A nice heaping bowl of spaghetti and meatballs complete with bread and butter and a Parmesan cheese trick or treat bag. I started this Spaghetti and Meatballs Costume with a round black solid basket from the dollar store, using a roto zip I carefully cut out a circle from the bottom of the basket. I … Read more
My granddaughter was competing in a Christmas Pageant and needed a Christmas costume. I had a homemade Hot Cocoa for Santa Halloween costume idea. It was a hit and she won Grand Supreme!! I took a big plastic planter cut the bottom off, painted it and decorated it. Molded the handle out of that light … Read more
I am from Iowa and what do you think of when you think of Iowa? Corn! I was going to a costume party at my sister’s in Minneapolis and thought of a few ideas for Halloween costumes but this corn costume was a unique idea. First of all I got four egg carton bottoms and … Read more
My daughter wanted to win a costume contest and the competition for children Halloween costumes is fierce at the campground we stay at for Halloween. She decided on cotton candy and we went to work. I bought the cheapest batting I could find and dyed it pink with Rite dye. I used a clear lawn/leaf … Read more
For this costume I purchased a red sweatshirt with a hood and red sweatpants. I purchased straw colored yarn for the spaghetti and brown pom poms at a craft store. I cut the yarn in approx. the same length and applied them randomly a few pieces in each with a hot glue gun, then using … Read more
This Pez costume is very easy to make, and everybody loved it. All I did was cut arm holes out of a long box (box that Styrofoam cups came in from work). Then I taped blue poster board on the outside of it and cut out stencils of the PEZ letters. I was thinking about … Read more
The first time I saw the Sun Drop commercial I was laughing so hard! Since all my friends were telling me that I look like the girl from the commercial because of my red hair, I decided that the SunDrop girl was going to be my Halloween costume this year. It was an exclusive costume … Read more
Well wanting to be something original, and not believing in store bought costumes, my friend and I were thinking of possible costumes that would make people laugh. After some thinking and a few beers our creative juices began flowing and then… BAM, the idea struck. Duh, let’s be beers. Being from Boston, and loving beer, … Read more
My homemade Slush Puppie costume consisted of two parts: the Slush Puppie and the Slush Cup. For the first part, I needed a blue hat with a white cotton ball glued onto the top with fabric glue. I wore a blue sweatshirt with a large ‘S’ cut out of white felt and glued to the … Read more
This year I decided to make a Cupcake DIY Costume. I made the bottom out of a cardboard box that I opened up and folded accordion style and then hot glued this silver tulle to the creases. The top was made out of quilt stuffing that I cut to about 2 inches thick. Then I … Read more
Last year I had a great idea for a costume. I love to make cupcakes and was trying out different recipes, taking them to work for my co-workers to give me their opinions. I thought it would be cool to be a cupcake myself! I thought about it for a couple of days. I wanted … Read more
This costume was made for my 15 month old daughter. I wanted to make a pink and brown cupcake with sprinkles. We started with a pink fleece shirt. We live in a pretty cool climate and I wanted to make sure my little one would be warm. To the bottom we added about six to … Read more