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
My husband was a pirate and our baby was his little parrot. For the Homemade Pirate and Parrot Halloween Costumes we used black pants and a frilly white shirt. We had actually used both last year with a cape and teeth for a vampire costume. I cut about a 5 inch width of red satin … Read more
After my 6yr. old son decided he was going to be a Pirate for Halloween; he then wanted his 5-month-old sister to be his Parrot. I looked at pictures of Parrots on the Internet and in books and then went on my own from there. I cut out a triangle shaped piece of red material … Read more
I love doing homemade and original Halloween costumes. I thought of peacock, and discovered that this was not an original costume this year. (I didn’t personally run into any other peacocks, but heard about many others.) It was still a lot of fun, though, and everyone who saw the Homemade Peacock Costume was hugely impressed. … Read more
My daughter wanted to be a chicken for Halloween this year. Considering I do not sew, I put the entire homemade chicken Halloween costume together with many safety pins, hot glue and a little hand-stitching. Below are the steps I used to complete this coolest homemade chicken Halloween costume: Start with a plain white sweatshirt … Read more
I wanted to make my daughter something unique for Halloween, so I came up with this peacock costume! I purchased a plain black leotard and sewed a feather boa around neck and wristbands. I also sewed two peacock feathers on bust area and a sequin band running down the front. For skirt I made a … Read more
This Parrot Infant Costume was amazingly easy! I needed something that wouldn’t be too hot for South Florida. I bought a plain, white, long sleeve onesie and died it red. Then using blue, yellow and red felt, I cut out the wings and tail shapes. The wings are two sided (one blue, 2 yellow and … Read more