My son who is 8 has started a tradition for me for Trick-Or-Treating. He loves homemade costumes. He has been a bath tub of bubbles, zombie who died via DVD impalement and much more. He is a cub scout and wanted to enter the costume contest at the annual Spook-O-Ree last year. First place was … Read more
Every year for Halloween, my daughter comes up with some crazy idea of what she wants to be and it is up to me of course to make it happen. This time she wanted to have a costume that glowed in the dark and lit up and we decided to go with an alien girl … Read more
The theme for this fancy dress was ‘bad taste’. Turning up to the event painted blue and yellow wearing swimming flippers and plastic ears definitely fitted the ‘bad taste’ profile.To creative this master piece my creative friend made two full body onsies complete with tails. We utilized swimming flippers for feet, deadly boppers for antenna , used … Read more
It’s funny how the smallest thing will inspire you. I was fortunate enough to work at an art store, and we were throwing out foam frame corners. I immediately thought “Wow, those would make great teeth for a land shark!” Having participated in the Coney Island Mermaid Parade the previous year as “The Merminator, M-800”, … Read more
For Halloween me and my friends decided we wanted to do something completely different. I came up with the idea of a group alien costume. I wasn’t quite sure how we were going to pull it off. Things we used to make the costume: Black maxi dress Light Green latex paint Darker green water based body … Read more
My two year old daughter decided she wanted to be an alien for Halloween, after watching E.T and other alien movies, so thought we’d try to make our own child alien costume rather than buy one. I bought blue and black water based body paint and white glow in the dark face paint for face … Read more
We followed directions provided on this website to create our son’s very cool robot costume. His costume was such a hit that he led the elementary school Halloween parade, which was a big thrill for him. The costume is made using a Sterilite storage bin that we drilled holes in with a dremel tool, spray-painted … Read more
My son wanted to be a skeleton and we wanted to make it. We found the skeleton attack on line and thought it was very cool. My 7 yr. old son couldn’t find a skeleton mask his sister wasn’t afraid of and then he found the demon mask. We used a backpack with PVC pipe … Read more
I have always wanted to a larger than life costume. I decided to do a robot because the design is wide open and the recent popularity. There are many different styles, shapes, and sizes. I spent several hours looking at different robots online. I then sketched-out my Homemade Megabot Costume. Once the design was finalized, … Read more
I wanted to make a Robot costume reminiscent of a 50’s Sci-Fi Movie. Since I wanted a Retro-metallic look, I made body and head all out of metal. I used about 1000 nuts and screws putting it together, when it was finished it weighed about 35lbs. The head is connected to the body so that … Read more
Our two-year-old daughter requested to be a “fancy silver robot” for Halloween. Her cardboard box costume, reminiscent of robots her dad made as a child. The head is an ice cream bucket, with ranch dressing container ears, with sparkly pipecleaners. Arms and legs are foil dryer vents. It also includes salvaged radio knobs, keypad, small … Read more
We made these Homemade Robot Costumes out of cardboard and duct tape. The body is just cardboard cut, molded and covered with duct tape, then decorated with colored tape on top. The heads are construction hard hats with cardboard and duct tape with a few LED flashlights for the eyes and for backlighting. The final … Read more