For this homemade Sub Zero costume I used some Pleather and a ninja suit with Tabi boots. This costume took me about 7 full days of work to complete. I have never sewn anything before in my life, I pretty much just watched that show ‘How It’s Made’ enough and picked up on how to … Read more
We were invited to an 80’s themed Halloween party and wanted to come up with something different. My boyfriend (the ghost) came up with the idea of a Homemade Ms. Pac Man and Blinky the Ghost Couple Costume. I wasn’t exactly sure how to execute it. We went to a craft supply store and found … Read more
My five year old daughter became entranced with the online role playing game World of Warcraft after watching her father and older sister play. One of her favorite characters are the Murlocs, a sort of fishlike creature. More specifically, she loves Murky, a baby Murloc. After finding some pictures of Murky online, I set out … Read more
To make the dress for my Princess Peach costume, I looked over many pictures of her online and noticed that her dress resembled a standard princess dress . So I bought a pattern for a Disney princess dress and then modified it into a likeness of Peach’s dress. I started with the pattern and bought … Read more
Mario, Princess Toadstool, Toad, Toadette, Wario, and King Boo battle it out on the streets of Honolulu. Not an original concept, but we like to think the execution was a success. For the most part, the characters were easy to recreate. Creativity played a role in making the spherical shape of King Boo, Toad, and … Read more
This is a character from Street Fighter 4, Crimson Viper, or C. Viper for short. She’s a double agent with electric gloves and pyrotechnic boots that will zap her enemies or burn them to a crisp. Good times. The homemade Crimson Viper costume itself wasn’t too hard, since I just had to butcher a thrift … Read more
This Homemade Link Costume was made for my son for Halloween 2008. Link is by far his favorite character, and it suited him perfectly. Since this was made so long ago, I will just give you a quick run down of how I did this. The entire costume (vest, pants, shirt and shoe covers were … Read more
My 10-year-old son wanted a Homemade Mothership Q from Rockband Costume from the video game RockBand 2. The jumpsuit was made from thrift store baseball pants (99 cents) and athletic shirt (99 cents). The small white dots were painted with fabric paint. Stripes down the side are white duct tape. The neck piece was made … Read more
Here are the basics for these homemade Angry Birds costumes: First, we went to JoAnn’s Fabrics (or any fabric/craft store) to find the right fabric. I decided on that stretchy, fuzzy material. I can’t remember what it’s called, but it’s vaguely like what they would make a snuggie out of. I believe I got 4 … Read more
We are all in college and on a budget. We found boxes at the local hardware store and spray painted them and added foam wheels, numbers, and string to attach to our body. For Mario and Luigi we bought mens suspenders, colored tee shirt and base ball hats, we super glued foam letters on the … Read more
For the red Angry Bird I bought a 5XL sweater and a 2XL for the black at the 1$ store, cut the sleeve off which then were used to make the hats, and filled them up with any type of filling and made the faces out of felt. For the yellow one I cut out … Read more
For the past two years I’ve tried to make matching costumes for the kids and their father. Last year it was the Mario Brothers vs my husband (Wario). This year MOST of my kids were based from “Sonic the Hedgehog” so that left my husband as the Evil “Dr. Robotnik” or as some people know … Read more