I got a wild hair one day and decided that for my kids homemade costume ideas, Marvin the Martian was a cool character that I felt would be a fun project to duplicate. The helmet is by far the hardest part of this costume. It took me several days and many trips to the hardware … Read more
This is a picture of my husband dressed as Pai Mei from Kill Bill Volume 2. Since the hair is all his own (he usually has a three foot braid down his back) he loves a costume with a “hair theme”. It is first sprayed with white hair spray and then powdered with baby powder. … Read more
Most baby costumes in the stores were all the same. so my idea was a baby chef. Not bad for whipping the whole thing up on my sewing machine 10 minutes before we left to go trick or treating! Total Spent: $2
My son is 2 years old and hates anything on his head but his cap hat. His favorite movie is Disney/Pixars Cars. He had received this cap hat for his birthday so I thought I would make a Lightning McQueen costume to work around the hat. I made him a car mechanic costume and cross … Read more
All you need to buy for this lost dog Halloween costume is a small stuffed dog and a pair of sweat pants at least one or two sizes larger than your size. I used plastic grocery bags to make the large butt cheeks. I first stuffed 2 bags with other bags then inserted them into … Read more
This website is the best as we are always looking for people who will actually appreciate our hard work that we do every year on our Halloween costumes! This year we chose Luau costumes (since we love Hawaii and our backyard is decorated in a very tropical way) and picked the title “Luaus for less”. … Read more
Here’s my daughter, Courtney’s, homemade costume. We got some old clothes at Goodwill, took the frames out of some sunglasses to make it look like she had an explosion in the laboratory, painted her hair white and black in the front to seem as if she did have an explosion, we found a large test … Read more
This is my 4yr old daughter who loves Lil Toot. It’s lots of fun making a Halloween costume so I was up for the challenge. I used cardboard for the different shapes of the boat. Then I reinforced it with papier mache to get rid of all the construction imperfections and painted it. For the … Read more
My son is a villain fan and he wanted to have a Maleficent costume from Sleeping Beauty. We used a cape my sister had made for a Harry Potter costume. We used purple felt and made a dress. Then we took a black snow face mask and sewed horns onto it for her horns and … Read more
Inuyasha! This Manga costume one if for all those Manga fans out there! I believe that it took me about five hours give or take to put this ensemble together. This is one of my daughter’s favorite characters! She asked me to make her costume and I had no clue what to do! I have … Read more
I was looking for an idea for a costume that I hadn’t seen before. I was a big fan of She-Ra when I was growing up so I decided to go online and see if I could find a cartoon picture of her and make a costume. I bought a couple pieces of fabric and … Read more
My son loves Monsters Inc and he wanted a Monster Inc. costume so he decided to be Mike Wazowski for Halloween. To make Mike’s body I used a large air-filled rubber ball that I got at Wal-Mart for less than two dollars. To create the eye I duct taped a Styrofoam ball cut in half … Read more