Hey everyone, I’m the creator of the costume and am wearing it as you all can see. I grew up watching “Nightmare On Elm Street” as well as the “Friday the 13th”, “Halloween”, and “Child’s Play” movies, but Freddy Krueger stood out as the most gruesome of them all. The deception/illusion is credited towards those … Read more
My son Jake loves optical illusion costumes. He hasn’t had a store bought costume since he was three. He wanted it to look like a Halloween ghoul was taking him away. As we were looking for the “just right” mask, he saw a mom with a baby in a front. He thought it would be … Read more
Here’s my headless horseman costume. It was on a cold, wet and rainy night in October, specifically Halloween eve when I took a black Outback western duster, and a black cape and decided to make my very own Headless Horseman costume. At first I was having trouble thinking of a way to create this costume, mainly the … Read more
My husband and I saw this Roller Coaster costume mentioned on a website somewhere. I thought it sounded really clever and original, so we went for it. My husband ended up constructing it and his vision ending up being far better than I’d even imagined. He constructed the main “carnival ride” part of the costume … Read more
To those who aren’t familiar with this show, it is a Japanese anime adaptation of a Swedish book. In a brief, the book is about a boy, Nils, who used to torture animals on his family farm and as a punishment he becomes smaller then those animals so they can hurt him back. He then runs … Read more
I made this for my 7 year old son. It only took 30 minutes to make but was a smash hit wherever he went with this costume. Hoe I made: Roll news papers into a size of a head and wrap it with a plasic bag. Tape a stick pn the head-ball, cover with a … Read more
Our family loves Halloween – this passion is led by my husband Dan, who has always enjoyed thinking up ideas and making Halloween costumes. He is a firm believer of always making his costumes himself. Anyone who knows Dan, cannot wait to see what he thinks of each year. Since we’ve had children, he of … Read more
These Bunny in Magician Hat costumes were completely handmade. The bunny outfits were made from white fleece and only 1/2 to waist where the hat rim was. We glued cardboard to the fleece to make it flat for the bottom of the bunny feet. We then glued pink felt cut in shape of paw bottoms, … Read more
My wife found a picture on Pinterest that was similar to this costume, but the body in the picture carrying the box was headless. To me, it looked strange that it took such a big box to house a head. So… I came up with the idea to give the upper body a head and … Read more
I got the inspiration for this costume from a shirt I bought from Kentucky for Kentucky designed by the talented Rachael Sinclair. This year I was inspired to dress in something that ties me to my roots, I am a Kentucky native after all. I also wanted to spread the news to all those city … Read more
I was seriously sitting at the dining room table when this idea popped into my head, thinking how cool would it be to become dinner!! Not wanting to spoil what my plan was, I worked on it when everyone was sleeping (I’m very sneaky that way). I started with a piece of cardboard that and … Read more
The process for making this illusion of a scary clown carrying a jack in the box costume was difficult but very rewarding in the end. This homemade costume grabbed everyone’s attention the second I walked into the Halloween party. The reactions on people’s faces at the Halloween party when they realized it was only one … Read more