Each year I make costumes for my friends and I to wear to a Halloween Party. This year I made homemade Toy Story group Halloween costumes. We went as Woody (riding Bullseye the horse), Mrs. Potato Head, The Alien, Jessie the Cowgirl and Buzz Lightyear. Bullsye is made from felt and you step into the … Read more
This is the Homemade Buzz Lightyear Costume I made for my son for Halloween of 2009. ITEMS: White pants white shirt white A-line undershirt white gloves foam Board hot glue gun and sticks neon/lime green ribbon gray/silver ribbon black fabric clear film (from over head projector) red ball/beads Buzz Light figure (very useful as a … Read more
This Little Bo Peep Looking for her Sheep Costume is one of my mom’s amazing Halloween costumes. It is Little Bo Peep who is looking for her lost sheep. She made a very cute little pink dress with the white apron and Bo Peep hat. They used a wig with the big blond curls. The … Read more
I put this Homemade Plastic Army Man Costume together using ideas from your site; I particularly loved the costume of the plastic army man and thought I could do it as well or better. It took about ten hours to paint my clothing, boots, helmet, gun and accessories and get the right color. I used … Read more
My son wanted to be Wall-E from the Disney Pixar film of the same name, more than anything. Not being particularly creative, I tried to convince him that Buzz Lightyear would be cool (a gasp! – store bought costume!). No go – he wanted Wall-E. My husband made his Wall-E costume from a box and … Read more
This Wolverine costume started as a hooded fleece outfit from Old Navy. We then took pieces of felt and cut them to the shapes from the original Wolverine from the X-Men Comic books. For the hair pieces, shoulder pads, as well as the claws, we sewed the pieces together, and then stuffed them with poly-fil … Read more
This is my Lego Superman costume which I made for our recent Royal Wedding street party. It took 4 weeks to make (much longer than I anticipated). The body started out as a large box which I adapted so that it was the correct shape for the Lego mini-figure. The head was simply a plastic … Read more