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
Starting these Homemade Smurfette and Handy Smurf Costumes from the top down: The hat is easiest to make out of a stretch Terry fabric (this one is made from an old baby towel). This way, it stretches to fit your head and doesn’t look as stiff as some of the other Smurf hats I have … Read more
My daughter wanted a Spongebob Costume with a unique twist, so we decided to make Spongebob’s house, the Pineapple Under the Sea. The Spongebob Pineapple costume is newspaper paper mache that was laid over a wire-frame mold. We used a wreath-form from the craft store around her neck and at the base of the pineapple … Read more
This Homemade Spongebob Squarepants Costume was FUN to wear and easy to make from Dollar Store finds! This costume cost me less than $10.00! Supplies needed: white T shirt (or yellow) name tag red tie or long strip of red fabric assorted sponges (dollar store has them in variety packs) headband, I used a winter … Read more
My son is Thomas crazy, so of course he had to have a Thomas the Tank Halloween Costume for Halloween. I constructed the body out of cardboard boxes that were cut into shape and then taped together with masking tape. Then after much dismay, Brad painted Thomas with pro skill using 3 cans of spray … Read more
My son wanted to be Thomas the train and I have never cared for any of the store bought costumes at all. So I had a Thomas and freight car Halloween costume idea and decided to build one on his wagon. Off to work I went. Found huge box cut and hot glued it to … Read more
I made this Homemade Thomas the Train Costume for my 3 year old son who LOVES Thomas the Train. I had some old square foam packing material laying around. I always said I was going to make something out of it but I never did until now. I picked up some yarn and a yarn … Read more
I’m always on the look out for different ideas for costumes and after seeing a commercial for a Mr. Potato Head, I thought that would make a cool costume. I had seen several online and at stores that were made from fabric, but that wasn’t what I was going for. So I studied the real … Read more
My husband and I decided to be Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head for a costume party that we attended for Halloween this year. For the bodies of the costumes I purchased tan felt. I then used a t-shirt of mine and his to use as a pattern to mark where the neck area and arm … Read more
I wanted to make Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head costumes for my husband and me. Many of the costumes that I saw online were two dimensional costumes, where a person wears a simple tunic with facial features on the front. My husband insisted that our costumes should be three dimensional, that is he wanted the … Read more
My friends and I wanted a group theme this Halloween. We brainstormed for a while and came up with the idea of dressing in Cast of Toy Story homemade costumes. From left to right are: – the piggy bank. This consisted of a pink outfit, pale pink face paint, pig ears, nose and tail and … Read more