Homemade Oompa Loompa and Willy Wonkette Costumes. Except for the brown shirt and white glvoes, entire Oompa costume was made from scratch. Cuffs and collar brown felt with white fabric paint. White pants were completely from scratch. Orange face makeup white grease pencil, blond wig spray painted green, home made pom-poms are balls of yarn.
The Grinch was a Santa suit pattern and then we made green fur pants and gloves and a small piece for chest hair. We then painted his face green and added black detail lines. Cyndi we found a fabric that was so close to her dress in the movie and made it out of a … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday! Every year I try my best to come up with a creative homemade costume. There is nothing better than the feeling that you did it yourself! This year my inspiration came from my favorite movie “Edward Scissorhands”. I thought I knew how I would bring his outfit together until I … Read more
This Ghost Buster costume took some work, but it turned out really good. My son won our local costume contest. We first found the coveralls at Goodwill and a military style belt at the army surplus store. Those were the only things we had to buy for the costume. I used a Ghost Buster web … Read more
I have never bought a costume. My fiance and I are die hard movie buffs and it seems hard to come up with a good his and her costume. A year before that we dressed up as our “alter egos” a rich man and wife from the 40s. Sadly is seems like adults we know … Read more
It is the character Pippi longstockings from the movie, who is an adventurous little girl with a wacky appearance. She has red hair in two braids that curl in an unusual way to give her the famous look she is known for. Being an orphan of such, she dressed herself with mismatch clothing that often … Read more
I wanted a unique costume for my 6-year-old this year. I came across the idea of a Lego Minifig costume and opted for the Darth Maul model instead of your basic yellow-headed model. I did my best to make it as comfortable/usable for the kid as possible. At first I thought it should be close-fitting, … Read more
We had so much fun with this Homemade R2D2 Costume. My son wore a white sweatshirt and sweatpants underneath. The body of the costume is a white Rubber Maid trash can. The lid is painted with a high shine silver spray paint and allowed to dry. Then the lid is taped so that the swinging … Read more
I decided to make this Chewbacca Costume for my husband for Halloween after seeing the price it was to buy it. I gave myself a $25.00 budget for the two of us. I went as Princess Leia Slave Princess. I bought yak hair at the local beauty supply that was $1.27 for a long pony-tail … Read more
I made this Homemade Teen Wolf Halloween Costume last year. I had to have the jersey custom made online. Then I used spray adhesive on a turtle-neck shirt and wrapped the pieces of hair all over by body. I cut up werewolf costumes too get the hair parts. It was my favorite costume except all … Read more
I love the Teen Wolf movie with Michael J. Fox and I’ve probably seen it at least 50 times. I had wanted to make a costume for the longest time and this year I actually did! I received many compliments and posed for many pictures. I wish I had entered some costume contests but unfortunately … Read more
This Homemade Carol from Where the Wild Things Are Costume is 100% made from scratch. First, the head was formed with paper mache around a 65cm workout ball. The details on the head were then created with paper mache pulp. The eyes were just painted on. All the fur and fabric was ordered online. Then … Read more