I took a cruise of the Mexican Riviera the first week of October 2010. While shopping in Masatlan Mexico, my husband purchased 2 Lucha Libre masks for our nephews (6 & 4). Naturally, when we gave them the masks, they decided that was what they wanted to be for Halloween. The blue costume is Alexander … Read more
My three-year-old daughter Waverly (Wavy for short) loves the ocean and all its critters. After a visit to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in California this summer, she decided that she wanted to be a jellyfish for Halloween, in particular, the beautiful orange “chrysaora achlyos,” or black sea nettle jellyfish. This homemade jellyfish Halloween costume was … Read more
My husband and I host an annual Halloween party. We brainstorm for a couple months every year about our costume and this year we came up with a Homemade Old Homeless Couple Halloween Costume Idea. We are in our early thirties and so we knew makeup and costumes would be important but also the props … Read more
My 6 year old son Declan is fascinated with sharks. My handmade shark eating child Halloween costume is inspired by my son’s love for sharks and the movie Jaws. I started off the costume by making a paper mache helmet so he could wear it with comfort and could take the costume on and off … Read more
My son thought he was getting to old for Halloween so we came up with a Homemade Die Hard Tailgater Original Halloween Costume Idea for his age. I had two black plastic bowls I had saved and asked what he might be able to make out of them. He said a BBQ grill. We attached … Read more
I came up with this Homemade Basketball Hoop Halloween Costume about 2 days before Halloween. I wanted to be something different, and non-obstructive like the box-like costumes I had been in the past. So I was a basketball hoop! All you really need is: Cardboard String Markers Tape A sweatband A hole-punch Face paint Hairspray … Read more
The Homemade Killer Fish Halloween Costume Idea took me about two and a half days to complete. I constructed it entirely out of cardboard, masking tape, thin wooden dowels, and posterboard for the scales. It took a lot of putting it on and off in the beginning just to make sure that it would fit … Read more
I won an award at the Castro Street Halloween festival in San Francisco with this Jellyfish Costume Design! I started with some soft Styrofoam packing pieces, an umbrella and a hula hoop. CONSTRUCTION: I made a shoulder pad/costume stand out of two pieces of Styrofoam packing pieces large enough to put my head through (from … Read more
This Baseball Trophy Costume was so easy and inexpensive to do. I was inspired by my son’s baseball trophy. Supplies for this costume: Gold Spray paint, golf hair color spray and gold makeup, his baseball uniform, shirt, pants, cleats, socks, helmet, gloves & a plastic bat. I sprayed painted gold on everything, about 5 cans. … Read more
I made this Macho Man Randy Savage Costume for my son, Eddie. I didn’t even know who Macho Man Randy Savage was before I whipped up this costume. After looking at lots of pictures I came up with my costume design. First I bought a cheap black leather coat ($20). I bought some red lycra … Read more
I hadn’t the money I did in 2009 to purchase a professionally assembled costume. Since I had grown a beard (for the Blackhawks’ playoff run) I opted to use the beard to my advantage. It took no more that $40 worth of material and knowing someone with extensive sewing skills. I used a pair of … Read more
For the Macho Man Randy Savage costume the first thing I got was the hat then I designed the rest based on the hat. Then I got the pants and cut streamers to tape on the bottom to man then wrestling pants. For the shirt I just got a plan white shirt and bought some … Read more