My 4-year-old daughter’s 10-year-old friend was brainstorming Halloween costume ideas for kids with her in the back seat on a long drive. They were drinking from water bottles, so they idea came up. I thought it through and realized that with some string, plastic tubing, plastic sheeting, and tape, I could make something that looked … Read more
I don’t know how I came up with the idea of this Kool Aid Jug Costume, but decided I must be the Kool Aid Jug! My starting point was going to Michael’s arts and crafts to look around for supplies and start to visualize how it would all come together. From a fabric store I … Read more
My homemade Slush Puppie costume consisted of two parts: the Slush Puppie and the Slush Cup. For the first part, I needed a blue hat with a white cotton ball glued onto the top with fabric glue. I wore a blue sweatshirt with a large ‘S’ cut out of white felt and glued to the … Read more
Every year we try and impress our college campus with an original and unexpected costume for Halloween. This year we got the idea to make ourselves a Homemade Six Pack of Busch Group Costume. Our entire costume cost under $10 a piece, a steal compared to those who spend over fifty for a crappy costume. … Read more
Back in July of 2010, my friends and I were talking about Halloween. We wanted to be something that everyone would remember. One of my friends came up with the idea of being different sodas (there were 5 of us). We looked at different costume sites for soda costumes, but none of them had one, … Read more
I wanted something original for Halloween last year for my oldest daughter. She loves Starbucks hot chocolate, and I love their coffee! So our minds were made up, a Starbucks Coffee costume! I bought a small laundry basket ($1.97), some brown fabric ($2 yd) and a piece of poster board ($.50). I cut the bottom … Read more
I came up with this idea for cheap Halloween costumes a couple days before a Halloween party. It was perfect for me because all of my friends know how much I love Dunkin Donuts coffee. It turned out to be a hit at the party. I created the costume with a quilting ring foam board, … Read more
I love drinking Red Bull, so why not make a costume that looks just like it?? I paired the wings with the costume because RED BULL GIVES YOU WINGS!!
I was a full size Capri Sun for my 2nd grade class. I used 2 emergency blankets glued together at the top. One large piece of white paper with the Capri Sun logo drawn on, then painted. Two pieces of cardboard on the inside to create an A-frame. Once everything was glued on to the … Read more
We have watched the Bud Light and Golden Wheat commercials on ESPN for a long long time. This year when we were discussing what costumes we were going to do we thought about it for a while. I like to make costumes rather than buy them and I was looking online at ideas for homemade … Read more
For this homemade Pop Can group Halloween Costume we bought fabric and sewed them into tube dresses and then added silver trim to them. Each of us painted our own logo on with fabric/acrylic paint! We also made pop tab earrings and bracelets.
This is my one year old grand daughter in her tea bag costume. I took interfacing and sewed, added crushed leaves to make the tea bag. Then I sewed a string and attached a lid from a teabag box.