This year for Halloween I decided on a homemade Sushi Roll Halloween costume idea. First I took a sheet and cut it so it would wrap around my body. I also cut holes in the sheet so that I could put my arms through them. I then used a black duct tape to cover the … 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
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
The school that my children attend asks that parents try to have their children wear costumes that keep with a fall theme, as the parties are now called “Harvest Parties”, not “Halloween Parties” anymore. I always try to come up with some cute things for them to be and I really love Candy Corn, so … Read more