This costume was VERY time consuming! I am not somebody who has any real sewing skills, I don’t make sewing patterns, and I have never used a sewing machine. Needless to say, wanting to be Astrid (from How To Train Your Dragon 2) would prove to be a daunting task! I started off by searching … Read more
Last year, I had noticed my boy was saying something about wanting to be an alien with one hundred eyeballs for Halloween, but I’d already found him a $2 Cookie Monster costume at a garage sale and I didn’t really think about it. As I’m putting him to bed the night before his preschool Halloween … Read more
My son Thomas, this year wanted to be Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of fleet street! Firstly we used a wig we already had and painted a section of it white, the easiest way we found to do this was with Ti-pex. We then re-used a shirt he’d used before and covered the sleeve in … Read more
The base was a re-purposed plain witch dress and some tight fitting black pants. We already had blue shoes to match. Making the rest is where it got tricky! I started with some bee wings and smaller bat wings, plus a wire flower for the tail. I covered both sets of wings with black felt … Read more
This year my daughter gave me a big challenge. ‘Dad, I want a toothless Costume. And I want wings that open and close and fire on the back.’ I was dumfounded. How was I supposed to do this? Well, very carefully. Here’s how we did it. Thanks for voting for us! We started off with … Read more
My 4 year old granddaughter, Zoey, loves Puss in Boots so Mimi took on the challenge to create her the perfect costume. I headed to the fabric store first and loaded up on fake fur and picked up some felt for the pirate hat and pleather to make her the famous boots for Puss. The … Read more
This costume took my blood, sweat and tears to make. I never did carpentry before so it was quite a challenge. The moon was cut using a jigsaw and painted with house paint. Each gem was glued on individually and that took some time. A lot of trial and error was done before the final … Read more
Materials I used for my Shrek Donkey costume: EVA rubber white and black colored 2 tablespoons large plastic black carpet fabric brown adhesive felt cyanoacrylate glue gray pajamas gray spray paint Cut the felt to make eyebrows. Once finished I finished the head I sprinkled gray paint to give shadows. I used plastic spoons for … Read more
I make my kids costumes and they never cease to challenge me. This year was no exception! My more “animated” son desparately wanted to be Mega Mind with the Black Mamba cape. He loves this movie so much he can pretty much recite the monologue for the whole movie! I thought ” ok, well that’s … Read more
Hi my name is Elena. This is the first year I decided I was no longer buying store bought costumes for my children. Their ages are 7, 5, 2, and a month old. I decided to make a homemade costume for each but wanted all of them to be in the same theme. I choose … Read more
I made this costume for my son because he wanted to be Toothless from the Pixar movie How to Train Your Dragon. I started with a plain black sweat suit from K-mart ($7) and about a yard and a half of black fleece from the fabric store. To make the hoodie I first cut along … Read more
Every September my little niece and I start the years Halloween costume process. I thought like many little girls, Ciara would have dreams of being a Princess. I was half right. She did want to be Princess, Princess Fiona to be exact however I was told “not the pretty Fiona Aunt Darcee, but the Ogre … Read more