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
So for Homer we were going to use a swim cap cause he has a lot of hair but it broke so we ended up getting a snowman hat from Michaels arts and crafts taking it apart and spray painting it yellow. For the hair we used pipe cleaners, both on the back of his … Read more
My parents were invited to my cousin’s wedding which was on Halloween and there was to be a costume contest involved. My mom was trying to figure out what they would be. She got the brilliant idea to do Colonel Sanders and a chicken since it was right about the time people were claiming that … Read more
Our costumes came from the idea that little red riding hood was attacked by the wolf after she got to grandma’s house & saw him in grandma’s clothes. We think this is how things would have looked…the dress was bought & then modified to suit our look more. The bottom of the dress is shredded … Read more
My husband and I were invited to a Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Theme Party. The hosts sent out brilliant invitations which were chocolate bars which had been decorated with printed “Wonka Bar” wrappers and each contained a golden ticket under the wrapper. We decided to attend as “Homemade No Sew Oompa Loompa Costumes”. Our … Read more