My sons love Pokemon! This year they selected two of their favorite Pokemon characters and I did my best to create costumes that other kids would recognize. This was important as we take these costumes to a Cub Scout Halloween camp out and they are seen by over 500 boys and girls in prime Pokemon … Read more
We wanted a family costume, so a Homemade Popeye, Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea Group Halloween Costume was it! Popeye (from head to toe): The sailor hat was a genuine one from the Army Surplus Store in Chino, CA. -$7 The corn cob pipe was made from an actual corn cob. After I picked the … Read more
Every year for Halloween I try and do something creative! I have never bought a costume from the store. However a couple years ago I decided I wanted to be my favorite childhood cartoon character, Rainbow Brite. When I looked online at a Rainbow Brite Halloween Costume, I was very disappointed! The only costume was … Read more
Ever since I was 3 years old I have wanted to be Rainbow Brite for Halloween. Remember those old McCauls Rainbow Brite costume patterns? They made such nice looking costumes! I have a picture of a 3 year old me standing next to my BFF of the time who is in this perfect Rainbow Brite … Read more
Every Halloween my parents design a scavenger hunt for a couple of teams. And this year my team went as the Scooby Gang, which worked out nice because we have a great Dane (just like Scooby). I was Daphne. My sister Brittney was Velma. My other sister, Aynsley was Fred. And my best friend Tyler … Read more
My Daughter and her cousin Love the Scooby Doo Movies and wanted Scooby costumes. The two of them do everything together, and so of course their Scooby costumes had to match. This year they went as Velma and Daphne. We sprayed her blonde with brown and curled her hair under. We found an orange turtle … Read more
I just cam across your site and I love it! I have been making our Halloween costumes for years now and thought I’d share a few of them. First up is my Homemade Shrek and Fiona Costumes. When my son was 3 years old I decided to dress him as Shrek and my 8 month … Read more
First of all, this Marge Simpson costume was inspired by the others I found on this website. So all the instructions will pretty much be the same or a combination of those. The dress is just a piece of cotton stitched and hemmed with elastic at the top. The necklace is constructed from foam balls … Read more
This is this our Homemade Simpsons Family Costume. We all work on the development and we didn’t spent much money. We used sponge for Bart’s hair, fabric and some old socks for Lisa’s, we bought a wig and painted it with blue hair spray for Marge’s hair, and used some swimsuit headdress for homer baldness. … Read more
My husband and I love to dress up and strive to be the best costume in town every year. My grandmother taught me how to sew when I was four or five years old and since then have always made my own Halloween costumes. This year’s Papa Smurf and Smurfette costume was by far my … Read more
Smurfette is blue – she has the blue long-sleeved shirt, blue gloves and blue stockings to create this effect. She has her cute little hat which was cut out of the same material as her dress. False hair was attached under the hat to give Smurfette the blonde hair. I made her tail out of … Read more
