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
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
I made this Homemade Lego Harry Potter Costume for my 7 year old. He LOVES legos and Harry Potter so I thought this would be an awesome costume. It turned out great and won a prize for most creative! First off, you will need A LOT of cardboard (science fair boards). I used a thinner … Read more
Our better-than-bought, homemade Harry Poter costume was made with: 1) A “new-again” black satin robe from Mom’s PJ drawer (we printed a Hogwarts Crest from the internet onto color transfer fabric and sewed it on) 2) A whipped up scarf made from yellow and red fabric 3) A wand made from clay and a lightening … Read more
My family is a big fan of Harry Potter, so much so that this was the 3rd year my son wanted to dress up as Harry. So I came up with the idea to make the costume a little bit different… why not a homemade Lego Harry Potter Halloween costume idea? We watched lots of … Read more
For the Lord Voldermort costume we used an old mask and black cape from our costume trunk. The snake came from Dollar Tree. After the picture was taken my son decided he didn’t want to go as that after all. Since he claimed he already had the hair he decided to go as Professor Snape. … Read more
This Harry Potter Halloween costume was the best ever. My friend Caitlin’s (Harry) mom made the capes, ties, badges, and broomsticks. Harry just pinned up her hair to make bangs and bought black glasses. My roommate Emily was forced last minute to be Ron, and as you can tell she was thrilled to be in … 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