Our family/ group costume!! =) This is my hubby, our 3 boys,& myself dressed up as Beetlejuice characters! I used homemade air dry clay to sculpt and create Harry the hunters shrunken head (which came out awesome). I attached it to a old bicycle helmet for my son to wear it easily. I found a … Read more
My grandson wanted to be R2D2 this year. How hard can that be, I asked. I started with paper mache for the head, boy was that a mistake! It was messy and way too heavy! Luckily, that was the end to my hard, messy attempt. The rest was pretty simple and quick! Using a yoga … Read more
How did you come up with the idea for this costume? Since the age of three my son has been obsessed with Star Wars. For the past several years my son and I have been recreating costumes from the movies. This year we decided to go outside the norm and recreate a lovable creature from … Read more
I made this DIY illusion costume for my daughter. I always enjoy trying to come up with unique costumes for Halloween but this year winning the school Halloween Fun Fair Costume Contest was all my daughter could talk about. It had to be GOOD and it had to be different! After numerous hours of searching … Read more
Magical Homemade Mary Poppins and Bert Couple Costume Idea Winds from the east…well actually it is more like winds from the west coast of Southern California where Tanner Foust and Heather Hambright jumped into a chalk painting and enjoyed a bit of magic. My name is Heather and I am delighted to share our Mary … Read more
I would first like to thank you for hosting this event which not only allows, but inspires, people to embrace their creative side and strive for innovation. This costume was first inspired by Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood music video. The video has a very dark, deadly, futuristic feel. I had concert tickets to the Taylor … Read more
We decided to be Groot, Drax and Rocket for halloween this year. I found numerous tutorials on how to create a Groot costume, but in the end we mixed and mashed a bunch of them to do what worked best for us. Everyone loved our costumes and since we couldn’t take our son (Rocket) to … Read more
I chose to wear the costume myself as I really get into the Halloween spirit by being creative and creating my own costumes. I loved the movie “Predator” and wanted to be something unique this year and not like a lot of other costumes. I definitely was the ONLY one who had a Predator costume … Read more
I’m a big horror fan and my favorite movie is the ring and my favorite character Samara, so I wanted to attempt at making the costume. I brought a white nightgown off eBay and painted it with white and black. I then painted my face white with black frown lines and blue lipstick to give … Read more
My daughter played this character very well. She is a smiley girl until you try to get her to smile for a pic and she gives the serious look so I really wanted her to give the serious look with this costume and she did and was a BIG hit at our local Boo at … Read more
My grandson loves Star Wars and wanted to participate in a Star Wars costume contest at a Pirates game. There were no Ewok costumes anywhere to be found. I thought how hard could this be to make: I went to Joanne Fabric and purchased a cat costume pattern, and brown fur and other supplies. This … Read more
I wanted to find a costume that not only fit my son’s personality but also someone he liked. He fell in love with Pee Wee Herman the first time I showed him Big Adventure. He started reciting the movie lines and loves to do the the dance which I might add he does very well. … Read more