I have always made my kids’ costumes myself. This year, I got the idea from his favorite movie “Toy Story”, deciding to dress him up as Mr. Potato Head!! It was a fun project. All of the pieces are Velcro so you can change the face as you would on the toy. Everything is stuffed … Read more
I made this Homemade Transformers Optimus Prime Costume with nothing but beer boxes, beer cans, and hot glue. I looked at a picture of Optimus Prime to make the helmet and get the wings on the helmet to the correct angle. I won best costume at a Halloween party for the first time in my … Read more
I have always loved Raggedy Ann even as a little girl. I decided to make the Raggedy Ann costume from just going to a thrift store and picking up a few things needed to make this costume. I bought a blouse that resembled the dress she wears with the blue flower design, a skirt that … Read more
Resurrected straight from the 90s the button nose big eared, “naked”, gem bearing, straight up funky colored hair doll walks the night in 2009! I was up since 8 am in this Homemade Evil Troll Doll Halloween Costume, at work to a party! Everyone knew what I was right I away, I got mixed ideas … Read more
Since everyone is afraid of clowns, I decided to make a giant, scary, Homemade Scary Jack in the Box Costume. The box is just a frame that is surrounded in material. It also has wheels for portability. Jack (me) can stand up high in the box on stands inside or go down low in the … Read more
I was going to be a Rubik’s cube so I went to Wall-mart and got my supplies but as I stood in line I watched the DVD menu for the new Transformer movie. The menu basically revolved around the glowing all spark and I thought to myself, forget Rubik and his cube, let’s have a … Read more
This years Halloween costume is a fusion of not wanting to miss out on a chance to be a slutty playboy bunny and a childhood love of all things Lego, this is what is called dorky hot, or so I’m told. This was also an excellent compromise for work appropriate sexy costume. Construction was a … Read more
When my boyfriend and I arrived at the Halloween Party in these costumes, the crowd went NUTS with cheering and applause! There were probably 400-500 people at this party, and we might have known 50 of them. Total strangers swarmed us, followed us around and told us these were the best Halloween costumes they’d ever … Read more
The Homemade Lego Man Halloween Costume in the submitted photograph is of course a LEGO minifig. I made this LEGO MAN Halloween costume for my 8 year old stepson and it was a huge hit with everyone. It took me close to 2 weeks to complete the entire costume… but it was well worth the … Read more
The Homemade Lego Pirate Costume was completely homemade for under $50. It includes the head, chest piece, a hand stitched glove, hook, sword, and leg pieces. In all, took about 2 weeks to make. I based the costume off of the Lego pirate minifigure I had at my house. The head started with insulation foam, … Read more
So ‘round about August of this year, my 5 year old son declared he wanted to be Clutch Powers for Halloween. For those not in the know, Clutch is the Indiana Jones-esque main character from the somewhat new Lego animated feature DVD. So a Lego minifig costume, cool idea I thought. Since we usually do … Read more