My girlfriend and I decided to do a vintage sci-fi theme this Halloween, and I started by scouring the internet for ideas for my robot costume. The ideas submitted by so many creative folks for a Homemade Vintage Sci-Fi Robot Costume to your site were a huge help, and it’s my honor to return the … Read more
Bonjour DIY Costume Fans! I wanted to have a fun, homemade costume for Halloween this year. I found the homemade loofah DIY Halloween costume on your website, thought they all looked awesome and decided to run with it. It was a big hit, got lots of laughs and to my surprise it won best female … Read more
When designing my son’s robot costume “functionality” was key for me. I wanted lights, sounds, and moving parts and that is what I ended up with. Here is the run down of what we did. Our son loves robots and he was the one who would dress up in boxes and go around the house. … Read more
This Homemade Ultimate Warrior Costume was a pain to make, took about 2 weeks of research and roughly 150 bucks (and the jacket is not part of it although I do plan to buy something white if I find it and spray paint it). Finding white boots tall enough for what I wanted to do … Read more
For the Macho Man Randy Savage costume the first thing I got was the hat then I designed the rest based on the hat. Then I got the pants and cut streamers to tape on the bottom to man then wrestling pants. For the shirt I just got a plan white shirt and bought some … Read more
With this Homemade Mermaid Costume I cut strips of fabric in all the colors of the rainbow for the scales and finished the edges with fabric glue. I used a stretchy fitted skirt underneath to sew it to. I wanted my legs to be water so I have blue waves on my shows with sequence … Read more
This caterpillar costume was pretty simple to make. We used two tubes of fleece with the outer one bunched with elastic to create the segments or the body and then a hood style head with antennae sewn on the legs are strung together with elastic thread to a pair of mittens. It was nice and … Read more
My wife made the mistake of suggesting that I make a Snow Globe costume. I love the challenge of coming up with creative Halloween costume ideas. At first my head was going to be above the globe, but the technological challenge of doing it Bubble Boy style was too tempting. I made the globe much … Read more
This is so easy and perfect for twins or best friends! I found lots of kid costume ideas from searching on the web and finally decided to do the dice! You will need about six yards (more or less can’t remember how much it actually was) of fuzzy material of your choice of color (though … Read more
This was a very and one of the more original Halloween costumes to make. It only took me a good day in the floor to make it. My son, Tyler, came up with the idea and that is why we named it a Ty-Tag washer. We try to go very frugal so this was perfect … Read more
We had many ideas for weird Halloween costumes, but chose the one that we had the materials for at home. I got the overalls last year for my Joe dirt costume. The head was made of paper Mache which I found was a lot easier than it looked. Any mask of your choice would work … Read more
This little pirate costume was created in all of about 45 minutes to an hour! I purchased some material remnants at Wall-mart. This included some stretchy red material, lace and trim ribbons and several other things I didn’t need. I purchased an oversized white boys dress shirt for $1 at the thrift store. I also … Read more