I purchased the purple suit for this Homemade Mayor McCheese Costume at my local Goodwill, they have great clothing for costumes. I made a tie out of some yellow fabric and also used the same fabric for the yellow rim on the hat. The hat itself is just cardboard, wrapped in the fabric, I used … Read more
I fist got the idea for Mr. Peanut from an episode of Seinfeld where George was describing some guy with a cane, a monocle and top hat and Jerry asks incredulously “Who is this guy, Mr. Peanut!?” I wanted to do the Homemade Mr. Peanut Costume for several years but kept forgetting at Halloween. But … Read more
This is my Homemade Pillsbury Doughboy Halloween Costume. I always try to do creative fun costumes and everyone seemed to like it. It wasn’t too hard to make and was really soft and comfortable to wear at Halloween parties. To make it I bought a chef’s hat for $13 and cut out a picture of … Read more
My daughter’s Geico Costume is really simple. Just a box covered on top with posterboard decorated to look like money. The sides are covered with heater filters to give it that “stacked” look. Two Styrofoam discs for the eyes & more paper for the money wrapper. Add suspenders for easy walking.
Every year my job has a costume contest to see who can be the most creative. I kept seeing the GEICO eyes on commercials and decided to try a Homemade GEICO Money Eyes Costume. So I got a rectangular box from work. I scanned fake money onto my computer and printed out sixteen large copies … Read more
We needed a fun original last minute costume that was cheap cuz we we’re broke and our favorite commercials right now are the insurance commercials! So we came up with this Homemade Flo and Mayhem Couple Costume. Flo cost the most but was the easiest to do. Hair-Lots of hairspray and navy head band I … Read more
The first time I saw the Sun Drop commercial I was laughing so hard! Since all my friends were telling me that I look like the girl from the commercial because of my red hair, I decided that the SunDrop girl was going to be my Halloween costume this year. It was an exclusive costume … Read more
Halloween was a big deal at my high school, since everyone gets dressed up for the big contest to win the bucket of candy. The past two years my costumes were pretty lame, so this past year I decided to put together a remarkably creative and funny costume that no one would forget: the Energizer … Read more
Hamburglar(ette) was a pretty simple costume with a jail outfit and a cape. But, the real challenge for Officer Big mac was creating the head. We basically built a huge BigMac Pillow from felt and stuffing around a reinforced baseball cap. The result was great!! Especially since people didn’t really know who Officer Big Mac … Read more
I had decided early on to go as JACK (from Jack in the Box restaurants) and my wife decided to stick with the fast food theme and go as WENDY (of course from Wendy’s). We added the “baby” JANDY, to solidify the merger. The JACK head was all paper mache. I used a big playground … Read more
I thought of this Captain Crunch costume while walking through the grocery store, trying to come up with an original costume idea. I had never seen someone dress as Cap’n Crunch so I thought it would be fun. I got a lot of compliments on the costume, people loved it! With just a little sewing, … Read more
We were the Fantanas for Halloween in high school! Took forever to make them because we are so bad at sewing but it worked out and they were the best!