My son Zedd has always been infatuated with Tim Burton so Jack Skellington costume was a natural for him this Halloween. We researched the Jack costumes from this site and used some previous readers tips. (Thank you so much). We were fortunate to find a petite ladies suit with pinstripes at Value Village for $12. … Read more
This is a re-worked Homemade Jack Skellington Costume that I altered for my friend. He is incredibly skinny so I had to take the costume in quite a bit. The gloves were made by taking apart skeleton hands and hot gluing the pieces to a pair of black gloves. The zero was probably the most … Read more
Hi, my name is Luca, I write from Milan, Italy. Browsing the internet, I found your site which is very beautiful and full of fantastic ideas for creating costumes!! I like very much to create these things, and me and Ale, a girlfriend of mine, decided to create a couple costume of Jack & Sally … Read more
My 6 year old daughter wanted to be Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas but the costume did not come in her size… ANYWHERE so, we decided to make it. I headed to the local thrift store and found different fabrics to match the patches from the dress. I originally was going to glue all … Read more
Loving the Movie The Christmas Story and having to make a costume to go to a Halloween party my Husband Matt and I set out to make our homemade “A Christmas Story” couple Halloween costumes. I bought an old lamp shade and some fringe and hot glued the fringe to the shade, add stockings and … Read more
This Homemade Grinch Halloween Costume Idea was the perfect costume for me! Not only do I love the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, but I love homemade Halloween costumes so I was up for the challenge of making this one as realistic as possible. I found some great faux fur fabric on amazon which was the … Read more
Here is a photo of my two boys as Heat Miser and Snow Miser from the movie, “A Year Without A Santa Claus”. This is an old favorite movie of mine that I shared with my boys and they loved the movie and the songs that Heat and Snow Miser sing. So together we decided … Read more
I wanted to go as Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas but definitely didn’t want to go as superstore big hot mask Jack. I found a tight striped suit which I made some alterations to make a good fit. The shirt was a regular long sleeve button down with the collars pinned up. I purchased … Read more
This is a favorite Halloween movie for most of us, and it was for my 3 year old. She is obsessed with the color green, and so, was obsessed with Oogie Boogie, the villain from the Nightmare Before Christmas who is a gambling burlap sac of maggots. Of course, to make this Homemade Toddler Oogie … Read more
My name is April W. from Fort Worth TX.(I also made a coolest homemade Sally costume). I bought the woman’s suit jacket from thrift town for my job as a telemarketer but never got to wear it until this picture of the Jack Skellington Woman Costume. I love Nightmare Before Christmas! and I LOVE your … Read more
A plain white T-shirt, striped pants from the Thrift store and a borrowed pair of black coat tails. We purchased a $1 pair of skeleton gloves, a $1 Christmas hat and a $1 pumpkin. His tie was handmade out of black craft foam and white fabric paint. Black and white face paint finished the job … Read more
This Christmas Story Couple Costumes was such a hit! Here is what I did: Crate: Used a box, covered it in Wood Grain Contact Paper(Home Depot) and added balsa wood(Craft Store) for a 3D effect. Then I stenciled on the words Fragile and This End Up. I then added some packing material(craft store) to the … Read more