Our daughter loves to make things out of boxes. This inspired her to want to be a toy robot for Halloween this year. We let her pick out the color, and painted the boxes with craft paint. We added rivets around the border with metallic paint. We had fun finding gauges which we encased in … Read more
A lot of thought and engineering went into my first of many homemade costumes for my girls. I am a father of 2 girls that is currently laid off from work. My wife received a sewing machine for her birthday this year. Being that I am a power tool fanatic I quickly picked up on … Read more
When my son came to me and said: “mom, I wanna be a cool robot this year”, I knew it had to be good. We had a lot of fun making this Robot costume. Michael and I went to countless stores searching for things to use for our robot. We found a steamer and silver … Read more
After seeing some adorable loofah costumes on this site, I decided to make my own and have my wife dress as a bar of soap! It was a really cute Homemade Soap and Loofah Couple Costume and here’s how I did it: For the loofah: I found a bright pink cotton romper on the sale … Read more
I saw this idea for this Publishers Clearing House Winner Costume on this website and thought it was so cute. It was very easy to put together. My husband wore a suit and tie he already owned. I made him a badge that said prize patrol using vinyl and felt. We picked up some balloons … Read more
I got this idea for a Homemade Publishers Clearing House Couple Costume from YOUR site! I loved the idea! My boss was the Prize Patrol. He wore a nice suit with a tie and a hat. We had balloons tied to the back of his coat and I made the printed check on a plotter … Read more
I entered a Halloween-themed 10K run. I wanted a unique costume that would be comfortable to run in. I remembered seeing a shower costume at a party, and I thought it would be really cool to be a have a Homemade Loofah Costume. I bought 2 rolls of bright purple tulle online, a box of … Read more
I loved the Ultimate Warrior so much and was elated to see someone put up their costume. Here is a pic of me dressed in the ultimate warrior costume because you can never have enough UW warriors. Very simple costume: wig, facepaint, WWF belt from Toys R Us, and fabric from Home Fabric. Every party … Read more
Makinzi is 6 years old and a dreamer. She wanted to be a LITTLE MERMAID for Halloween. The problem with store-bought mermaid costumes is that the tail restricts movement so we decided on a Homemade Little Mermaid Costume. I made her tail fin from 6 in strips of overlapping twill. This allowed her to move … Read more
This costume was used for Halloween and for Savannah Rose’s 9th birthday party which was themed UNDER THE SEA. The Mermaid tail is a special home made tail from Merfolks of FoxMoon Productions. They specialize in making Realistic (swimming) mermaid tails and fins according to your measurements. The shell and pearl in the picture was … Read more
This Homemade Girl’s Mermaid Costume was made for my five year old daughter who is absolutely in love with mermaids. It was a pattern that we tweaked a little bit, and we tailored it to fit her just right. I worked on it day and night, for two weeks straight, with the help of my … Read more
These child Halloween costumes were very tricky to make. I used the old McDonalds commercial from the 80’s for the idea. They did a take-off on “Mac The Knife”, and called the moon head with the sunglasses “Mac Tonight”. Having no idea how to make the moon head costumes, I first thought papier-mache would be … Read more