This creative Steam punk Pirate Captain halloween costume I made for Halloween last year and also for use in a Steam punk costume contest. I wanted to create a Steam punk airship pirate captain in a similar style to pirates of the Caribbean. This is what I came up with. First I made the bloomers … Read more
As a senior in junior, I was tired of seeing the same costumes being recycled year after year (myself being guilty of this as well!). After walking out of my third costume shop feeling at last defeated and hopeless regarding my search for that perfect costume, I decided it was time to go the homemade … Read more
Every year, we decide as a family what our Halloween costume will be. Always homemade. Last year, we went with Disney’s Jake and the Neverland Pirates Family Costume since this is our 5-yr old’s favorite show. Each costume was pieced together, using the actual cartoons as a guideline. It took weeks of hunting down items….one-by-one … Read more
My daughter was dressing up as Tinkerbell, (which was a store bought costume), and I desperately wanted to have her brother in on the “Peter Pan” theme. I could not find a baby costume for a 12 month old (that wasn’t bunting), so I decided to make my own Homemade Baby Captain Hook Halloween Costume. … Read more
My homemade Female Pirate costume is directly based on the Jack Sparrow character from “Pirates of the Caribbean”. My outfit was made from material I had from other homemade costumes. The belts were made from old strips of material and the buckle from cardboard, with foil wrapped around it and painted. The rings were made … Read more
This little pirate costume was created in all of about 45 minutes to an hour! I purchased some material remnants at Wall-mart. This included some stretchy red material, lace and trim ribbons and several other things I didn’t need. I purchased an oversized white boys dress shirt for $1 at the thrift store. I also … Read more
Although the costume of Captain Jack Sparrow is not a new one, we wanted it to be as close as possible to the original for my 6 year old son. We checked a lot of stuff online and I decided to create a Homemade Captain Jack Sparrow Halloween Costume. I also watched the movie twice … Read more
Jozlyn is 3 years old. She loves pirates, princesses, pink, and black; so I decided to design and make her a Pirate Princess costume. She loves it and wants to wear it every day. One benefit of making your own costume is that it can be worn daily and survive even playgrounds. The pettiskirt was … Read more
We love to dress up as pirates. These costumes are 100% handmade. Each Pirate costume took me about one week to complete. We have worn them several times and always get rave reviews. Long live pirates! Total Spent: $100
This jacket started off as a tablecloth from Goodwill. The pants came from a pants suit at Goodwill as well. I wanted to get a really close fitting jacket, so I used Simplicity pattern #3628 as my base. I am a pretty novice seamstress but since I could make this w/o a collar, sleeves, or … Read more
My husband was a pirate and our baby was his little parrot. For the Homemade Pirate and Parrot Halloween Costumes we used black pants and a frilly white shirt. We had actually used both last year with a cape and teeth for a vampire costume. I cut about a 5 inch width of red satin … Read more
My 5-year-old wanted to be a Pirate for Halloween. I looked at several patterns in books but nothing jumped out at me. So I used an old pattern from last year’s indian costume. I got the fabric for the pirate costume from Walmart, all out of the $1 yd bin. I used red and white … Read more