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My mother made this costume for my daughter’s first Halloween. I always make homemade Halloween costumes for the kids’ and I like their costumes to be relevant to them. Since she was too young to have a favorite character we made her into her doll. We used pink fleece to make a jumper then added … Read more
Start your homemade adult costume by shaving your legs. Get tanning bronzer, blonde wig, shirt and bandanna on Amazon. Boxing or wrestling boots spray painted. Buy boa at any fabric store and belt at Toys R Us. Glasses at motorcycle shop. This is the best one yet. Total Spent: $100
Hi! Well here’s to another successful Halloween! This whole homemade costume idea started at work when my friend/co-worker and I were talking about whether or not we’d dress up for Halloween and jokingly came to a decision to dress up as Scorpion and Sub-Zero from Mortal Combat. Well… before the week was over the joke … Read more
This was a real homemade Halloween costume. You will need: one box, depending on the size of subject, red material, white spray paint, ketchup and mustard bottles, hotdogs and buns (two each), hot glue, newspaper and black markers, coffee filters (2) and duck tape string. I started off with a box and enclosed it completely … Read more
I am from Iowa and what do you think of when you think of Iowa? Corn! I was going to a costume party at my sister’s in Minneapolis and thought of a few ideas for Halloween costumes but this corn costume was a unique idea. First of all I got four egg carton bottoms and … Read more
I made this Praying Mantis insect costume out of white poster board, a green plastic shower curtain and red pipe cleaners. It took me a total of three to four hours and I designed it as I went along. The entire thing was hot glued together. I wore these pieces over a green shirt and … Read more
My son had to dress up as a book character for school. This Jack Frost costume came from some items we saw at a dollar store. Jack Frost sounded like a fun costume. He had pair of old black pants and we found an old black jacket for $3.00 at a thrift store. We bought … Read more
This Jack in the Box costume was made from paper Mache that I covered a yoga ball with then put spackle over it to make it smooth. A cone for the hat and nose then painted on the rest. This costume took approximately six weeks to make trying to figure out what materials to use. … Read more
My daughter loves fish. We decided we could make her a great jellyfish costume. I found a clear umbrella from Target. It ended up costing $20 but we have used it after the fact as its intended use. I bought iridescent plastic streamers (not paper in case of rain!) that were actually door entry decorations. Then I … Read more
This is so easy and perfect for twins or best friends! I found lots of kid costume ideas from searching on the web and finally decided to do the dice! You will need about six yards (more or less can’t remember how much it actually was) of fuzzy material of your choice of color (though … Read more
My son came home from school two weeks before Halloween and told me that he wanted to be a scuba diver. Thiscostume was so easy and very inexpensive. Originally I was going to use a black sweat outfit, but it ended up being warm on Halloween so I went with black stretch pants and a … Read more
My husband is a mailman so my son decided that is what he wanted for his kid Halloween costume! We took a plain pair of navy blue pants. Then I got a blue/denim button up the front shirt and sewed a postal patch on it. We bought my son a sun helmet, hip pouch and … Read more