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This Homemade Zombie Costume I made from the soft sheets of art foam from stores like Joann fabric, Micheal’s etc. I cut out shapes I needed to high light the eyebrow and cheek bones and began to make the pieces smaller as I layered them. Once I got the height I needed I glued them … Read more
“I’ve decided I want to be a MUMMY this year”, Amari said. Ok, so we have the mummy costume idea, write down some material needs and off to the local thrifts store I went! I found 3 bed sheets, white pants (I think they were woman’s 3/4’s haha?) and a white polar neck. Perfect! $10 … Read more
This Dead Couple Costume was a complete last minute jobby! I managed to pick up an Indian wedding outfit from a charity shop on the morning of the party, and wore the skirt pulled up as a dress and turned the shawl into a veil using a hair slide and super glue. My boyfriend already … Read more
Coolest Electric Chair Costume was made from recycled materials, except for $3 purchase for grey and black eyeshadow for the face effects. The chair is from a fridge box panel we painted and cut out like a pop-up card, it’s just one piece. The prison suit is a used tyvek jumpsuit from a mechanic friend … Read more
This Homemade Zombie Popping Out Of The Grave Costume took a lot of time to make, but was fairly cheap. I started with a large piece of cardboard that I cut a hole in the middle of. I made sure that I was able to fit in the hole and hot glued crumpled up cardboard … Read more
The fairy queen gets turned into a zombie and because she was a magical being she was able to retain a little of her fairy power but it turned dark. Her fairy dust no longer sparkly but gray can turn anyone it touches into a zombie fairy. She turned her closest friends and faithful companion … Read more
My name is Keith and this Homemade Frozen Head in Refrigerator Costume is my son’s costume. It started around November in 2010 when we decided to stop buying and start making. I used large pieces of cardboard, black, gray, and silver spray paint, spray adhesive, glue gun, dark window tint, small light socket, light, push … Read more
Hello out there, this is a scary fridge I put together this season. I used a lot of cardboard, hot glue-gun, window-tint, spray adhesive, paint and wood for my door handles. I also used four lights in the Scary Fridge Costume, two in the freezer and two in the fridge. The two lights in the … Read more
This Corpse in a Coffin Costume was my Halloween costume last year. I didn’t want to go to the party in a costume hundreds of other people would be wearing so I came up with idea off being a dead man in a coffin. I built the coffin out of cardboard and then added a … Read more
Each year we host a Haunted House Halloween party. This year, my friend, Barb, achieved the maximum scary effect with latex. She pieced together a Homemade She Devil Costume and scared the heck out of the neighborhood kids!
This year my son wanted to again be something scary. I looked through several choices and he picked the Homemade Head in a Freezer Halloween Costume idea off this site. We used a clothing box that you can get from the U-Haul store to start with. Then my husband went to work spray painting cutting … Read more
This Head on Platter Halloween costume was easy, inexpensive and so much fun to put together. The only guidance I had from my 8 yr old son was that he wanted “something scary.” I had a lot of old cardboard boxes in my garage that I was trying to get rid of, which sparked the … Read more