This Baked Potato Costume ended up being a last minute costume with very little prep. The only thing we did the night before was to sew the little “pat of butter” hat. To do that, I used leftover yellow flannel from a blanket I made. I sewed it into a quick square and stuffed it … Read more
This year, my four year old twins decided they wanted to be their favorite condiments: ketchup and mustard. 1. The first thing I did for this Homemade Ketchup and Mustard Costume was google images of ketchup and mustard bottles to find the exact style I wanted to duplicate, and printed out pictures of a classic … Read more
This is a Homemade Easy Mac N Cheese Costume that I had made. My son loves Macaroni and cheese and I love the convenience of Easy Mac n Cheese! I started with a laundry basket and cut a hole out of the bottom. Then I scanned in the Easy Mac n Cheese label. I painted … Read more
We’re all that and a bag of chips! The idea sparked in 2003 when the group of us was a bagged lunch. The plain UTZ chips were such a hit we decided to make a “snack pack” of bags and created this homemade bags of potato chips group Halloween costume. We started with cotton fabric … Read more
The college where Grandma worked got all new Gateway computers and Grandma wondered if we could use the cool cow motif boxes for Halloween somehow. That got us thinking… Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. Obviously, we needed to figure something with cows … Read more
My husband had this good Halloween costume idea of a box of wine. I ended up purchasing the box from a box store as I was unable to find a good size that would work. The box cost $10 and the box of wine cost $10. We scanned the box of wine, enlarged and printed … 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
This homemade costume was fun, quick, inexpensive and easy to make. I went to the local art store and got ivory colored yarn which we used for the spaghetti and foam balls which we used for the meatballs. We then cut the yarn into 12″ pieces and glued them using a glue gun onto a … Read more
My husband and I decided to do a Kool Aid Man Costume and a packet of kool-aid. Here’s how I made it: Kool aid man: I took a large cardboard box and put two hula hoops in it to make it a round shape- then I shaped it into the shape of a pitcher (using … Read more
I love Halloween so I decided while watching Sex and the City one night what I would be… a COSMO. Perfect. I Have a back strapless dress as my base. I went to a fabric store and got a role of upholstery foam, 2 yards of pink cosmo fabric, 2 yards of silver fabric, spray … Read more
This Homemade Cupcake Adult Costume took me a little over a week to make. I sewed it both with machine and by hand. I bought some thick silver material, that looked like foil, and sewed the folds to resemble cupcake foil. Then I wrapped the fabric around a quilting hoop. I sewed old light pink … Read more
This Bunch of Grapes Costume Idea was easily made. All that is needed is 1 packet of balloons, purple or green (I got metallic purple ones from a party shop), green material (cheap lining is what I used). I made the leaf out of cardboard, left a little lip on the end and attached it … Read more