![]() Starting materials and finished SLIMER costume Venkman Ghostbuster costume (complete with light up proton pack) that accompanied SLIMER to the party, but that’s another story…. The costume turned out even better than I had hoped and it was a definite HIT at the Halloween party we attended, (where we won best costumes.) We also made the Dr. The materials I chose to use were- a full size egg crate style foam that you would put on a bed (under $10), some foam pipe insulators ($1.25 each), expanding spray foam in a can ($3), several tubes of paintable silicone caulking ($2 per tube), hot glue and glue gun, assorted spray paints, 2 ping pong balls, and an old long sleeve t-shirt and old gloves I had around the house. So if I wanted to keep this a budget friendly costume I knew, rather than hit the craft store for the obvious materials (by the yard Foam and liquid latex), it was the hardware store and department store for me. I also knew I wanted it to have a wet slimy look (you know, sort of gross like SLIMER was in the movie). I wanted it to be made out of a soft light weight material so it wouldn’t be too awkward or heavy to wear at the party we were going to. I also didn’t want to break the bank buying materials to make this costume (since most of the cool ones I saw online were hundreds of dollars to make) so I knew I would have to get creative with materials. Rather than take the obvious character options for costumes, I wanted to challenge myself and try to make a SLIMER costume. When we decided that we were going to do something somewhat ordinary like a Ghostbusters theme for our Halloween costumes this year, I knew I had to do something over the top to make it stand out.
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