This is my Honey Bucket Port-a-Potty Costume for Halloween! It’s made to look like a honey bucket worker carrying a honey bucket w/ a guy using it on the inside. The honey bucket worker is fake w/ my real legs below and my head, upper body and arms are the guy on the inside of … Read more
My son went as a shower. For this homemade shower Halloween costume idea, we started with 2 hula hoops and 4 dowel rods. We held a hula hoop over head and attached 4 dowel rods going straight down to the other hula hoop about knee height. We wired it together then wrapped it in duct … Read more
Every time my son made it down the hall to bathroom he would end up playing in the toilet, so that’s where I came up with the idea. I enjoy making Halloween costumes, so I started off by using flat side of a box to make the bowl. I shaped it to look like a … Read more
My 3 year old son requested his costume to be “an astronaut in a rocketship” for Halloween this year. Here is how I made this astronaut homemade Halloween costume and rocketship: 1 – I cut a diaper box to fit his torso. I cut a U shaped hole in the top for his head and … Read more
For this costume, I made a simple one piece jumpsuit. I found some clipart and made the patches for “NASA” and transferred them to iron on paper. For the helmet, I used a plastic pumpkin and spray painted it white. I used a dremel tool to cut out the front for the face. I added … Read more
Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. We’ve had lots of fun doing just that and making this Fisherman in an Aluminum Rowboat Wheelchair Costume! Christopher wore a “Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me” T-shirt we made using iron-on letters. He also wore a … Read more
I came up with the idea for this costume after a business trip to Las Vegas. While there in Vegas, I saw ‘living statues’. People would actually dress from head to toe, as well as paint their faces and any exposed skin, in strictly one color, then ‘freeze’ in various poses for entertainment. I thought … Read more
In 2009 my 9 year old daughter wanted to be our beloved Red Sox mascot “Wally the Green Monster”. I made a gigantic paper mache head by using an extra large balloon covering it with paper mache, letting it dry and then deflated the balloon. Then covered the head with green furry material, printed Green … Read more
I love my team. I love costumes. As a young attractive female, I’m contractually obligated to tart it up a bit on Halloween. So how do I combine all of these elements in one rocking outfit? Take one part Philly Phanatic (the best mascot ever) and one part sexy and you get the Phoxy Philly … Read more
This buck is at least a 10 pointer! The hunter is just an accessory for this completely Homemade Deer and Hunter Costume, complete with bullet wound on chest.
We dressed up like a Candy Raver Costume in 2007. The costumes were super cheap to make. We went to the dollar store and bought tons of neon and then dug through Jane’s closet to fish out some of her old outfits. The costumes were a hit and I will definitely repeat it one Halloween. … Read more
A redneck hillbilly retirement party in West Virginia was the inspiration for these costumes. The guys wore thrift store bib-overhauls. My dress from the thrift store was in the uniform rack. I had to sew the bib and attach it to the skirt. Luckily I found matching material at the fabric store. With the scraps … Read more