Using photos of an actual sock monkey for inspiration, this Homemade Sock Monkey Halloween Costume is made out of two women’s long sleeve shirts. For the body of the costume I used a shirt that was a few inches past crotch level in length. I cut the sleeves off a larger shirt and sewed them … Read more
Coolest Homemade Pillow Pet Costume Idea – “Snuggle Puppy”. My six year old loved wearing his pillow pet for Halloween. It was a fun play on a popular kids plush toy, quite easy to make and he now uses it as a pillow in his room. One hug from this pillow pet and you will … Read more
My son totes around a blanket bear / woobie / lovey around everywhere he goes. So I decided to make him a Homemade Blanket Bear Costume because he loves it so much. This is a half homemade costume and half store bought costume. The Body and head are actually a full body Care Bears Grumpy … Read more
I borrowed the Troll idea from this awesome website! We were a big hit (it was just a tad cold though). We bought long sleeve leotards and tights (nude) from a Discount Dance store, got the colored hair spray and elf ears from a Halloween store, and the jewel is made from glitter foam from … Read more
Last year my 5 year old son was all about Mr. Potato Head and that is all he would play with so it was only fitting to let him be a “taterhead” for Halloween. So for the Mr. Potato Head costume I found two small brown fleece blankets. I cut them out about twice the … Read more
When first beginning my search for the most AWESOME Halloween costume ever created, I wanted to pick something I’ve always loved… this lead to my childhood amore for Transformers which eventually became my love for Magnus Opus or Optimus Prime to be exact. Once I had the idea I shared it with my family and … Read more
My Sister and I always dress up together for Halloween and this year had a hard time coming up with something to go as. We finally decided on a Paper Dolls Couple Costume. We used card board for the dresses and traced our bodies to make the shape for the dress & for the tabs. … Read more
My costume is specifically the light blue square Tetris, out of all five of us. My friends and I decided to be the Tetris pieces after seeing a picture of another group of Tetris people online. For the homemade Tetris costume we used cardboard boxes for the base of the shapes, solid color wrapping paper … Read more
My son Gavin LOVES Optimus Prime so my husband and I made this Optimus Prime Wheelchair costume to fit over his wheelchair. It was a lot of work but totally worth it when we saw the look on his face!!
Materials used for this Homemade Wind-Up Toy Nutckracker Soldier Costume: Hot glue gun, needle+thread, duct tape, musical mechanism from my jewelry box, thinnest plywood available, wooden dowel, gold or silver spray paint, drill with tiny drill bit, heavy duty wood glue, approx 1 1/2 inch foam – can pull from a pillow, or find in … Read more
The idea for this Halloween costume started as a huge fan of the Transformers series and a bigger fan of well done on-screen special effects. This character is one to admire as well as a challenge to duplicate. The entire costume is hand cut from cardboard. It was broken down to six main pieces, the … Read more
We love Legos at our house. My son came up with the idea of being a Lego minifigure. After some research, and finding this website, I agreed to make it! He chose a Homemade Lego Frankenstein Costume. The body and legs are made out of cardboard, covered in brown paper. Head is made out of … Read more