My sixteen year old daughter wanted to be Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas for Halloween, so of course I obliged her. I searched for a dress pattern that had the basic shape of Sally’s dress and sewed that pattern from old bed sheets. I then started collecting scrap fabrics in the basic colors that … Read more
I made this for one of my best friends for our Nightmare Before Christmas group this Halloween. I like to dress in theme so this year we picked something she liked since she normally will just wear whatever we ask her to. We all love the movie too of course! This Oogie Boogie Costume was … Read more
The head of the Jack Skellington costume is made from papier mache over an old crash helmet. Underneath, the plastic visor has been removed and was replaced with thin cereal box card, out of which I cut eyes and a mouth hole. I added rolled up cardboard to the sides of the helmet to get … Read more
My husband and I decided to dress in Homemade Sally and Jack Skellington Costumes. Jack’s mask was the most intricate part of the costume. My husband blew up a punching bag and applied multiple layers of paper mache, also using this process to form the eyes and the nose. This process took about two weeks. … Read more
My 2010 costume is a Homemade Jack Skellington Costume. I knew from the start I would need more height because I am only 5’7″ so I purchased some sports stilts. From there, I used pipe insulation (similar to pool noodles) to build the basic structure of the arms and legs. The arms and legs were … Read more
The round heads started as a very round balloon, were paper mached and then covered in felt. Lock and Shock are simply taped cardboard with nose and ears masking taped on and then covered in felt. The round heads are particularly hard to cover in felt so I pinned down the felt before I hot … Read more
My daughter decided she wanted to be oogy boogy from Nightmare before Christmas. We racked our brain and came up with this homemade Oogy Boogy costume!!!
The setting could not have been more appropriate the first time I saw Nightmare Before Christmas. At seventeen-years-old, I remember stepping out of the last showing of the theater that foggy autumn night of 93′. My family had yet to arrive to pick me up and as I sat down on the curb to wait … Read more
Jack and Sally from Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas! When I decided to make these Homemade Jack Skellington and Sally Halloween Costumes I wanted to make sure they were authentic and as close to the characters as possible, right down to the very last detail. Everything you see was hand-made all except for Jack’s mask … Read more
Jack’s head was created by using a plastic bounce ball covered in paper mache, then when it was dry I popped the ball and pulled it out. His bow tie was made with wire to make the long wings; which I covered in fabric. The Styrofoam was molded into a bats head. I also used … Read more
Hi! I’ve always found the movie, Nightmare Before Christmas to be a Fascination! I’m not sure what it is about it, but it’s mesmerizing. So, I decided this year to create my own Sally Stitches Costume. I’ve tried to make it as close to authentic as possible. It’s a LOT of work, but the end … Read more
I must say, this Jack Skellington Halloween costume was definitely a nightmare! Basically, I started this costume by learning how to walk again. I used 24” drywall stilts that I borrowed from a local contractor. I must have fallen 5-6 times in about 5-6 minutes. Luckily, nobody picked me up off the pavement on Halloween. … Read more