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Ever since my brothers and I have been young, we have loved the Transformers franchise. This love inspired me to start building Transformers from cardboard for costumes for family members. For Halloween 2008 I made my youngest brother an Optimus Prime costume. His costume is made of cardboard, tape, paint, spray paint, and hot glue. … Read more
This is a transformer suit that i mad out of fiberglass foam and plastic it took 3 months to do
Last Halloween we made a Homemade Transforming Optimus Prime Costume for my son. Unlike most transformer costumes, this one actually transformed! We bought an old Power Wheels body and cut it apart with a heat torch. We kept the nose (hood, fenders and grill together), the cab, and the bed as three full pieces, which … Read more
We decided to make this Homemade Mister Potato Head Child Halloween Costume because our son loved the toy. It was actually very easy to do. I followed the pattern of a bumblebee and made the body of the potato. I then included an extra flap in the back and had false pieces hanging out, just … Read more
Our Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head costumes were made out of felt, with stiff batting inside and Velcro at the shoulders. We added elastic at the bottom to give it more of a potato look. Having no pattern, we just drew shapes for the eyes, nose, mustache, teeth, lips and ears. The eyes, nose, mustache, … Read more
I love the 1980’s and knew I wanted to be a Rubik’s cube so my mom and I made this fun Homemade Rubik’s Cube Costume. I bought a roll of duct tape for each color in the cube and got a box. Then I covered the squares with the duct tape and, after that, with … Read more
Devin and Dyanna are brother & sister – Devin is almost 8 and Dyanna is 6. Along with their many interests, they also enjoy playing games on their Nintendo Wii, sometimes playing as a team, other times playing against each other as rivals. For Halloween 2009, they wanted to be something unique for Halloween. We … Read more
Here is my son Ayden in his Transformer Bumblebee costume. His costume is made of all camping bed form, tons of hot glue and paint. I had used different references form online pictures to get the look that I wanted. Once all together I had painted and added Velcro to hold it together too. The … Read more
My costume is my original idea. A very pregnant “welfare mama” carrying four babies (2 white, 2 black) and a bag with the following words on the sides: FREE RENT, FOOD STAMPS, MEDICAID, ETC. A CARD ON MY BACK SAID WELFARE MAMA. I wore a blond Afro wig, really loud make-up, an exorbitant amount of … Read more
Firstly, I got my idea for a Homemade Day of the Dead Pregnant Belly Costume from going to a day of the dead parade and I was kinda bummed that I was pregnant and couldn’t be a skeleton so I figured my unborn baby could be a skeleton too. So, I Googled baby skeleton X … Read more
I am 7 months pregnant and decided to make a homemade costume that only cost me $10. I picked up a recycled box, spray paint for $2.39 at Home Depot, went to 99cents store to buy 4 apple slicers to create a stove and used my timer I had at home and stuck the pans … Read more
This Homemade Pregnant Skeleton Costume was easy to wear specially during your last months of pregnancy. You will need a stretch material black long sleeve mock neck top and long leggings, black gloves, White Fabric Paint, paper to draw patterns and a brush (if not use spray paint). -First make sure all items are form … Read more