I love having coordinating costumes, and especially homemade ones, for our two children. Though as they get older, I know my chances of this continuing will soon come to an end. But for now, we are having fun! The first year they were Dorothy and the Tin Man. Last year, they were a Firefighter and … Read more
The homemade fire hydrant Halloween costume was a lot of fun to make. I started by purchasing 1 1/2 yards red felt, 1 yard of a darker red colored material, and some bendable wire at Wal-Mart. I had a lady sew casing to the top and bottom of the felt piece and then I fed … Read more
I was so excited when my 3 year old son said he wanted to be a fireman for Halloween. So, I got to work researching how I would make this all happen. After Googling ideas for making a fire truck, I stumbled upon this website. After looking at some of the submitted pictures for homemade … Read more
My son loves to come up with crazy ideas for Halloween costumes, and we love figuring out how to make them. So when he told us he wanted to be a fire hydrant, we were excited about the challenge. Using a concrete form for the body, layers of foam board for the hat and nozzles, … Read more
My son got a battery-powered 4 wheeler for his birthday last year, so this Halloween we decided to turn it into a fire truck so he could drive it in our town’s Halloween parade. We found photos of a Seagrave fire truck online (our last name is Segrave-Daly) and used them for my design. I … Read more
Our son Matthew (5) needed new rain boots for school. My wife took him shopping, and they came home from the store with the black and red fireman boots. He said to me “Daddy. I want to be a fireman for Halloween”, and so our plans were made. The costume combination had to be such … Read more
Using foam core and brick contact paper, I created a building wall where it meets the sidewalk, including a sidewalk all the way to the curb (always overly ambitious, I also built part of the street with the drain and the manhole cover, but those had to be cut from the costume due to size … Read more