As huge NBA fans, my buddy and I decided to create puppets modeled after the famous NIKE commercials. Since there were two of us, it was the perfect fit! We gathered some pictures up on the internet and threw a few grids on them to get the proper proportions. Then the fun began!!! … along … Read more
My Homemade Illuminated Costume is inspired on the 2011 finalists in America’s Got Talent- Team Illuminate. Their use of electroluminescent wire looked like a fun idea and up my alley, so I ran with it for a Halloween costume. I read for a few hours online on how the wires are cut and soldered and … Read more
“What do you want to be for Halloween?” I asked my barely 4 year old. I’m imagining something that’s not too hard to make, like last year’s Astronaut or the “Boy Fairy” from the year before. He thought about it for a little while and told me “I want to be a tree house.” … Read more
There are a few transforming costume designs out there, but it seems like they usually just settle for the idea that any arrangement of pieces that looks like a car or truck when it is on the ground is good enough. My goal was to build a costume accurate to the design of Optimus Prime … Read more
The first time I saw the Sun Drop commercial I was laughing so hard! Since all my friends were telling me that I look like the girl from the commercial because of my red hair, I decided that the SunDrop girl was going to be my Halloween costume this year. It was an exclusive costume … Read more
I took the idea from Katy Perry’s Christmas Tree costume. I wanted to make it like a dress, and it had to be awesome (I won the costume contest *-*). I drew the costume, but I’m not a good designer, so I’ll not show the drawing. I used satin and buckram to do it look … Read more
This Homemade Transformer Tank Halloween Costume Idea took nearly twenty hours of work to make. It was inspired by viewing many attempts of Transformer costumes online. I decided I wanted to be able to keep it simple and functional at the same time and still look as real as possible. This costume was built twice. … Read more
How to create theHomemade Black Swan Costume: It all started with a black corset, and then I got the black tulle (about 2 meters), black feathers and some decoration for the front upper part of the costume (black, white and silver sequins). A friend of mine helped me sew the tulle to the corset, and … Read more
This Homemade Scarecrow Stalker Optical Illusion Costume was the brainchild of my husband, and myself. We were not really sure with our current budget how we could purchase our children Halloween costumes this year. So we decided to make them. I had the thought earlier in the month, however, we did not start attempting to … Read more
Hi my name is Brad from SirBrad’s Horror FX, and I design life-sized movie quality costumes of horror icons. I specialize in Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Madman Marz, Jeepers Creepers, Terminator, Leatherface, and many more! I have been featured on DVDS and the official F13th website several times now. I grew up on … Read more
The head of the T-Rex Dinosaur Costume is made of chicken wire fitted over a Star Wars trooper helmet and two shoe boxes. The shoe boxes formed the snout. Then the head was covered with paper mache and spray painted. The body is made of two sets of long johns, one pair is the pants … Read more
I started out this Homemade Scarry Zombie Hag Halloween Costume by taking pantyhose and filling them with stuffing, and tying them where appropriate to make the large intestines. I made a small intestines by filling two pantyhose legs with less stuffing. Both sets of intestines I covered in liquid latex, and then airbrushed for color. … Read more