This homemade Buzz Lightyear Halloween costume idea was the easiest costume ever to make. Normally I have to have my sister help me but not with this one. I just bought a plane white tank top and spray painted the top half green with fabric paint from Joann’s, and got foam paper for the buttons … Read more
My son is in LOVE with Buzz Lightyear so we dressed up as a Homemade Toy Story Family Costume for Halloween. The Buzz Lightyear costume was purchased from Disney, but the Woody and BoPeep were home made. For Woody: found a yellow plaid shirt at Value Village Red Hanky from the Dollar store Hat and … Read more
We got so many great responses to thisHomemade Little Bo Peep and Her Sheep Couple Costume. My Bo Peep costume consisted of a couple of different store-bought costumes that I mixed and matched to create my perfect one. They do sell complete Bo Peep costumes but I wanted to create one that was unique to … Read more
Our Green Plastic Soldier Costumes, “myself and my husband” were made out of real military clothes. My boots were my son’s worn out army boots and my husband’s were a pair of his own work boots. We used plastic hand grenades and attached them with Velcro. Our guns were my son’s old Airsoft rifles. The … Read more
My son was two and was crazy about his Potato head, so we decided that he would have a Mr. Potato Head costume for Halloween. I just took brown cotton fabric and made a big sleeve with it and gathered it at the top and bottom and put elastic. I used foam and card board … Read more
My husband and I decided to go as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head to our friends Disney party. Your site helped tremendously with ideas and how-to from others who made awesome Homemade Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Costumes. I bought felt and cotton lining for the bodies, cut out a potato shape and sewed the … Read more
For this homemade Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Halloween costume idea I used: * Floor underlay (for potato shape) * Foam Sheets of various colors * Brown Acrylic paint for body * Super glue to stick on face features * Duct tape to hold front and back of costume together * A bowl with black … Read more
I found the Woody shirt and hat at a thrift store. I bought a red fabric marker and created the grid pattern on the yellow shirt. I made the vest out of cow fabric from a craft store, and hot-glued the same fabric on my jeans for Jessie’s chaps. I found a plain white button-up … Read more
For my 18th birthday I had a costume party and it was cartoon character themed. I decided to go as one of the Aliens from the claw in the popular movie “Toy Story”. I made the Toy Story alien DIY costume by using mesh wire and moulding it into the shape I wanted using wire … Read more
I had a minor obsession with Toy Story 3 so I knew I wanted to do some TS3 inspired Halloween costume, but it needed to be original. I chose Mr. Pricklepants, the Shakespearean Hedgehog who wears lederhosen. I went to my local thrift store and bought a bathrobe and a green tablecloth. I cut up … Read more
My wife wanted to go as Little Bo Peep, and of course, I would get the lucky role, as the Sheep. Originally I was going to make the Sheep costume out of cotton balls. But after reading the warning page on this site, I decided there had to be a safer method. I decided to … Read more
Our homemade plastic army men group Halloween costume idea was inspired by a 3D kids movie that was recently released which includes animated plastic army men. We loved the little guys so much we had to figure out a way to be them. We purchased simple military jackets($10), pants ($25) and helmets ($30) from the … Read more