I was taken back for the first time when my son expressed his desire to be a volcano for Halloween since we had been planning a Tie Fighter Costume for a while. I decided to do both since it couldn’t hurt to have two finished costumes and I had all the materials. The Homemade Little … Read more
I began this Dinosaur Costume with a dinosaur mask that I got from the Children’s Museum. Using black foam core I attached a long spiky, bumpy tail. The wonderful thing about foam core is that you can create bumps with heat, can paint it, and can glue onto it. Around the shoulders are more spikes … Read more
I spent 2 nights sewing this Velociraptor Costume. I knew I wanted to be a dinosaur for a while. My roommate Sean and I even practiced dino poses in our spare time. (I think it all started with an intense love for Barney and Jurassic Park.) I found a pattern for a awesome kangaroo costume … Read more
Here is my Homemade T-Rex Halloween Costume Idea I made for Halloween 2010. I was inspired to make it after watching a “walk with the dinosaurs” exhibit presentation on YouTube and thought to myself, “I could make that.” He was a big hit on Halloween. My nieces and nephews loved walking next to a giant … Read more
This was the best Halloween costume I have made. You will need for the Cave Man Family: Animal Print Fabric, plastic bones (variety of sizes 3), Plastic Bone Jewelry (necklaces bracelets), some sort of clothing for underneath your animal print shift (shorts and T-shirts leggings or tights- whatever you have in the closet that works!), … Read more
RAWR! This year I decided to be a dinosaur for Halloween so I could spend the entire night RAWRING! I didn’t buy a single thing to make this Woman’s T-Rex Dinosaur Costume but instead had it lying around the house. Step one: to make the shape of the mouth I used a plastic container, the … Read more
This home sewn dinosaur costume was made for my 6 year old son. It consists of a jumpsuit as a body and a head constructed of cloth and cardboard fitted for the child’s head to be looking out through an open mouth. The body is a simple one piece jumpsuit style easily adapted from any … Read more
This year I decided to build a velociraptor from Jurassic Park. I wanted it to be life-sized (in the movie it’s 12 and a half feet long); it would be my most ambitiously difficult Halloween costume yet. Shortly after last Halloween, I settled on the male raptor design from Jurassic Park 3 (it would be … Read more
We decided to make the Pebbles & Bam Bam costume because we had purchased the Fred & Wilma costumes and what better way to finish off but with Pebbles & Bam Bam. The only things I had to purchase was the leopard print material and the white felt for the bone. The bat we already … Read more
My son is really into Dinosaurs and wanted to be a Velociraptor. So with a lot of imagination I came up with this costume. The head is made from plastic canvas that I cut and sewed together to get the basic shape of the dinosaur costume head. I then used paper mache to form the … Read more
I wanted an original and cheap Halloween costume for my daughter Abby that would wear well for her many parties and outings with friends. We were watching a TV show one night about volcanoes and my daughter said “that is so cool!” Bingo! I said “hey, how would you like to be a volcano?” to … Read more
My four year son was obsessed with T-Rex’s last year, so Mom had to deliver! I made his T-Rex head out of a children’s plastic fire fighters helmet. I turned it around and started shaping the head from cut up cereal boxes and masking tape. I glued on the fabric with carpenters glue and plastered … Read more