Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
Talk about some tedious work, but well worth it. I had to start by striping down and taping a trash bag to myself. Lets be honest, duct tape stuck to our bodies… not pleasant. We than began the exciting taping extravegenza, by using lime green and silver duct tape. This took about an hour to … Read more
Loving Pokemon as a kid, my boyfriend had the idea of this costume. Everything was pretty simple and a few things were handmade. For Pikachu: I wore my own black denim shorts and flip flops. For the shirt, I bought a yellow tank top from Walmart ($7). I made the tail with felt, hot glue … Read more
Here is a step by step guide of how to make both Buzz Lightyear and Woody Couple Halloween Costume For Buzz: My costume was far more difficult to put together. The wings were the most difficult part of the entire costume. They took about an hour to make. Materials: Long sleeved white shirt, white shorts, white … Read more
This was a joint project between my four year old and me. He crawls around all day transforming between a tank and a boy, so I decided to design him a costume. We reviewed Google images of tanks so that I could get a feel for the shape, as well as decide what parts needed … Read more
10 year olds are fickle. Mine couldn’t decide what he wanted to be this year for Halloween. It was his (smarty pants) little sister who said to him, “Well you should be an iPod Touch ’cause that’s all you want to play with anyway!”. Genius I say! But how? It ended up being fairly easy. … Read more
I love team costumes. Every year we try to find something better. This year, after a trip in Mexico I thought of El Dia de los Muertos. We first got inspired by painting, art works and skulls. Then, we visited second hand shops and found bustiers and skirts. We found at the 1 dollar shop plastic flowers and simply glued them … Read more
When my daughter asked me to be a hot air balloon for Halloween I wasn’t sure if I could pull it off. With the help and brains of my hubby we had this figured out in no time! Building this was quite simple. We cut out the bottom of a basket and used our snowmobile … Read more
For my Halloween costume this year I knew I had several events I had to attend and wanted to have a costume that would allow me to use the same key pieces without being the same costume. So, my husband loves to do couple costumes and we decided on a masquerade theme for our “couple … Read more
Everyone who see’s this picture thinks it is a picture of a picture, but I have to tell them that it is my costume. I am very proud of how it turned out. I just taped together a box made of the foam poster boards, 3 black and 1 white that is in the front. … Read more
My 10 year son, Michael picked out what he wanted to be for Halloween this year! He loved it! We started with a cardboard box, spray paint, lots of duct tape, a back pack, paper mached head, glasses and an old t shirt. We took the box and constructed it to look like a porta … Read more
Our boys have been so in to super heroes the last few months. The one and a half year old even runs around shooting pretend blasts out of his hands. I figured Batman and Robin would be very appropriate for their recent obsession. Plus, what little boy doesn’t dress like Batman at least once? And … Read more
We had one themed picked for Halloween 2012 since about August. Two weeks before Halloween we changed our minds to Disney Villians. We only had 4 people in our group because Ursala and Queen of Hearts bailed. I was Yzma from Emperors New Groove: I already had the black dress which was made by my … Read more