I got the idea for this Homemade Frog Costume from another costume on this website for a toddler, and adjusted it for me. I went to a local thrift store and bought pants and a sweatshirt that nearly matched. I hand-sewed the black felt patches on it. The slippers were a pair of my sister’s, … Read more
For my best friends’ birthday we did a zoo theme! So I went with the Homemade Woman Owl Costume. Supplies: *old t-shirts *scissors *simple dress (I bought a thin swimsuit cover up dress) *fabric glue I went to a thrift store and bought cheap tshirts of any color. I then made a stencil out of … Read more
I made this Homemade Peacock Costume by buying peacock feathers from a bulk floral website, hot glued them onto a piece of felt fabric and used Velcro to attach the tail feathers to my lower back onto a corset top. I used remaining feathers to hot glue up the front, and I glued a big … Read more
This year Savannah Rose went in a Birds Nest costume. We bought a Grape vine wreath, two vines, brown leggings, red hooded sweat jacket, 3 red stuff animal birds, fake fur and a bird visor. Most of the items we bought from the dollar store or on clearance. I took one of Savannah’s old dresses … Read more
This Cat Costume I went overboard with but I had a lot of fun. First I ordered a body suit(white) which I ended up spray painting (maroon, orange, yellow and black) as well as going over with permanent marker for detail on the outfit. I also sprayed some yarn which I sewed on the shoulders … Read more
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