Here is the homemade pencil costume that I made for my daughter. It was made with tape. I took a base as a tube and I covered it with saran wrap to protect it from sticking to the tape. Then, I put tape, and more tape. When it was rather stiff, I removed the base … Read more
This Homemade Comic Book Pop Art Costume was inspired by Roy Lichtenstein pop art. Every year my goal is to wear a costume that’s original. I hate spending too much money on costumes sold at the store for two reasons, (1) the material is cheap, (2) 87 other people will probably be wearing it as … Read more
As I was trying to come up with costume ideas, I thought about how everyone wants to see the Mona Lisa in far away France. Why not give everyone here an opportunity?! My friend works at a museum and so she got me a box that they use to ship large paintings. I cut the … Read more
After too many years of the same tired ‘ole remakes and trashy costumes everywhere, I decided to liven things up a bit! This Roy Lichtenstein comic book Pop Art really pops to life (get it?) with this homemade ensemble. I spent hours polka-dotting myself silly and adding bold comic lines around my features. I sewed … Read more
Well it’s freshmen year of college, and it’s Halloween time. My friend and I didn’t want to be the typical nurse, French maid, or police officer that you generally see around college campuses at this time of year, so the costume brainstorming began. I was browsing some costume search engines when I came across Crayola … Read more
My roommates and I decided that we did not want to be a store bought regular costume. We bought black felt fabric and the specific colors we wanted from the local fabric store and picked up the felt and Velcro. We also printed out the name CRAYOLA from a website and used it as a … Read more
Hello! I think it is safe to say that I came up with the idea for this costume as I was sitting in my cubicle at work, and I do not think that I need to further elaborate on the creative thought associated with how I came up with the idea. I was stapling paper, … Read more
My roommates and I planned on going out more than once for Halloween and needed a cheap costume we could make! We wanted to do a group thing and I got the idea for a Crayon DIY Group Costume from my cousin. We bought felt in the color we wanted to be, plus black for … Read more
We made this Homemade Crayola Costume for our daughter. We used a television box, paints and 99 cent store crayola piggy banks for the crayons. We added some pictures. My daughter won first prize at one party and many people loved her costume! Of note…we had her arms on top because the box was to … Read more
This crayon Halloween costume was really simple. The materials used to make this box of crayons costume were: hot glue gun and glue sticks, several large cardboard cores or tubes (like the middle of a paper towel roll or other larger roll of some sort), cardboard pieces, cardboard box that is the desired size and … Read more
This was by far my favorite Halloween costume. Ever. I think everyone I encountered loved it as much, some even more than me! I was inspired to make the Comic Girl Dress from the MAC makeup POW! Halloween look, which I used as my makeup for the night. To make the dress, I started off … Read more
This homemade Elmer’s glue costume was fairly simple to make and pretty cheap. My husband came up with the idea and I created it. First we bought some extra large white sweat pants from Walmart and an extra large t-shirt. We also bought a bright orange toboggan hat and a piece of sticky white felt … Read more