My son and my niece are very close in age and love to trick or treat together. They like to coincide so last year we came up with this Popeye and Olive Oyle costume and I must say they stole the show! Popeye: White sailor suit from his dress up been, hot glued the blue … Read more
The finance department at Touchstone Behavioral Health adapted their own version of the Peanuts gang this year. The heads were designed using the punch ball balloons with paper mache and then painted and decorated with various items. This is the result of our Homemade Peanuts Group Costume.
People were always saying that our son, Reef, looks just like Charlie Brown because of how round his head is and because for a long time the only hair he had was a couple little curls on top. So, when we started thinking about what he should be for his first Halloween, Charlie Brown was … Read more
Both the Popeye and the Olive Oyl costumes are completely hand made. I found almost everything at Goodwill and Walmart. Olive Oyl wore a red long sleeved t-shirt from Walmart and a long black skirt from Goodwill. I also just happened to find the perfect (and perfect fitting boots at Goodwill too!! Almost did a … Read more
My friends and I are not the type to go buy a pre-made Halloween costume. We like to be creative, original and more importantly, we like to dress up as a group. So the Homemade Peanuts Cartoon Costumes were a perfect choice. We worked on our costumes for 6 consecutive days. The paper mache heads are … Read more
My twin boys look so different that I decided they would make a great Popeye and Bluto. I copied the original cartoon outfits almost identically, it was really easy. Popeye had a costume sailor hat I purchased and stitched at the back to downsize, I used knee high panty hose for the arms with batting … Read more
We went with a Popeye Costume this year to honor my son’s Great Grandpa (his nickname in the Navy was Popeye). Of course those costumes are impossible to find for a toddler and look super fake. I started with a black tshirt and blue sweats from Walmart (had to buy long sleeve and cut the … Read more
We were looking for a couple’s costume that was cheap and easy enough to DIY; Homemade Popeye and Olive Oylseemed like the perfect fit (I think I was actually inspired from previous year’s submissions on this site). The costumes were constructed with a judicious amount of duck tape, very little sewing, and fabric felt with … Read more
This Homemade Baby Popeye Costume was such an easy and cute costume to put together for my little Popeye. The pants were made with some blue fabric I had on hand….initially cost 1.99/yard. I added a yellow belt using yellow binding that I had. The shirt was a black t-shirt that my son already had … Read more