I was looking for something stereotypical and CHEAP! I bought a cheap plastic garbage can (should’ve seen me standing in it at the store. They must’ve thought I was NUTS!) Anyway, I cut the bottom off the can. (Very hard to cut! You will need strong scissors!) and I spray painted the garbage can white. … Read more
Cereal Killer is a pun on words so the teachers loved it. He won 1st prize for most original. All I did was get a black tee shirt and black sweats and hot glue small cereal boxes on the shirt and pants. All on the front of both. I also took plastic spoons and glued … Read more
I took a narrow cardboard box and covered it in yellow fabric for this stoplight costume. I then cut out 2 holes in the front of the box. I covered these holes, one with yellow cellophane and one with green cellophane. We used battery operated blinking pumpkin lights to light up the yellow and green … Read more
This is a Hot Air Balloon costume using my daughter’s left over medical supply boxes etc. It is made with a small cardboard box that we threaded wool through to look like a basket, we added filled socks for the sandbags, we used old catheter tubes too create the poles of the basket and attached … Read more
We have a costume contest every halloween at my job and I’ve won 1st place the last 3 years so I had to come up with another original idea. I decided to be “it’s raining cats & dogs”… To do this I purchased a $3 rain poncho, plastic cats and dogs from ToysRus for $4.99 … Read more
This costume was so easy to make… I made it the day before Halloween! I bought a child’s red apron at Joann’s Craft Store, used some fabric paint and created the famous In-N-Out logo. I stopped by my local In-N-Out and asked for the free hat. My son wore white pants and a white dress … Read more
I always try to make costumes that play on words, so I made I made this “Deviled Egg” costume for my three year old son, complete with hood and cape out of bright red, shiny metallic fabric. I used a devil costume pattern purchased from the fabric store. The egg part of the costume is … Read more
This year my husband’s costume is a Pine-Fresh air Freshener. Here’s how it came about… Every year my husband says he will dress up for Halloween, and every year he backs out at the last minute. This year I decided to make him a costume and I knew it had to be something original and … Read more
Supplies for this costume: Raincoat Umbrella Several Stuffed Animals (Cats & Dogs) I used safety pins to secure the stuffed cats and dogs to the umbrella (on different areas of the umbrella). She wore the raincoat and carried the umbrella; I wouldn’t recommend this costume for a child younger than 5 (unless you use very … Read more
My 3 year son Ean is a tractor fanatic so he wanted to be a tractor, but of course it had to be a John Deere tractor costume, not just any old tractor, for Halloween. I used three cardboard boxes one cut in half and glued on each side of the main box for the … Read more
In 2007, my nephew wanted to be Gravedigger more than anything for Halloween so I offered to try and make a gravedigger monster truck costume for him. With a toy monster truck in front of me to work off of, I cut-shaped and painted (as best as I could) two black posterboards to look like … Read more
This is my son Cash (2 months old) & his first Halloween. I just came up with the idea by myself. I started with a pair of black dress pants, a bow tie, a pair of with socks, black ribbon & 2 $1 bills. I cut the bottoms of the socks off and then glued … Read more