Make costumes yourself, easily and quickly

What you need:

• for the cardboard costume:
• a large cardboard box
• yellow cardboard or
• yellow fabric for sheathing or
• yellow and black acrylic paint
• possibly glue
• a scissors
• for the cheese clothes:
• black leggings or trousers
• yellow leggings or trousers
• a black long sleeved top
• a yellow long sleeved top
• for the accessories:
• small decorative mice
• yellow and black make-up
• gray make-up and
• a headband with mouse ears

Costumes quick and easy - cheese as a disguise idea

• You can make cheese costumes yourself quickly and easily. If you have a partner, it is also a fun idea to have one dress up as cheese and the other as a mouse.
• Because of its striking yellow color, a cheese costume is a cheerful costume that spreads a good mood.

Make your own cheese costume out of cardboard

1. Get yourself a large cardboard box. The box should be big enough that you can fit your upper body inside.
2. Either paint the outside of the cardboard completely with acrylic paint or you can cover it with yellow crepe paper or yellow cardboard.
3. You can also use yellow fabric as a cover.


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4. Cut a hole in each side for your arms and a large hole in the bottom so that your head can fit through.
5. There are several possibilities for the cheese holes: Either cut holes in the cardboard and glue them behind with black cardboard. Alternatively, you can simply draw holes on the cardboard with a black pen or black acrylic paint or glue the holes onto the card using black cardboard.

Clothes that will turn you into cheese

1. You can make your own cheese costume even faster by simply wearing normal clothing. Get a black and a yellow long-sleeved top, as well as black and yellow pants.
2. Now cut holes in the yellow top and the yellow trousers as you like.
3. Put on the black clothes first and then the yellow on top. This creates a great cheese effect.

Advantages and disadvantages of the costumes and accessories

• As accessories, you can stick or pin small plush or decorative mice on both costume versions.
• The cardboard variant is less suitable if you need freedom of movement with the costume or if you need to move into Go free, as the cardboard can soften in the weather or the paint may become damp again can.
• The box has more of a cheese shape.
• The cheese costume made of normal clothing keeps you warm at the winter carnival festival thanks to the onion look and is easier and faster to make.
• You can use the black clothing again after wearing it.
• It is best to paint your face with yellow and black theater make-up according to the costume.
• For the carnival you can either put on a headband with mouse ears and put on gray make-up, which has a "mouse-in-cheese" effect.
• Alternatively, you can put on a yellow woolen hat on which you can sew or pin a little mouse.

Have fun making yours yourself Costumes!