Once our 5 yr old son found out that his sister was making her costume with Dad he wanted to make one too. And since he is obsessed with robots of course that is what he wanted to be. They worked for several weeks on this robot costume. It’s made of boxes and duct tape … Read more
My son and I looked at your website for costume ideas. He liked the Headless costumes and that’s what we were initially going to make. Once we started to make the skeleton kidnapper Halloween costume, we realized he would not have use of his hands so we decided to go for a Skeleton kidnapping him. … Read more
Many years ago I saw this homemade alien abduction Halloween costume in a Newsday article. A woman made it for her son and won a few contests with it. I always thought that if I had a son, I’d make it for him. My son is 10 and we made it together this year. The … Read more
I built a metal “jaw” onto a hockey helmet and them using a large foam block sculpted it down to shape. I attached it to the helmet with a metal rod sticking out of the back of the helmet and to the front with cable ties. I then covered it with lyres. I used corrugated … Read more
My son wanted to be a hi-tech robot Halloween costume this year, and it had to have a shrink ray. So my husband and I worked out an idea and did all the clever measuring that was necessary. He constructed the body parts and I decorated. We make a pretty good team. We just used … Read more
This Homemade Child Robot Costume is made for my son Louis for his 7th birthday and inspired by “the iron giant”. It needed to have this “knight-out-of-space” impression. Two different types of silver material are used (tungsten and alloy). The material is glued to 20mm foam used for upholstery. The silver material is see-through and … Read more
This Robot Costume started when my 4 1/2 year old son said, mom I want to be a robot for Halloween. After going to countless costume stores trying to persuade him to change his mind I finally gave in and decided to make him his robot costume. I started with spray painting and finding boxes … Read more
I never thought making a costume would be this fun. My 4 yr old wanted to be a robot , so I granted him his wish. MATERIALS: 2 boxes, 2 soap bottle caps, 2 pipe cleaners, 2 reflectors, silver wrapping paper, dial printouts, glue, duct-tape. Some imagination voila! You’re done. Wow that was fun!
This is our version of the Alien abduction costume. We used a backpack to hold up the alien head, and a long black robe to cover him. The footie jammies were cut in the back so the top was on my son and bottoms were stuffed with cotton batting. I also shortened the legs of … Read more
This is my daughter dressed as a monster carrying a baby. I used a box as the costume frame. I cut holes in the box for her arms and head. On the back of the box I duck taped a graphite shaft from a golf club (after sawing off the club head). I used cardboard … Read more
We have very easy Halloween ideas. The alien head is made from a balloon covered with paper Mache. Eye holes were cut in the mask and plastic was cut from the rounded corners of a used milk jug. Eye holes were cut in the plastic and then plastic was covered with material from a pair … Read more
This is my son Joe. He has Autism and lives in his own little world. Joe doesn’t care what’s trendy or what any other children wanted to be for Halloween. He does his own thing, and this year, he wanted a robot Halloween costume. I’d like to thank everyone for sharing. I borrowed ideas from … Read more