Check out our Homemade Haunted Tree Costume: In years past our family has stayed away from themed costumes, but this year a “Haunted” theme fell into place. Our oldest daughter (13 years old) thought it would be super cool to be a haunted tree that could move around and surprise people. When we went to … Read more
How do you make a graveyard spookier, more realistic, and more “haunted?” This year our kids went with a haunted theme together. Our oldest son (11 years old) was set on being a walking graveyard. What he ended up with was a graveyard scene to beat all graveyards. We incorporated battery operated led lights, strobe … Read more
My boyfriend and I love Halloween. We decided to create a homemade married zombie couple costume (a bride and groom zombie costume). We went to our local thrift store and I bought a used $30 wedding dress while he picked out men’s suit pieces for less then $15. When we got home, we began ripping … Read more
The frozen head in fridge costume started out as a water heater box. I cut it down the left side to make the “doors” then placed a piece of cardboard in the bottom of the “freezer” section that rested on my daughters head. We spray-painted the entire thing white and placed bent cardboard on the … Read more
I was inspired to build this costume from a drawing I saw on the internet. I was looking for something out of the ordinary but yet kinda scary. After much thinking and planning the process began. I folded and hot glued cardboard into the shape of boards. I wanted this to be truly three dimensional. … Read more
Zombie Barbie Costume: I wanted to do something scary this year, but with my own twist. Barbie Zombie was born! The Homemade Zombie Barbie Costume is pretty simple and allows for lots of creativity and fun. Step 1 – The Dress: Get a white dress, preferably with volume or layers at the bottom. I used … Read more
This Homemade Voodoo Doll Costume works great for Mardi Gras too. Start with a black turtleneck and black tights (better if they’re ripped), add a short skirt and over that a raffia hula skirt. Sew on big “glow in the dark” beads, plastic bugs and snakes, large safety pins, and large sequins made out of … Read more
Who doesn’t dream at night about being trapped by a giant (similar to the one Jack encountered) and ground up to make pastry? Well, maybe a lot of people don’t, but they will after experiencing this costume. Made primarily out of chicken wire and paper mache, this gorrific experience is complete down to blood pumping … Read more
This last-minute Voodoo doll costume was a super easy costume to make and turned out to be a big hit. I bought a roll of burlap and hit glued it to a pair of leggings I already had. The heart and balls on the pins are styrofoam that I painted and used kabob sticks. Basically … Read more
This is my 9 year old son. We used a rolling back pack with the handle being pulled up made the head stand over 6ft tall. We used burlap sacks to make an old looking cloak and then used a clear empty Cheetos bucket to put my son’s head in. We used a light weight … Read more
This zombie costume was originally created for a zombie walk in the town I live in, Fayetteville, NC. The idea came a year ago when I was trying to think of clever zombie ideas. I wanted to create a zombie like no other that has been seen. Since I am a magician I started thinking of … Read more
We stopped Walmart last night and got some cheap halloween makeup and bandages. Woke up around 5 this morning and we used some old work clothes that I had, she put on all of the makeup. When I got to work, people thought that I really got into a car accident.