I love the creativity that goes into making a costume! And the satisfaction of saving money when doing so! The paper doll costumes I made for my baby girl and I cost a total of THREE dollars!!! I was inspired by a large cardboard box in our garage that was about to go into the … Read more
We always have a family theme to the costumes, and this year was Mr. Potato Head Family Costume. I spent a lot of time getting tips from this site, so here is the result! The potato bodies are big burlap bags from an online gardening store. The burlap was itchy, so we sewed a white … Read more
Being a big man it is hard to find unique costumes for my husband. My son really loved Transformers and wanted Daddy to be Optimus Prime. So I put this Homemade Optimus Prime Halloween Costume together for him. It turned out so good that people stopped us in the middle of the street so they … Read more
This a Homemade Rockem Sockem Robots Costume. It is made out of cardboard and hot glue. It took two weeks to build both, about 10 hours a piece. I didn’t have any real plans to make the costume, I just downloaded a bunch of Rockem Sockem robot pictures from the internet and looked at them … Read more
Me and my girls decided to dress up like trolls this year, but with clothes, so we used the craziest clothes in our closet. More important than the costume is the hair cause it tells the people you are trolls, so we bought each one a different temporary color hair spray, $2 each, and with … Read more
We made this Jack in the box costume for my son about 5 years ago. We started off with a box. We painted it gold and then decoupaged (glued over) a printed picture of a Jack-in-the-Box. I drew the curtain and then I used star stickers to add effect. We found a gold rope and … Read more
We made these costumes for our 2 year old twins. The red hair on our son is made of red yarn that we sewed onto the inside of the sailor hat. The same yarn was used to make the bows for our daughter. The rest of the doll costumes were made from scratch or modified … Read more
This is my daughter Belle. She is 4 years old. She loves to dance and loves jewelry so what a great combination Materials: Cardboard boxes, felt, plastic jewelry, knobs, elastic, silver cake board, glue gun 1 cute little dancer with big cheesy smile. Instructions: Cut out box and add tall piece for the back. Cover … Read more
This Lego Zombie costume was a lot of fun to make! It consists of poster board, cardboard, box tape, glue, and bug screen for the mouth. I incorporated many different Lego costumes into my original idea. I would have to say that the most challenging part to make was the Lego hand. Once I figured … Read more
I purchased a Disney Sharpay doll for my daughter when she said that she wanted to be a Barbie in a box. She already had the costume just needed the box. I purchased a wardrobe box at Home Depot for about $10, red spray paint, some cute wrapping paper clear vinyl at Walmart. For this … Read more
We were all going to on a Halloween camping trip and went as a themed family. Gameboards! My 2 year old daughter was had a Candy Land Costume. Since she’s so small I cut a piece a of poster board in half, then trimmed the edges to make it a little smaller for her. Then … Read more
This is my version of an awesome Lego pirate costume. The costume is constructed of only 3 types of cardboard (posterboard, thick cardboard, and thin cardboard), the only thing that is not recyclable is the mouth. It is cloth so I can see out of it. That makes this Lego Pirate Costume 99% recyclable. I … Read more