These costumes are based off the movie: Blades of Glory. I took two leotards (male dance uniforms), one in blue and one in skin color. I actually had to dye the skin color one orange to make it a bit closest to the movie. For the fire costume, I got three colors (red, orange and … Read more
For this easy Homemade Shrek Costume and His Donkey my husband wore flannel pajama bottoms, a off-white Henley, and a vest I made from a yard of cheap brown fabric from a craft store. We found green gloves for $1. Add work boots and a belt and a mask, and you have Shrek. My husband … Read more
First of all this Homemade Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy Couple Costume took forever to make (but it was definitely worth it!!). First me and my friend each bought an extremely cheap unitard. After that, to make the flames on Chazz’s costume, we used ribbon. We cut out the shapes of the flames and … Read more
This homemade Shrek and Fiona couple costume was totally my wife’s idea. She had an old bridesmaid dress and was trying to think of something to do with it. She finally stumbled on a picture of Fiona with a similar color dress on. She spent the last week or so trying to convince me. The … Read more
After viewing “How to Train Your Dragon” my four year old son wanted a Toothless Night Fury Dragon costume for Halloween. I soon discovered that there were no Toothless costumes for sale at the party stores. Nothing even close. So I got busy. The head of the dragon was made from your basic paper mache’ … Read more
This year we decided to go as Shrek and Fiona. Shrek wore a pair of stretchy brown pants on which we sprayed plaid stripes with some Halloween orange hairspray paint. He also wore an XXL light-colored shirt, which we bought and then cut out its neckline. The belt was found at a second hand store … Read more
My 6yr old son fell instantly in love with the movie, How to Train Your Dragon. I searched a little while on the web, but there really weren’t any offerings for a Homemade Toothless The Dragon Halloween Costume Idea. And reluctantly, I told him we would try to work something up. A bit later while … Read more
The whole family decided to get in on this Shrek and the gang costume! We had Shrek: Sleeping pants and shirt from the thrift store, cut and old brown vest short and put brown socks over some slippers for the boot effect. Fiona: Cut and old red Renaissance gown and trimmed in gold with hot … Read more
My son wanted to be Shrek, and at the time their weren’t any Shrek costumes out there. So being crafty I decided ‘homemade’ is always better. I found some green t-shirt material and some brown cotton material and some dark brown velvet and started to sew. For this homemade Shrek costume I made a hood … Read more
How to train your dragon. I made toothless 5ft long out of a roll from a fabric bolt, covered him with foam than black fabric. His eyes are 2 balls cut in half and painted them with glow paint, his horns are cut off of a mask I already had – I painted them also. … Read more
For my shirt, I took a chocolate t-shirt and turned it inside out. I cut the neck off and took leather string and sewed the sleeves and shirt to look like the photo. For my belt I took a dark brown t-shirt fabric and tie the ends together, the buckle is a kids mid evil … Read more
I will start with the gingerbread man first. For his costume I bought tan colored felt at the fabric store, about 5 yards of it. I also bought the 8 1/2″ X 11″ colored felt sheets in purple and white and red. When I got all the material together I laid the tan felt flat … Read more