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