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One of my favorite cartoons is Betty Boop. After deciding to be Betty Boop I knew that just wearing a red dress would not give justice to her character. One of the most distinguishable characteristics of Betty Boop is her oversized head. Once I knew that the costume needed an oversized head I came up … Read more
This Mystique from X Men Costume was done with blue body paint, a sponge, a scale stencil and black body paint. I wore an American Apparel tube bra and some blue cotton underwear and literally sponge-painted my entire body blue, and then powdered it with some shimmery teal powder. All products are from sillyfarm.com, and … Read more
We found sewing patterns for Buzz Lightyear, Woody, and Jessie. We had to order Woody and Jessie’s hats from a costume website, but we got everything else at the local fabric store. Jessie’s wig was made from orange yarn. Little Bo Peep’s costume was based on a basic dress pattern with minor modifications. We added … Read more
This Homemade Wonder Woman Costume is my latest costume work: (see attachment). This one was based on Kwik-Sew pattern 3445. I moved the split in the sleeve fabric down from shoulder height to below elbow, and made most of the sleeves in sheer Lycra, and the lower part in silver “foil” Lycra. I also moved … Read more
So this is my ultimate Buzz Lightyear Costume!. I used a Heavy Duty Trash can and A LOT of spray paint. Cut the bottom off and a hole through the lid. For the arms I used some cheep knee pads and steel duct for the gauntlets. I stuffed all the limbs with AC foam for … Read more
Hi. For the first time me and my boyfriend made our own Halloween costume. I was a “snowflake” and my boyfriend was “Russell” from the movie UP. My snowflake costume started out as a $20 minidress and $3.00 Knee-high socks from TJ Max. I went to Michael’s and bought Christmas tree decoration that is shaped … Read more
My friends andI wanted to do a group Halloween thing so we were all superheroes and made our costumes ourselves. I made my homemade Wonder Woman costume by looking at pics on this website and I have NO sewing history so if I can do it you can do it.. I started off by buying … Read more
This homemade Wolverine costume was probably the simplest, least expensive costumes I have ever done. The best thing about it is that I already had 95% of the things I needed to complete the costume. Here is a list of the accessories I used to complete the costume: 1 – Wig 2 – Dog Tags … Read more
Pixar is becoming an annual Halloween theme in our household. Each year, I try to come up with a costume idea that stems from one of their movies. Wall-E was last year’s theme, and this year was the Academy Award nominee, Up. The Homemade House from Up Halloween Costume is inexpensive and fairly easy to … Read more
Jack frost is a recycled 70’s white John Travolta costume with homemade added touches. I used craft foam and cut icicles which hung on shoulders, pocket, sleeves and collar. Added icy branches to collar, sprayed entire jacket with craft snow. Use white hair color to spike up hair with touch of blue, white clown powder … Read more
To start, it helps to understand the costume if you have seen the Pixar movie, “WALL-E.” My girlfriend and I are in love with that movie so we decided to make costumes of the two main robots WALL-E and EVE. For WALL-E’s costume, the only materials that you need are 1. Cardboard, 2. Hot glue … Read more
My three year old son LOVES Buzz Lightyear and so it was a no-brainer to him that he wanted a Homemade Buzz Lightyear Toddler Costume for Halloween. So after looking through all the homemade Buzz costumes I could find (there aren’t as many as you’d think) I decided to use try one using cardboard boxes. … Read more