I love making costumes that challenge me to think. With this Homemade Lady with Baby Optical Illusion Costume, I wanted to be the baby and the mom simultaneously. So, I am the mom’s extremities such as her hands and legs, but I am also the baby’s face. The mom’s face is a mannequin head onto … Read more
This Caged Safari Boy Halloween costume is a caged safari boy from the jungle. It shows how a capture of a gorilla went terribly wrong. Many people thought that this was two people! I bought the gorilla suit and cut a slit for his waist to go through and then stuffed the upper body of … Read more
Tapers stilts help you stand about 7.5 feet tall, an old fur coat or similar around chicken wire makes for a great ostrich body, split an old pair of pants and drape the legs, pin shoes. And keep your balance to become an ostrich jockey.
Disposing of the Evidence… This Homemade Gangster and Body Optical Illusion Costume took me about 6 hours to make. For the gangster’s torso I used a jacket and mask over a Styrofoam/newspaper frame. It was supported upright with an aluminum pole that went into my back pocket. I cut a large hole in the back … Read more
2nd Place Winner of our 2006 Costume ContestClick Here to View Other Winners… Oh, but Pinocchio is a real boy! It may be Geppetto that you want to take a second look at! Here’s my son Rhett as Geppetto and Pinocchio. Don’t be confused, this is a one person costume featuring Rhett as Pinocchio’s top … Read more
This is my Honey Bucket Port-a-Potty Costume for Halloween! It’s made to look like a honey bucket worker carrying a honey bucket w/ a guy using it on the inside. The honey bucket worker is fake w/ my real legs below and my head, upper body and arms are the guy on the inside of … Read more
Using some of the ideas from this website, The Encyclopedia of Immaturity, and my own innovation, we created this “Headless Prom Queen.” The false shoulders are a piece of Styrofoam packing material I swiped from work, supported by a sturdy piece of cardboard (almost like a stick) that we secured to the kid’s back with … Read more
I was trying very hard to think of a great unusual costume that it felt as if my head would pop, then it hit me! Headless ghoul! I played around in my head about how to make this Headless Ghoul Homemade Halloween Costume work, especially since I would be wearing it to work! I took … Read more
We did this Homemade Headless Girl Costume last year too, but after trial and error made the costume better and lighter which my daughter loved. We used coat hangers for the arms and a wooden stick for the shoulders. A rolling back pack but it wasn’t tall enough so we tore it apart and used … Read more
My son wanted to be the headless horseman for Halloween last year so… where do I start? A trip to Goodwill yielded a trenchcoat, a scarf, and a black dress shirt. Total cost $10. Cool. I found an old backpack with wheels and the extendable handle and had my husband put some screws into the … Read more
For this Scariest Headless Dead Bride Costume I went off and bought a used bride’s dress at a thrift store for $20. At the waist line I unsewed the stitching to make sure your head will fit through it. The body part of the Headless Dead Bride Costume is a pillow. to form the shoulders … Read more
