My son wanted to be a traffic light for Halloween, so I went to work. Considering I do not sew, I put the entire homemade traffic light kids Halloween costume idea together with a hot glue gun. My son’s reaction when he first saw the finished costume made all the effort worthwhile … he said … Read more
We had some homemade Halloween costume ideas but this costume we made two days before Halloween. All told it took about 8hrs, most of that spent engineering the cuts in the foam and holding the cut pieces together in order to fabric glue them. It wasn’t overly difficult just took a lot of time. I … Read more
I built this pilot and airplane costume at my company. Used sauna tube, foam insulation and paint. I was the pilot manning the airplane. I work at a travel company and I thought that this costume would be fitting.
This Homemade Fighter Pilot and his Airplane Costume is made with cardboard and duct tape, spray paint and a lot passion. It is a fighter pilot fling off to war. His costume is made from camouflage plastic material cut to size sewn to get together. Helmet it a motorcycle helmet painted camouflage green. He is … Read more
I am a huge fan of box costumes. They are easy to make and don’t require any swift adjustments; you simply take off the box and get in the car/go to the bathroom. Having discovered how easy they are to make and what a hit they are at parties/bar/work, I decided to make another box … Read more
Here’s one of the coolest child costumes. My 5-year-old boy loves everything trains, and asked if he could be a railroad crossing sign for Halloween. I was up to the challenge! I made the headpiece out of white 1/4″ foam board, and letters from an office supply store. The “crossing” was then glued to a … Read more
I was motivated in to making costumes for my family so my daughter picked this hot air balloon costume from this site. We used a round laundry basket, some basket weave from a craft store, four dowel rods, flame fabric, a piece of duct work from the hardware store and an inflatable ball from a … Read more
My two year old daughter wanted to be a pilot. So I thought about it, hum what could I do? Then it came to me but how would I make the Homemade Fly Girl Halloween Costume. I ran to Michaels and started to talk with people there. The next thing I know I’m buying foam, … Read more
Our son won his age division and the overall costume contest in this costume. The Greaser ’57 Chevy costume was primarily made from a cardboard box that we already had. We already had all of the paint (latex house paint) and used only black, white, yellow and red. The colors can be easily mixed to … Read more
After looking at this site, I decided that I could build a homemade Halloween costume. The F-117 seemed like an easy costume to build. The Homemade F-117 Stealth Fighter Costume was constructed using cardboard and hot glue. Then two layers of paper mache were applied; this was a little tricky because the paper mache wants … Read more
My 4.5 year old son, who is fascinated by construction equipment, decided that this year he would like to be a backhoe. Knowing right off that there would be no store bought costume available, my husband and I set about devising how to construct a Homemade Backhoe Halloween Costume. First off we started sketching out … Read more
I made this Bulldozer Costume for my 3 year old son who loves construction. I made it out of diaper boxes, and duct tape. I used real working flashlights for the headlights and the cherry top light was a dollar store find! The tracks I made using nylon rope and just hot glued it to … Read more