Yaba Daba Doo! Fred Flintstone is the lovable, blustery cartoon character that has won the hearts of audiences for years. A Fred Flintstone costume is easy to make because stone age attire was simple by necessity. Make it a family affair with Wilma, Pebbles, Bam Bam, Barney and Betty. You are sure to impress everyone at your next costume party.
Instructions
Make a Fred Flintstone Costume
1. Shop thrift stores, yard sales or flea markets for a beige, brown, orange, or yellow sheet to make your Fred Flintstone costume. Check out the remnant bin at your local discount retailer or fabric shop to find an animal print material or solid earth tone materials with no pattern or design.
2. Fold the material in half and hold up next to the body to make sure there material to reach around you and cover from the neck to the knees.
3. Stitch the material together down one side and across the top using a sewing machine, or place seam tape between the material and press with a hot iron to secure the side and top seams.
4. Cut a neck and arm openings in the material, leaving the edges very jagged.
5. Try the costume on and have someone cut the bottom in a zigzag leaving the edges raw and jagged.
6. Cut another piece of material in a contrasting color with jagged edges to make a large tie that reaches almost to the bottom of Fred's costume.
7. Cut out felt triangles and stick on the costume using seam tape, or just draw big triangles on the material with a permanent black marker.
Make Fred's Car
8. Find and old wheelchair to make Fred's stone age car, which runs on the power of Fred's feet.
9. Use lightweight wood or heavy cardboard and cut out four circles for the wheels. Cover the circles with gray or brown material to resemble stone wheels. Attach one to each big wheel of the chair. Glue a dowel rod between the other two wheels to hold them apart.
10. Cut out two short and two long pieces of wood or heavy cardboard and cover with dark brown material or paint to resemble logs. Glue one short log to the dowel rod separating the two front wheels. Glue the other short "log" to the back of the wheelchair to make it look like it is holding the back wheels apart. Glue a long "log" down each side of the wheel chair between connecting the front wheels to the back wheels.
11. Use heavy cardboard to make a frame for the back and top of Fred's car. Cover the car top with an old brown towel to resemble rawhide material. Cut a "window" in the back of the material.
12. Attach a dowel rod to each arm of the chair and glue a cardboard "log" across them to keep them upright.
13. Cut out a small cardboard circle for the steering wheel and glue it to the log.
