Are you desperately searching for a PJ Masks Halloween costume everywhere?! They are nowhere to be found and yet all of our kids seem to want to be one of the characters for Halloween, and so we are here to bring you a simple tutorial on how to make your own! You can refer to our post last week for tons of outfit ideas for each character, but we wanted to give you a simple DIY at home version so you can have these masks for nearly nothing each!
Getting started, here’s what you’ll need:
Felt
Soft Material (for backing)
Scissors
Templates (linked below)
Elastic
Light Green Puffy Paint
Fabric Glue OR Fusible Web/Heat n Bond
I bought pre-cut felt squares at JoAnn for $0.49 each, and I needed only one of each color. 1 dark blue and 1 light blue for Catboy, 1 dark green and 1 light green for Gekko and 1 light red and 1 dark red for Owlette. If you buy your felt by the yard, you would need only about 1/4 yard of each color.
For a softer backing, use an old t-shirt or an old baby blanket to make sure the felt doesn’t bother your little one and to add a little stability to your mask.
Start by cutting out each piece of your desired template. Trace the shapes onto the correct color felt if you are using fabric glue OR onto the backing of the fusible web or Heat n Bond. If you are using the webbing or Heat n Bond, iron it onto the felt following the product directions and then cut out the shapes.
For Gekko, create the scales using the puffy paint and make lines to create a diagonal grid pattern. If you’re really crafty you can get a little more fancy with this step!
Place the accent pieces of felt onto the correct positions on the main mask piece, and glue if using the fabric glue or if using the webbing or Heat n Bond, remove backing from the ironed felt, cover with a thin material and iron over to make the bond permanent. When you iron over Gekko with the puffy paint on it, be patient. Let it completely cool before trying to remove the material used to cover the felt or else the paint will be ruined.
Remove paper backing from the back of each mask and iron on your soft material. Make sure the material covers all areas of the back of the mask. Cut around the entire mask and cut out the eye holes to get rid of excess material.
Poke holes on the sides of each mask with your scissors. Insert a piece of elastic and tie a knot in the front, pull the elastic around and tie a knot on the other side. The length of your elastic will vary, but measure the elastic, ensuring it’s relatively snug in order to get the best fit.
And there you go! If you sew, feel free to sew details onto your mask!
For Templates, Click on the photo below of the mask you’d like to make. The link will take you to our templates for that character!
CATBOY
OWLETTE
GEKKO
Thanks for stopping by, and if you make these, make sure to share it with us or tag us on social media, we would LOVE to see your creations!
We were not compensated for mentioning Disney or PJ Masks, all opinions are ours.
THANK YOU so much!
We leave for Disney in 2 days and my daughter decided to change her costume to owlette, with this template I’ll be able to make her a mask. You are a life saver!!!
Thank you! Just what I needed.
I just squealed with delight and did a little happy dance after finding this via a google search. Little man wants to be Cat Boy and I was sure I was going to have to make something up myself. THANK YOU SO MUCH! You totally rock!
You are SO welcome!! Glad we can help out!
Same here!!!
Thank you soo much! this was exactly what my son was looking for.
Simple instructions to follow as well. We appreciated this post
You’re welcome!! Hope your son loves his new masks!
Thank you so much! I was able to make a Halloween costume for my daughter (Owlette) using your mask template, and then freehand drawing the symbol for her shirt. I made a cape/wings out of two dollar store Christmas tree skirts, one red, one white (the one time I’ve been happy to see Christmas items before Halloween!) I’m getting ready to make a mask and shirt for my younger two children now (Catboy and Gecko of course!) If I can figure out how to post a pic I will. Thanks again!
Oh my goodness! What creativity using tree skirts! So wonderful, thank you SO much for the idea-hopefully it helps other parents in the future too.
Thank you so much for posting this! My son loves Pj Masks and we haven’t been able to find anything other than Etsy. Gonna give it a shot at making these masks or Christmas
Thanks again
LOVE this! and just made two sets for my 4 year olds birthday party… Her and her sister went NUTs over these masks & I love how EASY (&cheap!!) they were to make! Thank you very much for sharing!!
SO glad you shared this project! My 2-year-old loves PJ Masks and wants to have that as his birthday party theme..and I’m having the worst time coming up with decorations for the theme! I’ll be making these for the kids to wear. Thanks!!
Please share the photos with us, Morgan! Would love to see how they turn out!
Thank you so much for sharing. It will be perfect on my daughter’s costume!
I fell into an internet hole looking for something else, but had to pause – my kiddo is OBSESSED with PJ Masks and it seems Disney hasn’t caught up yet with the merch. Bookmarked!
Hello! I plan to make these for my son’s birthday party! Would you say a 9X12 piece of felt would make 2 masks each? Thank you!
One mask will fit on that size felt.
I can not get the templates to come up. I clicked on the photo but it does not do anything any suggestions? I’m so excited to have my daughters 3rd birthday and her choosing pj masks as well!
Looks like there’s no problem with the links but we can email them to you! Sending to the email you used for your comment 😉
These are fantastic! Any chance you have them for the PJ Masks villains (i.e. Romeo, Luna Girl, etc)? As if finding this stuff wasn’t hard enough, my son has his heart set on the villains!! Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately we don’t at this time! Something to work on though…a future DIY!
Hi Emily. I need to make wrist band with these pj masks characters on it. In india nothing related to PJ Masks cartoon is available. Please can you share with me how to make wrist bands for kids. God bless.
hi! Thanks bunches! Just a head s up, I think the colors on Owlette’s inner and outer masks are inverted.
The template is not loading for me. They look great! Can you send me the template?
Which template are you looking to use?
My daughter is having her 5th birthday PJ mask themed. I wanted to make 6 of each of the three above to have on the table for the kids when they sit down to eat. looking for the template I can trace on felt and the little pieces on top. Thank you!!!