Kids love dressing up as favorite Disney characters and Mickey Mouse is at the top of the list! Whether you’re making Halloween costumes or dressing up for the theme parks, these DIY Mickey Mouse costumes feature three of his favorite looks.
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This article was originally published October 5, 2017 and has been updated and republished with a new date.
DIY Mickey Mouse Costumes
In five years of trick-or-treating, my son has been Mickey Mouse three times! The first year was the classic Mickey (which he calls, “Happy Mickey”). Then Sorcerer Mickey. And this year, it’s Mickey in his Roadster Racers costume.
As a big Disney fan, I love that my son wants to dress as his favorite character so often! And fortunately Mickey has plenty of incarnations to choose from! Here’s how you can make each of these three Mickey Mouse costumes on a budget at home.
Dressing Up at Theme Parks
Kids under age 12 may dress in costume at Disneyland or Walt Disney World.
Classic Mickey Mouse Costume
This sweet Mickey Mouse costume is the easiest of the bunch! Several of these pieces can be inexpensively store-bought and the rest go together quickly. Instructions for making your own Classic Mickey costume HERE.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BUY
- Black t-shirt
- Black pants or leggings (optional in warm weather)
- Red shorts
- Two large white buttons
- Yellow shoes (but we settled for white!)
- To sew the hood, you’ll need stretchy black fabric and polyfil. If you’d rather avoid the sewing project, purchase premade Mickey Mouse ears.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey Mouse Costume
Isn’t this Sorcerer Mickey Mouse costume Fantasmic!, err…fantastic?! And it’s budget-friendly and fairly easy to make as well. It’s all about the sorcerer hat, naturally. The rest of the costume is extremely easy to pull together last minute.
With the wave of your wand (and a few stitches on your sewing machine) you’ll be able to sew up the Sorcerer’s hat that is the centerpiece of this darling costume. The instructions for putting together the Sorcerer’s Hat HERE.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BUY
- Red tunic or over-sized t-shirt
- Brown belt or rope to tie around the waist
- Leggings or pants in a dark color
- Blue and white cotton for the hat
- Black felt for the Mouse ears
How to Make a Mickey’s Sorcerer’s Hat
Working from top to bottom, Yen Sid’s sorcerer hat is the winning part of this costume. I will give you several different options for creating this piece and you can choose, depending upon your skill level and craftiness.
These are the things you’ll need for the sorcerer’s hat-
- Cone hat pattern, like this one for a “witch hat”
- Blue cotton fabric, I recommend Kona Cotton Broadcloth Fabric
(I bought a yard)
- White cotton fabric (or felt) for the stars & moons (quarter-yard should be enough)
- Black felt for the mouse ears
- Buckram
, a stiff fabric-type material that will help the cone to stand up straight (half-yard would be plenty)
- Fusible bond, like Heat’n Bond Lite Iron-on Adhesive
OR Hot Glue Gun
- Poly-Fill stuffing
Instructions for Sorcerer Mickey Costume
1. Cut two pieces of blue cotton from the cone hat pattern. Cut one piece of buckram from the same pattern. Sandwich the buckram in between the two blue cotton pieces and baste around the edge to hold all three pieces together.
2. There are several ways to make the mouse ears. I cut mine out of stiff black felt (just simple circles with a tab on one side to attach to the hat). Curve the hat around your child’s head to see where the placement should be for the ears and mark it with disappearing ink. I sewed the tab on to the hat (facing the back of the hat) but you could hot glue as well.
3. To create the stars and moons on the hat there are two options:
Option A – Free hand draw these designs onto Heat n’ Bond. Iron the shapes onto white cotton fabric. Cut out on the lines and iron directly onto one of the blue cotton pieces of the hat. Take care not to place the pieces too close to the edge where the hat will be seamed together.
Option B – Draw the designs onto a piece of pattern to create a pattern. Using the patterns, cut out the shapes with felt and then hot glue onto the blue cotton. Take care not to place the pieces too close to the edge where the hat will be seamed together.
4. Curve the cone into a conical hat shape. At this point you have several options for seaming together.
Option A- I turned my hat inside out and machine sewed down the seam, then carefully turned right side out.
Option B- You could also overlap the hat seam and use heavy-duty staples to seam it shut. You could then cover the seam with a hot-glued strip of blue ribbon.
5. For the padded hat band, measure the child’s head circumference where the hat will be worn. Add about 10 inches to this measurement as the band will tighten once the stuffing is added. It’s also easier to cut the band down in size than to add another piece of fabric.
6. Cut a piece of blue cotton 6″ high X the head circumference, plus 10″. Fold the cotton in half (so it’s now 3″ high), right sides together and sew the long end of the fabric, creating a tube. Do NOT turn the piece right side out, you will be stuffing this tube while it’s inside out.
7. Place a safety pin about an inch in from one side, closing off the tube. Stuff the tube with Poly-fill through the opposite end, using a dowel or chopstick to lightly push the stuffing down. You want the tube lightly padded but not bursting at the seams.
8. When the tube is padded, compare this hat band to the bottom of the cone hat. You may need to remove some of the fill and trim some of the tube fabric if the tube is too long. Once you have the tube an appropriate size to fit the hat, sew the tube ends together making a circle.
9. Placing right sides together, pin the hem of the tube to the outside of the cone hat and baste. Then using a sewing machine zipper foot, sew the hat band tube closely inside the basting line to secure the band to the hat. Trim excess and roll band down. Ta-da!! Your sorcerer’s hat is complete!
Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey Robe and Belt
For the rest of the costume. I’d had all intentions of making an authentic red Mickey tunic that matched the costume he wears but when it came down to cutting it out, I found I didn’t have enough red cotton. I dug through my drawer and found this red tee shirt which fits my son nicely and doesn’t drag on the ground or cover his hands (I had to turn the tee inside out because it had a logo on it). I paired the tee with black leggings and brown sandals, though any brown shoes would work.
For the belt, you could choose to purchase a bit of brown rope to knot at the waist. I had brown cotton that I sewed in a strip long enough to wrap around and knot.
And that’s it, a fairly quickly put together Halloween costume. I was able to create the hat in a few hours time and the rest of the outfit was thrown together very fast. And all pieces are very budget-friendly. The hat fabrics didn’t cost me more than a few dollars!
Mickey and the Roadster Racers Costume
This is a completely handcrafted costume so it may take a little longer than the other two. But not more expensive, it just requires a few more creative touches. I made the jumpsuit and hood by following this McCall’s Costume Pattern
If you’re not up for sewing something elaborate, this outfit could easily be put together by making it with a few store-bought pieces. By adding yellow felt designs to a sweatshirt and pants and then applying hand-painted patches you’ll have an inexpensive and unique Mickey Mouse costume!
WHAT YOU NEED TO BUY
- Red sweatshirt
- Red sweatpants
- Red beanie
- Yellow felt for racing details
- Black felt for Mouse ears on hat
- White felt for the “buttons” on front
- White cotton
- Black and white checked fabric, to sew onto each side
- Fusible bond, like Heat’n Bond Lite Iron-on Adhesive
- Fabric paint, like Jacquard Fabric Paint (8 Pack)
When creating the patches I used the same technique as in this Finding Dory t-shirt. I fuse white cotton patches onto the fabric, stitch carefully around the outside and then paint my design onto the cotton. (The photo of my son when wearing this costume was before I finished with the patches).
I have a LOT more Halloween costume ideas HERE.
