Each year since my son was born I try to think about a great costume for him at Halloween. Last year he was a Oompa Loompa. He was awesome. This year I let him choose and he chose a Homemade Tin Man Halloween. I remember that, when I was a kid, my brother had been … Read more
I decided that I wanted Daniel to have a scarecrow Halloween costume this year (2008) but I could not find his size in-store or on-line. I was determined to make him a scarecrow. So I checked on-line for ideas from other pictures. I scrounged around home to see what I had to use. I wound … Read more
Have you ever wanted to pass down the traditions of Halloween to your kids, then the best thing that I could do for them was to make sure that their Halloween costumes are always handmade. Growing up, my mother always made my costumes by hand and used her imagination to bring these costumes to life … Read more
My friends and I did a Wizard of Oz theme for Halloween a few years ago. We even have a yellow brick road!!! The Tin Man is the only purchased costume:( All Others were hand made. I myself made the Dorothy and Lion costumes with no patterns….I just winged it! The shoes were a cheap … Read more
Dryer vents worked great for this Tin Man costume. The hat and turtleneck were spray painted with a metallic paint and the hat is a funnel also spray painted.
We are the official characters of the Chesterton Wizard of Oz Festival, which is the world’s largest Oz-themed event. All of our Wizard of Oz group costume designs are handmade by the members of our group and their families. Yes, Dorothy even hand-sequined and rhinestoned her slippers. Every effort was made to ensure that the … Read more
My baby boy was born on Halloween and his first birthday theme was “pumpkin patch”. I wanted his costume to relate to his first birthday theme, so I decided to make him a Homemade Scarecrow Costume. I simply used a pair of pants he already had with patches and bought a long sleeve red T-shirt. … Read more
I was originally going to be the Scarecrow from the Batman movie. But a suit with a piece of burlap over my head didn’t seem like an exciting costume. So I kinda went with a traditional Scary Scarecrow Halloween Costume. The head’s a piece of burlap, that I used some polyurethane on to keep the … Read more
Tin Man was made from a Bally fitness suit purchased from Goodwill for $2.50 I backed it with poster board and made the heart from a pocket watch and an old red folder. His old shoes were painted with chrome paint. Lion was previously a stuffed animal from Goodwill and totally ripped apart at the … Read more
I went in a Tin Woman Halloween costume. I modified a silver dress to make it strapless, covered thigh high boots I had with glitter and silver paint, painted a red funnel silver and covered it in glitter too, and attached ribbon to keep the hat on. It was very cute!
Every year I try to beat the prior years’ original costume! This year I decided on one of the munchkins for my 4 year old son, who not better then the famous “Lollipop Guild”! So easy, inexpensive and to see people laughing just made my day! Red jogging pants were from Walmart for $3.00 cut … Read more
This year for Halloween our son choose a Wizard of Oz theme. His costume was not purchased it was handmade by his Aunt Megan, who went as Dorothy. Our son could not pronounce scarecrow, although he knew very well what his costume was. He would pronounce himself as a “square crow”. It was so adorable, … Read more