Our family loves family game night and one of our favorite games to play is Monopoly. I suggested the idea to my daughter after seeing the Twister costumes in the stores. We had an old Monopoly game board with missing pieces so we put it to good use recycling the game pieces for her costume. … Read more
Our whole family went camping the weekend before Halloween and we were a themed family. Boardgames. Here is my Monopoly Game Costume. First I drew everything on a plain white poster board, then used packing tape to tape it to a large piece of cardboard and cut off the extra and left about an inch … Read more
Who says Halloween is just an excuse for girls to dress up in the skimpiest costumes? Not me and my sister! Every year we try to come up with something we’ve never seen before so last Halloween we decided we would be Snakes and Ladders and Chess! It took a while making the board games … Read more
I thought about what childhood game could I make into a costume. Operation Game! I started by making a wooden box. I then cut out all of the holes for the different pieces. I cut out of light weight metal a smaller version of the hole in the wood. I then made fiberglass bowls in … Read more
Monopoly is my favorite game ever! Really I collect monopoly boards. So I decided to be the “Monopoly girl” coming out of the board. I got a piece of cardboard and cut an oval hole out of the center. Then cut the back so I could get in and out of the board. Driving and … Read more
With a family of 6, McDonalds is just a part of dinner at least once week! As I sat in the drive thru, I realized I had the idea for this years costumes, a Homemade McDonalds Monopoly Couple DIY Costume. I purchased several clothing items from the local Goodwill and Salvation Army, made my own … Read more
This Gameboards Halloween costume kind of twisted itself together over time. I came up with the idea at a garage sale this summer where someone was selling two Twister games. I started to collect white clothing (that none dare wear after Labor day) from my closet and from friends closets. I had intended to color … Read more
After much thought and contemplation, I finally fell in love with the idea of dressing up as Mr. Monopoly. I have a thing for wearing fake mustaches, so I think that had to be my favorite part to the whole costume. I started by searching Google images of Mr. Monopoly. I found that he wears … Read more
My family wanted good Halloween costume ideas. We love monopoly so why not make our Halloween costume into our favorite game. We wanted it to be Halloween related so we added scary props and named it Hauntedopoly. It started out with a recycled costume (a few years ago I was an ace of spade) so … Read more
When my son said he wanted to be a board game for Halloween, I admit, I thought he was crazy! What I didn’t know is how awesome it would be and how much everyone would LOVE it! Supplies for Uncle Pennybags Monopoly Man Costume: * 1/2 in. 4 ft. x 8 ft. Foam Insulating Sheathing … Read more
Two weeks in the making it was inspired by the original created by Felix Jung in 2004 and somewhat by Jack W. Bell’s take in 2005 I took it upon myself to reproduce it this year with the addition of the mask and light up nose hence the “Take 3”. It even has its own … Read more