This year at Halloween me and my friend Bianca wanted a cool and original costume that would blow everyone’s minds away at school so we decide to be Giant Pencils. The School Pencil Costume took us one day each to make and took I think eleven poster boards to make it (The kind you can … Read more
The way we came up with the free Halloween costume idea was my partner at work. She was talking to someone about the painting “American Gothic”. She then started thinking that it would make a killer costume if it were done correctly. We spent a week planning out the boxes and how we were going … Read more
We love the painting by Grant Wood, American Gothic, so we did our own little version of a Homemade American Gothic Painting Costume. Found some farmer clothes, made a old house and added a pitchfork and viola.
We grabbed some fabric, made up a pattern for a simple dress, used puffy paint to paint on the dresses. For the hats we used a simple party hat and incorporated all of our colors and glued the fabric on the hats. This was such an easy DIY Crayon Group Halloween Costume.
The Mona Lisa costume was from a long black dress that I bought at the Salvation Army for $5, and I made the alterations necessaries with more black fabric for it to look like the 16th century and more Mona Lisa like, the frame is cardboard with a gold fabric I had at home. Makeup … Read more
I chose to do American Gothic because this has been one of my favorite paintings since childhood; this was also my first try at being two characters at once. I created the image on a large format printer and mounted it on foam core, using packaging tape. I then printed a second version out and, … Read more
This is a group of seventeen college students from Wichita, KS. We are dressed up as Crayola crayons (ladies) and markers (boys). Each person made their own costumes to reflect their personality. I , Rusty (the Pink Crayola), came up with this idea, and we planned and began the creative process in early September. The … Read more
Basically I’ve loved the idea of Crayola costumes for about a year because I saw someone else do the same thing. I didn’t really plan on going ahead with the idea until a few weeks before my 18th birthday. I started to search the internet as you do and came across this website which gave … Read more
This Homemade Crayola Crayon Costume is made using a hula hoop as a base with red and black PVC, a stapler, a glue gun and LOTS of hot glue. I used PVC as it was for an outdoor festival where rain may have ruined a costume. To start I cut the red PVC to fit … Read more
I had a couple of ideas this year about what I wanted to be for Halloween, and I decided on the Elmer’s Glue because it was the most cost effective. I also wanted something that was going to be easy to wear because I was going to be in a crowded bar for the night. … Read more
Me and eight of my girfriends decided on a Homemade Crayons Costume for Halloween. We each chose the color we wanted to be. I actually made all of the costumes for the girls as well as acquired all of the accessories. I got plain white long tank dresses and dyed them. Then I used felt … Read more
These Crayola Crayon costumes were made entirely by 3 university students. We borrowed a sewing machine from friends of ours and made 3 dresses in different colours. We then bought black felt and cut out strips to create the squiggles. We cut out an oval and cut the crayola sign out of it. We glued … Read more