I came up with the idea of a Peanut Butter and Jelly costume so that my daughter and son would be a good match. For the basic shape of the costume, I purchased an old soda can costume sewing pattern from eBay. More importantly, I looked at the various brands of PB and J in … Read more
For Homemade Shrek, I used: old clothes, gourd ends cut and glued on head, fake teeth, and I sprayed body with colored hairspray For Homemade Fiona, I used my own wedding dress, head piece with wig, and I also sprayed body with colored hairspray. Good luck with your own Shrek and Fiona homemade costumes!
For this homemade Homer and Marge Simpson couple costume, we concentrated on the faces, we didn’t want to spend too much money and in Milan, where we live, it’s cold when we celebrate Carnival time. It would be hard for me to explain in English how we made it, so I will give an Italian … Read more
My husband and I decided to go as Marge and Homer Simpson to a Halloween Party (which was 80’s themed). I had looked and looked to try to figure out what to do and I saw your sight and loved the idea. I had to give it a try. It was a great hit, our … Read more
I actually got the idea for this Mr. and Mrs. Peanut DIY Couple Costume from your web site. It’s made out of foam bedding, and spray painted yellow.
This Oompa Loompa Halloween costume is completely homemade. I am not sure the cost of it all, I gathered things as I went. The Oompa Loompa shirt is just a brown turtle neck with puffy paint stripes. The shoes I got from Target and safety pinned a puff ball with puffy painted stripes on to … Read more
We had been watching Beetlejuice a lot. We had a Homemade Beetlejuice and Lydia Halloween Couple Costume Idea from the wedding scene. For Beetlejuice we combed all the Thrift stores for a maroon suit in his size, which was easier than you would think. The pieces were not exact matches, but as you can see, … Read more
My 3 year old and 6 year old are huge fan of the Original Willy Wonka so we decided to make my oldest son Willy Wonka and my youngest son an Oompa Loompa. For the Willy Wonka costume we pieced together one of my floral button up shirts, a purplish colored blazer we found at … Read more
My husband and I wanted to be something original this year, not the ordinary store bought costumes that you see everywhere. Plus we wanted a couples costume so, given the criteria, it was a fairly difficult task. We starting searching online and looking in stores until we finally had come across a single Beetlejuice costume … Read more
We wanted to be something scary that year and I had recently seen the re-released version of the Exorcist. So we decided to be Reagan from the Exorcist and her Priest Homemade Costumes. For the priest, I found a cheap “Father” outfit and added a felt scarf that I cut out and painted white crosses … Read more
My and my finance came up with this idea of a Homemade Al and Peg Bundy Couple Costume watching old re-runs of Married with Children on TV. Al’s Costume -Pants, button up, tie and jacket were bought at Goodwill store. -The nametag was made by myself with one of those clear nametag pins, and printed … Read more
We are both named Amanda and we are roommates in college. We wanted to have a theme for a costume. Since we are in college we did this Homemade Mario and Luigi Couple Costume with NO Money! Our Green and Red shirts were bought from Forever 21 at store in our local mall. Checkered hats … Read more