Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so when my kids wanted an Angry Birds costumes, I was up for the challenge. My first challenge with the costume was to come up with a costume that was cheap, easy, and anyone can do! Then I needed to find a ball shape that could fit over … Read more
Each year the boys will “mandate” what costumes they want. So, the goes credit to them. I am only the one that brings their ideas and imagination to life. They told me that birds have feathers, so their costumes must have feathers. So, feathers it is! They wanted the red and yellow bird and they … Read more
This Swine Flu Costume was really easy to make. My friend Lindsey and I bought pink shirts as well as iron on paper at Hobby Lobby. We then printed H1 and N1 using the iron on paper, cut them out and ironed them to the middle of our shirts. We found pink wings from a … Read more
I am a huge fan of Sheri Moon Zombie and decided to be Baby Firefly for Halloween. I already had the skull snake skin cowboy hat from my Rob Zombie concert gear stash. I had a friend help me take my House of 1000 Corpses Rated R t-shirt and make it more “Baby”. She helped … Read more
For a friend’s Halloween Party my husband and I went as John and Lorena Bobbitt. This costume was a big hit, comfortable to wear, and won many categories for the costume contest! We won best couple, most original, funniest and scariest (because many men at the party were afraid of me and my big knife). … Read more
For the pasta gone wild costume I bought a colander at the Dollar store. I added Cream colored yarn and brown pom-poms (from Michaels). I used a red T-shirt and glued yarn and pom-poms to t-shirt and colander. For the pizza costume I glued two triangle shaped materials into a pizza slice shape. Rolled end … Read more
This year me and my fiance dressed as Homemade Lego Minifig Men Costumes. The idea was simple enough and we had plenty of time to make the costumes. For the head we used a sono-tube (from Lowes) and papermache of a 12 inch bowl. She painted on the face and we used a little bit … Read more
I borrowed the Troll idea from this awesome website! We were a big hit (it was just a tad cold though). We bought long sleeve leotards and tights (nude) from a Discount Dance store, got the colored hair spray and elf ears from a Halloween store, and the jewel is made from glitter foam from … Read more
We wanted to dress up as Tim Burton characters, so we decided on Jack Skellington and the corpse bride. I made the head for Jack Skellington out of papier mache. I covered an inflatable ball with cling film, and put 2 or 3 layers of papier mache (using old newspapers) over it. I didn’t want … Read more
This Dora and Diego Couple Costume was a very easy costume to make. Clothing was purchased at a Goodwill store. The orange pants are nurses scrub pants that I cut shorter as capris/shorts. The backpack is a child’s purple backpack. I put a patch on Diego’s vest to make it even more genuine. Diego’s bag … Read more
We wanted to dress up as Homemade Spongebob and Patrick Costumes. The ones that they sell at the store are lame. We used PVC pipe to build the frame for Spongebob. Then we covered it thin foam . On top of that we layered it with yellow fleece. Then finished it up with details. We … 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