My 7 year old daughter LOVES stuffed animals and I thought it would be a great idea to have her dress as a kitty and try to find her pets a good home!This cool homemade kitty costume was very cheap to make and got rave reviews everywhere we went!
We have a dog and my eight year old girl is a big dog lover and she really wanted a dogs costume this year. We surfed the internet and decided “Puppies for sale” would be a great theme. We saw lots of great ideas on your site and those were our inspiration to the costume. … Read more
I really wanted this adorable lion costume for my sons first Halloween. However there was absolutely no way I was paying $100 for it. I looked at the costume for weeks before I decided to just go for it and make my own homemade lion costume. I bought fleece and fake fur fabrics from the … Read more
I hate buying costumes so I was trying to do something a little different, so I decided a Homemade Peacock Halloween Costume! I started with a simple black skirt that looked like a petticoat. For the top I went to K-mart and bought what I like to call “a long bra” LOL. I had my … Read more
It all started about a week ago. Me, and my friend were sitting around the table, doing the norm. Suddenly we decided a costume was needed. We were going to be hitting up all the major clubs in AC, getting crazy in NYC, and a standard costume was not gonna cut it. Of course, being … Read more
My costume is a Homemade Peacock Costume! Absolutely love being different so I had to go all out and make my own. The one I admired online was $200! So after I seen that price, I said no thanks and had to do it myself! So here is what I came up with. Feathers were … Read more
Beautiful flowing zebra tutu dress made out of yards and yards of flowing tulle and zebra stripes galore! Two cute looks with a coordinating zebra mask and a headband mane. This is our Homemade Zebra Costume.
The college where Grandma worked got all new Gateway computers and Grandma wondered if we could use the cool cow motif boxes for Halloween somehow. That got us thinking… Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. Obviously, we needed to figure something with cows … Read more
My son Marquis, reminds me of a little bear so I came up with this costume. I just used dark brown and light brown felt fabric and a few snap buttons. I made my own bear pattern and sewed it together. Enjoy making your own Bear Costume!
This is the ultimate girly girl costume! I ordered feathers from the internet; it was the only way to make sure I had enough of the same color. As a base I made a simple shift dress and hot glued different shades of pink feathers all over the top portion. To cover the raw edges … Read more
I made my son this Lion costume for his first Halloween using a Simplicity pattern #3594. Instead of putting bands on the sleeves I put elastic because that was easier. Also I used the “eyelash” type of yarn for the mane which gave it more of a “fur” look. I was expecting it to be … Read more
