After searching everywhere for a great costume for my twin 8-year old boys, I was very fortunate and found coolest-homemade-costumes.com. I was thrilled at seeing so many creative and original ideas and our family was inspired to make our own. We enjoyed many of the costumes shown here, but decided to go with a homemade … Read more
From start to finsih this Homemade Optimus Prime Costume took me over 6 weeks to complete. Its the first major costume I’ve ever made…but in doing so has inspired me to make more. Using some ideas online I made the decision to make the Optimus Prime from the 80’s, he just had that really old … Read more
This year we decided to be the Potato Head Family (Mr. Potato Head, Rockstar Spud, Princess Spud & Mrs. Potato Head). It ended up being a big hit and the little kids Trick or Treating wanted to meet Mr and Mrs Potato Head =). I purchased 2 yards of brown felt per costume for the … Read more
After searching the web for costume ideas, we decided to be Mr. and Mrs. Potato head… We started by using a pattern for a bumble bee costume. We altered the pattern slightly to remove the bee stinger and head. After sewing the costume together we stuffed them to make them big and round. We made … Read more
There are a few transforming costume designs out there, but it seems like they usually just settle for the idea that any arrangement of pieces that looks like a car or truck when it is on the ground is good enough. My goal was to build a costume accurate to the design of Optimus Prime … Read more
I wanted to be creative and my son loves Play-Doh. It was actually his idea. So we began by buying a bucket that we spray-painted yellow. The bucket was also primered first. I cut the emblem out of felt and attached it to the bucket. I changed the weight to whatever each child weighed. I … Read more
This homemade Troll Doll costume was super easy and comfortable! I ordered the nude-colored body suit from American Apparel for $35. I bought pink sticky paper for the diamond shape and then hot-glued a gem to the sticky paper. In order to get my hair up so high, I put a Figi water bottle on … Read more
My son had a Jester costume for trick or treat this year but I decided why not make him look like a Jack in the Box instead of a plain Jester. So I ran around to lots of stores and finally found the right shape box to to fit my 8 year old son. His … Read more
This is a completely homemade mad scientist Lego man costume made as close to scale as possible. The materials used are primarily cardboard and Styrofoam. The paint job is made to look exactly like the mad scientist Lego minifig from a collection. The mouth is made from black panty hose such that I can see … Read more
I came up with this Lego costume for my two year old. I found things around my husbands shop, put it together and then my brother in law painted it for me. I think I did pretty good. This year I am making my son a robot from things around my husbands shop again!
I spent about three weeks making my Homemade Giant Lego Man Costume which stands just over 7 feet tall. I used a lot of cardboard and had to do some creative thinking to get everything to work out. I used cement pillar forms for the arms and hands. To get the right curvature for the … Read more