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For this Four Seasons Group costume, we each picked what season we wanted to be. For Winter we bought a white t-shirt from Michael’s and directed it in Christmas decorations and snow flakes. Spring made a dress out of flowers and glued them to an existing old dress paired with rain boots. Summer used a … Read more
My Black Widow Spider Costume was a combination of store-bought accessories, things from my closet, and some crafty creativity. The base of the costume was a black dress out of my closet. I purchased the following items: – Red elastic/vinyl belt from H&M – Spider web tights – Mesh fingerless gloves – Top-hat with red … Read more
My son loves to come up with crazy ideas for Halloween costumes, and we love figuring out how to make them. So when he told us he wanted to be a fire hydrant, we were excited about the challenge. Using a concrete form for the body, layers of foam board for the hat and nozzles, … Read more
My daughter wanted to be anything that would include a person holding her! So I began to think. We had a scream costume from years past. Firstly, for her, she wore a top to a pajama outfit. the legs I made them from PVC pipe, stuffing pantyhose and slipped her pajama bottoms over it. To … Read more
I have seen a boy in a white outhouse picture online and that was my inspiration for this costume. I got boxes from my grand-dad (washer and dryer boxes). My cousin Chad and I spent two days constructing the costume. We cut and applied the ‘wood panel’ contact paper (two rolls from Kmart for $12), … Read more
My four year son was obsessed with T-Rex’s last year, so Mom had to deliver! I made his T-Rex head out of a children’s plastic fire fighters helmet. I turned it around and started shaping the head from cut up cereal boxes and masking tape. I glued on the fabric with carpenters glue and plastered … Read more
My husband and I were going to a Halloween party and I wanted to make a costume that would stand out so I came up with this kidnapped by a Cyclops costume. I made the Cyclops head out of paper Mache and attached the head to an old backpack. I made the legs out of … Read more
This costume was made for my son this year (08) so we could enter him into the local Halloween costume contest. Turns out he won 1st place in the scariest category. I had kids and adults asking me who else was in the costume. Little kids were tugging onto his hands and trying to see … Read more
My wee boy, Cooper, is washing machine daft. He knows all the makes and loves looking at them in books etc. We decided to make him a washing machine Halloween costume. We made it from an old vacuum cleaner box(the perfect size for a 3 year old)and made a hole for his head and a … Read more
My son has CP and I wanted to make him the cutest and most loved during the holiday. The Washing machine costume was very easy to make and unique around this part. Hope that you love it just as much as I did and everyone around here!
For this piggyback costume I used a garage suit stuffed in the bottom and worn on the top. A graduation gown – worn on the bottom and stuffed with a mannequin on the top. Walk a bit hunched over and it looks like you are riding.
Last year, on Halloween, I made my daughter a dress similar to those in the 15th century because she wanted a princess costume. The only fabric where I had enough was the green broadcloth and white (dyed pink with pink dye found in the kitchen). That year, I didn’t have any money at all. I … Read more