This homemade upside down clown Halloween costume was a hit at the Halloween Party! It may look as if my daughter is standing on her hands,but her hands are actually at her sides. It is just an illusion! The clown’s legs and feet are made of light weight wood that is fastened to a belt … Read more
This Caged Zoo Keeper Homemade Costume took a while to construct. The cage is made of PVC pipe, but if I do it again, I’ll use cardboard tubes such as those that are in gift wrapping paper as they will be lighter. A brace was made to hold the cage up while supported by the … Read more
My brother, Brent always has the best Halloween costumes but I think he out did himself this year. He made a roller coaster ride for him and his wife Mary. And it was detachable so they didn’t have to stay attached all night long.
I built a fireplace with a mantle out of foam core and covered it with brick contact paper. The Homemade Deer over a Fireplace Costume was affixed to me using 2 straps/belts that crisscrossed in the back and attached to the foam core above and below the mantle. On the mantle itself, I created a … Read more
After a lot of soul searching, a beam of light cast down from the clear, blue sky and stole my soul for a total of 6 hours. I don’t believe I will ever be the same but I did have the best Outerspace Alien Costume ever! The aliens that captured me began by transforming my … Read more
Make Your Own Outhouse Costume cheap easy with a large cardboard box, twine brown paint, half roll of toilet paper and a large black marker. I wrote different types a graffiti and toilet humor on the outside. Cut out a moon on the door. I wore scruffy slippers and a big pair of flannel pajama … Read more
I just wanted to share with you my recent real life AXE EXPERIENCE this Halloween. My Ultimate Axe Effect costume was certainly the coolest! I am finishing my 3rd year as a Civil Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and this past weekend I won the best costume contest at the On … Read more
My son won a contest for this easy costume idea. I took a t-shirt of mine (women’s cut) and glued felt onto it to look like the tube. Then I added glitter glue to exactly match it. The toothpaste cap is a small lampshade with holes cut on the sides where I attached white shoe … Read more
For this star costume, I started with a paper mache headpiece that had a wire base, one measured around the top of my head, another measured around my face. I joined them together with masking tape. Next I cut out triangular shapes of cardboard and taped them around the face part. I added one strip … Read more
My eight-year old nephew is really interested in space and originally wanted to be the planet Mercury for Halloween. My sister tried to talk him into a different child Haloween costumes knowing that it would be all but impossible to find a Mercury costume. I told her that I had found a sewing pattern to … Read more
As last year my son wanted to be Ryan Newman, this year he stuck with NASCAR and had a homemade Dale Jr Halloween costume idea. I had the pattern on-hand and made it one size bigger and in green and white instead of black and camo. I learned last year that the heavier fabric, canvas, … Read more
