This year’s costumes were inspired by a recent Super Bowl commercial where a life sized sock monkey was driving a Kia SUV. I started this Homemade Sock Monkey Family Costume by finding a textured upholstery fabric for the bodies and heads. The store I purchased it from only had 4 yards of it and that … Read more
Operation is a great game. It teaches kids hand / eye coordination as well as the extreme anxiety and nerve-rattling paranoia that comes with being a real doctor. Plus it lights up and makes cool sounds. It has it all. So when Jolene told me she wanted to be a Scrabble board for Halloween this … Read more
A casino that we often go to was holding a costume contest and the grand prize was a thousand dollars. I was pregnant at the time so we wanted to come up with something original, not the same ol “bun in the oven” thing. So my husband is very crafty and he came up with … Read more
There have been many people who have gone as Lego people, but we wanted to do something that, to our knowledge, has never been done before. After thinking of the many different types of Lego themes, we decided on Lego Batman characters! And so, after brainstorming on how to actually accomplish this feat, we began … Read more
I decided to make my daughter a Baby Cabbage Patch costume because so many people say she looks like a doll! I got the idea, from another submitted costume, to put the box around the stroller so it could be taken out for trick or treating. We took a box and fit it to the … Read more
This is a picture of my friends and I in our 2008 Tetris Halloween costumes. We took one-and-one-half foot by one-and-one-half foot boxes and wrapped them with different colors of wrapping paper like in the game Tetris. We tried to match the colors accordingly. Then we formed shapes with the many boxes to make Tetris … Read more
This cool LEGO minifigures group costume was inspired by a Lego Chef minifigure found in a local store. Time Spent These five Lego Minifigures costumes were created in about 40-50 hours of work. Materials Materials used were a little more than foam, cardboard and poster board. Creating our LEGO Minifigures Group Costume First, detailed measurements … Read more
This Mini Homemade Baby Lego Costume is my 3 month old grandson’s first Halloween Costume. He placed 1st and 3rd in two different contests. We used foam, dyed it blue and cut out the different pieces to shape it like a Lego. We used hot glue to add the dots on to the solid rectangle … Read more
More than meets the eye! – that’s what I wanted to be this Halloween. This year I decided to make my own Homemade Bumblebee Transformer Costume, an Autobot and to be specific, I wanted to be Bumble Bee. At first it was a great idea but as the building process started it seemed to get … Read more
I was a huge fan of the board game, Battleship from when I was younger. I decided to re-create the game for my Halloween costume this year. To make this Homemade Battleship Board Game Costume I used black foam poster-board type material to create two board game pieces. I cut interlocking pieces and used krazy … Read more
G.I. Joe & Barbie In a Box were our cool homemade costumes this year. The first challenge was finding boxes. We looked at local appliance stores etc to see if they had any leftover appliance boxes. They recycle them too quickly, so we were out of luck there. We decided to just buy the boxes. … Read more
We created this Cabbage Patch Doll stroller costume for our 5 month old baby. She looks just like a cabbage patch doll. Materials used: Home Depot cardboard box, poster paper, glue, tape, 3d flowers, transparent paper for the logo and designs on box, scissors, green felt for the interior, old navy and gap clothing. We … Read more