The Homemade Mighty Mouse Costume idea came from my Mighty Mouse t-shirt. Figured it would be fun to do. Found the shirt, pants, and shorts at a thrift store. The cape and ears from costume store. The belt material/white circles for ears and white gloves came from a regular store. All I did was roll … Read more
I got the Homemade Sexy Female Iron Man Costume Idea for this costume after I had seen the Iron Man II movie. I decided it would be awesome to dress up as him for Halloween because I don’t like going to costume parties and seeing a slew of other girls dressed like me. Therefore, I … Read more
I made this homemade Kick Ass child costume by turning a Spiderman costume inside out and copying the pattern onto the green fabric. Then I glued the yellow pin stripes on and painted the sticks black. The gloves are cleaning gloves! This was fun to make and my son got to paint the sticks!
The initial idea for my Incredible Hulk costume came on a cold December night as a bunch of my friends and I were out for dinner and drinks. It’s been a standing joke for some time for my friends to say “Don’t make him angry, you won’t like him when he’s angry,” or any other … Read more
This Leela from Futurama Costume was surprisingly easy to make once we figured out how to construct the eye. Leela is a cyclops. So we took some safety glasses and popped the plastic lenses out of them so we would just have the frames. Then we took some white needle point board, the kind with … Read more
I wanted to share my costume with my son, so we decided to be Superman and coming out of a phone booth. I made the costume out of a wardrobe box. It comes complete with Clark Kent dress shirt and glasses, a public phone with phone cord (in the rear), and a crinkled front page … Read more
Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, and Susie hit high school! And who do they meet there? Only their favorite reptile, Reptar! REPTAR – The Reptar costume started out with a white sweat suit which we dyed green. We also dyed an additional long sleeve shirt green so we could use the sleeve as a tail later. The … Read more
My grandson always wants to be something different than any other kid he knows. So he challenges me each year to make a unique costume. One year it was Sponge Bob. Last year, it was Patrick the starfish. This year he wanted to be Mr. Krabs! He sent a picture of him or I wouldn’t … Read more
I’ve always loved the character Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. She’s so dramatic, and I loved her headdress! The scene at the end where she turned into a dragon near the end really imprinted on my brain at an early age. That’s why I decided to make her my costume. Making the headdress of the Maleficent … Read more
Here are my versions of homemade Spongebob and Patrick costumes. Very easy to make both! Spongebob is basically a giant box with a poster taped on the front. I painted the back yellow, added the shoes to match, and am wearing a yellow shirt. Patrick was a little more complicated. He is made 100% out … Read more
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair! Here’s my version of Rapunzel from the movie Tangled. I also made a version of Pascal, her pet! Rapunzel starts off with the prettiest pink cotton for the skirt and bodice inset. Then, a beautiful lavender cotton for the bodice and puffy sleeves. The sleeves have pink, satin stripes … Read more
Having learned that my favorite childhood movie, The Secret of NIMH, is currently being remade for a modern audience, I decided to bring the original characters to life this Halloween with Homemade Secret of NIMH Costumes! MRS. BRISBY – Materials Matching brown shirt, pants, gloves, extra fabric Belt Light brown fabric Red fabric 80s Rocker … Read more