I have made a few homemade costumes before, it just takes imagination. My one son has bleach blonde hair, so he has gone as Billy Idol (when he was just two) and it fit him perfectly. Then the following year was his little brother’s first Halloween, and they went as Mighty Mouse and Underdog, again … Read more
My son decided he wanted to be a scarecrow for Halloween. On a whim, I went through his closet to see if he had anything suitable that would work for the shirt and pants, so I would not have to buy anything new. I ended up with a plaid shirt that he was growing out … Read more
This Halloween, I basically forgot the holiday existed until about a week before. I’m not sure why, since I spent hours on Pinterest pinning cute costumes and crafts, but I realized I had no costume – severely disappointing. While I didn’t “need” a costume for any one event, I really wanted one. With that in … Read more
When Despicable Me 2 came out, I knew I wanted my boys to be minions for Halloween. They are huge minion fans. After doing some research, I noticed many people used either a round garbage can or insulated foam to make the shape of the minion. I wanted something lightweight and cheap for my boys … Read more
This cupcake costume was a last minute decision the weekend before Halloween. We ran out to our local Dollar Tree and picked up some cardstock poster paper & a round small laundry basket. Then we headed over to JoAnn Fabrics and picked up some tule. I cut the bottom out of the laundry basket and … Read more
I had told my husband that everybody at my work was going to be disappointed that I wasn’t dressing up as something Fun for Halloween this year. I just hadn’t had time to come up with anythng Fun because we had been to busy dealing with other issues. I got up the next moring and … Read more
Initially, my boyfriend, Chris, and I were invited to two parties. The first being an anything goes costume party and the other a “Woodstock” themed party. Chris was already dead set on being a Minion so we decided to go as Minions to the first party and then add “hippy” things to our costumes for … Read more
This is very simple costume. You will need some patience and a lot of cotton wool. And the result is soft, gentle, wooly, fluffy sheep. Baaa Sheep Family How To Make For the base, you could use a old white shirt with the hood or you can sew something similar from the old bed sheet, … Read more
I made several costumes for my toddler in the last 2 months. I did not enter all of them in this contest because it takes a while to do the write ups. Also, some of my favorites aren’t always the popular ones. I did’t initially post this one because I wasn’t sure how it would … Read more
Well, my son has forgotten to tell me that he is having a costumed party at school that morning! What to do? School is about to start in 15 minutes! This is all I came up with at such short notice; I decided to dress him up as a pirate. I looked around in a … Read more
Let me start by saying I LOVE halloween. I tossed around many ideas for the month leading up to halloween. While I had two strong costume ideas, for whatever reason I just never got started on either one, and both would have required some serious planning. So here it was Thur, the 31st and I … Read more
This was a very easy and cheap costume. I had found a somewhat elegant nightgown from the Goodwill store. I found a half of a wig (I didnt know that they even made half of a wig) from a wig store for $4.99. I also found the white headband at the wig store for $1.00. I applied … Read more