This Candy Dots Costume is made of 2 pieces of foam board, Styrofoam balls, cut in half, paint dots, colors of your choice (we went traditional) and hot glue. I glued candy colored ribbon in 2 straps for resting on the shoulders. Any colored street clothes underneath and your all set. Total cost $12. I … Read more
My friends and I were trying to think of group costume ideas for our high school Halloween dance, and we were drinking pop, and someone said , “HEY! let’s be pop cans!” And we did it! We made a popular pop cans costume. We picked our flavors, our fabric colors, and painted on our logos … Read more
I had so much fun making this Homemade Cupcake Woman’s Costume! But be aware, it has a lot more work involved than you may think! Cupcake liner: I started out by folding a cardboard box (cut off top folds first and just leave the 4 sides) like an accordion and placing a heavy object on … Read more
Starting from the bottom: The shoes are just some plane black shoes I purchased years ago for a school girl costume. I am wearing dark tights underneath pink fishnet stockings. The cup part of the homemade cupcake costume is a large lamp shade I found at a thrift store. I had to saw out the … Read more
This homemade bunch of grapes Halloween costume is the easiest and the cheapest costume I have ever made! The best part is it only took about half an hour to put it all together. The shopping list is one purple long sleeve shirt, 50 purple balloons, one pack of safety pins, 2 sheets of green … Read more
One beautiful Saturday morning a week before Halloween I was sitting outside enjoying rare and intense October sunshine having brunch with out of town visitors. I was contemplating and mind wrestling with the question of the year, “What should I be for Halloween?” I just returned from teaching abroad for two years and dressed up … Read more
I have an obsession with cupcakes– I simply think that they are beautiful– and all I really wanted was to be one for Halloween. This is how I created the homemade cupcake costume: Skirt/Wrapper: This was the hardest part of the costume, and it really wasn’t that hard. I used my prom dress from 10 … Read more
Last year, I went as a homemade voodoo doll, partly inspired by the ones on this website and submitted my costume. I knew I wanted to spread my ideas and creativity this year too, but wasn’t sure what I was going to dress up as. Cupcakes are my thing. Anyone who knows me, knows how … Read more
I have made my son, Jack, many costumes that have been based on his name (lumberjack, jack-in-the-box, jack and the beanstalk) but last year’s was my favorite! The costume was made primarily of felt. I purchased a rectangular piece of Styrofoam from a craft store to be the top of the box. I bought tan-colored … Read more
This is my daughter Phoenix as her favorite drink. This started from studying an actual Hi C drink box then creating from a cardboard box. We spent 2 weeks on this costume it has every single detail that the regular drink box has all the way down to the bar code and expiration date. We … Read more
I was trying to come up with an ideal costume for my son for Halloween, and he was sitting there at the table eating tootsie rolls, which he loves, and he says I want to be candy for Halloween. So I looked online for a Tootsie Roll costume and they have the ones you can … Read more
This is how I made these Homemade Cake and Cupcake Halloween Costumes. Cake : materials : – insulating foam (about 1/4-inch-thick) – cardboard – masking tape – pink & yellow creep paper – white glue – empty toilet paper roll how to make: 1. cut a piece of cardboard a little bit wider than your … Read more