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
My 6 yr old son is obsessed with Bowser jr and this Halloween he chose a Homemade Bowser Jr. Costume. After days and days of searching the internet trying to find a Bowser jr costume to buy and finding none for sale I finally came to terms that it had to be made. I’m not … Read more
I made my kids both a Homemade Little Big Planet Sack People Couple Costume for Halloween this year. My son wanted to be the basic brown sack boy and my daughter wanted to be the white sack girl with brown wavy hair and a dress. This project turned out to take a bit more time … Read more
I envisioned Ninja suits made all of duct tape. After downloading numerous photos of Ninjas online, the project took on a life of it’s own. The Mortal Combat Halloween costumes were prepared over a two-month period. The costumes are based upon the Mortal Combat franchise, but they are custom (ie, you won’t find them in … Read more