I am a grade 12 student and my school always gets dressed and we have costume contests. I was thinking of what to be for Halloween as I wanted to do something that I had not seen at my school in all the years that I have been there. I made my costume out of … Read more
This skeleton costume was from a pattern from Simplicity. There were 4 different costumes in the pattern and I liked the skeleton the best. I bought the black and white fabric on sale for about $1 per yard. I bought the gloves on a $1.00 table. They were a little big, but they glow in … Read more
This is my witch costume for the Wicked Witch from Snow White. I bought 8 to 10 yards of rayon material, depends on your height, fold in half and sew up the sides leaving enough of an opening for your hands. I slit the top middle to make room for your head to fit through. … Read more
This costume is a variation of the “headless-boy” costume we’ve made in previous years that was just too spooky! It’s easy to make out of cardboard and old clothes. You simply use cardboard to build some fake shoulders and fake arms that rest on the child’s shoulders. Then you use an old trench coat that … Read more
We bought a Pittsburgh penguins jersey, $2.00, at the Thrift shop. Then we stopped at the party store and picked up two really big bowls, hot glued them together and cut the bottom out for my daughter’s head to fit inside. We used a back-lack with a board inserted and tie strapped down along with … Read more
We started a little late so the “scavenging” didn’t really take place and instead we ended up purchasing a good deal of the items used to construct this headless costume. We started with a basic set of football shoulder pads and we modified them (cut off the portion of the padding that wasn’t needed for … Read more
This Homemade Spooky Ghost Halloween Costume was made out of an old sheet. I cut a hole at the top and then hemmed around it leaving an opening. I pulled elastic through the hem and then sewed it together. Next I cut out holes for each arm and zig-zagged around the holes so they would … Read more
I created this Homemade Headless Costume by building the shoulder unit out of supplies around the house. I used a coat hanger, some duct tape, old pillows/cloth, and some packing Styrofoam. I got the dress at Value Village for $6. I used some stuffed gloves for the hands. I made sure the dress was long … Read more
This is how we made my son’s homemade Headless Halloween costume: We bought an old coat from the local charity shop (an XL man’s coat). We filled an old hiking backpack with rags to bulk it out and put it on my son’s back. The coat was then placed over the backpack and buttoned up … Read more
This Halloween costume was inspired by the movie “Zombieland”. Upon seeing the movie, I knew exactly what I was going to create this year for Halloween. After countless views of youtube how to videos and watching all the zombie movies ever created, I finally came up with the design for my homemade Zombie costume. I … Read more
I made this homemade decapitated woman costume all out of paper mache, I formed the upper body and arms out of wire and tape then paper mache’d it and painted it, for the cut neck to look more realistic I used the expandable foam in a can. The dress is a long formal from a … Read more
I love fancy dress and use any opportunity possible to dress up and get create. I never buy my costumes, I like to be original and make my own creations; whether its re-using old clothes or things found in charity shops, or creating them from scratch and buying in all the raw materials. For Halloween … Read more