We wanted to make these homemade Mario and Princess Peach costumes look as realistic as possible, and I think we did a pretty good job. Mario: We found rather cheap overalls on eBay and was able to find a red long sleeve shirt at Goodwill. We also found workboots at Goodwill that were already old, … Read more
So this yr we decided to dress up as Super Mario Bros characters, since my 4yr old son wanted to be Luigi. Dad was Mario, baby brother was Toad and I was Princess Daisy. For the Mario and Luigi, I simply purchases overalls with red and green long sleeve shirts. I found 80% of the … Read more
Each year the boys will “mandate” what costumes they want. So, the goes credit to them. I am only the one that brings their ideas and imagination to life. They told me that birds have feathers, so their costumes must have feathers. So, feathers it is! They wanted the red and yellow bird and they … Read more
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 really wanted to be Mario for Halloween. But I wanted to be my favorite version: Raccoon Mario from Mario Bros. 3. I had a lot of fun making this Mario Bros Halloween costume. The overalls, shirt, and boots were bought at thrift stores. The hat and tail were both custom made and sewn by … Read more
My friends were throwing a Halloween party and 2 of them were going as Mario and Luigi from Super Mario Brothers. I thought it would be fun to tell them I was going as a zombie to throw them off, then show up as Bowser, their mortal enemy! It was priceless when I barged through … Read more
My boys love Mario and Luigi video games and really wanted to be them for the annual Halloween costume contest at school. There was nothing in the marketplace at the time so I had to pull everything together and make my own Mario and Luigi Halloween Costumes. The masks were pieced together using felt; the … Read more
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so when my kids wanted an Angry Birds costumes, I was up for the challenge. My first challenge with the costume was to come up with a costume that was cheap, easy, and anyone can do! Then I needed to find a ball shape that could fit over … Read more
We decided to do an easy group costume with Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi. We found men’s tshirts, gym short and white leggings in the colors we needed. The we found matching tan hats and dyed them ourselves. We took color duck tape to create fake suspenders (Waluigi’s is backwards). We cut float paper for … Read more