Homemade Star Wars Ewok Costume

Homemade Star Wars Ewok Costume

My grandson loves Star Wars and wanted to participate in a Star Wars costume contest at a Pirates game. There were no Ewok costumes anywhere to be found.  I thought how hard could this be to make:  I went to Joanne Fabric and purchased a cat costume pattern, and brown fur and other supplies. This … Read more

Hooray for the Sushi Tray Costume

Hooray for the Sushi Tray Costume

This Sushi Tray costume was worn by my eldest son.  My son loves to draw and one of his favorite subjects to draw is food. Not just ordinary food but food beings. He gives these culinary creatures a face, arms and legs and has them doing various activities, like dancing, running, and playing. While we … Read more

Award Winning DIY Stuffed Animal Claw Machine Costume

Award Winning DIY Stuffed Animal Claw Machine Costume

How did you come up with this costume idea? My daughter Natalie is 7 years old and just loves playing the stuffed animal claw game so she decided that was what she wanted to be for Halloween. Items included are as follows: 2 extra large home depot boxes 3 black spray paint 3 gorilla black … Read more

Original Tooth Fairy Costume from Rise of the Guardians

Original Tooth Fairy Costume from Rise of the Guardians

This tooth fairy costume from Rise of the Guardians took a lot of time to create. We first started out by creating a base for the head piece. We measured her head and used wire to shape the cone-like figure to make it comfortable around her head, and lace to easily glue the feathers on … Read more

Awesome Homemade Back to the Future Doc Brown and Delorean Costume

Awesome Homemade Back to the Future Doc Brown and Delorean Costume

We collect movies and movie memorabilia, particularly 80’s movies. Our 6 year-old daughter, Livi, loves most of them too. Her favorite character in the Back to the Future movies is Doc Brown.  We decided that this would be the year to make a tribute to the Back to the Future movies, and let Livi pretend … Read more

Homemade DIY Starbucks Drink Costume

Homemade DIY Starbucks Drink Costume

I made this homemade DIY Starbucks drink costume for my 10 year old daughter Alayna. She asked to be a Starbucks drink for Halloween this year. We started off by googling Starbucks drink cups and costumes that were DIY made by other people. We then went to the dollar store to gather more ideas. We … Read more

Awesome Bot Costume

Awesome Bot Costume

We spent months brainstorming this awesome bot costume! Our 4 year old talked about being a robot for quite a while, so we decided to make it happen. We started with some used hockey pads and shin guards, used little felt pads (for under appliances) as rivets, and spray-painted them all a shiny silver. Toilet … Read more

Lego Superhero Group Costume

Lego Superhero Group Costume

Supplies for the Lego Superhero Group Costume: Cardboard, Foam, Ramboard, Pvc Pipe, Fiberglass Resin. I measured an actual Lego body and tried to get the dimensions right for an actual kid Lego body.  Each Lego body had different dimensions according to how big the kids were.  I cut out each body and hot glued the … Read more

Squidward the Coolest Costume I’ve Ever Made

Squidward the Coolest Costume I've Ever Made

My grandson wanted to be Squidward this year for Halloween, so I took on the challenge!  The journey began with putting pieces of clothing together at my local Salvation Army Shop, Ocean State Job Lot, Michael’s Craft Store, Dollar Tree and Walmart (Total cost $38.18). I began by assembling the hat which is made from … Read more

Mini Link from Zelda DIY Costume

Mini Link from Zelda DIY Costume

My son is a huge Zelda video game fan, so when he wanted to go as Link from the game I couldn’t say no!  I am not a seamstress so we got some help from his Aunt to make some of the items for this mini Link from Zelda DIY costume. We started off by … Read more

Wicked Awesome Predator Costume for Boy

Wicked Awesome Predator Costume for Boy

So my 8 year old son Ethan is obsessed with the Predator vs Alien movies and decided mid-september that he wanted to be the Predator. We watched the movies and mama started brainstorming. He was going to be predator no matter what I had to do!  You cannot just go buy this costume, so I … Read more

Edward Scissorhands Halloween Costume

Edward Scissorhands Halloween Costume

I made this Edward Scissorhands Halloween costume for my 9 year old son. Every year I try my hardest to do something different for my son Ethan’s Halloween costume other than the typical costumes found in the big box stores. This year I wanted to do a throwback of one of our favorite movies, Edward Scissorhands. … Read more