Every year we make homemade costumes and the task this year was to make a Yoshi costume. The costume cost about $35, we watched sales for everything, which helped. Supplies: A used bicycle helmet from a garage sale Felt in green, red, white Small remnant of sheer white fabric Green, red, white, black paint, which … Read more
Every year at Halloween, we see tons of Marios and Luigis, dressed mostly in store-bought costumes. This year my best friend and I decided to go as Homemade Female Mario and Luigi Costumes, the female versions of these game characters. We tried to be as creative as we could with the costumes. The white shirts … Read more
My son thought it would be cool to have a Halo Halloween costume. After much searching on the internet, I found some helpful advice on Youtube. I took cardboard and cut it to shape. I bent it to fit my son’s body and spraypainted it with metallic green. I then cut additional pieces of cardboard … 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
It took me a week to finish with this Mortal Kombat Reptile Costume project. I used nothing but “foams” glue stick gun, and my airbrush machine to apply the green color on. I used foam because it brings the costume out, as you can see in the abbs part. I put my lil twist in … Read more
This Homemade Mr. and Mrs. Pacman Costume idea was one of my favorites and didn’t actually take too long to make. It was an assembly of a lot of cardboard and duct tape really. Although, really not busy nightclub friendly! On a good note, we never paid cover anywhere because who is really going to … Read more