My two girlfriends and I actually got the idea for an upside-person costume from your website! We were looking for a different costume idea for this Halloween that preferably didn’t entail booty shorts, and we stumbled across this gem. A trip to Goodwill, three XL men dress shirts, and a few abysmal trial runs was … Read more
This Piggy Back illusion costume was very easy to make, cheap and looks great. My daughter always has these funny Halloween costume ideas. She put on a backpack stuffed with newspaper (for the hunchback). Then she put on a loose black dress. I stuffed the witch’s mask with newspaper, put a goggle eye and a … Read more
My son Benjamin wanted to stand out from the crowd for Halloween. In the U.K Halloween isn’t as great as in the U.S, so we had our work cut out! We used a large flat box given to us by Asda (Walmart) over which we draped a tablecloth from the local charity shop. Both of … Read more
This is a Homemade Headless Bride Costume. I used plaster of Paris bandages and made a mold of my upper torso and painted it to look like flesh. I then sprayed the inside of the mold with spray foam and glued it to a rolling back pack. I attached a wedding dress longer than I … Read more
I got my inspiration for my “Dead Head in the Freezer’ costume from various sites including yours. It was a big hit on the night. Here is how we made it: 1)We got a cardboard box, bent it into shape and hot-glued it together 2)We then put a foam piece for the top. 3)We spray … Read more
I love making costumes and love a challenge. I had been reading too many fictional novels about the Boleyn sisters and kept thinking of beheaded queens when I finally decided I should be one for Halloween. I started looking for pictures of inspiration on the internet and found a few that tickled my fancy. When … Read more
The “frozen head” costume was created using an old water heater box made into a refrigerator with an upper freezer. I used a styrofoam “shelf” to stick my head through and added “rails” on each side of the interior of the freezer compartment for the shelf to rest on. I then covered the interior with … Read more
My son and I looked at your website for costume ideas. He liked the Headless costumes and that’s what we were initially going to make. Once we started to make the skeleton kidnapper Halloween costume, we realized he would not have use of his hands so we decided to go for a Skeleton kidnapping him. … Read more
My daughter and I made this Special Delivery Optical Illusion costume out of duct tape, cardboard, and wire hangers. The mask is an old Freddy Kruger mask we had lying around, and the jumpsuit I bought at a thrift store for $5. She fitted through a hole in the box, and her legs were in … Read more
I created this little girl being abducted by an alien Halloween costume to wear to work and also take my kids trick or treating in. I made a lot of costumes and thought that this would be a really cute idea. I make my kids costumes every year but this is the first time I … Read more
This Homemade Roller Coaster Costume is a very cool costume because it shows how your hair is spiked, and is a very unique and different costume. It was extremely hard to make, but was definitely worth it. It took me countless hours, and is totally handmade. It took me about one week, because it took … Read more
