Last year was the first real year I could take my little boy trick or treating. I wanted to make my very first attempt at making his costume myself. One morning while watching Sesame Street, it came to me. And the Big Bird Costume was born. I started out with just a plain zipper up … Read more
I love the show Reno 911 and had the idea of going as Lieutenant Jim Dangle this year. As I looked around for various costumes on the internet, I didn’t find any that were up to par in my book. I am a college student who has never taken any kind of home-ec class in … Read more
I usually spend a good few months before Halloween deciding on a good costume idea. I came across a video of the old show “Size Small”. The show was a puppet show in the 80’s where, on every episode, a giant record would put on a music record and dance with the spoons. I was … Read more
My son loves Yo GABBA GABBA so I decided to make both of us from the show. It was hard to find orange fur so I got a teddy bear from Goodwill and cut it apart for the hat, cut out some paper to glue to it, ironed on ribbon for the shirt. we knitted … Read more
This is a photo of my husband and myself as Dog the bounty hunter and his wife Beth. I made Dog’s bullet proof vest from left over fabric I had lying around, sewn around a piece of foam I picked up at the fabric store. For the straps and utility belt I used left over … Read more
What time is it? Tool Time! Everybody loved our homemade Mr. Wilson and Heidi couple costume, and they were a hit! These costumes were very simple to make. For Mr. Wilson, I printed out a pattern of wood and just glued it to cardboard and cut it out. Then, I stapled a stick to it … Read more
This year my fiance and I decided to go all out for Halloween since our wedding is next weekend. All of our friends decided that a Jim Henson theme would be awesome. I have always loved cookie monster and Oscar seemed like the next obvious choice. To make my costume I bought blue furry fleece … Read more
I always loved the Munster’s as a kid and thought it would be great for Halloween! After researching as many pictures a Homemade Lily Munster Costume I could find (and she actually wore two different costumes during the show), I decided to go shopping for the material – gray material and sheer gray for the … Read more
This Homemade Fraggle Rock Costume was easier than it looks to make. I took a baseball cap and covered it in yellow felt. I used a yellow foam visor for the bottom of the mouth. I took some yellow felt and wrapped it around my entire head and tucked it into my turtle neck I … Read more
We saw a Big Bird costume for sale in a store and liked the idea, but I was confident that I could create a way better version! For the body: We looked all through the mall for a yellow dress to no avail, so we purchased yellow material, a dress pattern that we deemed bird-like … Read more
This is my first time submitting a costume to “Coolest”. For the upcoming release of their new film this year I went as Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets. They are the two cranky old guys in the balcony. Every year I like to try and challenge myself both with the costume and the make … Read more
Here’s the story behind our Cookie Monster costume. My daughter really loves Cookie Monster, so she inspired me to come up with an original costume for her. I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics to look for a pattern, but they don’t sell any Cookie Monster costume patterns, let alone any Sesame Street costume patterns. I picked … Read more