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I saw the idea for a tea bag costume on this web site. A friend made it for me for Under $20.00 with crinoline and brown fabric for the tea (leaves eventually will rot and stink). I was the hit of the Halloween Social 2008. I went to a second hand store and got the … Read more
My mom and I made my Homemade Baby Doll Costume for only $5.00! I got the idea to be a baby doll from the music video to Priscilla Renea’s “Dollhouse”. I started looking at pictures of baby dolls and porcelain dolls until I found some ideas of what I like, then my mom and I … Read more
This Barrel of Monkeys Halloween Costume I made when my son was 5. I just took some light brown material and created a cylinder out of it. You can hot glue or sew. Took 4 rings of metal (2 different sizes) and glued and stitched the metal inside the material. From top to bottom, small, … Read more
I made the Lego hockey man DIY Halloween costume, it was quite easy, warm, and comfortable. What you need: Yellow material, cardboard, duct tape (I used two colors), margarine container, and some small black material that’s see through, and some scissors. Its super easy! So I made the head out of cardboard, rolled it so … Read more
Our family tends to go a little over the top when it comes to Halloween. It being our dad’s favorite holiday, the only problem ever comes when deciding how to top the previous year. Well, this year, we found a way to leave all of the years past in the dirt. How we made the … Read more
After looking through my old childhood dress-up box for Halloween costume inspirations, I found a long black sparkly dress that belonged to my great grandma. I have always been a fan of Barbie, and I thought, “this looks like Barbie’s black dress” and got to work on transforming it into my favorite Barbie. I took … Read more
This is my Operation Game costume. It was so fun to make. All the pieces are removable and interactive. I had such a good time bringing it to work and showing all my peers. I work in an environment where everyone gets crazy with their costumes and this year I went all out. First I … Read more
This Homemade Barbie in a Box Costume was homemade from two cardboard boxes taped together and then painted a fresh coat of “Barbie Pink”! I downloaded the “Barbie” font and printed out the letters to glue onto the front of the box. In order to hold the box up, I glued two handles on the … Read more
After watching GI Joe, my friend and I wanted to be the 2 ninjas in that movie so we made a Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes couple costume. Only the masks (of both characters) and weapons were purchased, everything else was homemade. The costumes were mostly made from fabric and felt paper. The sword was … Read more
As I was searching for inspiration for a Halloween costume I came across costume ideas that were based around board games. Although a fun reference, it was not exactly what I was looking for. Instead, I took the board game idea to the next level and made it interactive. I used an old white dress … Read more
My baby’s favorite toy is her playschool gloworm toy, it also have a sentimental meaning for me (my baby was super tiny when she was born, the gloworm’s head was a lot bigger than hers, so this toy reminds me how well she is doing and how small and fragile she was). We decided to … Read more
This Homemade Hungry Hungry Hippos Costume took about 6 hours off and on to make. I used fabric, paper mache over chicken wire and other odds and ends to the the shapes correct. I spray painted cardboard to shape the back pieces, or buttons from the game.