Who doesn’t like The Simpsons! Well anyone can go to a Halloween store and buy a Simpsons costume to wear. Not me though. I have to take it one step further. So this time, I went with my buddy to a store and bought only the masks for Radioactive Man, and Moe Syzlak. The cheesy … Read more
We are all big Simpsons fans, and while looking around for costumes at a store we found a Homer mask and decided it was a must do! Making Homer was pretty easy – we found the mask at Target, all the other clothes were pretty easy and he already had most of them. We did … Read more
ARE YOU INTO TO BLUE? Papa Smurf and Smurfette is a great homemade costume. My husband and I had a blast and got cutest couple at a local Halloween party in town for our Papa Smurf and Smurfette Costume. So much fun to dress up. The blue paint had to be the “right blue”. It … Read more
This Smurfette Costume was for a fancy dress party I had last year. I’m dressed as Smurfette, and have painted my face, neck, arms and hands with Kryolan SupraColor in 091, which is a stage makeup greasepaint (I work as a Stage Manager so knew where to get good long lasting face paint in the … Read more
Hello , first of all , sorry for my bad English. We live in Antwerp, Belgium. For carnival I had the idea to make a Spongebob costume to have some fun with the kids. I took 2 cardboard boxes and put them together with ducktape. Took some old bedsheets and put it around the boxes. … Read more
This Spongebob DIY Halloween Costume is my own take on the ones I’ve seen here. Used a full-sized foam mattress pad, flipped over to the flat side. Spray painted in krylon’s “sun yellow”, glued together using Scotch Super 77 and Elmer’s Craft Bond (nail polish remover gets it off your fingers). Foam sheets bought at … Read more
My son wanted to be Thomas the Tank Engine, but not liking the costumes on sale, we decided to make our own Homemade Thomas the Tank Engine Halloween Costume. We began with some boxes. There is one box for the body of the train, one for the coal and curved roof portion and another for … Read more
I have 2 nephews… they are obsessed with Thomas the Train and allllll of his friends. The boys were intent on being trains from the Thomas series… the youngest was unable to pick… he wanted Bash AND Dash. After constructing his brothers Gordon, the Express Train, I had a better grasp of how to begin … Read more
I got the idea for this homemade Thomas the Train costume from a combination of ideas I had found on this site and also from Google images. I basically made the train out of boxes and a wagon. I did a lot of taping and cutting to create the right shapes. I used buckets covered … Read more
Having seen pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head DIY costumes on this site, I decided to give it a try. I used about 2 1/2 yards brown felt for the bodies and various colored felt squares for the parts. I sewed the top and sides of the bodies and then used Velcro to secure … Read more
Homemade Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head couple costumes, all created by using fabric, felt, and some construction paper. For Mr. Potato Head: the hat can really be any type of black hat. I didn’t own one at the time, so we had to make one out of construction paper. The fabric used to make the … Read more
Well since my son was going to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween and since my wife has never been able to take part in dressing up with her boys for Halloween, I made the executive decision that she should be Jessie from the Toy Story franchise. She and I worked together on this homemade Jessie … Read more