I barely spent any money on this Homeamde Optimus Prime Halloween Costume because I had most of the materials at home. Most of the costume is made from boxes I got from work. The boots are made of soda boxes and the arm portion is tissue boxes. The grill on the main chest portion of … Read more
My boys (10 and 5 year’s old) love to play the Rock em Sock em Robot game, so what better thing to be them in real life?? They didn’t even fight over the colors! This was an inexpensive Homemade Rock Em Sock em Brothers Costumes since the majority is made out of sheets of fun … Read more
For this costume you’ll need: $13 piece of large foam board from frame shop (have them cut–see below) Two 20” x 30” foam boards from office store or variety store ($2.75 each) Foam (sponge-type) from foam or craft store (for buttons) $1.20 white spray paint for sides of buttons (if your sponge foam isn’t already … Read more
I wanted my son to stand out for Halloween and the store costumes were just not doing it for me. Then one day while I was putting away the toys I came across a Jack-In-The-Box. What a perfect costume for my son Jack!. I got out a box from moving recently and just started coloring … Read more
I decided to make this funny Halloween costume once I saw this material at Walmart for $1.00 a yard! It took two and a half yards, scissors and a sewing machine to make this funny Halloween costume. First, I doubled the material and found the center. Then I made a homemade compass made of string … Read more
I originally wanted to be a Transformer and got the idea from this website for a Halloween costume. I saw one made entirely out of foam and wanted to do something like that. While on my quest for materials I decided to use the boxy body structure of a transformer out of Styrofoam to-go boxes … Read more
Our family loves family game night and one of our favorite games to play is Monopoly. I suggested the idea to my daughter after seeing the Twister costumes in the stores. We had an old Monopoly game board with missing pieces so we put it to good use recycling the game pieces for her costume. … Read more
The homemade Lego Dude costume was an original idea sprung by my nine year old. He started making the body out of a cardboard box and was insistent that the shape was a pentagon. The Head flaps were modeled after a Guillotine and conveniently lock his head into the body of the costume. The blue … Read more
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