This homemade Sock Monkey Halloween costume idea was not made for any one in my family. I heard through the grape vine that a friend of a friend was married to a member of the Army Reserve who has recently returned from his second deployment. Then she told me he wanted to attend a masquerade … Read more
My 8 year old son loves his Wii so why not transform him into a Wii remote? He has never been so excited for Halloween! For his Wii Remote Costume I used 4, 20 x 30 foam core board and white duct tape. The sides are white cardboard. The sizes are custom to his frame … Read more
I decided to be a Russ-style troll doll from the ’80’s and ’90’s. I knew it couldn’t be too difficult and the biggest decisions to make were what color theme to choose and whether I wanted to be a classic “naked” troll or one that had a bigger or specific theme. First I bought a … Read more
My Homemade Toy Store Costume design is for a human toy store. That’s right, not a knock-off of Toy Story the movie, but rather an actual toy store on wheels…er…feet. Take a look. I hope you like my entry! While I have uploaded some photos, I am most proud of the home video I made … 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 doll in the box costume my daughter and I made last year for her. We used an old baby type costume(baby dress and bonnet)to start with. She wore this outfit and we added rosy cheeks and a piece of string for people to pull and then she would say “mama”. We took an old … Read more
My husband and I wanted a couples costume this Halloween and we thought of this Homemade Barbie and Ken Couple Costume. I cut out boxes to resemble the Barbie boxes; pink paper was used for the covering, some decoration was added to the outside of the box and,of course, the names Ken and Barbie were … Read more