For this homemade Homer and Marge Simpson couple costume, we concentrated on the faces, we didn’t want to spend too much money and in Milan, where we live, it’s cold when we celebrate Carnival time. It would be hard for me to explain in English how we made it, so I will give an Italian … Read more
I found the red pants at a thrift store and then used a blue tank top I already owned. The hat is made of felt and stuffed with cotton that was left over from making pillows. I painted the beard on first with white grease paint then filled the rest in with blue grease paint … Read more
Homemade Smurfette Halloween costume: * Bought white dress on clearance at Walmart * Bought white flats on clearance at Walmart * Had blue 3/4 length sleeve shirt * Made hat out of white felt – cut out the shape sewed together and stuffed with batting * Bought yellow wig online * Wore blue tights * … Read more
This is our Homemade Smurf Family Costume. Shannon is Papa Smurf, Alicia is Smurfette, Brandon is Brainy Smurf complete with glasses, Brady is Handy Smurf, complete with overalls and his handy dandy pencil, and Stewie is none other than the puppy Smurf.
I made this DIY Spongebob Squarepants Halloween Costume for my son this year… He loves Spongebob!! For the past three years, he has competed in the Costume Contest in our town, and he has won 1st place each year. This year he took 1st in his category and 2nd place overall. Putting the costume together … Read more
I had to make my son Zeppelin’s favorite cartoon hero “Spongebob”. Its always that much more fun to know you created the Halloween costume of the year. This site gave me all my ideas, Thank you. I paid nothing ,0,zip for this Homemade SpongeBob Costume. I had all the materials around the house. 1. Square … Read more
For this Thomas the Train Halloween costume I used: 1 diaper box 2 cans of Primer spray paint 1 can of Blue Spray Paint 1 can of Red spray paint 1 can of Black spray paint 1 paper towel roll 1 empty Yoplait yogurt cup 4 yogurt cup tops 1 empty baby cereal box 2 … Read more
This Homemade Thomas the Train Costume was really fun and easy to make. It all started with an Egg Box from my local grocery store. I attached a shoe box on the very back of the costume and used a crystal light canister (wrapped in black foam paper) for the smoke stack. I used blue … Read more
Our son Thomas absolutely loves trains, so my husband decided to craft him a Homemade Thomas the Train Costume made completely of recycled or left over materials around our home. We used various items such as: foam, cardboard, wood, paper plates, foam peanuts, straws, paint, caulking, empty toddler food containers, foil, paper mache & old … Read more
First of all, I am not a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination. So, you can imagine how upset I was when my daughter, Paige, let me know that she wanted to be Mr. Potato Head for Halloween this year! My first reaction was to hit the internet! Someone had to have a costume … Read more
This year we decided to be the Potato Head Family (Mr. Potato Head, Rockstar Spud, Princess Spud & Mrs. Potato Head). It ended up being a big hit and the little kids Trick or Treating wanted to meet Mr and Mrs Potato Head =). I purchased 2 yards of brown felt per costume for the … Read more
I made the felt bodies out of a bubble bee costume pattern I bought from Joann’s Fabric. The pattern is made out of a panel system in order to get the curvy plump bodies. I threw away the back side of the pattern as it had a large stinger. Making the front panels twice worked … Read more