My son came to me and he was three at the time and said he wanted to be a hotdog because it was his favorite food. Well I had no luck with finding a Hot Dog Costume so I began brainstorming. I ended up using a roll of foam from the craft department at Wal-Mart. … Read more
My costume is a giant sushi roll! I had never tried sushi until I started college and it’s been an ongoing love affair ever since. I really wanted to be some type of food for Halloween. I love when people dress up as food on the side of the road or in commercials. I think … Read more
This year, we decided to have a little fun with some homemade costumes. I didn’t want to go with the traditional ‘dead dog’ or ‘zombie’ affect. Usually there are hundreds of thousands of ‘zombie’ or ‘undead’-based costumes and they all pretty well look the same, some a bit more professional than others. Then, as I … Read more
My friend Jill and I didn’t have much money left in the piggy bank so we went for a budget friendly Halloween costume. We got thick foam board and covered it with brown construction paper representing the gram cracker. We then divided it into four sections and put brown dots with sharpie marker. We then … Read more
My husband and I spent over a month going back and forth trying to find easy costumes for Halloween. We wanted our costume to be something we dressed up as together, something that didn\’t cost a lot of money and something very original. Somehow we came up with the idea of being “A Cop and … Read more
I was surfing the Internet this year for homemade kid costumes that did not require me to sew anything and came across the kid costumes idea to make my daughter into a box of popcorn! I made it for her this year and she won 1st place in a kid costumes contest! What you need: … Read more
Thomas decided that he wanted to be a Toblerone candy bar so we created this costume from cardboard, painted it yellow and added the box design based on a real Toblerone bar. The bar didn’t last long but the costume held up like a champ. We added tinfoil for detail and a face hole so … Read more
This is a fully functional box of wine costume. I took pictures of a box of wine on all sides and blew it up and printed it out on my home computer. I then took a large box and covered it with white paper and then pasted the blown up picture of the wine box … Read more
I don’t want to enter the contest, just wanting to share my Homemade Cupcake Diva Costume. I Googled it and found this web site! I didn’t know there was people out there that loved cupcakes as much as me!! Glad I found you all! Love the site.
Here is my little girl with her homemade candy costume. Made with tape and cellophane. I used a big ball, the kind you sit on, and I covered it with saran wrap to protect it. Then, I put some tape more than you can imagine. When it was thick, I cut it and I took … Read more
I always think long and hard about what I’m going to be for Halloween. I try to out do myself every year and last year I think I did with my cupcake costume. I made the whole costume the day of the big celebration. A run to Jo Ann Fabric, Hobby Lobby, and Wal Mart … Read more
If you want to be something short ‘n’ sweet for Halloween, this easy homemade cupcake costume is perfect! All you need: felt of assorted colors (I used pink for the frosting, brown for the cake and cherry stem, red for the cherry, and yellow, blue, and a different pink for the sprinkles), hot glue gun, … Read more