My son had been playing the Star Wars Lego Game and thought of being Luke Skywalker’s character for Halloween. So knowing I would not find it anywhere decided to get my brain working on Star Wars Halloween costumes. We printed out a picture of the Lego character and started saving a few boxes. All I … Read more
My family wanted good Halloween costume ideas. We love monopoly so why not make our Halloween costume into our favorite game. We wanted it to be Halloween related so we added scary props and named it Hauntedopoly. It started out with a recycled costume (a few years ago I was an ace of spade) so … Read more
I created this Sulley from Monsters Inc costume from some Cosmo Girl! I decorated with fabric that I got on sale. (This Sulley is about 6’5″ so I got almost three yards.) I just outlined a pair of his jeans and a shirt. I suppose a pattern would have worked too. I draped some fabric … Read more
For the can we used a big sheet of thin plastic. We made stencils and spray painted everything on to it. The top is the top of a garbage can with a helmet and fill-in which made a shape of the top of a bottle of axe. Where the deodorant supposedly sprays out is made … Read more
We made this nun costume for our seven month old daughter. The idea originated as a joke because she was anything but a good baby (she had horrible colic). The dress is a store bought Christmas outfit that had red flowers at the waist. I took some black fabric used for the habit and covered … Read more
My daughter recently heard the story of the Princess and the Pea and decided that’s what she wanted to be for Halloween. It took many nights of brainstorming this original Halloween costume idea, but this is how I finally did it. I took 4 mid-weight sheets of cardboard cut out 4 circles large enough for … Read more
This was a very and one of the more original Halloween costumes to make. It only took me a good day in the floor to make it. My son, Tyler, came up with the idea and that is why we named it a Ty-Tag washer. We try to go very frugal so this was perfect … Read more
I hope you enjoy our Toaster and Oven costume idea. Supplies List: Large cardboard box, medium size cardboard box, miscellaneous scrap cardboard, one 6″ cardboard cake, round one 8″ cardboard cake, round one sheet white poster board, one sheet black foam board, 1 package fake eyeballs, one fake hand, one package fake cockroaches, one fake … Read more
I couldn’t find an owl costume to fit my newborn so I made one! I sewed feathers on the arms and around the neck of a white onesie and put her in white tights with little brown ballet slippers built-in (from the Gap). I then took a white cap (the onesie and the cap were … Read more
Well the story of the evil robot panda costume starts with pandas. My favorite animals are pandas so I knew I wanted to make a crazy panda! I was going to make it out of cardboard so that would lend itself naturally to a robot panda and it was for Halloween so it had to … Read more
Two weeks in the making it was inspired by the original created by Felix Jung in 2004 and somewhat by Jack W. Bell’s take in 2005 I took it upon myself to reproduce it this year with the addition of the mask and light up nose hence the “Take 3”. It even has its own … Read more
Every year we come up with different party costumes. This year we made a kissing booth. This is what you need to make this costume: two boxes, one small and a half of one the kind canned goods come, in some red and white material, white puff paint, some quarters, four wooden rods, a frog … Read more