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
I got the idea for this Barrel of Monkeys Costume watching my daughter play with a big group of stuffed monkeys. I found a simple pattern at a local craft store and decided on using a lime green color to make her stand out from the stuffed monkeys she already had. I made the barrel … Read more
After watching GI Joe, my friend and I wanted to be the 2 ninjas in that movie so we made a Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes couple costume. Only the masks (of both characters) and weapons were purchased, everything else was homemade. The costumes were mostly made from fabric and felt paper. The sword was … Read more
I was thinking of an idea for good and original costume for this Halloween. I thought a “living dead doll” would be cool. I found some living dead dolls on the internet “real ones” but instead I preferred to create one my own imagination. Because it’s more fun this way. Why copy something, when you … Read more
I first had the idea to make the operation costume when I was playing the game with my younger brother, I then had to think how could I make it fully functional??… I’m a carpenter by trade and decided to use a sheet of 6mm MDF to draw the outline on. I wanted the costume … Read more
We decided to go out as the old and enhanced Ken and Barbie Couple Costume. We got paper towel boxes from the grocery store, cut and taped them together, then painted them. We had to paint 5 coats on the box to get it to cover good. We put bubble wrap on the underside so … Read more
Last year I finally convinced my boyfriend to dress up for Halloween. He said that he would wear whatever costume I wanted him to wear as long as I made it for him. Well, the surprise was on him. I started off by getting large boxes and Barbie ads from Toy’s R Us. I then … Read more
I plan to help out with my son’s first grade Halloween party at school and I wanted to come up with a costume that was recognizable and yet friendly. Both of my son’s love making things with Play-Doh, so the idea came pretty easily. It was also fairly easy to create the costume. I cut … Read more
First of all, I am not a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination. So, you can imagine how upset I was when my daughter, Paige, let me know that she wanted to be Mr. Potato Head for Halloween this year! My first reaction was to hit the internet! Someone had to have a costume … Read more
I made this Optimus Prime the Cartoon Version Homemade Costume mostly out of wood and cardboard, but it is much too heavy. I would recommend the use of Styrofoam next time. I made my boots out of wood on platforms with weights in them to make a rattling sound when I walk. Then I glued … Read more
Optimis Prime Lil Eric loves his transformers, especially Optimis Prime. I decided to make his Homemade Transforming Optimis Prime Costume out of cardboard. It’s everywhere and people want to get rid of it. I actually took sheets of flat cardboard and cut it to make the box shape that I wanted. There was a lot … Read more
This is 6 year old Nolan and he loves bulldozers. This homemade transforming bulldozer kids costume is based on the 10 second appearance of “Rampage” the bulldozer after Sam’s parents in Transformers 2. We started with the cab and hot glued the pieces into a pentagon. We cut out the blade and rolled the bottom … Read more