(This children costume is supposed to be worn by suspenders and should come to thigh height on a nine year old child but the model in the photo is only three years old so he is not tall enough to give a true view of how it will be worn). Ice Cream Sundae Materials: Lots … Read more
We often created homemade costumes for Halloween as a chance to think beyond the usual and expected as well as for the so much touted “quality time”! This particular if peculiar idea for Halloween costumes to make came from my daughter\’s mild unruliness during an excursion where she, her younger brother and I searched a … Read more
Whenever my friends and I went to the movies, we would always see the Fanta soda commercial before the previews. I thought it would be a unique group costume to be the Fanta Girls – Fantanas, and that people would easily recognize. We went shopping for clothing that was all one color to correspond with … Read more
This costume has 648 beer caps on it. It includes the hat, earrings, a necklace, an anklet, a purse, a bracelet and of course the shoes shirt and shorts. It took me one month to save all the caps and a lot of parties. I used mostly fabric glue and a hot glue gun to … Read more
I use my nieces and nephews for inspiration. This niece told me she wanted a Homemade Cupcake Halloween Costume for Halloween. I went to Walmart, got a cart, and cruised the aisles looking for anything that could become a cupcake. A round laundry basket served as the cake holder. My husband sawed the bottom off … Read more
I used a $2.00 laundry basket that I cut in half for this Homemade Cupcake Costume. I folded 3 sheets of pink poster board and glued them around the edge of the basket. I used a large sheet of quilt polyfill and folded it 4 times to make a thick square. Placed cupcake base in … Read more
Being obsessed with Halloween and always checking this website, we decided we wanted to make our own couples costume this year. After brainstorming, we decided on the perfect classic duo homemade cookie and milk Halloween couple costume. Chocolate chip cookie costume: For the design of the cookie, we decided to make a front and back … Read more
This Homemade Eggs and Bacon Costume is the easiest costume EVER. I cut out a large piece of wavy edged cardboard I painted white to create the “egg white,” making an opening for my head in the middle. Got two pieces of Styrofoam that I shaped and painted to look like Bacon and affixed them … Read more
Cupcakes are my favorite dessert, any kind! When I was deciding what to wear for Halloween, I remembered a cupcake costume I had seen the week before. But I wanted to make it better. I used some ideas from others’ cupcake costumes and modified them to work best for me. It only took me a … Read more
Made recently for an Arty Party! I was inspired by one of those pop-up springy washing baskets – very cheap to buy in pound shops or similar. I simply painted the design onto the plasticy material with acrylic paint – took a few hours but was actually quite relaxing! I copied it from a picture … Read more
This Homemade Grapes Halloween Costume is made from balloons. The balloons are attached with safety pins. The face is painted green and a green hat is worn with a vine intertwined between the balloons.
My 3 ½ year old grandson thought of this costume. Last year he decided that this year he wanted to be a pickle. No matter how much we tried we could not convince him to be any thing else. So I, Grandma, got out my sewing machine. Since he lives 300 miles away I had … Read more