These Homemade Rainbow Brite and Twink Costumes were inspired by my love of the 1980’s and my childhood favorite cartoon show! My birthday is two days before Halloween and I turned 30 this year, so I knew it had to be a good one! I set out to make a Rainbow Brite costume that was … Read more
We decided to go as the Scooby Doo Gang and it turned out pretty good. Our friend who was Scooby put on brown clothes, a long sleeve shirt and brown jogging pants and then we made brown ears from felt. Also, he bought a belt and cut it short and we put a paper tag … Read more
Here is a brief overview of how each went about making their Scooby Doo Group Costume. Shaggy: The signature green, n-veck shirt he found at a local store and the brown pants he had. Naturally, he has thick hair and had a goatee, so Shaggy simply made his hair as shaggy as he could get … Read more
In 2007 my family went as Shrek and his cohorts. My son’s donkey costume was purchased in 2004 when my daughter went as donkey and I as Shrek the first time. She had been in the hospital and when trying to cheer her up I promised to go as Shrek which included shaving my head … Read more
My boyfriend came up with the idea to be Shrek and Fiona for Halloween since our height difference was perfect (he is 6’5 and I am 5’2). Once I heard the idea I thought it was great and figured we should go with it. The Homemade Shrek and Fiona Costume wasn’t too hard to put … Read more
Who doesn’t like The Simpsons! Well anyone can go to a Halloween store and buy a Simpsons costume to wear. Not me though. I have to take it one step further. So this time, I went with my buddy to a store and bought only the masks for Radioactive Man, and Moe Syzlak. The cheesy … Read more
We are all big Simpsons fans, and while looking around for costumes at a store we found a Homer mask and decided it was a must do! Making Homer was pretty easy – we found the mask at Target, all the other clothes were pretty easy and he already had most of them. We did … Read more
ARE YOU INTO TO BLUE? Papa Smurf and Smurfette is a great homemade costume. My husband and I had a blast and got cutest couple at a local Halloween party in town for our Papa Smurf and Smurfette Costume. So much fun to dress up. The blue paint had to be the “right blue”. It … Read more
This Smurfette Costume was for a fancy dress party I had last year. I’m dressed as Smurfette, and have painted my face, neck, arms and hands with Kryolan SupraColor in 091, which is a stage makeup greasepaint (I work as a Stage Manager so knew where to get good long lasting face paint in the … Read more
Hello , first of all , sorry for my bad English. We live in Antwerp, Belgium. For carnival I had the idea to make a Spongebob costume to have some fun with the kids. I took 2 cardboard boxes and put them together with ducktape. Took some old bedsheets and put it around the boxes. … Read more
This Spongebob DIY Halloween Costume is my own take on the ones I’ve seen here. Used a full-sized foam mattress pad, flipped over to the flat side. Spray painted in krylon’s “sun yellow”, glued together using Scotch Super 77 and Elmer’s Craft Bond (nail polish remover gets it off your fingers). Foam sheets bought at … Read more
My son wanted to be Thomas the Tank Engine, but not liking the costumes on sale, we decided to make our own Homemade Thomas the Tank Engine Halloween Costume. We began with some boxes. There is one box for the body of the train, one for the coal and curved roof portion and another for … Read more