To make this Miss America Costume I started with a womans dress I found at a thrift store.(I have included the before picture). Dress- cut the sleeves off and modify the style to make it more “stylish”. I used silver ribbon that looked almost like a chain to hide the parts of the dress I … Read more
We had twins day in office and my friend and I wanted to do something interesting. But we had no time and we didn’t want to spend too much… Our motive was just to figure out something that will give healthy competition to other contestants :). So we first thought of what are the outfits … Read more
My son loves construction. This was his childrens costume for nursery school, and we also used it for Halloween trick or treating. To make this childrens costume we took two pieces of cardboard, cut them into squares and then painted each one yellow (they can also be covered/wrapped with yellow construction paper). After the paint … Read more
Here is my daughter, 20 month old Elise, as an Indian Bollywood dancer! I rummaged through a bag of material that my friend was giving away to the Goodwill. I found several yards of this pretty blue material with a gold design. I took a pair of stretch pants I bought on sale at Walmart … Read more
We made our “drive thru girl” and “fry cook” costumes by wearing black pants, black visors and red color shirts. We printed and taped fast food logos the visor and shirt. For the drive-thru girl, I picked up a kid’s meal that day and used the container as purse, used a head set and black … Read more
This was a dress given to us by someone at a rummage sale (it was a homecoming gown), my mother took it for my daughter, as she wanted to be Miss USA 2017 (since she is 7). You don’t need many costume designs to create this persona. She already had the pink bodysuit worn underneath … 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
There is a popular Mexican restaurant in the small town that we live in. My sister had a t-shirt from Los Portales and decided she wanted to be a Los Portales waiter for Halloween. We never thought she would do it, but she did. She definitely has no shame! Her homemade Mexican waiter costume won … Read more
This is Micah The Mail Man and his truck DIY Halloween costume. We made the truck out of cardboard, glue & paint and set this on a Radio Flyer wagon ! He LOVED all of the attention from our local trick’r treaters ! It was so fun putting all of this together, Its amazing what … Read more
My son PJ (Peter) is wearing a Homemade Wrecking Ball Costume. He had asked to be a tractor and with a little tweaking we came up with this instead. It was made using cardboard boxes, hot glue, paint, a Styrofoam ball and printed accents. It was lightweight and easy for him to hold up, especially … Read more
A group of us girls throw a Halloween party every year, which started 4 years ago. This is the second year. We were all different Miss USA contestantsand these are our Miss USA Contestants Costumes. We each were the following states: Miss New York, Miss Virgina, Miss Florida, Miss Hawaii, Miss Alaska, Miss Nevada, Miss … Read more
I am a fuller figured girl that wanted to be sexy. so I decided to make the Retired Playboy Bunny Costume. I couldn’t find a pattern of any kind so I thought “How hard could it be to make one”? I looked at pics of the original playboy costumes and came up with this. Since … Read more