My son is 9 months old and each piece of this Baby Harry Potter Costume had to be made by hand. I started with the glasses – because of his size, I wire wrapped them by hand. This allowed me to control the measurements and ensure that they fit correctly, as well as make adjustments. The … Read more
For Halloween I made a Golden Snitch costume, aka a Quidditch ball from Harry Potter. To make the round part I paper mached around a large exercise ball, which took about 20 coats to get to the thickness desired. I then did the detailing on the sides based on some rough pictures I found on … Read more
Last year we went as ‘The Wizard of Oz’, so we went with another fantasy novel this year – ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’. We used graduation gowns from a thrift store for the kids – I duct taped ‘hemmed’ them, and found white collared shirts in our closet. We did dye Harry … Read more
This is our costume for Fleur Delacour – one of the Beaux Baton girls from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She ends up marrying one of Ron Weasley’s brothers in a later movie. This Fleur Delacour Costume was made from a full-length grad dress bought from a Value Village store. I cut off … Read more
My housemates and I go to the University of Winchester in the UK and our SU has themed nights most Fridays which we almost always go to and we always try to be original with our costumes and make them ourselves because it is often a lot cheaper and its fun! The theme this week … Read more
Hermione is intelligent, practical, and at some times, bossy. I love how much she cares and how hard she always works. This Coolest Hermione Granger Costume is a fairly easy costume to put together because chances are, you already have the parts! I first wore a white collared blouse (my mom had one) under a … Read more
This Hagred Costume from Harry Potter was a fun thing to put together. I did buy the mask but I cut it up so it would fit better. From there I went to the local Salvation Army store where I had found all the clothes I needed and then some first was the coat then … Read more
For the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 (the movie) at midnight, my friends and I all decided to dress up as Hogwarts students. My two friends and I that had planned the event had already made ourselves outfits from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 but we had … Read more
I was not planning on dressing up this year but then, at the last minute, decided I would be a woodland fairy which would have been easy enough: a little green netting, a wreath in the hair, a wand etc. However, as the day wore on, I decided to revert to my staple costume, which … Read more
When we were invited to go to a Halloween Party, I immediately thought of going in a Homemade Dobby the House Elf from Harry Potter Costume. My friends call me “The Gnome” anyway because I’m so small so I thought Dobby would be ideal. I started looking at pictures on the internet and there are … Read more
We began assembling our Harry Potter costume in July for the Harry Potter Midnight Party at our local bookstore. This is one of our oldest son’s favorite heroes. Since he wanted to go as Harry Potter and we didn’t want to do the Griffindor attire we decided on three little first years that haven’t been … Read more
For the last few years Harry Potter has been a very popular character in our home and lots of kids at school dressed in a Harry Potter costume for the Halloween parade. Nine year old Will was looking for a way to dress like his favorite book character but still stand out from the crowd. … Read more