The basket of this Hot Air Balloon costume is a cardboard box covered in burlap material that was attached with an adhesive spray. Inside the basket is a cut-down broom handle that was screwed into the front and back for easy carrying. The balloon frame is made of bendable plastic molding that was screwed together. … Read more
Looking in my crystal ball, I can see your future. Using some tyvek boards my husband had in the garage, I found some wallpaper that looked like wood to cover it with. It was easy to cut and then I just duct taped and used plastic ties to hold it together. I bought some plastic … Read more
I was trying to think of a costume when I was listening to some ACDC’s highway to hell. “Hmmm… what a great idea!” So I went to Home Depot and picked up 4 Stair treads that were sticky one one side. These happen to have some reflective yellow material down one side which was perfect. … Read more
This cereal killer and cereal box Halloween costume was an idea I came up with, by surfing on this site before Halloween. For the cereal box: I knew it would take me a lot of time doing it if my goal was not to spend a lot of money, so I started doing it about … Read more
Okay. For our costumes we decided to be holy cows. We came up with the idea because I tend to say holy cow a lot, so we were like hey! Let’s be holy cows. So we did. We bought white leggings, a white shirt, white wings, a white halo, black fabric paint, and black body … Read more
Started out as a pull up box, a pack of stickers and some taplights. I used makeup wedges to put behind the lights to wedge them pointing down at an angle so that when he was trick or treating he wouldn’t blind fellow trick or treaters. The wheels on the Car Halloween costume are made … Read more
We loved the deviled egg pun and thought it would be a cute costume! We made this costume by paper macheing the egg on top of a 24″balloon that we bought at a party store. We used 2 parts Elmer’s glue to 1 part water and cut up strips of a old phone book. We … Read more
I deliver mail and my 3 year old son thinks it’s pretty cool, so I decided to go to home depot and got a big cardboard box. I made it fit around his power wheels truck (3×5). I cut it out to look like my mail truck. I painted it white and put some postal … Read more
I saw a claw machine as I entered Big Lots one day… then decided then that it would be my costume. It was made out of 2 cardboard packing boxes from Lowes. I painted them red and cut out the window area and duct taped clear vinyl to the inside. I zip tied small PVC … Read more
My name is Sherri and it had been years since I dressed up. But I was invited to a Halloween/Birthday party so I thought I would throw something together plus my daughter wanted me to dress up as I walked around with her trick or treating. It seemed like every idea I had I couldn’t … Read more
My friend and I couldn’t decide what we wanted to be for Halloween so we looked up different compound words and figured we would each be half of the word we chose. We came across “blackmail” and thought that it was perfect. One of us wore all black and the other made a mail envelop … Read more
My 9 year old son, Stevie, went as a ‘cereal’ killer this year. We stabbed small cereal boxes with a knife and then put fake blood on them and waited for it to dry. We used a larger cereal box and did the same, but then left a larger fake knife sticking out of the … Read more