Having dressed as an elf, reindeer, and snowman in previous years, the Christmas just been I decided to go all out step away from the standard festive costume choices and dress as the famous Coca Cola Truck for my last Christmas at University. Being a student I was working on a pretty tight budget and … Read more
My daughter wanted to be scary and dead. She really wanted to do the head on the platter but it had been done a lot before so we decided to do something different. So she was “severed head fortune teller.” This Severed Head Fortune Teller Costume was really easy and just required a lot of … Read more
This is my daughter dressed in the Coolest Homemade Aviator in a Hot Air Balloon Costume that I made for her. My daughter wanted to be a hot air balloon for Halloween for a long time but it took me almost a year to come up with a way to make a perfect looking balloon. … Read more
As my kids get older I require that they get more creative with their Halloween costume ideas. My son, Jordan, had the oddball idea of being a traffic cone this year. The only items I had on hand were the hula hoop for the bottom circle, a beach pail for the top, and hard poster … Read more
My daughter, Megan, decided that she wanted to be something amazing this year for Halloween. She came up with the homemade Gumball Machine Halloween costume idea all on her own. I searched for ideas on the web (including this site) and I did find some Gumball Machine costumes. However, they weren’t quite what I was … Read more
We decided to make our son a homemade car costume for his schools fancy dress competition as he loves cars and wouldn’t really want to be anything else, he won first prize so we were really pleased. We started off using an old vacuum cleaner box, we opened it up and drew a car shape … Read more
I got the homemade traffic light costume idea from this site. I started with a box that fit over my son, making sure he can still walk safely and bring his hands together in front. Cut a hole for the head, arms and three holes in the front for the lights. Spray paint the box … Read more
My wife and I came up with a vision of a “Trucker Girl on a Mud Flap” (you know the little hot silver seductive women on the back of mud flaps). I don’t know how it started or came about… but It came out pretty incredible. I am an extremest, I take things over the … Read more
My 4.5 year old son, who is fascinated by construction equipment, decided that this year he would like to be a backhoe. Knowing right off that there would be no store bought costume available, my husband and I set about devising how to construct a Homemade Backhoe Halloween Costume. First off we started sketching out … Read more
This Homemade Zoltar Costume was inspired from the movie “Big” and the popular amusement park fortune teller attraction. The costume was entirely handmade by my brother, my husband, and I. The frame was made with wood. Each piece was measured and cut, nailed together, then stained. The sides were then made by cutting pieces of … Read more
For Halloween this year my roommate and I had a homemade one night stand couple Halloween costume idea. We started out by making our lampshades to put on our heads like hats. We took 4 sheets of paper and separately folded them in zig-zags, making one end wider between zags to have the smaller ends … Read more
I had a homemade cereal killer Halloween costume idea. I made it all with things I have at home. I took a pair of old cloths and glued small cereal boxes to the shirt with knives coming out of them with the fake blood coming out and splattered over it. I had blood splattered over … Read more