My daughter changed her mind at the last minute, this year, and decided she wanted a Homemade White Angry Bird Costume. In only a few hours, I was able to make her a super cute costume. I used white fleece for the majority of the costume and cheap muslin on the inside. The front is … Read more
The idea for this Castle Crashers Couple Costume came from my son, Ben. He showed the idea to my husband and asked if he could make these 2 costumes for him and his friend. My husband is an artist and was able to bring this idea to life. It turned out much better than we … Read more
I made the bodysuit of this Mortal Combat costume using a full swimsuit pattern with pink fabric. Then just sewed some black stretchy fabric and put as belt and attached to pink bought gloves. The mask was just a painter’s mask covered and hot glues some extra pink fabric. The boots I made some socks/knee … Read more
I made this Homemade Mortal Kombat Sub Zero Costume over a period of a couple months, utilizing Ebay and Amazon to order the various parts. The tabards were made out of canvas fabric and sewn with a sewing machine. The armor is made of soccer shin guards that I painted with the same blue color … Read more
We went to Lowes and got 2 4’x8′ foam core insulation boards. Also asked for a donation of a refrigerator box for the spine. Got some yellow spray paint ( I think we went through 4 cans) and red felt. I had a scrap of black fabric at the house for the eyes. Cut your … Read more
This was probably going to be the last Halloween that my cousin/best friend and I were going to be able to hang out on Halloween and I wanted us to be the Mario Brothers for Halloween since we are like brothers. I started working on the Mario and Luigi Halloween costumes three months prior to … Read more
We are both named Amanda and we are roommates in college. We wanted to have a theme for a costume. Since we are in college we did this Homemade Mario and Luigi Couple Costume with NO Money! Our Green and Red shirts were bought from Forever 21 at store in our local mall. Checkered hats … Read more
My son and I have always had coordinating costumes every year for the past 11 years. He has wanted to be Master Chief from the Xbox 360 Halo game but this costume does not come in child sizes and they do not even make a Cortana costume. When the adult version of the Master Chief … Read more
This is the Homemade Halo Scout Halloween Costume I built for my 11 year old son of the Scout armor from the video game Halo. It was built from cardboard and hot glue to make the form of the costume. I then covered it with fiberglass to give it strength. Auto body filler was then … Read more
My boys are obsessed with Mario and Luigi but there were not ready made costumes so we had to make our own Fire Mario and Fire Luigi Halloween Costumes. This particular year they wanted to be Fire Mario and Fire Luigi from New Super Mario Bros.
My video-game loving kids wanted to be Zelda and Link for Halloween, what a challenge! Zelda’s dress was an actual dress pattern, and by far the easiest part of all of this (although the pattern itself was rather complicated!). For Link, I found the instructions online, but had to make all my own patterns (I … Read more
My sons are big fans of the Super Mario Games. They’ve been watching me play Super Mario Galaxy for a while. One of the “characters” in the game is a Luma. It’s a star like creature, and actually there are many of them in a variety of colors. My son wanted to be a red … Read more