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I could not find my baby a pirate costume that would match with the ones our family was wearing. Actually the smallest one I could find was for a 1 year old; my son is five months. I decided to give it a shot and try to make a Homemade Baby Pirate Costume myself. I … Read more
When my son came to me and said: “mom, I wanna be a cool robot this year”, I knew it had to be good. We had a lot of fun making this Robot costume. Michael and I went to countless stores searching for things to use for our robot. We found a steamer and silver … Read more
This is how I made our Homemade Outer Space Family Halloween Costume. I got 3 large 36 inch balloons and paper mached them for the earth, moon and sun. I let them sit for a couple of days so that everything was dry. For the moon, I added craters. I popped the balloons and painted … Read more
I wanted to do something funny for Halloween instead of the usual sexy costume- so I decided to do the most inappropriate thing I could think of. I used an old formal dress and red paint (I used acrylic which I don’t suggest because it hardened) and splattered paint over the bottom of the dress. … Read more
For Halloween we went as a pirate family. Our costumes were semi-homemade. The pirate ship our infant son rode in was our pride and joy and took hours to make. It was such a hit we had people stopping us while we were trick or treating to look at it. They commented on all the … Read more
My 3-year-old son said he wanted to be a robot for Halloween, so I knew I was going to have to make a homemade Robot kids Halloween costume. Wastebasket body, dryer vent arms and legs, custom cardboard head, plastic cup ears, and LED battery-powered Xmas lights from Target, with white plastic leg caps from Home … Read more
The whole concept here started when my father bought my 4 month old son, Asher, a skull and cross bones doo-rag (as seen under the pirate’s hat in the picture) not even a month before Halloween. This got my creative juices flowing to make his first Pirate Unique Halloween Baby Costume Idea, one that would … Read more
The body and head of this homemade robot boy costume are made from cardboard boxes then wrapped with art paper to make the silver chrome paint more metallic. Head has a construction helmet (we duct taped the helmet in) making the inside fitted to head, eyes are plastic cups painted silver with lights inserted, mouth … Read more
I used Simplicity patterns 3663 and 2834 for this Homemade Lady Buccaneer Pirate with her Parrot Couple Costume . The Parrot. I used red fleece for the main part of the costume. I then hand sewed 7 red feather boas, 1 blue boa and 1 yellow boa. It took hours and hours of hand sewing. … Read more
Our 3 year old decided he wanted to be a pirate for Halloween, so we bought both him and his 1 year old younger brother, Andre, pirate costumes. Since we usually take them trick-or-treating around town and around our neighborhood, we wanted to take them in their wagon… But a red wagon just doesn’t go … Read more
We got the outfits from American Apparel. The top is a leotard, it is completely backless and really cute. The skirt is also from American Apparel and is actually a tube top dress that we folded into a skirt. For extra props we had a bunch of dollar glow in the dark glow sticks, we … Read more
This BroBot Costume is a mix between a Lax Bro and a Robot, called the Brobot 3000. There is a lacrosse stick, backwards hat, flip flops, khaki shorts, and a polo with some shades for the Lax Bro part of the costume. For the Robot part, a cardboard box is cut to make the robot … Read more