This is what you will need to make your fun homemade Ice Cream Cone costume with Jimmies: white cotton sheet or fabric (thrift store, Walmart, fabric store) smaller piece of colored fabric (use old colored t-shirts, scrap packs from a fabric store, or small sections from fabric store rolls) white thread tan skirt (or sew your … Read more
I made this Homemade Ice Cream Cone Costume for my twins, and got rave reviews! I made the whole costume first out of free fabric I had around the house (Old sheets work well). When I knew exactly what I wanted to do, I bought fabric and made it over. $12 of supplies made two … Read more
For the making of this children costume you will need two large sheets of cardboard, the same size (like the box that a new refrigerator or other large item may be shipped in), Styrofoam pieces, hot glue and gun box, cutter, sharp scissors, pencil or marker, measuring tape, about three yards brown flannel or similar … Read more
I was looking on the “Coolest Homemade Costumes” site for ideas and came across a child dressed up as Dunkin Donut’s Munchkins! The costume reminded me of one of my favorite foods, Dippin’ Dots!! This led to the making of my Homemade Dippin’ Dots Halloween Costume! First I bought a party tub (from a party … Read more
To start off with this homemade children costume, I had a plastic bucket that I zig sawed out the bottom. Spray painted the whole outside. Then my son and I painted the outside the best that we could. My son painted the cows on the back. The top is made out of cardboard and tape. … Read more
My husband and I were trying to come up with costumes for a costume party and were debating between a Rubik’s cube or Blue Bell Ice Cream. The more we thought about it, we ended up deciding to go with a homemade Blue Bell Ice Cream costume because it was unique and we were coming … Read more
The idea for this homemade children costume came from my daughter – she decided what she wanted to be and I made her costume. In order to keep the weight to a minimum I made the ‘scoop’ out of paper mace and covered it with fabric that had a watercolor-like pattern that I thought looked … Read more
We go camping a lot in the summer and we always get an ice cream cone. My son decided he wanted an Homemade Ice Cream Cone with Sprinkles and Cherry Top Costume. I took 2 -4 foot pieces of heavy cardboard stock and cut them into a v-shape. Then, using brown markers, drew lines slightly … Read more
Meet Athena L., she is a 17 month old and is the most outgoing toddler you will ever meet. She has a very “Eclectic” sense of style. And believe me she knows what’s “pretty” and what’s not. I knew that going to a drugstore for a Halloween costume would just feel wrong. Our whole family … Read more
I wanted to make something different than other couples, so I decided on a homemade ice cream couple Halloween costume. For my boyfriend’s banana split costume, I purchased the banana costume. I made 3 paper mache for the ice cream (vanilla, strawberry, chocolate). I covered each flavor of ice cream with silk fabric, you can … Read more
I made these Ice Cream Sundae Costumes with lightweight rubber bowls, felt, sweatshirts, fleece and elastic. First I cut the arms out of white oversized sweatshirts and sewed a sleeveless t-shirt inside. I stuffed pillow stuffing between the sweatshirt and t-shirt. I cut syrup and sprinkles out of felt and hot glued that to the … Read more
I originally got this idea for a Homemade Ice Cream Cone Costume from this website and then just made it my own in a couple of areas. I bought a couple yards of pink and brown sation fabric and asked my mother-in-law to sew them together. She bunched them with elastic at the top, the … Read more