I wanted something scary this year so I took to google and typed in “scary costume ideas”. This amazing photo came up of a girl with a giant mouth starting at the bottom of her nose down her neck and onto her chest. I was sold! In order to create the look I needed toilet … Read more
Why be cute when you can be undead! I knew I wanted to be a zombie so I googled some images and found one that I knew I wanted to do. I went to goodwill to find a prom dress to destroy. I friend on quite a few but none really fit so I bought … Read more
I was seriously sitting at the dining room table when this idea popped into my head, thinking how cool would it be to become dinner!! Not wanting to spoil what my plan was, I worked on it when everyone was sleeping (I’m very sneaky that way). I started with a piece of cardboard that and … Read more
So this costume started off with my seven year old really wanting to be Anna or Elsa from Frozen. I told her that there would be a million and one of them and she needed to be something more original and maybe something scary. So I went looking around on this site and found a … Read more
Since in Germany, where I live, Halloween is not so popular as in other countries, I made this costume for carnival, when many people in Germany wear costumes. The idea for this costume came into my mind one night while falling asleep. Such an idea, when you are nearly gone into dreamworld but then you … Read more
My 15 year old son saw a YouTube video about an urban legend, the Owl Man, and immediately decided that he wanted to create his own version of this for his Halloween costume. He and my husband began by taking chicken wire and bent it and shaped it into a shape that resembled an owl’s … Read more
This costume is probably the most fun thing I have ever done! The belly was made out of paper mache, plaster, balloon, baby from good will, paint, latex, toilet tissue, and an ace bandage between the meche and plaster for attaching to my waist. I made a plaster cast of mine and husbands face. When … Read more
My school decided to put on a Haunted House for the first time ever (eep yay!), and at first my group’s part was the “backwoods rednecks”, but that was not very scary at all in my opinion. We finally got the president of our club to approve a “nursery” theme. Then the task of finding … Read more
This was my 9 year old daughter’s costume. It was all her idea from concept to execution with a little help from her 11 year old sister and myself. The costume was cheaper to make than buying one from a store. My daughter wore this to her fall festival at school and got a tremendous … Read more
My 10 yr old son, Kaleb, loves coming up with costumes where he seems to have either lost his head, be only a head, or headless and holding his own head! This year he decided on being a Headless Scarecrow! From the looks of it, the crows must not have been very afraid of him. The … Read more
I was nearly seven months pregnant, and I didn’t feel very sexy. I had a short red dress in my closet from Valentine’s Day, and it fit me like a shirt. I only had a few days until Halloween, so i had to come up with something quickly. I figured: I want to incorporate my … Read more
The costume that I am submitting is called Wolf Bane. It is a costume that took me 3 months to create. The materials I used to create the costume was cardboard boxes, masking tape, trash bags, glue gun and paint. This is a costume that I basically thought up in my head and decided to … Read more