Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. We’ve had lots of fun doing just that! The Pirate in a Ship Wheelchair Costume was made using large pieces of cardboard, covered in brown paper and decorated with marker. The box easily folded flat for transporting … Read more
My 11 year old daughter made this betty rubble costume using some blue material lying around the house and her sewing machine. She just made a cylinder top, and added a neck strap to hold it. Her little cousin is the model, holding her doll to match. The skirt is also a cylinder, at the … Read more
My Homemade Jessie from Toy Story Costume was made by a few designer friends at work. We made a cardboard box and cut out a piece at the front and put some clear plastic so it looked like I was a doll in a box waiting to be sold. We made sure there was a … Read more
I made this homemade Snow White Halloween costume for my 5 year old daughter. We purchased the wig, but the rest I made from a pattern. The collar was the tricky part, I used a fusible interfacing and snaps to hold it to the dress. The sleeves are made from a nice silk I had … Read more
My twins are 15 months old. I’ve been planning on dressing them as Thing 1 & Thing 2 since last year! Their wigs were gray and I sprayed them blue with blue hairspray from the local party store. I bought red union suits and the Thing 1 & Thing 2 signs are just made from … Read more
Kermit the Frog took me about 2 weeks to construct and and alot of trial and era but finally got this masterpiece to look like the real deal. We went to a couple of big parties in arizona and placed 1st at one with over 1000 people there and 2nd at the other with over … Read more
My 2 year old loves spiders so I thought that would be the perfect costume, only I was having trouble finding a spider costume that in my opinion was cute enough. Then I had the great idea that her older sister could be Little Miss Muffet to make it a theme, but the only problem … Read more
My son has been learning about multiverses and black holes. He wanted to go as some sort of multiverse/parallel universe and we decided the best way was to show all the different possibilities of how he may progress in the various universes. We used styrofoam, black webbing, printer, and popsicle sticks to design it.
My five year old son wanted to be an army tank and marine for Halloween, so that’s where my idea started for this Homemade Army Tank Costume. I used a toy army tank of his to model the costume after. 1. Bottom part of the Tank: The bottom part of the tank is a box … Read more
I started off this Homemade Pirate Woman Costume by going to some thrift stores and bought the skirt and white shirt first. I cut the shirt to fit over my shoulders and also cut the edges on the bottom of the skirt and some holes on the skirt as well. The finished product I also … Read more
This Homemade Earth-Quake Wordplay Costume is made of 100% cardboard. Mother earth and The Quaker Oats Man came together to become an EARTHQUAKE!
This Rocky Horror costume is Magenta and Riff Raff from Rocky Horror Picture Show. We used an old tailed tux jacket for Riff Raff. My husband has thick black hair but we used a latex rubber bald cap kit from a costume store and glued that sucker down with special latex adhesive. Then applied make-up … Read more