Here is the How To for one large cotton candy on a paper cone costume! Supplies: One Roll Clear Cellophane Wrapping ($2.99) One Yard Pink Felt ($2.50yrd.) One White Poster Board ($.50) Clear Packing Tape ($2.99) Arm Length or White Ribbon ($1) Tissue Paper Optional: Spray adhesive to glue Logo to bag Scanner/Copier/Printer to make … Read more
My friend Ashley and I are OBSESSED with cupcakes! It all started back in the summer with her candy land themed birthday. Her birthday being in June she had a candy adventure with a cupcake cake! My birthday followed close behind in July with another cupcake cake. It became quite apparent after purchasing matching juicy … Read more
This homemade wine bottle and cork screw couple costume was my first attempt at a completely homemade costume! Both of the main pieces of the costume are made out of felt (three colors necessary: green (bottle), cream (label), and brown (corkscrew handle and bottle cork). Both of the head pieces are stuffed with newspaper and … Read more
I am always looking for new, cute costumes for my small children. This year, my daughter was getting ready to turn 1 and had started walking and all of the costumes her size were ‘bunting’ style. We saw the idea of Campbells Chicken Noodle Soup, but it was just too boring. So, we decided to … Read more
We started this Homemade Chocolate Cupcake Costume by looking for a hula hoop to provide the circular shape of the cup, but it’s fall here and no one sells hula hoops. So we headed to Home Depot and my engineer-brained boyfriend constructed two hoops, one slightly smaller than the other, out of plastic plumbing pipe, … Read more
My boyfriend and I love tasty sweets! He asked me to be his girlfriend using edible letters on cupcakes, so this Homemade Cupcake and Baker Costume was a MUST. For the base (the cupcake liner), I safety-pinned an old cylinder laundry hamper until it was about a foot tall. I folded 3 poster boards accordion … Read more
I went to a thrift shop and found cotton batting for pennies. I filled a spray bottle with washable paint and water and sprayed the batting to look like cotton candy. The batting had to dry for a day before I could put the Cotton Candy Homemade Halloween Costume together. I used packing tape rolled … Read more
My boyfriend and I decided on a Jager Bomb Couple Costume for Halloween. I got the idea from this web site but made it my own, and used ideas from all of the postings. Red Bull Can: I went to a fabric store and bought a Stretchy material. The dress has an elastic band at … Read more
For this Homemade Coca-Cola Can Costume, we went to Target and found a collapsible laundry hamper that would fit my daughter in it. We brought it home and cut an X shape in the center of the bottom. I had her try it on and we measured where the arm holes would go, and cut … Read more
We are submitting our six-pack of Coors Light Costume for the coolest homemade costume contest because we believe it is the best costume we have seen on your website. My friend and I had this Beer Group Costume Idea for Halloween 2009. We can not really remember why we chose to do Coors light other … Read more
Ok, well making this cupcake homemade costume was a big headache! But it was all worth it because everyone loved it. I first started with the bottom of the cupcake I bought white fleece; I cut and sewed to a shape of a skirt so it can fit me. Then I got tulle and with … Read more
This year I went trick or treating as a box of Quaker Oats. The Homemade Quaker Oats Costume was made using 4 poster boards, two red and two blue. They were taped together with red duct tape to make 2 rectangles with red on bottom and blue on top. Later the rectangles were taped together … Read more