I wanted a sexy and fun costume for Halloween so I decided to dress up as my favorite bird, a Peacock Costume. The costume was a bit of a challenge at first as I wanted to have the tail fan out as well as lay down. I wasn’t able to come up with a light-weight … Read more
This year I decided to make my costume since I work at a zoo I love seeing the peacocks so decided I wanted to make a Home Made Peacock Costume. I bought 50 peacock feathers from eBay for about 25 dollars. I then glued the features to a piece of card board, I made two … Read more
I made the dogs costume using a pattern for the outfit but the chair I just took foam and covered it leaving a hole in the back so my dog could fit through. I made fake legs and bought some cheap shoes. I just made my own pattern for the legs. I stuffed them and … Read more
I dressed my son up in a parrot costume and I went as a pirate! I got the idea off of this website. I loved the little chicken costume but I didn’t want him to be a chicken. I wanted to dress up as something that went along with him. This is how I made … Read more
I made this Homemade Peacock Costume in about 2 weeks. I sewed on roughly 60-70 black feathers to the top of a dress that I got on sale at the mall. I made the tail using about 50 peacock feathers and a marabou folding fan. I made sure to keep the fan movable so I … Read more
Meet our precious golden finch! He is the sweetest little bird you’ll every meet, snuggled up in his nest with his snuggley little worm. We started out this Homemade Baby Bird Costume with a yellow hooded sweat shirt, sewed on a beak and black accents and made some fabric wings and attached at shoulders. We … Read more
My 6 year old daughter came to me and asked if for Halloween I would make her a “cute chick costume”. It took me a few minutes to understand she wanted to be a baby chicken. Then we started to research ideas that would work and be the best budget minded we could since I … Read more
I try to make my son’s Halloween costume every year (mainly so he has something unique) and this year we decided to make him an American Bald Eagle sitting in a nest. Using a gray hooded sweatshirt, we began sticking feathers to the sweatshirt using spray adhesive. Once feathers were covering the entire sweatshirt, I … Read more
This Homemade Chicken Halloween Costume is my favorite costume yet! Wait, she is only two so that doesn’t give me much of a choice! This homemade Chicken costume was simple but had everyone talking. I purchased a white cover up, three 6′ white feather boas, red foam, orange leggings, orange felt and two packages of … Read more
My wife and I where looking for the most original costume for our daughter and we bumped into the peacock bird. Since that moment we decided to look for feathers and a fabric that matched the color of the bird. Finally we found everything we neede and the hard and complicated part was to put … Read more
For this homemade Peacock Halloween costume idea I bought over 500 peacock feathers online, hot glued them to ostrich feathers and then sewed and hot glued them to cardboard and then glued them to a fan. I covered my old corset in feathers and and old petticoat as well (for the skirt & shirt). I … Read more
I live by the motto “it’s better to DIY.” So, naturally, I wanted to be something somewhat original this Halloween. The whole process of making this Homemade Peacock Costume (from planning and shopping, to actually constructing the costume) took about two weeks. My first mission was to find a royal blue dress, and not to … Read more