The idea for the Green Toy Soldiers: Driving back from Disneyland we decided we really wanted to dress up as the army men from Toy Story. We wanted to make it as authentic as we could so Googled lots of peoples ideas and found ideas.coolest-homemade-costumes.com After lots of searching we found old army jackets and … Read more
Buy all the supplies, garbage bags, Dollar store old shirt, pants and boots fatigues if you can find them. Cut trash bags same shape as shirt and pants, spray, adhesive them to clothing. PVC pipe is most expensive piece, cut to what size you want. Buy green spray paint in the same green face paint … Read more
Wanted to do an awesome homemade Little Green Plastic Army Man costume of these for years. I made the bazooka from plumbing parts, the walkie-talkie is from a Barbie refrigerator and plumbing parts, the rifle and grenades were toys painted to match. The stand is a routed piece of wood painted to match. This was … Read more
My son has Perthes and has been in a wheelchair off and on for five years. It is hard to come up with ideas when in a chair, but this homemade army tank wheelchair Halloween costume idea was the easiest one yet. * 1 Wheelchair * Cardboard box painted in camo we used tan and … Read more
Our 4 year old loves everything army and wanted to be an army man driving a tank! We loved that he wanted to be actually driving a tank and so off we went- with the help of cardboard boxes, duct tape, paint and some imagination his homemade army man in tank costume was created! It … Read more
Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. We’ve had lots of fun doing just that and making this Soldier in a Humvee Wheelchair Costume! Christopher was dressed in camouflage pants, jacket and cap. We put a small pair of binoculars around his neck and … Read more
We decided we wanted to do a creative costume, and try to make it as realistic as possible. We decided to go with the Homemade Green Plastic Army Men Costumes. Although a few others have done this costume in the past, we felt we could take it to another level. We knew we needed to … Read more
My idea was to take a cardboard box and put a cardboard tube in it, but as you can see my husband got a little more technical. He wanted everything to scale. Everything to look just right. We even used trigonometry to figure out the angles. It isn’t quite to scale (I convinced him 7 … Read more
One of my favorite Disney movies is Toy Story and I wanted to come up with a great group costume, so instead of the traditional characters of Woody, Jessie, and the gang, I decided we should be the Bucket O Soldiers – 5 green toy soldiers. We bought used Army fatigues, belts, and boots from … Read more
My 5 year old son wanted to be a Paratrooper so we decided we would buy a cheap costume and then just add to it. We started off by buying a cute paratrooper costume at a local costume store. We then added combat looking boots. We added a vest style thing to look like the … Read more
All of this costume is homemade from scratch including the Bazooka and boards for our feet. Everything had to be spray painted weapons, bullets etc. Allot of time and effort went into this costume. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Thanks for all your support.
For Halloween my 6yr old wanted to be an army soldier/deception transformer. Whew!!! it was a task, but I did it. So I spruced it up with some flavor. I made him a soldier and a tank. With a little imagination I got some boxes, all sizes. I cut a man hole on top for … Read more