This Homemade Creepy Bert and Ernie Costume was fairly simple to create but a huge hit! We started by buying some old, obnoxious sweaters, corduroy pants, and turtle necks from a local thrift store. We then purchased some bald hats (can get at any Halloween shop or online) and glued them down over our hair. … Read more
The administrators at the special needs school I work in needed a fun group costume idea. Who doesn’t love the Fraggles?!?! We searched and found some highly priced costumes to order then we came across a few how-to’s and went to it. The best part was choosing who got to be which Fraggle character! Loud-mouthed … 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
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