We decided to create Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf Couple Costume — with a twist! We decided it would be cooler to have “Grandma” climbing out of the wolf’s stomach, with Little Red’s help. But we wanted to make sure the arm sticking out of the stomach was “alive” so Kevin needed to … Read more
My Boyfriend and I on our first Halloween! It cost us an arm and a leg to end up making this Homemade Lydia And Beetlejuice Wedding Costume as we didn’t even think of it or start them till a few days before. Since we had so little time eBay was out. I looked everywhere for … Read more
This year I wanted my twins to steal the spotlight from everyone at the Halloween party so me and my husband decided to come up with a unique costume, not the classic salt & pepper, Thing 1 Thing 2, Pebbles and Bam Bam. We wanted a creepy costume for our infant twins and what better … Read more
My name is Ryan and that’s my wife Amanda. Our Homemade Beetlejuice and Lydia Costume story starts off on the Tuesday before Halloween (which was on Saturday). I had the idea of being Beetlejuice and Lydia on Monday. The first thing we had to do is find a 1970 wedding dress which really wasn’t hard … Read more
I have wanted to be Vivian from Pretty Woman for years now but I didn’t know how to sew. This year I bought a sewing machine and started ordering all the different parts of the costume. The jacket was purchased on EBay and the dress was modified to include the silver rings (bracelets) in the … Read more
My husband (boyfriend) at the time went as Wayne and Garth from Wayne’s world! I was Wayne and he was Garth! This Homemade Wayne’s World Costume was super easy! We got ripped jeans, a blond wig and made it into a mullet, an Aerosmith shirt, flannel shirt and black framed glasses. The only thing we … Read more
My 5 year old absolutely loves the Magic School Bus and was insistent that he would be the Magic School Bus for Halloween this year. Our aim was to make this costume on a tight budget and we did well! We started with a box, ironically from an order of Scholastic books that included a … Read more
This was probably going to be the last Halloween that my cousin/best friend and I were going to be able to hang out on Halloween and I wanted us to be the Mario Brothers for Halloween since we are like brothers. I started working on the Mario and Luigi Halloween costumes three months prior to … Read more
My boyfriend and his son were Mario and Luigi for Halloween. I bought the Luigi clothes from Wall-mart. I bought the Mario clothes from a childrens thrift store. I bought the hats from Wall-mart. They already owned the shoes, and the gloves were free from Albertson’s photo department. The hats were also from Wall-Mart. Luigi’s … Read more
We wanted to be something different but yet as a group. It ended up being the two of us. This Crayola crayons Halloween costume was something decent, cute and very unique. We definitely got everyone’s attention. We started with the homemade dress, and then snowballed into the wig, make-up, boots etc.
REAL WORKING Homemade iPhone and Headphone Couple Costume!! Complete with speaker that played music from the face mask. Made from 3 pieces of 4″ thick foam glued together and then sculpted with an electric turkey shaver. Foam was then covered with duct tape for strength and then painted white. Exactly a 1:30 ratio replica of … Read more
When my daughter was 3, she wanted to be a flower for Halloween. I tried to come up with something my then 6 month old son could be which would coordinate with her costume. Hence, the bumblebee costume. These Flower and Bee Costumes were pretty easy. They were basically made with felt and sweatsuits. I … Read more