I made this Homemade Angry Birds Costume by hand with a few yards of felt!! I sewed a baby sheet inside of the costume and then filled it with poly-fill and then I drew the face on a piece of paper and traced it onto the felt and ironed it on with an adhesive! My … Read more
I got the idea from looking for a costume for “Purim” (the Jewish holiday in which we wear costumes… kinda like Halloween) But you can’t find any good MK costumes here in Israel (OK OK, so it’s a little too 90’s, but it’s my favorite game EVER!). So I decided to make my own Scorpion … Read more
This Homemade Ms Pac Man and Ghost Halloween Couple Costume was created for a “80’s icons” theme party that we were invited to. My fiance suggested PacMan, but since, technically, that was the 70s, we did Ms PacMan. I was the “blue” ghost that she’s about to gobble up. Seeing just the ghost, people didn’t … Read more
My friends and I decided to dress in a Homemade Ms. Pacman and Ghosts Group Costume. I was Ms. Pac man & my 3 friends were ghosts. As long as you have 1-4 friends, you will have enough “ghosts”. ALL I used was 2 regular sized poster board for each costume. So, 2 yellow and … Read more
I work in retail so any costume I came up with had to be family friendly. The initial plan was to be one of the Guinea Pigs from G-Force and up until about a month ago that was what I was going to be. Randomly one night while looking on line the idea to be … Read more
My friend and I created this Homemade Mario Brothers Costume. We grew out our mustaches for 2 months and stenciled out logos for our hats. We made fireballs out of multi-colored paper, color coordinated to match with the corresponding character. We bought overalls from salvation army and got the appropriate long sleeved shirts and shoes … Read more
My son wanted to be Bowser for Halloween, so I began by buying the green fabric for the shell and I cut 1 long rectangle the length of his back and 2 oval shapes for the sides of the shell. I sewed the sides to the rectangle and it made a nice shell shape. Then … Read more
My son is a huge Zelda fan and he wanted a Link costume. I got some material and threw a Homemade Link from Zelda Costume together. My wife made the shield out of the poster board with a foam core, and she hand painted it. I saw the Link costume on your website and thought … Read more
I spent a good amount of time last year on my costume to reconstruct one of the Greek Hoplite soldiers from Troy, though the costume looking nothing like someone from 300, almost everyone thought it was. The costume came out awesome, but was somewhat of a failure I guess. Anyhow, I wanted to do something … Read more
My daughter always starts thinking about what she would like to be for Halloween by January! This year she decided she wanted to be the Twilight Princess version of Princess Zelda. I started researching in June and getting some rough ideas of how we wanted the finished costume to look. The major factor would be … Read more
My name is Emma and I handmade all of the costumes shown here. It’s been like a tradition to be resourceful and make nothing into something for our Halloween costumes every year in my family since I was a kid myself and now I get to do this with my kiddos. Mario(the star of the … Read more
This year we wanted to do something that was fun and creative. We decided on a Homemade Sonic and Tails Couple Costume. Sonic: We used blue leggings and a blue tank top. We got fabric from the fabric store to create the belly and the ears. Glued fabric onto some black cat ears. We ratted … Read more