I made my son this Lion costume for his first Halloween using a Simplicity pattern #3594. Instead of putting bands on the sleeves I put elastic because that was easier. Also I used the “eyelash” type of yarn for the mane which gave it more of a “fur” look. I was expecting it to be … Read more
The Homemade Lego Pirate Costume was completely homemade for under $50. It includes the head, chest piece, a hand stitched glove, hook, sword, and leg pieces. In all, took about 2 weeks to make. I based the costume off of the Lego pirate minifigure I had at my house. The head started with insulation foam, … Read more
For this coat I traced the outline of my jacket for my Elizabeth Swan costume. This material was originally a trench coat from Goodwill. I had bought a shirt to modify but that turned out poorly. I had to removed the collar, sleeves and top and bottom pockets, this was very difficult, and if I … Read more
This Homemade Half Devil Half Angel Costume was a very hard costume to make. I sewed on it for days and days, and had to breathe in tons of red and white feathers lol. In the picture, which is not a very good one, but the only one that showed the whole costume decent, I … Read more
I made this fairy costume for my husband to wear at our daughter’s 1st birthday. Every year we have a theme and he begrudgingly dresses up to match that theme.( I think secretly he loves it) This particular year we had a fairy party so I got to work creating him the perfect fairy outfit. … Read more
This Homemade Egyptian Royalty Halloween Costume was created using a moving box. The hygrogliphics were fashioned after some online research. The headpiece is a piece of cardboard. A pair of old stockings helped create the illusion of real skin for the legs and feet. The compliment to this was another of the same except a … Read more
I made this Autumn Fairy costume for my daughter this year, at her request. I used the McCall’s pattern # M4887, for the dress, vest, and skirt, and purchased the wings, as I thought they were gorgeous. The wings are called “Shimmering Dark Butterfly Wings”, and are made by Fun World. They are adult sized, … Read more
This was my third attempt at a completely homemade costume! Both of the main pieces of the costume are made out of felt – two colors necessary: white (ping pong ball and inside of cup) and red (outside of cup). The ping pong ball is stuffed with newspaper and used elastic bands around the neck … Read more
Beer pong! Ya, they sell them, but not nearly as awesome. We made this Beer Pong Group costume out of standard plastic garbage cans. We spray painted them red and stencil spray painted the solo name (to make it official beer pong!). We used foam pipe insulator for the cup rim and put white felt … Read more
I got this idea from a cartoon I came across when searching for ideas. The cartoon was a picture of a fire-extinguisher with a funny caption that read “I put out”. I was sold from that point on that I was making the costume. 2 styrofoam ballsred feltblack see through feltplastic tubingfunnelplastic basket10 sheets of … Read more
This is my daughter Kinley’s Homemade Scarecrow Costume. She is a Not So Scarey Scarecrow. She wanted to be a scarecrow, but I wanted to make her something out of the norm. It was made with 20 yards of tulle, several different colors lots of ribbons, sunflowers and rafia. She even has rafia ribbon arm … Read more
I got the idea for this Homemade Gift Box Costume from your website and dressed myself up as a present. I got a box from moving in to my new apartment, cut three squares in it (two on the sides and one on the top) and cut out the bottom. Then I wrapped it in … Read more