I liked the idea of a “cereal killer” and wanted to make it cute so I looked online and saw that fake blood along with mini cereal boxes seemed to be the way to go. -I bought fake blood and a fake machette at the local party store -plastic knives -an assortment of mini cereal … Read more
Our friends had a Halloween party and was low on cash so I had the idea to make my own costume. It took about 2 hours to make this one night stand costume. I used a giant cardboard box, then painted it with craft brown paint, found some old cheap cabinet knobs and a little … Read more
Last year I decided to make my own costume instead of buy one. I came up with the idea of dressing up as a Cereal Killer by searching different creative costume ideas online. The Cereal Killer costume idea came up a few times online, however, not exactly the way I made it. I had so … Read more
I went as a mail order bride last Halloween, my costume only cost like $35. I borrowed the dress from my boyfriend’s parents who have a huge collection of Halloween costumes, I got the box, the stickers and the bubble-wrap from the FedEx store. I got the fake cheesy flowers from AC Moore. My veil … Read more
I am a fan of really original and fun Halloween costumes. This year I had a pretty strict budget and I really had to get the creative juices flowing. I came up with the homemade Mail Order Bride costume idea from a political cartoon I saw of a bride jumping out of a mailbox. I … Read more
Since I am a white little girl I decided to play it up a bit. I went as “White Trash” to an awards party. I used a trash bag as a dress, a chain of rubber bands as a belt, trash from my friend’s lunches during a week at school and plastic wrap in my … Read more
My friend and I were party animals for Halloween. I dressed up as a peacock, and my friend was a lion, then we accessorized with party hats and party horns! I purchased a blue dress, black tights and black boots. In addition, I made a Chinese fan to create the fan of feathers. I hot … Read more
I saw a store bought costume called “One Night Stand” while I was out looking for parts to my costume for the character ‘Alex’ from Clockwork Orange. I thought it was really clever, but I didn’t pick it up at the time thinking I would just do the Clockwork Orange costume. I later found out … Read more
I had this idea to do a unique play on words costume and though I am not an artist my wonderful hubby is. At first he thought of one thing but I thought that idea would take up too much time so we put our heads together and came up with this homemade butter-fly wordplay … Read more
I had heard of this costume before but having seen the version available for purchase I was extremely disappointed so I decided to try and make a Homemade One Night Stand Halloween Costume myself. I started with simply a large brown box and quickly realized that it would be too big to have the arms … Read more
This year for Halloween my boyfriend and I were “Dunkin Donuts”. We only wanted easy costumes and he loves their coffee and who doesn’t love a pair of basketball playing donuts? The donuts are made of a polar-fleece material stuffed with polyfiber (which helped keep us warm for much of the night and also served … Read more
This BroBot Costume is a mix between a Lax Bro and a Robot, called the Brobot 3000. There is a lacrosse stick, backwards hat, flip flops, khaki shorts, and a polo with some shades for the Lax Bro part of the costume. For the Robot part, a cardboard box is cut to make the robot … Read more