This Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas Unique Halloween Costume Idea was paired with Jack Skellington. I made them for my boyfriend and I. I made a very basic dress muslin (shift dress, basically) and drew out the placement of the patches and then cut the pieces apart for patterns. I started the endeavor by finding … Read more
My husband has wanted to be Ralphie for years, but that left me high ‘n’ dry for a costume idea. Until…. I love dressing up as inanimate objects. I was a package of Smarties a few years ago! I am not a great seamstress, that’s for sure, but I managed to somehow get this bunny … Read more
This is a Homemade Cindy Lou Who Halloween Costume for my 6 year old daughter. I found an adult red velvet cape from a vampire costume from years’ past and cut it to my daughter’s size. I then added white fur trim around the hood and edges. She wore her Christmas dress from last year. … Read more
My daughter, Sierra, does not do gory, gross or scary. In fact, she won’t even stay in the same room if someone is talking about blood, guts or gore. Halloween is obviously not her favorite holiday since it involves all of the above. This year she decided to skip the Halloween horrors and move on … Read more
I originally wasn’t even going to make a Halloween costume but then a few of my friends ended up having their birthday’s over the Halloween weekend and they made it “mandatory” that everyone dressed up for the occasion. Since I hadn’t actually dressed up for the holiday in so many years I figured I had … Read more
My sons and I are totally in love with The Nightmare Before Christmas! So when it came to choose a Halloween costume there wasn’t any other choice who they were going to be, Rivals “Jack Skelington” aka Homemade Jack the Pumpkin King and Oogie Boogie Costumes. We went to a bunch of Halloween costume stores … Read more
For the first time ever, my 10 year old son was excited about dressing up for Halloween. He’s a big Jack Skellington fan and was set on dressing up in a Homemade Jack Skellington Costume. I happen to work for the “Big Mouse” but couldn’t find one decent costume for kids his age. They were … Read more
This year my friends and I decided on being Lock, Shock, and Barrel from Tim Burton’s ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. Always been an advocate for creating my own costumes, opposed to store bought… spent the better part of two and a half weeks making them, and I feel they came out pretty successful.
I have a 4 year old who has wanted to be Jack since last year, after watching “The Nightmare before Christmas”. I looked EVERYWHERE for a costume to buy one. I could not find one!! They are all for ADULTS. SO we had to make our own homemade Jack Skellington child costume. I came here … Read more
My daughter’s school had a Christmas in October party. She wanted to dress in a Cindy Lou Who costume. I purchased a child’s wig and hair extensions. I braided the wig, hot glued the extensions to a Styrofoam cone then glued the cone to the top of the wig. The outfit I made for a … Read more
This Homemade Jovie The Elf Costume was actually a custom request from someone this last Christmas, we just happened to be roughly the same size so I could model it for photos (I plan on making one for myself though, soon). The basic dress I made from a simple long sleeved, knee length dress pattern. … Read more
Last year our boys decided that they wanted to be a marionette and a Christmas stocking. It is our tradition to allow them to choose what they want to be and we will try to make it. The Homemade Christmas Stocking Costume: Cut out material so that child can fit in in the shape of … Read more