DESIGN
Flounder may not be a guppy, but he should have a youthful look. Dress him in yellow basketball shorts held up with blue suspenders and add fin-like blue accents across his torso and back. To complete the fishy effect, attach a blue “fin” to a yellow baseball cap (cut off the brim) or swim cap and add a few touches of yellow and blue makeup to his face.
FLOTSAM & JETSAM • Green dance pants
• Green gloves
• Green top
• Black shoes
• Green wig or hat These slippery eels need to move as smoothly as possible. Start with electric-green dance pants and add a green shirt or jacket. Add gloves and a green wig or bowler hat, as well as some fin-like accents to finish off their slick look. Alternatively, you can create hand puppets out of translucent-green material that run the length of your actors’ arms and are easy to manipulate. Whichever design you choose, Flotsam and Jetsam’s costumes should look identical and complement Ursula’s. To give these sinister spies an even more electrifying look, add some strips of green LED lights using double-sided tape, Velcro, and a battery pack.
Flounder and Scuttle Lancaster High School; Lancaster, NY
Ariel with Flotsam and Jetsam Bradford High School; Kenosha, WI
CHEF LOUIS & CHEFS • Black pants
• Red neckerchief
• White jacket
• Black shoes
• White cap Dress this frantic French chef in black pants, a white chef coat, black shoes, and a colored neck scarf for some culinary flair. For extra comedic effect, add an exaggerated mustache. Costume the Chefs similarly to Louis, but use different colored neckerchiefs or pants to set them apart from the head chef.
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Disney’s The Little Mermaid Production Handbook
Chef Louis and Chefs Flower Mound High School; Flower Mound, TX