Every year my friends an I do the best to hand make our costumes and to do what we can to make them top the year before! Most items are found and put together to create costumes, we’ve never had to buy them which is quite the feat if I may say so! Our favorite … Read more
Being a college student, it is hard to buy a Halloween costume because of money or even come up with an original idea! A mixture of MacDonald’s Monopoly and playing Monopoly as a child inspired the idea of being part of the game for Halloween! All needed to make this cute Monopoly Playing Cards DIY … Read more
This is my Operation Game costume. It was so fun to make. All the pieces are removable and interactive. I had such a good time bringing it to work and showing all my peers. I work in an environment where everyone gets crazy with their costumes and this year I went all out. First I … Read more
I love Halloween. Although other people may be able to pull off costumes that are seen and done on a yearly basis, I like to go away from the norm and have an original costume. Every year I pride myself with coming up with a new and fun idea for a costume. This year I … Read more
Well, last year I made an Ipod for my son. It ended being a “real working” Ipod if you will with music and a back-lit screen. He and everyone else thought it was the coolest costume ever so the bar was raised for this year! As we were thinking of ideas we thought of board … Read more
Who doesn’t remember everyone’s favorite childhood game- Candyland? My best friend and I wanted to be our favorite characters from the game, which meant getting creative to come up with the Homemade Queen Frostine and Princess Lolly from Candyland Couple Costumes (since these are not costumes you can find in any store.) For my costume, … Read more
Mr. Monopoly Costume, EASY and genius! A black pair of trousers, blazer and waistcoat were bought from the Thrift store. The white shirt was ours. A black plastic hat $1. A Monopoly board was also bought from the Thrift store, the pieces were hot glued on as though there was a game in process. A … Read more
As I was searching for inspiration for a Halloween costume I came across costume ideas that were based around board games. Although a fun reference, it was not exactly what I was looking for. Instead, I took the board game idea to the next level and made it interactive. I used an old white dress … Read more
We created a homemade Twister group Halloween costume, one person in each color of the game. We each purchased one board game. We took the actual flimsy mat of the game and made dresses. This was a little tough, because they rip easily. We cut holes for the head and arms and then made them … Read more
This gameboard Halloween costume is a real working operation game. It took a lot of time but I was very please with the outcome of it. I took a cut out of my upper body made out of cardboard and set up the boxes (which are made out of aluminum baking pans) cut holes in … Read more
My boyfriend wanted to be the “Monopoly Man” or Rich Uncle Pennybags from the board game Monopoly for Halloween. He bought a secondhand tuxedo suit for $30, a cane for $5 at a local Halloween store and we made out our own Monopoly money (you can actually download a patten to print out on color … Read more
Our family loves to play board games…so the twins (Paige and Heather) decided to dress as their favorite family game,”TWISTER” The Twister Twins Costume was made with polka dot material. We cut out dresses for both girls. We then cut out four circles (red, blue, green, and yellow) and the word “Twister” and hot glued … Read more