Maker Halloween Costumes: The Green Goblin

Jack loves Spiderman and everything Spiderman related.  His choice to be a Spiderman Villain, The Green Goblin wasn't much of a surprise.  One of the neat things about his costume was that he wanted to make it his own.  He keeps on talking about becoming a film maker when he grows up, so reinventing characters is something we're seeing more and more of from him.

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When Jack first saw the Toby Maguire version of Spiderman a few years ago we had to turn it off because he was so scared of Willem Dafoe as The Green Goblin.  At first we talked about a robotic mask like Dafoe's, but anything we found was way too expensive (like in the $60 to $90 price range), so we decided to take another approach.

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He wanted his costume based more in horror and less in cartoon, but still with a nod to the original comic character.  Here's what we came up with, how we did it, and how much it cost us:

The Face: We decided early on that face paint was not a good option.  We saw some half masks that looked closer to the comic Green Goblin, but it would still require green face paint for the bottom half of his face.  On a trip to Once Upon a Child we were able to find a used Zombie/Goblin/Warrior mask that Jack fell in love with for $8.99 - bonus points it has red eyes that light up.

The clothes: We went traditional with the clothes for Green Goblin.  At Value Village used we were able to pick up a men sized small purple t-shirt for $3.99 for me to cut into a shredded tunic, we were also able to get a green long sleeved t-shirt for $2.99.  We are borrowing a pair of purple leggings from a family friend,  purchased a pair of purple gloves for $1.99, and a pair of purple socks for $2.99.  For the belt we used a pirate belt that we had in our dress up box.


The Accessories: Jack really wanted me to build him a hoverboard on a skateboard or a flutter board, but because he doesn't know how to skateboard, I couldn't find a flutter board for less than $23.99 on Amazon (and knew I'd be carrying it all night anyway) we skipped it.  We purchased a brown leather purse to use as a satchel at Value Village for $3.99 and bought a set of pumpkin lights at the dollar store for $3.50 to make our pumpkin bombs.  For the light up pumpkin bombs I glue gunned in sparkled pipe cleaners (for $1.25) to be the lit ends of the pumpkin bombs and zipped them into the purse to keep them in place.

I am particularly happy with the 'light up' aspect of this costume as it will increase his visibility to cars on Halloween night!

Total cost of this costume to us: $33.54 tax included.


To check out Molly's Raven costume click here.