My 21-month-old daughter loves dogs. Every time she sees a dog she yells, “puppy! puppy!” When she sees a new kind of animal and she doesn’t know the name for it yet, she says “puppy!” So it was pretty obvious what she should be for Halloween. I went looking online for ideas of a Homemade … Read more
My boyfriend does like costume parties, and he does like Halloween, but he doesn’t always like thinking up the ideas in advance. A couple of months before Halloween, I had already figured out what I wanted to be and had started working on my costume. Therefore, I started bugging him to do the same. Eventually, … Read more
I first started this Homemade Flapper Gal Style Peacock Costume by buying lots of feathers from Michael’s. For the tail, I got about 20 long eye feathers and glued them on to a half circle of cardboard in a fan, decreasing the size of the feathers going toward each side to make it round, without … Read more
This is my fabulous Peacock Adult Halloween Costume Idea:! I bought a black corset and covered it in black feathers, then I went over the black feather with peacock feathers! The head piece is a comb with black feathers at the bottom and peacock feathers at the top. The back part is ribbon, sparkly feathers, … Read more
My 9 year old daughter is BIRD crazy. She wanted to be a peacock for Halloween last year. UGHHHHH! No Zombies, Ghost, or witches for her! If it doesn’t tweet, peep, crow, quack, or honk… then it isn’t in her world. So it’s time to think outside of the box and create a graceful Halloween … Read more
I created this Homemade Zebra Costume. The catsuit parts is Zentai, comes from U.K and the cinch comes from Spirit Halloween, and the boa is 2 boas intertwined for the tail. Sexy ankle boots and gloves for hooves, face painted and hair done by cornrowing and hair coloring. Won best costume prize twice at local … Read more
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 boyfriend and I were cleaning up the property around his grandpa’s house when we found a couple of garden gnomes. Then I got this idea for animal Halloween costumes for the two of us. My boyfriend doesn’t like to dress up a lot for Halloween so I figured a garden gnome would be the … Read more
I made the very furry lion costume but decided to make a back up in case it was a bit warmer and the fur one would be too hot. This one was very easy even for a beginner. I bought polar fleece material that was on sale for $4, a pattern that was on sale … Read more
The challenge of this Homemade Giraffe Costume was to make a long neck that wasn’t so top heavy that it pulled the little guy over. The shoulders, neck, and head were all made of paper mache over a chicken wire base. I lined the inside with polar fleece to make it more comfortable. Giraffe fabric … Read more
This homemade boy lion costume was originally made for a costume-party my daughter was invited to when she was 7, and was meant to be a mouse-costume. That was what she requested, a mouse-costume with a long tail,and also what she got. She was very pleased and it made a success at the party, as … Read more
