Our sixteen year old daughter is a magician and escape artist by profession. She loves anything magical or mystical, so naturally she wanted to dress up as something that showed her personality. She decided to be a fortune teller, but we took it a step further and made her into an old fashioned fortune telling … Read more
I went as the fortune teller Esmeralda. My inspiration came from Zoltar in the movie Big. My boyfriend Kevin constructed the frame and box out of wood I purchased at a hardware store. I wanted it sturdy because it had to go over my wheelchair. We used big pieces of plywood and different sizes of … Read more
I wanted to create a unique and interactive costume this year so I decided on a fortune teller costume. I wanted people to be able to receive a paper fortune so I built a booth out of three medium sized moving boxes from Lowe’s. I created a small table by folding one of the lid … Read more
We came across one of these classic fortune telling machines while on a family vacation. Our oldest daughter thought it would be a hoot to dress as one for Halloween. Whoa boy, was she right. With 5 kids to costume, we knew we needed to keep costs down as much as we could so wherever … Read more
I saw a Zoltar machine on Cannery Row in Monterey, CA last year, and it gave me the idea of trying to build a wearable Zoltar costume that would also be usable at the house party I wanted to attend. Many of the costumes I saw were either stationary or needed a smooth surface to … Read more
After watching the movie, Big, with Tom Hanks, I decided to make my husband the “Ask Zoltar” fortune machine for our 2011 Halloween Party. This costume got a lot of great feedback and it wasn’t too time consuming to put together. Most of it was done in the course of one day. The machine itself … Read more
My furnace died a week before Halloween and all my costume fund $ had to be diverted into “fix the furnace so you don’t freeze fund.” So I found stuff I had around home, stole a box from work, bought a $2 light fixture from the Habitat for Humanity Resale store , and grabbed a couple rolls … Read more
I got the idea for making the Zoltar costume from the movie Big, then it just happened from there. I made my costume out of a refrigerator box that I got from Lowe’s, and the rest of the items in the fortune telling machine are just some things that I found laying around the house. … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday so I usually have my costume idea at least a month in advance. Last year however with work, and life etc.. I found myself two days before Halloween without a work costume for the contest. I decided to go through my closet and garage for some ideas and items I … Read more
My dad and I are a team when it comes to Halloween. Since I was a young girl, I would tell him what I wanted to be and he would paint, cut, hot glue, and/or build whatever I needed to create the most authentic costume possible. For this female Zoltar costume from the movie BIG … Read more
This year my daughter Margaret age 10 came up with a homemade Fortune Teller Halloween costume idea like the machines in arcades. Each year she has an idea for a homemade costume and we work together to figure out how to do it. For this homemade Fortune Teller Halloween costume idea we started with 4 … Read more
This year’s costume started with a request from our 9 year old to help build a “Homemade Mechanical Genie Halloween Costume” from a popular children’s cartoon program. My wife and I, products of the 80’s immediately thought of the mechanical genie from the movie “Big” and started planning. The costume is simply a cardboard box, … Read more