For my son’s 2nd Halloween we went as the Homemade Rubble Family Costume from the Flintstones. All 3 costumes were homemade, Barney, Betty and Bambam. I unfortunately cant find the photo of Barney but here are the other 2. Betty: I found a light blue dress at Value Village. I cut off the sleves and … Read more
Me and my girl friends kids are best buds… they are the real life Pebbles and Bam Bam! We decided to make our own costumes for the kids and it only cost us about $10 for both, you cant beat that! For these homemade Pebbles and Bam Bam toddler costume ideas I bought 2 yards … Read more
This great homemade Ursula Halloween costume idea started when I couldn’t find a costume I liked for my daughter. So I thought about Ursula the sea witch, after all it’s one of the costumes u never see on a child. And this was my first homemade costume. So all I did is buy all back … Read more
It was a lot of work but it was totally worth it. I had wanted to be a mermaid before but never found a mermaid Halloween costume that was what I had in mind, so with the little money that I had and a lot of trial and error I completed my perfect mermaid look! … Read more
This Homemade Mermaid Halloween Costume was a blast to make. My daughter decided she wanted to be a mermaid for Halloween. I bought a basic pattern for a mermaid tail from Walmart. We bought some glittery fabric and sewed it up. I bought some iridescent fabric and sewed that on the bottom for the fins. … Read more
I made this Homemade She-Ra and He-Man Couple Costume myself. I am not a GREAT seamstress. I made these two costumes with the minimal amount of sewing and mostly piecing together the right materials. Please contact me with questions.
Sully and Mike are at it again. The Homemade Sully Costume was created by faux fur and paper mache. His horns, nails, and teeth were baked clay and painted and hot glued into place. Mike was a complete paper mache with wire and duct tape and plenty of paint the scream capacity bottle is two … Read more
I made this Homemade Monsters Inc. Family Costume to be different from other people since every kid loves Sully. I figured hey why not buy a sewing machine and try it out! Lol, well needless to say I succeeded and everyone wanted pictures with us especially Sully! Sully is made out of faux fur and … Read more
I got my idea for Mystique because she is one of my favorite X-Men characters. I researched online and found a few techniques that I combined to come up with this Homemade Mystique Costume. First, I pulled up images of Mystique from the internet and had them printed. After that, I put on my yellow … Read more
This is my husband, Shawn, as Oogie Boogie from the Nightmare Before Christmas. I made it out of burlap and yarn, along with some wire. When I first put the mask on him, it looked so bad that I almost gave up. The lesson that I learned – was that you should never give up … Read more
Jack Skellington and Sally from the movie ‘the Nightmare before Christmas’. The Homemade Jack and Sally Costumes are entirely handmade (except for the skeleton gloves). We wore them at the annual ‘Elf Fantasy Fair’ in the Netherlands and we were a huge hit. I tried to get the costumes as close as possible to the … Read more
So, a month before Halloween, my boyfriend and I were looking at costumes. He came along a Jack Skellington one and said that that would be a cool one. However, looking at the shoddy make of the costume, I said “I can make one better than that!” and thus began my month long costume project … Read more