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
I got this homemade cupcake costume idea from a similar cupcake submission on this site. I used a lamp shade bought for $1.00 at the Goodwill. Then I took out the metal rods from inside and cut a mini slit so my daughter could walk freely. I went over the lampshade with glitter paint so … Read more
This homemade Corona Bottle with Salt and Lime Group Halloween costume was an awesome idea. It only started with the bottle, but when I had leftover material I came up with my lime and salt shaker. All was made with foam used for couch cushions. I have to say my thumb did hurt after I … Read more
Cutest little Homemade Rosie the Riveter Costume! To make this costume, I bought a plastic flower pot from the Dollar store, I made sure the pot was deep enough and wide enough for her to fit into. (Paid $1) Next, my husband used a jigsaw to cut out the bottom from the pot, but I’m … Read more
My girls wanted to be candy this year for Halloween. So, instead of being one big piece of Hershey’s Kiss, we thought we would make bags of candy with many pieces. The pictures don’t do these homemade candy group Halloween costumes justice and unfortunately I had to re-take pictures after the costumes had been worn, … Read more
The DIY Raspberry Halloween Costume Idea was such fun to make and dress up as. I went to the craft store and looked around the fake flower section and found two huge leaves. I super glued the two leaves and clipped the stem about so there was about 8 inches left to stick in my … Read more
My son came up with this idea for a Homemade ICEE Costume 6 months ago, so I thought why not. Of course I started it the week before Halloween. First we bought an ICEE so we had the cup to use as a pattern. I did free hand draw the entire costume on felt and … Read more
We all wanted to come up with a great idea for Halloween but couldn’t figure out what to do, most importantly we wanted to be original. After several options, we looked around our apartments and we thought to do a Burnett’s Bottles Group Costume, being broke college students, its all we drink on the weekends. … Read more
This homemade cupcake Halloween costume design is made of an old lamp shade in the bottom with paper folded like an accordion sewed onto the lamp shade. The pink parts are old grandma’s curtains (braces and tube top), the white tulle and lace is a gigantic skirt made of tulle just pressed upside-down in the … Read more
for my grapes costume I wore a green skirt and a crochet sweater. I tied strings to all the balloons and tied them to the crochet sweater. It was perfect for school because I was able to take the outfit off during each class period.