Costumes For Your Dog

If you want to make some costumes for your dog, you've come to the right place. We have plenty of ideas for you!

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NEW - October 2008!!
Large Dog Costume: Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
Large Dog Costume: Dog Rescue Team

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COSTUME COLOR COMBINATIONS

Pair of Dogs Dressed in C... Buy From Art.com

For example, make a pink cape for Valentine's Day and a green cape St. Patrick's Day.

For holidays where several colors are used, consider using a base color for the cape, then sewing or gluing on stars, hearts or other shapes in the other colors.

Adding some type of hat or crown makes for a more complete dog costume. The hat can be the same color, more than one color, or have complementary colors to the cape.

See Dog Capes and Dog Party Hats for some basic instructions.

DOG COSTUME THEMES

• Is it a fancy dress party with "pirates," "superheroes," "Hawaii" or "wedding bells" as the theme?

• Are you entering a dog costume contest with categories such as "Best Dressed Dog," "Funniest Costume," "Best Homemade Costume"?

• Is it an anything goes type of event such as Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year’s Eve?

MATERIALS TO USE

• Crêpe and construction paper
• Brown paper bags and cardboard
• Store-bought fabrics
• Old quilts, afghans and old clothes
• Ribbon and yarn
• Plain or colored aluminum foil and cellophane wrapping
• Colored plastic bottles (liquid laundry detergent)

Do you have a dog costume or party hat idea or design?

Tell us - and dog lovers worldwide - about it! Your design (and/or photo) will be featured on your very own web page!

Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...

Dog Costume Contest: "Cereal Killer" 
Here's a photo of Sahara, Boston Terrier, in her killer outfit. This costume won 2nd prize in the Creative category of the dog costume contest at our local ...

Dog In Costume: Fauna 
Cyd is a dog my daughter rescued from someone who was unable to care for her properly. Cyd's costume complements Molly's (See Halloween Costume For Dog:...

Halloween Costume For Dog: Flora 
My daughter, Catherine, and I knew we were going to go to the Dogtoberfest in Jacksonville together and she came up with the idea for the flora and fauna ...

Homemade Dog Costume: Goldfish 
Here's a picture of Maggie, our 8 year old Pomeranian. She doesn't really like costumes but I made her homemade dog costume anyway so that we could take ...

Homemade Dog Costume: Cat In The Hat 
I ordered a costume for Lucy, our one year old pug, but it got lost. I wanted her to wear it at Dogtoberfest, the annual ASPCA benefit here in Jacksonville,...

Homemade Dog Costumes:
Angel/Bumble Bee/Witch  Not rated yet
I buy from Wal-mart just the basics; like child-size angel wings and halo, bumble bee wings.

For the witch, again, I buy a child size cape and buy ...

Dog Suit!  Not rated yet
Okay, let's say we have a normal pug, but you wanna dress it up to look like a um, T-Cup poodle, or a Dachshund, get it? a mixed dog! xD like, a Pug Dachshund....

Large Dog Costume Idea: Hannah the Princess!  Not rated yet
Hannah's princess outfit surprisingly has lasted for two seasons now. Sure the dress isn't quite as long this year, but it still works! I found the dress ...

Dog Pirate Costume: Patches the Service Dog Goes Aaarrh!  Not rated yet
The pirate costume was fun to make...cut out some paper into a pirate
hat shape...use a can about the size of the top of your dog's head.
(save the paper ...

Bumble Bee Halloween Costume  Not rated yet
Last Halloween, my children and I wanted to put Bowzer, our 6 month old German Shepard in a costume. It was just moments before leaving the door to go ...