This Ant at Picnic costume was a fun and very easy costume to make. My daughter was a lady bug and I needed something to go with it so an ant at a picnic was perfect. First, you purchase all of your materials – foam board, red and white table cloth, black pipe cleaners, black … Read more
I decided to go as a Can of Worms for Halloween. To get started you will need 3 to 4 pairs of panty hose, two hula hoops, silver material, white and black paint, googly eyes, stuffing and rope. First cut the legs off of the panty hose and then stuff them with pillow stuffing and tie … Read more
This baby Scarecrow costume was an extremely last minute costume! In total I think it took me about 45 minutes to make. And I made it Halloween morning! I already had a pair of overalls. I cut out some different colored pieces of felt in square and triangle patterns and sewed them onto the overalls … Read more
This Gnomes on a Toadstool costume was the most time consuming project I have ever attempted. The only 2 items that were bought were the tights and the boy gnome’s mask. The fabric only started as fleece that I stiffened and hand sewed (I do not own a sewing machine). My legs were made by duct … Read more
This is a baby gnome costume I made for my son, Max, who is six months old. I wanted to make his first Halloween special by making him a unique costume that we would all remember forever! After a lot of brainstorming my husband and I agreed that a gnome would be the perfect choice. … Read more
To create the head of my tree costume I used a hat which I wrapped in flower foam and taped in place using packaging tape. I wrapped the foam hat with burlap and then sewed a burlap mask around the perimeter which hangs down to my shoulders. I cut a face hole in the front … Read more
Last year, my family went to watch “Gnomeo & Juliet” and I immediately knew what I wanted to be for Halloween. For weeks, I worked on getting my straight laced, super uptight husband to agree to be “Joe-meo & Julia-et,” a play on our names. Somehow, I managed to convince him to go along for … Read more
My 6-yr old son had to dress up as his favorite book character for the School Book Day and his all time favorite book is Wizard of Oz. Initially he wanted to be the Tin Soldier, but I convinced him that the Scarecrow will be easier to wear through the day. I bought a new … Read more
This is my Butterfly Catcher in disguise costume. I bought the top and bottom. The big butterfly was already on there so I created it from there. Everything else was painted on. For details I added ladybugs and used string cord for cocoons. My daughter made butterfly clothespin with tissue paper, pipe cleaners, markers and paint. … Read more
In keeping with the nature theme, our daughter dressed as a flower the year, our son dressed as an apple tree! To put together the flower costume, my mom made a tutu out of green tulle. She basically gathered the tulle and sewed it to some elastic (there are lots of tutorials online with various … Read more
My son has been very creative at coming up with costumes. One year he really wanted to be an apple tree, so we did our best to oblige and this is our Apple Tree child costume i.dea We took a large piece of cardboard and cut out the shape of a tree, wrapping the trunk … Read more
I decided to dress my baby up for Halloween last minute. We had most of the items to make this baby Scarecrow costume, so it probably cost less than $5. It’s pretty self-explanatory, but to create this costume, you need a flannel shirt, overalls, hat, tape, raffia, red lipstick, and a black eyeliner pencil. I … Read more