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February 22, 2013

Easy DIY Green Eggs and Ham costumes for Dr. Suess day

In today’s post: Make an easy Green Eggs and Ham costume for Dr. Suess day!

I gotta say, I get just a leetle annoyed when I get a note home from school telling me my kid needs another costume for another special day. I mean, I love that teachers are trying to do fun, engaging activities with my children, but why so many costumes? I can hardly keep up with crazy hair day and wear red for drug free week, let alone dressing up my child as a 100 year old for the 100th day of school… So when my little one told me he needed a costume for Dr. Suess day I flipped through our books looking for the EASIEST possible outfit I could copy. I landed on Sam I Am from Green Eggs and Ham.

Easy DIY Green Eggs and Ham costume for Dr. Suess day!

 

In case you didn’t know, March 2nd is Read Across America Day (Dr. Seuss’ birthday), and is often celebrated as Dr. Seuss Day at elementary schools.

I was able to put together this green eggs and ham costume in less than an hour for about five bucks. My little guy is so delighted with his outfit! If you have a little one who will be celebrating Dr. Suess’ birthday next week, keep reading for instructions on how to put together this simple costume.

How to make  green Eggs and Ham Costume

First, you’ll need to round up a yellow shirt. I found mine at Joann’s while I was getting the other supplies for $2.50. Then just print out an “I am Sam – Sam I am” sign onto cardstock.

For the floppy hat, you’ll need 1/4 yard of red fleece (you’ll actually only use about half of it) for a hat that fits a 4-yr-old with an average size head. You might want to go up to 1/3 yard for older kids and start with larger circles in the first step below:

(In step two above look at the top pieces for the hat – there’s a straight edge along the bottom of them, right? Well, that was my first try and the hat ended up a little small. So I cut two new hat pieces, this time curving that bottom line out a bit, and it worked great.)

To make the green eggs and ham you’ll need one 9×12 piece of white craft felt (2 if you want to make a plate as well) and one piece of green.

You can just use a white paper plate, or make a felt plate like I did. I cut two large circles of white felt and then cut a bit smaller circle from a cereal box and sewed the felt together with the cereal box circle in between. I hand stitched the eggs and ham onto the plate so they wouldn’t fall off (a safety pin works as well).

Happy Dr. Seuss day!

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  1. Jocelyn Thompson says

    February 22, 2013 at 12:02 am

    Love this! So cute!

    Reply
  2. Denise says

    February 22, 2013 at 12:02 am

    Cute model — I love his face when he puts the plate up-side-down without the food falling off. 🙂

    Reply
  3. rhiannon says

    February 26, 2013 at 12:02 am

    amazing! this is my boys absolute favourite book. think I’m going to attempt this outfit for his birthday. he’d love this!

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  4. Katie B. of HousewifeHowTos.com says

    February 27, 2013 at 12:02 am

    This is absolutely adorable! Green Eggs and Ham was my son’s favorite when he was little. I so wish I’d thought of doing this back then. Doubt I can talk a 13-year-old into wearing it, though. 🙁
    If you haven’t already, I’d love if you’d come join my How To Tuesday link party, too.
    http://housewifehowtos.com/link-party-2/how-to-tuesday-link-party-10/

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  5. Jessica says

    March 1, 2013 at 12:03 am

    This is adorable! Found you on Someday Crafts linky. 🙂

    Reply
  6. Diana Rambles says

    March 2, 2013 at 12:03 am

    This is the CUTEST!!! Love it!

    Reply
  7. Donna says

    March 3, 2013 at 12:03 am

    What a cutie !! ” I like it, Sam I am!” Im going to try it for Reading Week. Green Eggs and Ham is my favorite Dr. Seuss book to read to my Kindergarteners for the last 20 years.

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  8. Bethany B. says

    October 28, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    Thank you so much!! I was working on a Sam I Am costume for my son and got stuck on the hat…now, thanks to your tutorial, he’s got one!

    Thank you again!

    Bethany

    Reply
    • autumn says

      October 30, 2013 at 6:46 am

      You’re welcome, Bethany! We’d love to see it – if you get a chance upload a picture to the It’s Always Autumn flickr pool.

      Reply
  9. Lynette says

    February 27, 2014 at 6:41 pm

    Thank you so much for these instructions! I just whipped them up for my son to wear tomorrow for his school’s Dr Seuss Day. He is so excited!

    Reply

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