This homemade Rainbow Fish Halloween costume is based on the book RAINBOW FISH by Marcus Pfister, which is one of my daughter’s favorite books. It is the story of a most beautiful, lonely and rude fish who discovers the value of inner beauty and friendship by giving away his coveted scales to other fish one … Read more
The attached picture is of my son Aaron, his favorite animal is a shark so I took some time to figure out the best possible way to make this little Homemade Jaws Shark Costume. He loves his costume and its so cute when he runs, the tail wiggles just right and it looks just like … Read more
This was one of my better homemade box costumes. I am always trying to think of what can be made from a box. I have fans every year that can’t wait to see what I come up with! Everyone at work knows me for looking for that “right” box from our warehouse. When September comes … Read more
The basket of this Hot Air Balloon costume is a cardboard box covered in burlap material that was attached with an adhesive spray. Inside the basket is a cut-down broom handle that was screwed into the front and back for easy carrying. The balloon frame is made of bendable plastic molding that was screwed together. … Read more
This Homemade John Deere Halloween Costume was inspired by my father and grandpa (who is no longer with us) who collect and love John Deere tractors. This project is all cardboard with a piece of window screen on the front. I started by taking cardboard and creating an opening that my son could fit into. … Read more
We decided to make our son a homemade car costume for his schools fancy dress competition as he loves cars and wouldn’t really want to be anything else, he won first prize so we were really pleased. We started off using an old vacuum cleaner box, we opened it up and drew a car shape … Read more
My daughter and I had to make a mode of transport costume for her school transport day. We decided on a Pink Hummer costume. We made it out of normal cardboard boxes, paper masking tape, paint and silver engineering tape. For the wheels we downloaded a pictuer of pink alloy wheels of the net and … Read more
For this homemade traffic cone child Halloween costume I placed an empty water bottle on my daughter’s head. When she leaned over I put her hair around it and secured it with a pony tail holder. When she stood back up her hair was straight up with the water bottle under it. Then I hair-sprayed … Read more
My son is six years old and he always comes up with unique ideas for his costume each year. This year, he decided on a Hot Air Balloon. My mother and I make his costumes each year. First, I purchased a wicker hamper we cut the bottom out and used black duct tape around the … Read more
I used a cardboard box, cut slits into it, and weaved light brown construction paper in and out to make the box look like a basket. Of course the bottom of the box is cut out for her legs. The day of the Halloween party I bought a helium balloon at a party store; the … 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! Sarah was 13 the year we did this Kissing Booth Wheelchair Costume and not sure she wanted to dress up for Halloween. We were just afraid she would change … Read more
My daughter, Madelyn, REALLY wanted to be a gumball machine this year after seeing some of the ideas on this website. Last year, she was a robot, which won her 1st prize at her school’s Halloween party. Her 2 year old brother inherited her costume this year. We’ve started a tradition in our family of … Read more