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Dry Bones Costume

Dry Bones Front

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Photo #1 - Dry Bones Front Photo #2 - Dry Bones Back Photo #3 - Cardboard Circle, Fabric, Stuffing Photo #4 - Felt Rolled Shell Edges Photo #5 - Shell Details Photo #6 - Bucket with Cardboard Box and Felt Photo #7 - Gloves Photo #8 - Hat First Attempt Photo #9 - Hat With Better Snout Photo #10 - Shirt with Ribs
Costume type:  Costumes for Boys
Categories:Halloween Costumes, Video Game Costumes

This homemade costume for boys entered our 2018 Halloween Costume Contest.

A word from Amy, the 'Dry Bones' costume creator:

This is my four-year-old son dressed as Dry Bones. Dry Bones is a low level bad guy character from the Super Mario series and you absolutely can't buy a costume of him so it's DIY time!

The How To:
-Cardboard box for the shell size/shape
-Some black fabric (cut about 2 inches larger than the cardboard oval)
-Stuffing inside
-White felt rolled and stuffed around the edges
-Grey felt for the shell details
-Black paint on the cardboard and two black fabric strips for arm straps
-The gloves are children's gloves with some teal felt rolled and stitched onto the wrists
-Shoes are some old shoes with teal felt glued on
-Bucket is made by surrounding a pail with cardboard and gluing on felt for the details
-When you're making a Dry Bones head, your first try will look like a duck. You have to put more felt (and a bit of stuffing) on the bill to make it look more like a top jaw
-The shirt is black with the sleeves cut off and rolled white felt hand stitched to it
-The arms and legs are white long johns with a bit of black paint at the elbows and knees

Everything is held together/attached by glue from my hot glue gun.

The total cost was probably around $30 but mostly from buying the long johns ($10?) and black shirt ($5). The felt was 23 cents per sheet (I used quite a few sheets) and the fabric was less than $2.

If you make and wear this costume, you will get "DRY BONES? THAT'S AWESOME!" yelled at you by about 1 in every 50 people. And it is so worth it. Happy Halloween!

Rating: 4.0 of 5. Votes: 48

48 votes

Comments

#1 comment by Kristin Soni October 22, 2020

Amy, I don't know if you'll read this, but I have to let you know that I am copying this amazing Dry Bones costume play-by-play for my 3-year-old this Halloween. I'm working on the hat right now! Thank you for all the photos and instructions. If there's another way for me to reach you in order to share pics of my results, I hope you can let me know!

#2 comment by Amy October 22, 2020

Hi Kristin!

I'm so glad to hear this helped another Dry Bones fan out there! I had actually completely forgotten I posted this but the site emailed me when you commented. If you post to the comments here with pictures it should email me again. So sweet of you to reach out. :D Happy Halloween!

#3 comment by Shay October 28, 2020

Hi! I'm making this for my 6 year old! I'm struggling with making the top jaw portion on the hat, I'm using felt but it still isn't turning out right , do you have any tips or suggestions??

#4 comment by Amy October 30, 2020

Shay, I didn't really cut the felt from it's original rectangular shape. It's just hot glued to the bill of the hat and then folded up under and hot glued again. You can see one of the folds on the very front of the beak. It was sort of like shaping clay - glue, fold, glue, fold, see if it looks right, glue/unglue, fold. I wish it were more precise but even I was surprised it worked out how it did. I added some cotton batting inside to hold the beak shape up off the hat before I glued the last part down. I have more pictures of just that part if you have an email address you can post here.

#5 comment by Kristin Soni October 30, 2020

Thanks, Amy! I'm afraid I don't see a way to post pics on my end. My email address is kristinsoni[at]gmail.com if you wouldn't mind contacting me there.

#6 comment by Chris September 22, 2021

If You could give me instructions as to how u got the snout to bend in right places and stay that be awesome. Thanks

#7 comment by Ashley July 22, 2023

Love this costume. My son wants to be dry bones this year.

How do you attach the shell onto the back? Was that with hot glue as well?

#8 comment by Jacqueline September 13, 2023

Hi Amy,

I love this costume, so creative!!! My son wants to be a Koopa so I need to do the snout/hat trick as well. Could you possibly send me the additional pictures you have of this step and any additional advice you can offer as well? Thanks so much!

#9 comment by Tara September 24, 2023

Hi!

My 5 year old is obsessed with dry bones so I'll be trying to replicate this! Any additional tips or pictures on the hat?

Thank you for sharing all this info! So helpful!

tara.boehm12[at]yahoo.com

#10 comment by Jenn October 9, 2023

This is amazing. Would you mind to email me the hat/snout photos too, please? jennlandrum22[at]gmail.com

#11 comment by Emily LaForce October 10, 2023

This is wonderful! Would you mind to email me the hat/snout photos too, please? Having trouble with that part. emilylaforce[at]gmail.com

#12 comment by Amy October 21, 2023

Please send me the extra pics of hat snout as well!
dudettegirl[at]yahoo.com
Thanks so much!

#13 comment by Diana November 1, 2023

This was the perfect inspiration to help me with Dry Bones this year! Thank you so much for posting it, specifically showing using a baseball hat for the head/upper jaw
We used white and black face paint for the lower jaw and "inside the mouth" it looked awesome.

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