaasssseee!!!' down, and several times I got asked 'what do you see in that guy?' and I got to respond with 'he makes me laugh.' We couldn't have had more fun playing out these parts and seeing how excited everyone was to see us! We literally had people yelling at us 'Roger Rabbit WAIT!!!!', and chasing us down to get a photo! We had a blast in these costumes, and were being stopped all night to take pictures. But finding the right materials, and my favorite costume making tool - a hot glue gun, I was on a roll! There were several moments of 'I don't know how I'm going to make this work' but with enough time and trial and error it started coming together better then I could have imagined! This was my first attempt at making a large 3 dimensional cartoon head.

The head was by far the most difficult part. I've been told by friends before that I would make a perfect Jessica Rabbit, so this year I decided to go with it, but who is Jessica without her Roger Rabbit?! Halloween is by far my favorite day of the year, and I always go all out on my costumes, although this year my husband Marty was wearing my masterpiece! Don't get me wrong, everyone still loved Jessica, but I think it may have been for my boobs more then my costume, ha ha! Everything on both of our costumes was completely handmade from Jessica's dress to Roger's outfit and head (except for Jessica's purple gloves, and Roger's white shirt) and probably took around 50 hours to complete.