For Halloween this year our family decided on SpongeBob as our theme. Our youngest wanted a homemade Gary the Snail Halloween costume. The main body, spats, mittens & hood were based on a bear pattern (minus the bear ears), with a green oval shape added to the belly section. For the shell piece – the … Read more
Theo my son loves Thomas the Tank Engine but for carnival party 2008 at his school he wanted to be Percy the tank engine! I surfed a lot on the web collecting many ideas on your website (many thanks!). I used approximately the same method you already described to make a Thomas the train Halloween … Read more
Like most boys age 1-5, I believe my son is in the majority when I say he loves trains. Brayden’s favorite is the green number 6, Percy of the Thomas the Train series. This summer, we took our 18 month old son to “A Day out with Thomas” in Boone, Iowa. There we saw a … Read more
My son loves trains so when I asked him what he wanted to be he said Thomas. A conductor outfit would be easy even purchasable cheap, so we decided to go all out. After it was made he played with it for hours, days etc… Cheap costume and free toy can’t beat that. The homemade … Read more
Every year I vow to my daughter and her best friend that I will not be helping them with their annual Halloween obsession, the making of the ‘Best Halloween costume in town’. They have been enjoying Halloween together since they were little and went to the same day care. The discussion of different possibilities starts … Read more
This DIY Little Bo Peep Halloween Costume was VERY simple to make! All we used for the body was panels of cut cardboard (4 in a potato-like shape and 4 for the side panels) and various colors of felt for the body details. We wore white long sleeve shirts and bought two cheap pairs of … Read more
I saw a ‘pumpkin carving picture’ of Jessie and Woody from Toy Story this year as I was trying to find an idea to carve a watermelon. I planted my first garden this year but didn’t plant pumpkins so I decided to carve one of my watermelons. I carved Jessie from Toy Story which is … Read more
Each year I make costumes for my friends and I to wear to a Halloween Party. This year I made homemade Toy Story group Halloween costumes. We went as Woody (riding Bullseye the horse), Mrs. Potato Head, The Alien, Jessie the Cowgirl and Buzz Lightyear. Bullsye is made from felt and you step into the … Read more
This is the Homemade Buzz Lightyear Costume I made for my son for Halloween of 2009. ITEMS: White pants white shirt white A-line undershirt white gloves foam Board hot glue gun and sticks neon/lime green ribbon gray/silver ribbon black fabric clear film (from over head projector) red ball/beads Buzz Light figure (very useful as a … Read more
This Little Bo Peep Looking for her Sheep Costume is one of my mom’s amazing Halloween costumes. It is Little Bo Peep who is looking for her lost sheep. She made a very cute little pink dress with the white apron and Bo Peep hat. They used a wig with the big blond curls. The … Read more
I put this Homemade Plastic Army Man Costume together using ideas from your site; I particularly loved the costume of the plastic army man and thought I could do it as well or better. It took about ten hours to paint my clothing, boots, helmet, gun and accessories and get the right color. I used … Read more
My son wanted to be Wall-E from the Disney Pixar film of the same name, more than anything. Not being particularly creative, I tried to convince him that Buzz Lightyear would be cool (a gasp! – store bought costume!). No go – he wanted Wall-E. My husband made his Wall-E costume from a box and … Read more