This super fun Barbie in a Box costume was fairly easy and very inexpensive to make, and was an absolute HIT this Halloween! I wore it first to a party, where I won first place in a costume contest, and then it was worn by a friend for a second time where she won a … Read more
Every year our school where I work at picks a theme for the year. This year we choose Superheroes. The teachers and staff wore different costumes based on superheroes, comics, and even villains. I choose the Joker. He is one of my favorite villains. I went searching the thrift stores and found every single piece … Read more
A common term that floats around college campuses is how girls are ‘basic’. The term ‘basic’ defines a girl as being typical such as wearing Ugg boots, wearing a Northface jacket or carrying around a Starbucks cup. As for Halloween, a ‘basic’ costume that a college girl would wear would consist of some sort of … Read more
I feel like an 8-year old trapped in the body of a 42-year old. I LOVE Halloween and I LOVE Legos! Every time I see Lord Business, I crack up over his unbelievably large coffee cup helmet. After seeing “The Lego Movie”, I knew exactly what I wanted to be for Halloween, even though I … Read more
I put together this costume last minute. I had seen a cartoon of Goldilocks as a mugshot, thought how funny, and what an easy costume to put together. I had the black beanie and gloves, wore black clothing and boots. I bought a chalk board at Walmart for $1.97, black mask for $1.00, and foam … Read more
Making the Words E-Bowl-La Teletubbies Costume: For this E-Bowl-La costume I took plastic bowls and wrote Es on them using a Sharpie marker. I glued lace straps to the bowls so I could wear them. I wrapped wire in lace and bent it into the shape of a bolt like La’s antennae and glued that to … Read more
There were many things I thought about being, I jumped from skeleton to circus freak to finally an alien because well I wanted to do something that was out of this world, and painting myself green seemed like a fantastic idea. I started planning what I was going to do 2 days before Halloween. I … Read more
This costume was inspired from the Lego movie. She absolutely loved the Lego movie and her favorite character from it was Unikitty. She decided that that was what she wanted to be for Halloween. It was very different and she was the only one around who had the idea. We put a lot of time … Read more
My boyfriend and I decided that we wanted to be the characters from “Up”. Initially, I was going to be Russell and he was going to be Mr. Fredricksen, but I changed my mind and decided to make a last minute Kevin costume two days before Halloween! A lot of the materials that we used … Read more
My boy is a fan of Minecraft. He told me that he would like to be Minecraft Iron Golem for this Halloween. The costume was made from carton boxes such as a cereal box, 10 ram paper-boxes and color printed papers. The head was a big 2-in-1 cereal box from Sam’s club. The chest was … Read more
How I got the idea: Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. I love scary movies (although I never get scared of them) and I love the concept of free candy, who doesn’t? Every year I am the only one who gets really excited about Halloween even though its months away. I usually start planning … Read more
Every year I normally create costumes for my kids. This year, I decided that our toddler would be a prefect granny! She’s short, she repeats herself (a lot), she’s incredibly nosy, and we typically wait around for her to complete any task – especially getting in and out of the car, so, she has the … Read more