My husband and I decided to be Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head for a costume party that we attended for Halloween this year. For the bodies of the costumes I purchased tan felt. I then used a t-shirt of mine and his to use as a pattern to mark where the neck area and arm … Read more
My child wanted to be a Transformer that transformed. After doing a lot of research and trying different ideas we came up with this Bumblebee Transformer Halloween Costume. We used this idea, because of how young our son is; we did not want anything attached to his arms. We took a box that fitted the … Read more
This DIY Little Bo Peep Halloween Costume was VERY simple to make! All we used for the body was panels of cut cardboard (4 in a potato-like shape and 4 for the side panels) and various colors of felt for the body details. We wore white long sleeve shirts and bought two cheap pairs of … Read more
This is 8 year old Branson in his homemade Optimus Prime kids costume. We started printing all kinds of pictures of Optimus Prime. First we started with the sleeper and the cab. We rolled the cardboard so that the sleeper would be round. Then cut out the other pieces and hot glued them all together. … Read more
Mattel recently came out with a reproduction of the 1964 version of this toy & my boys love playing with it as much as my husband & I did when we were kids. We all agreed the Rock’em Sock’em Robots DIY couple Halloween costume idea would be great for Halloween! I actually got some ideas … Read more
This Homemade Transformer Tank Halloween Costume Idea took nearly twenty hours of work to make. It was inspired by viewing many attempts of Transformer costumes online. I decided I wanted to be able to keep it simple and functional at the same time and still look as real as possible. This costume was built twice. … Read more
With a family of 6, McDonalds is just a part of dinner at least once week! As I sat in the drive thru, I realized I had the idea for this years costumes, a Homemade McDonalds Monopoly Couple DIY Costume. I purchased several clothing items from the local Goodwill and Salvation Army, made my own … Read more
My mother made this costume for my daughter’s first Halloween. I always make homemade Halloween costumes for the kids’ and I like their costumes to be relevant to them. Since she was too young to have a favorite character we made her into her doll. We used pink fleece to make a jumper then added … Read more
(Editor’s note: We decided to put this costume in the Transformer’s category although it was called “Armor of God” by its creator). I made this Halloween costume entirely out of ‘WASTE FOAM” from appliance boxes. It was a project for our Church and I wanted to be a bit more creative than an “Angel” or … Read more
I’ve always wanted to make the illusion type riding or piggyback costumes. My boys were not interested. They wanted Lego costumes after seeing last years winners. The problem making Lego costumes to scale is they are shorter and wider and my boys are taller and thinner. I didn’t want them so bulky that they couldn’t … Read more
Three years ago, I told my son, Nicholas, that he could be anything he wanted for Halloween. All he had to do was show me a picture of the character he wanted to be and I would make the costume for him. Being a huge fan of Lego, Nicholas chose to be a Lego Bionicle … Read more
We needed to come up with an idea for family Halloween costumes that were “disability friendly”…so our Homemade Lego Family Halloween Costume idea was born! But not just plain Lego’s, some of our Lego’s have a little flair to them. Our daughter’s stroller is a bunch of Lego’s together, using all of our colors. Our … Read more