This year I decided to do something different. So I decided to make individual Crayola Box Halloween Costumes. I used boxes that were big enough to fit over the boys shoulders. Then I found the poster boards from Micheals and Hobby Lobby. I used felt and construction paper to wrap around small cups to make … Read more
This Homemade Screw or Bolt Costume is my father, Todd. Every year he makes an original costume from scratch. He decided to be a BOLT. He used a remnant piece of metal coil tubing from a construction site (I believe it is part of the air conditioning system) and he made hexagon part by taping … Read more
Halloween 2007 was my first year of college. I’m not all about the buying super expensive costumes that cover up about the same as a bathing suit. This is for two main reasons: 1. I don’t want to spend a ton of money on a one night or maybe one weekend outfit and 2. I … Read more
I got the bright idea of a Crayola crayons Halloween costume. My friends and I could get as many people together as we wanted or just rock the costumes ourselves! Had so much fun with my best friends/roommate in these costumes and got SO many compliments! The perfect costume for all ages and sizes! After … Read more
This is a picture of the woman in the Roy Lichtenstein painting as an actual comic book character. For this homemade Roy Lichtenstein comic girl costume I purchased a yellow wig and painted black lines in it. I also purchased white stockings and painted polka dots on it. The earrings I made out of cellophane … Read more
Both of my children wanted to be crayons this year for Halloween. To make a fairly inexpensive, Homemade No Sew Child Crayon Halloween Costume, try this: Measure your child just under the arms all the way around, add 2″ for extra spacing. Add 1 yard to cover matching cone hat. Cut colored fleece fabric to … Read more
This Spray Paint Can Costume is all homemade, took a long time to make. Daddy loved the idea of the old school spray paint. It has every detail all the way down to the numbers under the bar code. A lot of love and patience went into to making this costume. We hope you love … Read more
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