Easy DIY Pumpkin Costume for Adults

Learn how to make an easy DIY pumpkin costume perfect for adults! Add HTV to an orange sweatshirt and top it off with a handmade pumpkin hat!

What’s more classic than a pumpkin or a jack-o-lantern at Halloween? The best thing about this costume is that it is a great last minute costume. You can wear whatever pants you want. The pumpkin top and hat make the whole costume.

It’s so easy to make, and it’s really comfortable to wear. It works for both men or women. I wore it to a Halloween party this week and felt good the whole time.

I chose to do a classic happy face for the pumpkin, but you can do a silly or a scary face instead. It’s great when you make it nice and big and noticable.

I did my face with iron-on vinyl and a Cricut Maker, but if you don’t have a cutting machine you can sew or glue a felt or fleece face onto the front instead. You could even just safety pin the face onto an orange top with black paper.

What fabric works best for a pumpkin costume?

The best top for a pumpkin costume is anything that is solid orange and a basic front. The best fabric to use for a pumpkin face is felt or polar fleece. I love using felt or fleece for costumes because they are easy to sew, and they don’t fray. Those fabrics don’t need to be finished!

Do you love to sew? Try one of these sewing projects:

• DIY costumes
• Upcycled costumes
• Free costume sewing patterns
• Halloween sewing projects

Easy DIY Pumpkin Costume

Supplies

• Orange sweatshirt or t-shirt
• Black iron-on vinyl or black felt/fleece
• Cricut Maker and tools
• Easypress 2
• Scrap of orange felt
• Scrap of green felt
• 1/2 yard of 1/2 inch double fold green bias binding
• 1 yard of brown 2 inch wide ribbon
• Hot glue gun and glue
• Alligator hair clip
• Sewing tools
• Sewing machine

Instructions for the Shirt

Cut the face out of the iron-on vinyl with a cutting machine like the Cricut Maker. Or cut the face out of black felt or fleece fabric.

Weed the face design.

Apply the iron-on vinyl to the front of the sweatshirt with an Easypress 2. Or sew the face onto the orange top.

If you don’t have a cutting machine, you can cut out a jack-o-lantern face from black felt or fleece. Sew the face pieces onto the front of the sweatshirt.

Instructions for the Hat

Layer the two orange circles on top of each other. Sew an “X” through the layers. Sew around the circles to close the edges.

Sew the bias binding closed and cut two pieces that are 9 inches long.

Sew some vein details on each green leaf.

Layer the vines and then the leaves on the pumpkin top and tack in place.

Start rolling the ribbon until it creates a tube. Glue it in place.

Glue the stem onto the pumpkin top right over the tacked stitches.

Glue the clip onto the bottom of the pumpkin top.

Put the costume together with black leggings or jeans. You finished!

If you make something using this sewing project, I’d love to see! Please share it on social media with the hashtag #heatherhandmade and tag me!