We chose to dress our lil darling devil in a home made red devil baby costume. Grandma and I made this garment. We used red nylon fabric for the “jumpsuit”, a heavy red fleece fabric for the collar. We sowed a tail and made a headband horn set. Also we purchased a pair candy corn … Read more
We won the scariest costume award. This head on platter costume is such a great and easy costume. The table is just foam poster board with a Halloween table cloth. All of the other stuff on the table are from the dollar store. We use plates and all fun creepy stuff. The red ribbon is … Read more
I got the idea for these Homemade Decapitated Bride and Butcher Costumes from your site (thank you!) but wanted to make the “execution” a bit easier than molding my bust, etc. I found the dress at a local thrift store for about $12.00 so the costume ended up being very economical to make. For the … Read more
When I was younger I was obsessed with watching the horrible cheesy horror flicks and this inspired me to create a costume. There are many bad horror films that involve dolls that come to life and kill and this was my rendition of that. For my husband’s costume he is a Dummy. I love to … Read more
My daughter, Megan, decided she wanted a wicked witch Halloween costume. I knew that this was a pretty generic costume, but I decided to accessorize and make it into something fabulous. This was a store bought witch costume that only came with the skirt and top, but of course I had to give it a … Read more
We made the headless harness of the Homemade Headless Corpse Bride Costume with hangers and a backpack, stuffed the neck and arms with cotton. I purchased the dress and roses at the second hand store for $5.00. Her wig was made with yarn that was spray painted with different color blues. Her makeup was replicated … Read more
I want to share with everyone the product I use that has truly changed my Halloween costume making and has made anything possible. After years of experimenting with paper mache (too heavy), wire and fabric (not stable enough) and many other methods, I finally found plumbing pipe insulation. This is extremely light weight, bendable, sturdy … Read more
All fall I was thinking of a Halloween costume, when I finally thought of a mummy. Tried to find an already made one online, but none of them appealed to me. I also wanted to be a cute mummy. So I decided to make my own Homemade Mummy Girl Costume. I started by buying a … Read more
This Headless Halloween costume was as much fun to make as my daughter had wearing it! The costume can be made for any character. It just happens that the thrift store had this chef jacket for $3.95 and that made it even better. The headless component of this costume is a rolling backpack with the … Read more
We got the idea for a headless costume from others on your site. I bought a $5 large man’s jacket from a thrift store, plus $8 for 2 plastic hands you can get most anywhere around Halloween. I used a large backpack & stuffed a pillow in it so it stuck out above the backpack, … Read more
