Let’s venture into the wild and dress up as the adventurous Thornberry family! This is a great costume idea for families or other large groups. Pet chimp optional

Dress up as Eliza Thornberry

Eliza Thornberry loves their family’s nomadic lifestyle! Especially since she gets to converse with more animals – a talent she was able to gain when she saved a shaman. She has a lot of distinct features including her braided pigtails, braces, and freckles. For the freckles, use a brown eyeliner. Additional prop idea: binoculars

	Braided Wig Tie the pigtails with the red hair elastics below. You can reuse this wig for an Anna (From Frozen) costume!
	Red Elastic Band Tie on both ends of the braid
	Fake Teeth with Braces This is a pretty interesting costume piece! This is basically a set of fake teeth with braces plastered onto them to make you look even more like Eliza
	Eyeglasses with Thin Round Frame This looks exactly like Eliza’s eyewear!
	Yellow Shirt Dress Wear a Yellow shirt dress. Consider buying 1 size looser than your usual as Eliza’s dress isn’t very form-fitting (also, so you can wear a red turtleneck top underneath)
	Red turtleneck shirt Wear a sleeveless red turtleneck shirt underneath your T-shirt dress
	Red Patch Want to mimic the red pocket details on Eliza’s dress? Consider these iron-on fabric patches.
	Light Blue Socks For that added detail, consider wearing a pair of bright blue socks like Eliza’s
	Brown Lace Oxford Shoes My guess is that Eliza wears a comfy pair of brown oxford shoes like this pair. This one is pretty inexpensive for shoes and the shoes look cute too!

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Dress up as Darwin Thornberry

For Eliza, a chimpanzee is a girl’s best friend! She finds Darwin to be a bit of a scaredy cat (err… scaredy chimp) as he is rarely on board with her escapades.

	Chimpanzee Mask Darwin was adopted by Eliza and he is actually a chimpanzee! Not just any primate, he’s an intellectual one with a British accent to boot. It will be a riot if you dressed up as Darwin and brought along a friend to dress up as Eliza.
	Blue Striped Tank He wears a blue striped tank which he actually stole from Eliza’s sister, Debbie!
	Primate Feet For an added primate effect (and hilarity), you can even dress your feet up!

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Dress up as Debbie Thornberry

Unlike Eliza, Debbie wants to experience an average teenage life and is not as “wild” about the whole nomadic lifestyle. Her outfit is actually really cute, and I would wear it. For additional props, you can bring a teen magazine or headphones and act all nonchalant.

	Wig – Blonde Curly Hair Like Debbie, cover one of your eyes with the hair. I love this wig because it has a lot of waves
	Green Plaid Shirt Plaid is a timeless pattern that is currently getting a lot of added hype. Debbie’s look is a creative way to use a plaid shirt!
	Orange Crop Top Here’s a cute orange crop top. I chose the one with sleeves on it, just because I find it more useful
	Distressed Baggy Jeans What could be more 90s than a pair of baggy jeans? This one has that distressed look that Debbie sports. Love this so much.

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Dress up as Sir Nigel Archibald Thornberry

Ahh Nigel. Where do I begin? His incredibly big nose? His accent and trademark words like “Smashing!” and “Poppit”? He is certainly one memorable cartoon character and he has inspired quite a lot of memes too, such as this question… “On a scale of Voldemort to Nigel, how big is your nose?” Hahaha!

	Huge Nose Sir Nigel has a ridiculously large nose. It should actually be even bigger than this nose I’m featuring but this will have to do. Plus the shape of the nose fits Nigel’s well! This was meant for kids but based on reviews, they look good on adults as well. You may just need to extend the elastic a bit, which should be a piece of cake
	Orange Mustache Actually, Nigel’s mustache is a lot stranger than this one. It looks like 2 brooms sticking out from each end! But this should be good enough. This set has quite a lot of mustaches included so you can also combine 2 if you want it to be extra bushy
	Big Front Teeth He also has crazy huge teeth!
	Safari Shirt Get a safari shirt just like this one!
	Safari Shorts A safari top needs safari bottoms of course!

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Dress up as Marianne Hunter Thornberry

Marianne is the one behind the video camera and is quite a resilient woman. She is also pretty hip – her outfit shows her midriff!

	Red Bandana Marianne keeps her hair neat by wearing a red bandana
	Short Blonde Wavy Hair She has short wavy hair. You can actually skip this since you will be wearing the red bandana anyway. If you have very long hair, simply tie into a bun.
	Glasses The frames of her glasses are an oval shape.
	Yellow Down Vest She seems to be wearing a yellow down vest (or a life vest). This one looks really cute, and you can wear it during cool seasons. You can also opt to buy a life vest instead though between a life vest and a down vest, the latter would be more useful (unless you live in the great outdoors like the Thornberrys). For her bottoms, just wair of jeans with a pencil cut

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