This year my friends and I decided on being Lock, Shock, and Barrel from Tim Burton’s ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. Always been an advocate for creating my own costumes, opposed to store bought… spent the better part of two and a half weeks making them, and I feel they came out pretty successful.
I have a 4 year old who has wanted to be Jack since last year, after watching “The Nightmare before Christmas”. I looked EVERYWHERE for a costume to buy one. I could not find one!! They are all for ADULTS. SO we had to make our own homemade Jack Skellington child costume. I came here … Read more
There were four of us girls that wanted to create an inexpensive, but great-looking costume for this Halloween. We immediately had Homemade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Group Costume Ideas, because there were four of them and everyone loves the turtles! We brainstormed ideas and decided we wanted dresses. We also wanted our shells to be … Read more
It took me about a month to complete all 4 of the costumes. The shells took the longest, I started by getting some black foam that I found in my father in law’s shop. I then used some thicker gauged wire to shape the shells so they looked round. Then I used spray foam to … Read more
My wife and I decide on a Charlie Brown and Lucy Couple Costume for Halloween. So I started off by going to buy a balloon for the base to make the heads and newspaper for the paper mache. I started by mixing flour and water to make the paste for the paper mache. I ripped … Read more
The Pokemon family costumes found on this site were the inspiration for our 3. I didn’t realize how hard it was going to be, with my basic sewing skills. I spent a lot on fleece, hot glue sticks, foam, stuffing, and elastic. I bought extra in case I made mistakes. Grand total, I bet I … Read more
My son and my niece are very close in age and love to trick or treat together. They like to coincide so last year we came up with this Popeye and Olive Oyle costume and I must say they stole the show! Popeye: White sailor suit from his dress up been, hot glued the blue … Read more
After our son was born this year, we wanted to do something as a family, an after looking at your site we found it was so interesting and a great help, we decided this Homemade Popeye, Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea Family Costume would be an easy and fun costumes to make. We first tried … Read more
I was out literally shopping for Halloween costume inspiration when this Rainbow Brite Homemade Halloween Costume hit me. I’d originally been looking for items to dress up as something completely different, when I came across these amazing rainbow-colored foil eyelashes ($4). I’m not really sure what possessed me to get them, but for some reason … Read more
Rainbow Brite was my favorite cartoon when I was a kid, and I’ve wanted to make her my Halloween costume for several years. After searching for Rainbow Brite costumes and only finding blue minidresses with rainbow tights, I decided to make an authentic Homemade Rainbow Brite Halloween Costume this year! I looked over the costumes … Read more
We did a family theme this year: “The Scooby Doo Crew”. I was the only one with a costume made mostly from home. It was very simple. I had an orange shirt, a red skirt and a pair of brown shoes that I used from my closet. I bought the wig for around $9 and … Read more
Princess Fiona and Shrek are our favorite cartoon characters, so this year we decided to dress like them. Everyone loved our homemade Shrek and Princess Fiona couple costume and we received so many compliments. We had to do a lot of searching around to find material for our costumes. Most pieces are from second-hand stores … Read more