Our daughter decided that she wanted to be something off the wall this year! So what else, but a monkey cowboy. We like to call her “The Chimp with No Name” or “Chimp Eastwood.” The costume base started out with a few store bought items that we incorporated into creating the “base layer” of the … Read more
For Halloween 2010 I wanted to go as something not everyone was going to be. so I actually got my idea from this site!! I thought the loofa was very cute and it really was easy to make once you get the hang of it. My friend got her idea from here too and went … Read more
I made this costume a few years ago, just for a photoshoot and a documentation. I used some textiles, I needled them. And alsa there is a long textil. For the jewelery I used pearls and braids and I went to the shop. I painted the face and the hands and made the hair indian-ish.
I wasn’t to sure what I wanted to dress up as. Because of my situation I didn’t have much choice except for a womens costume with a stomach showing. My sister helped me with this costume. I just found an old black shirt, painted my favorite number on the front and back, bought sweat pants … Read more
My costume is a re-creation of Lady GaGa’s infamous Meat Dress that she wore on the 2010 VMA’s. I clearly couldn’t use real meat because people would be slightly angry at me and I don’t have enough money to cover myself in beef. So I decided to create my own GaGa costume with a slightly … Read more
I got this homemade Lego Pirate Halloween costume idea online and just added details that my 6yr old insisted on. Such as the peg leg, hook hand and parrot on the shoulder. He wanted it to look just like the Lego pirate toy. I started by cutting circles out of 2″ foam insulation for the … Read more
I loved the idea of being a “Bun in the Oven” for my Halloween costume, but, being only 16 weeks along, I didn’t have a very big “bun” yet. Still, I wanted to do something fun since I hadn’t been pregnant during Halloween for my first child! So I grabbed my favorite apron, printed off … Read more
I am 8 months pregnant and wanted to incorporate my belly into a costume. I am the headless horseman with my painted belly as the pumpkin head. Hope you like my Homemade Headless Horseman Pregnant Costume!
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
For school we get prizes for having a great creative costume, also we get bigger prizes and acknowledgment when you are in groups so I thought of Thing One and Thing Two from Cat in the Hat. At first my friend thought it would be hard but it actually is not once you find the … Read more
For this costume, everything was homemade. His muscles were made out of pantyhose stuffed with batting, and sewn to create the muscle definition. His black leather pants were and old pair of pants that I duck-taped to give it that leather look. The arm was made out of foam that I put together and painted. … Read more
We dressed up for Halloween, Toy Story theme, and my daughter decided she wanted to dress up as Slinky. To make it work, use a ball for the body of the wrap with new paper and glue, and head using two balloons, is practically all paper Mache, use a thin hose, body spiral, a lot … Read more