Over the years I have loved Alice in Wonderland, from collecting tea cups and creating my own Wonderland area in my home to different copies of the movie and books. It’s one of my favorites, which is why I decided this year I would be Alice and my son would be the Mad Hatter. He … Read more
The idea for the Homemade Mad Hatter and Queen of Hearts Costumes came from Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, starring Johnny Depp, and premiering in March 2010. We happened to see the trailer for the movie and pictures from it online and based our costumes on them. Both costumes were completely homemade by us. A … Read more
This year for Halloween, my boyfriend and I dressed in Homemade Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat Costumes. My costume was very easy: I bought 3 pairs of striped tights, one pair I wore as regular tights. With another pair I made a top by cutting a hole in the crotch and holes in the feet for … Read more
I made these DIY Shrunken Alice and the Mad Hatter couple Halloween costume out of mostly thrift store finds and household objects. I got the idea for the costumes from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I enjoy making detailed costumes for Halloween and figured that these characters would me challenging enough. And I had not … Read more
These are homemade Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter couple Halloween costumes. I bought the wigs/hat/bowtie. The rest of the costume was made using a pattern and then improvising to make it as realistic to movie. Pictures from the movie were used to help put the make up on the girls just like the movie.
My daughter and I love Alice in Wonderland so we decided to create homemade Alice and the Queen of hearts costumes. She even carried a scepter that was huge and said “off with your head”. My dress had actual cards all along the bottom. It was a fun year. I was a peacock another year … Read more
Tim Burton inspired Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter… a DIY Alice in Wonderland couple Halloween costume.. Mad Hatter Halloween costume: We went to the thrift store and found a suit jacket and shoes. We spray painted it several colors and spray painted the shoes gold and attached old large earrings which were also spray-painted. … Read more
The homemade queen of hearts costume involved a red dress with glued hearts on it and a corset over it. The corset had glued gold trimmings. The stockings were purchased online and were the same as in the movie. The wig was from a discount store. I sewed the hair using clear thread into an … Read more
Our costumes are based on the Alice In Wonderland characters the Mad Hatter from the second movie and the Cheshire Cat from the first. For the Cheshire Cat we used face-paint and eyeshadows for the face makeup, and canned hair sprays for the hair. We cut up an old tshirt to represent the cats stripes. … Read more
My boyfriend and I wanted to come up with a cool couples costume that we could make ourselves. We brainstormed with a bunch of different Disney movie ideas and eventually decided on making a Homemade Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat Costume. First of all, we went to a bunch of different thrift stores and searched … Read more
I love dressing up for Halloween and I love Alice in Wonderland, so I chose the Red Queen as my 2010 Halloween project. I did my own hair and makeup. Yes, that is my own hair. I made my crown out of a little gold gift bag for just $1 and glued heart buttons all … Read more
My girlfriend and I decided I was going to be the Mad Hatter for Halloween since the night we met May 20th 2010, her friend said gosh! he looks like the guy from Alice in Wonderland! You mean the Mad Hatter? yeah! lol so it was set after months of preparation and hard work. I … Read more