The Homemade Native American Girl Costume is a simple pillow case dress with fringe glued all the way around. She’s wearing a wig with fabric trim fitted as a headband with feather embellishments. It was SO easy! We glued some of that fringe to her flip flops to,o instead of buying or making moccassins. Excellent.
We found our inspiration from this website, took it and ran! Costume Supplies: Hanes Mens Tank tops (We used smalls) Hanes Mens Whitey Tighties (we used mediums) Bags of cotton balls (for 5 costumes, we used 27 normal-sized bags; we recommend buying larger bags from a wholesale store) Hot Glue Guns and Glue Sticks (We … Read more
Cereal Killer is a pun on words so the teachers loved it. He won 1st prize for most original. All I did was get a black tee shirt and black sweats and hot glue small cereal boxes on the shirt and pants. All on the front of both. I also took plastic spoons and glued … Read more
For my costume, I wanted something that would satisfy a few requirements: I needed it to be warm; I needed it to not make me look slutty or trashy but still be cute; and most importantly, I wanted it to be DIFFERENT! I love puns and word play, so one I was I thinking about … Read more
To make this “Couch Potato” costume I used a purchased poncho pattern. I bought a tan fleece with brown markings to resemble a potato. (Using fleece is a great way to keep kids warm on cold Halloween nights.) For the couch I used a cardboard box. I cut a hole out of the middle of … Read more
I usually like to make my costume a play on words so this Halloween I made a Homemade Witch Kraft Costume. To make my cauldron, I used a aluminum sandwich serving tray which was the perfect size to fit in the opening of the cauldron. I bought the cheapest (largest) Mac & Cheese dried noodles … Read more
My son had the idea he wanted to be an “ipod Mini”. I thought it would be even more fun to make a pun on the name “ipod” and make him an “eyepod mini” as in a peapod of eyeballs with me as the “eyepod” owner listening to him (just like in the “apple ipod” … Read more
This is my son Cash (2 months old) & his first Halloween. I just came up with the idea by myself. I started with a pair of black dress pants, a bow tie, a pair of with socks, black ribbon & 2 $1 bills. I cut the bottoms of the socks off and then glued … Read more
For the hat we cut a circle with thick carton and cut out the center to make the side of hat. For the bottom of the hat we bought satin in black. Glue-gunned every piece together. Covered the circle with satin, used a red ribbon to go over his shoulder to carry the hat. For … Read more
I thought of the idea of a Dog Costume – Knight and his Horse for Halloween. It worked out just great cause a dog’s body is almost like a horse. I just had to come up with how I was going to make her (Mia) look like one. So this is what I did and … Read more
As you can probably assume, my husband came up with this Homemade Ditka & Refrigerator Perry Couples Costume idea. As a true football fanatic he had always wanted to dress up as Mike Ditka, however we couldn’t figure out the perfect couple pairing. Then one night after a few drinks he and his friends came … Read more
As an animal lover, I decided on a Homemade Zebra Adult Costume Idea for Halloween. This is a really cheap costume idea if you are tight on cash like me! I’ll start from the top. I bought a wide headband from the dollar store for $1 (big surprise I know). Then I covered it with … Read more