I made this Macho Man Randy Savage Costume for my son, Eddie. I didn’t even know who Macho Man Randy Savage was before I whipped up this costume. After looking at lots of pictures I came up with my costume design. First I bought a cheap black leather coat ($20). I bought some red lycra … Read more
This is the Ultimate Warrior Costume that I made for my son in law for a fancy dress night out with his football team where they all dressed as wrestlers. Made from a white laboratory coat with both the sleeves removed and decor painted on front and back with neon fabric paint. Battleaxe’s on the … Read more
Here’s our Bumble Bee costume for my baby son. Because my son, Zane, was only a couple months old, I wanted a comfortable costume for him. I saw some black fleece fabric and just thought of making him a bumble bee costume. I used yellow felt fabric for the stripes. Without a pattern, I used … Read more
I had this mask and didn’t really know what to do with it, so I got creative and made a football costume. I used a cardboard box and hot glued fake astro-turf to the front of it. I then painted the back of the box green and painted white lines on the front. I used … Read more
We made this nun costume for our seven month old daughter. The idea originated as a joke because she was anything but a good baby (she had horrible colic). The dress is a store bought Christmas outfit that had red flowers at the waist. I took some black fabric used for the habit and covered … Read more
The pirate costume was built on top of a plastic wagon that we had here in the yard and has served before in costume making. I placed a piece of 3/4 inch plywood on the deck and began wrapping it with cardboard and getting the shape down, then I cut long strips for the sides … Read more
This year for Halloween, my 4 year old dressed up as a Mad Scientist and his 18 month old brother as the monster he created. I thought it would be fun to dress up to, so I went as Experiment X, the Mad Scientist’s failed experiment. For the Mad Scientist costume, he wore some tan … Read more
I came up with this Plastic Surgery Socialite Costume idea after watching lots and lots of Nip-Tuck! I had this fancy sequined dress in the back of my closet and a blingy necklace. I applied make up to look like bruises under my eyes, surgeon’s lines, and a little bit of blood from the rhinoplasty. … Read more
My daughters and their friends wanted to wear costumes that went together so we all came up the idea of them being different colored crayons. For their Crayola Crayons Halloween Costumes they each picked out a different colored felt for their crayon. I cut a tall thin rectangle out of each color long enough to … Read more
The four of us decided we wanted to do a group costume so we thought of making ourselves into crayons. We got the idea of using duct tape for this Crayon Set Group Costume from one of our friends so we made our dresses out of different color duct tapes. We put garbage bags under … Read more
This year I decided to do something different. So I decided to make individual Crayola Box Halloween Costumes. I used boxes that were big enough to fit over the boys shoulders. Then I found the poster boards from Micheals and Hobby Lobby. I used felt and construction paper to wrap around small cups to make … Read more
This Homemade Screw or Bolt Costume is my father, Todd. Every year he makes an original costume from scratch. He decided to be a BOLT. He used a remnant piece of metal coil tubing from a construction site (I believe it is part of the air conditioning system) and he made hexagon part by taping … Read more