I purchased spandex material, one muscle suit (for female), two mustache’s, tall boots, one bald/nude wig, two wooden dowels and four foam balls to make the matching Strong Men costumes for my husband and I. I started by fitting the spandex into personal one shoulder singlets, then we spray painted “weights” using the dowels and foam balls. My husband shaved … Read more
The thrift store played a major role in our Mary Poppins and Chimney Sweep Couple Costume. Almost everything on Mary Poppins besides her umbrella and hat came from the thrift store. The Chimney Sweep’s, chimney sweep was put together using a broom stick, cardboard, hot clue and pipe cleaners. This costume was a lot of … Read more
These X- Men Costumes: Wolverine and Mystique took months to plan. My husband and I used these costumes for two Halloweens, because of the time we had put into them. We started by making the full spandex body suit for Mystique costume, I then used fabric paints to add all of the scales to the … Read more
Me and my boyfriend decided to skip the over -priced store-bought costumes and instead made some using things we already owned ! (minus the face paint and fake blood). For my boyfriend I started by applying a base of green face paint all over his chest and face. I wanted his skin to look like … Read more
My friend and I decided we wanted to be Batman villains for Halloween a couple years ago. My Riddler costume was pretty easy to make. I bought a long sleeve cotton green dress on clearance from Old Navy and turned it into a tank top dress. I made stencils of all sizes for the “?” … Read more
This awesome Bender and the Head of Lucy Liu Halloween couple costume was made by me, but let’s face it – Bender and Lucy were made for each other. Bender was made first and is constructed of cardboard, clothes hangers, LOTS of duct tape, aluminum foil, and old radio aerial, Styrofoam for the eyes and … Read more
I made a sandwich board out of two poster boards (each). Then projected the NERDS box logo onto the posters and traced. Added lots of paint and sparkles and last laminated! Then added all of the fabulous add on’s, like one piece spandex body suits, colored wigs, nerd glasses, and a bag of little Nerd … Read more
We started off our Party Animal Costumes by going to our local thrift store and getting an over-sized men’s sweater that was comfortable. We then went to a Halloween store/party city and got a package of each animals ears, nose, tail, etc.. and got an easy to glue on party hat. We glued the hat to … Read more
Buying a cow print vest and chaps was absolutely out of the question for this Woody and Jessie Couple Costume WITH Bullseye. Not only were they over priced, they also looked cheezy and fake. I went to my local fabric store and bought cow print velvety fabric, as well as black silk for the inside … Read more
So to start the Mr. and Mrs Potato Head Couple Costume I went to the store and got 2 of the gym work out balls. I then taped the smaller ball on top of the larger ball and covered both with garbage bags. I then made a paper mache mix and got some newspapers. I then … Read more
These iPod costumes were pretty easy just needed a good printer and boxes. For added touches add some speakers inside and a real Ipod so they can have some music playing. All I had to do with these is get some boxes and spray paint them,add on the printed papers that I downloaded of the … Read more
I made these Dragon Ball Z costumes for my boys. I used a pattern for boys scrubs that I altered. I also used felt for the decal and just hand sewed it together. It was a real hit with our friends and family, I even had adults asking me to make them one.