This is my beaker costume from 2008. I went out in San Francisco and people loved it. I was stopped every two seconds to take a picture with someone… I made it with construction paper, fleece material, carve-able foam, lots of hot glue and spray glue. The top was made with a plastic bowl that … Read more
This year for Halloween my friends and I all agreed we should dress up as Jim Henson characters. Animal is definitely the coolest one (in my opinion) so he was the obvious choice. To make his head I took a baseball cap and felt and stuffed the hat to bulk it up. The eyes and … Read more
Being from Australia, we don’t really celebrate Halloween. This Banana in Pyjamas Costume was actually made by me for carnival in Holland, but now I’m living in Canada and I can’t wait for my first real Halloween! I wanted an original and Australian costume, and I was lucky enough to find the banana hat at … Read more
For people that cant get into the Halloween costume spirit I always say the same thing-Halloween is a time to think about who you are, all your characteristics and find a character that exists in this world who truly embodies you. My partner and I decided to go as Kermit and Piggy for Halloween considering … Read more
Based solely on the mental image of one of my masculine, tall male friends dressed as Miss Piggy, I urged my friends to join me in dressing up as various characters from the Muppet Show. Everyone agreed, but one of them only under the condition that we were characters from the spin-off of the Muppet … Read more
The theme is Cartoon charaters/ Kids shows. We couldn’t resist these two classics, but didn’t like any of the ones available online. Time to get creative and make our Homemade Bert and Ernie Halloween Costumes. My friend and I carved the heads from foam (the same foam in car seats). Wigs were glued on along … Read more
My Pee Wee Herman Halloween costume made a big splash this year and it was easy too! I used an old gray suit that my Dad gave me a while ago that he doesn’t use anymore. If you don’t have a gray suit, Goodwill or any thrift store will have a lot of inexpensive suits. … Read more
For last year’s carnival we wanted costumes of two characters from children’s television serials. Finally we decided to make Gobo and Red (here in Spain she was Rosi) from Fraggle Rock. The upper part of the head is a cap covered with something similar to velvet. It’s usually used for carnival and Halloween costumes because … Read more
We recently took a trip to Sesame Place for vacation and using that as inspiration, I came up with several Sesame Street costumes. Here is the Coolest Elmo Tutu Dress Costume!!! After making a handmade tutu costume using 6-inch wide strips of red tulle tied onto elastic, I added felt shapes to form the shape … Read more
I wanted to be big bird!! Here’s what I did to create this homemade Big Bird Halloween costume idea. I bought 8 yellow feather boas and sewed them on to a mini tube dress (that I had in my closet since High School, lol) I just put in a stitch about ever 6 inches or … Read more
I’ve been a fan of Pee-Wee since I was a child ..so putting that thought into my 4 year old son Dillon’s Halloween costume I came up with this look. I bought some grey suiting fabric from my local Joann’s fabric store, made a 2 piece boy’s suit and purchased a white button-up dress shirt … Read more
I made these paper mache Fraggle Rock characters for my friends and myself to wear out to a club for Halloween. It was a real treat trying to figure out how to make them wearable but with a little brain power I was able to do so successfully. I used baseball caps sized to my … Read more