I made this pink chocolate cupcake costume for my four year old daughter. She loves chocolate and anything pink, so I combined the two to make a “sweet” costume! Total time was about 6-8 hours and total cost was about $12. Most of the time is hand-sewing. I used a lampshade for the bottom. My … Read more
Who wants to spend all Halloween weekend in a boring, store-bought, slutty X costume? This year I decided to be a fancy cupcake. I made this Homemade Cupcake DIY Costume from a child’s craft apron, hot pink nylon fabric (about 3 yards), heavy-duty aluminum foil, poster board, jewel/gem stickers, safety pins, fabric glue and ribbon. … Read more
After shopping around for cupcake costumes, I decided to construct my own Homemade Cupcake Costume since 1) I was on a budget, and 2) the few cupcake costumes I’ve seen were only in kids sizes. I searched online for many ideas on where and how to start putting the costume together but in the end, … Read more
My 10 year old daughter did not want a store bought costume this year! After being at a recent carnival, she decided to be a bag of cotton candy! We bought a bag of poly fill fluff from the craft store and 2 cans of spray paint, pink and blue. I put out plastic tarps … Read more
We were looking for cute but cheap ideas, after throwing things around and taking a look around Walmart we decided we wanted to make a duct tape dress. We found wings, and thought that a Homemade Redbull Costume Idea would be original and cute! We bought 3 rolls of silver and blue duct tape, one … Read more
My daughter declared that she wanted to be a Strawberry for Halloween when she was 4, but I could not find a pattern anywhere! To improvise the Strawberry costume I found a bright red quilting fabric and a similarly colored soft flannel to line the itchy quilting fabric. I laid out 4 pieces of the … Read more
This Homemade Cupcake Halloween Costume is my 2 year old daughter with a cherry on top. I used a lampshade for the cup then used construction paper and aluminum foil, folded in zig-zags, to cover the lamp shade. Then used cream colored fabric to make suspenders on the lamp shade to go over her shoulders. … Read more
My one daughter was a bunny, so it was fitting to make her twin sister a carrot! For this carrot costume, I got a 3T orange sweatshirt at a second-hand shop. My mother and I cut the stomach and back off of the sweatshirt and turned the cut edges under to make it neat. We … Read more
For the pasta gone wild costume I bought a colander at the Dollar store. I added Cream colored yarn and brown pom-poms (from Michaels). I used a red T-shirt and glued yarn and pom-poms to t-shirt and colander. For the pizza costume I glued two triangle shaped materials into a pizza slice shape. Rolled end … Read more
This is my one year old grand daughter in her tea bag costume. I took interfacing and sewed, added crushed leaves to make the tea bag. Then I sewed a string and attached a lid from a teabag box.
This $1 Popcorn Costume is as easy as they come. All you need is a rectangle of white fabric (cloth diaper, old T-shirt, pillowcase, towel) and a roll of red duct tape. White duct tape will make it look more professional, but it’s optional. And you’ll need scissors and safety pins. 1. Fold the fabric … Read more
We started looking at ideas for cool costumes from your website. Since we live in Canada it was easy to want to do up our favorite Coffee place Tim Horton’s. We have one on every corner here and most people can’t start their day without having a “Timmy’s”. We designed the coffee cup from a … Read more