My Mum & Auntie are twin sisters and decided to go in Patty and Selma Twins Costumes from the Simpsons! They bought the wigs and made the rest of the costumes out of clothing and shoes they had themselves! They painted their skin yellow! They both had given up smoking so they passed on the … Read more
The Halloween party was on Saturday and my original plan was to dress up as the Grinch. Plan B was to go as a Soul Train dancer from the 70’s. Well, I had a costume meltdown on the Grinch, so FRIDAY night, I decided on this Smurfette costume (Plan C)! It all came together on … Read more
For the Smurfette costume I just bought a dress that looked like something Smurfette would wear, and a pair of white shoes and a yellow wig. And for papa Smurf I found a pair of red scrubs and red house shoes. I made the smurf hats by drawing out a pattern for each hat and … Read more
My son decided he wanted to be Spongebob for Halloween. I suggested to him that I make the costume and his head could be the Krusty Krab hat. Oh no, he wanted to “be” Spongebob. I racked my brain thinking of different ways to make it and here is what I came up with. I … Read more
Wow…what a great thing that happened last October, my daughter wanted to be Spongebob for Halloween. I had spent the last 6 years going to the mall and purchasing store bought costumes that were expensive in price and cheap looking. I always figured it would be too difficult to make a costume myself. Well, after … Read more
Our son really likes Toby and wanted a Homemade Toby the Tram Engine Costume for Halloween in 2009. Fortunately, Toby is pretty simple compared to the other engines in the Thomas series. We simply took a box, keeping the flaps for the side plates and cow catcher. We glued a rectangular piece of cardboard on … Read more
2010 Halloween- what to be? How about Thomas and Henry the train? Yay! For this Thomas the Train and and Friends Costume project we started with just paper boxes. Then we went to the store and bought duct tape, spray paint, and foam disks. We painted the boxes, then out the red duct tape designs … Read more
I was inspired by many of the ideas on this site, and set out to create a Homemade Thomas the Tank Engine Unique Halloween Costume Idea for my 2 and a half year old. We used two boxes for the body (well, one box for the front and then two paper box lids that are … Read more
Every year at my high school we have homecoming week, which is an entire week full of spirit days. Every year we have a “class theme day”, and the senior class theme was Toy Story. My boyfriend and I decided to be creative and make our own homemade Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head couple costume, … Read more
My son and I love Toy Story and Mr. Potato Head. So I decided to go all out and make this Homemade Mr. Potato Head Halloween Costume. It is made with chicken wire, papier-mâché, and foam. His hat is an extra-large bowl painted black. The eyes were made with two clear ornament balls and black … Read more
A sexy take on a classic character! I made my very own Buzz Lightyear costume complete with hand painted corset top and retractable wings. That’s right, my wings actually work! I rewired some kids toy wings into my corset; hit the button on the front of the corset and the wings go in and out … Read more
I love to make my daughter’s costume every year and this Halloween was no different. Although this Homemade Toy Story Jessie Child Halloween Costume Idea was not a unique costume idea it was however hands down the best two Jessie costumes out there. I made 1 for my daughter, Olivia, complete with red hat and … Read more