I made my Pinata Costume by buying a pinata and cutting it in half. I bought a bright dress, and I tied the pinata around my waist. I then dangled candy from strings from the pinata. I glued candy onto a headband, and carried a bat around with me!
Our Green Plastic Soldier Costumes, “myself and my husband” were made out of real military clothes. My boots were my son’s worn out army boots and my husband’s were a pair of his own work boots. We used plastic hand grenades and attached them with Velcro. Our guns were my son’s old Airsoft rifles. The … 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
I made my son into a bookworm for Halloween this year. There were two major parts to the costume. Books: I created the illusion of a worm crawling on a pile of two books. The worm being green in color, I wanted the books to have contrasting colors to make the costume more fun. I … Read more
My 9 year old son decided he wanted to be a geek freaking out on a roller coaster for Halloween this year, so onto the planning we went to make our Homemade Roller Coaster Costume. We took an old pool float chair to use for the base and then a old cardboard box cut to … Read more
I made this Homemade Caged Head Halloween Costume for my husband to wear last year. When the costume is on, it stands almost 8 feet tall and is about 4-5 feet wide. He had to slip inside and put a back pack on that I constructed the top portion of the monster who would carry … Read more
My costume “Midget Rapper” is fairly easy, adaptable and cheap… First off the base (top) and face (front) of the radio are made out of the same material. It’s a light weight thicker poster board that I bought from Hobby Lobby for $5.99. It came white but I fixed that with a $0.92 can of … Read more
My 7 year old son decided that instead of getting the same old packaged costume this year – he wanted to be something scary. The body of the child head hunter costume is made of a curtain rod and the spine, chair cushion as the body and fun noodles as the arms. I then wedged … Read more