This year’s costumes were Dave Thomas and the Wendy’s girl. These costumes were thrown together at the last minute. For Dave I took a red apron and ironed on the Wendy’s logo. I sprayed his hair and eyebrows white, added a neck tie, glasses and a spatula. For the Wendy’s girl costume I took a … Read more
I wanted to be something unique and came up with a Homemade Wendy’s Girl Gone Bad Unique Halloween Costume Idea! I used a few different costumes pieced together. I used a Country Girl costume for the dress. I found the white under shirt at Goodwill and thought it looked like the real Wendy’s. The red … Read more
I decided a few years back to be Jack In The Box for Halloween. I started 3 weeks early in preparation. In the end, I wished I had one more week to clean it up around the edges. Bear with me, as the process of making the jack head was tedious. To make the jack … Read more
After browsing on your site for baby costume ideas I decided on the chicken. With help from previous entrants made one for my baby girl. After I finished I started thinking about what my husband and I would be. At first I thought rooster and hen with a baby chick, but my husband quickly vetoed … Read more
Inspired by the “I’m thinking Arby’s” commercials, this is a really easy and cheap costume to make, and I got more compliments about it than anyone who had expensive store-bought costumes. I bought plastic party headband at a dollar store. My headband had two springs coming out of the top and some Styrofoam spiders on … Read more
My husband says my mother ruined me for Halloween by always making mine and my brother’s costumes. So, I absolutely WILL NOT buy an already made costume for our son. He has to be something original and handcrafted! (at least until I can’t get away with it anymore – he’s three now). That’s part of … Read more
Every year the Aramini family does a “theme” for Halloween! This year, we had a DIY fast food family Halloween costume idea… Mommy as Ronald McDonald – I went to the local salvation army and scored a pair of yellow adult footed pajamas and a red & white striped sweater.. I cut the arms and … Read more
I wanted to make a Foreclosed Home costume for Halloween, but my mom explained that it could hurt someone’s feelings; after all there are a lot of people in California who have recently lost their homes. So then she said, “Why don’t you go as Jack?” I thought, OK, so how do I make a … Read more
My son wanted to be Chuck E. Cheese. I prefer to make my own costumes so I began searching the internet and didn’t find a single homemade Chuck E. Cheese toddler costume idea ever been made of Chuck E. other than the original Chuck E. Cheese. So I decided to sew a bear costume and … Read more
I had a Chihuahua as a pet. I wanted to be the Taco Bell dog. I started this dog costume by trying to make the head out of paper Mache’. It burst and I made a mess in the kitchen. I went to the store and purchased four different size balls. I taped them all … Read more
I decided to theme all three of kids together as fast food Icons. We have Colonel Sanders, that I fashioned from an old pair of sunglasses with the lenses popped out, a red apron with a piece of a KFC biscuit box cut out for the KFC, a piece of black ribbon for the tie … Read more
We dressed as Colonel Sanders and a Bucket of KFC Chicken. We handed out chicken to our party guests. The bucket was homemade from a Keg tub and printed off Google Images and red duct tape. The Col Sanders costume was pretty basic but we bought a Santa Clause beard/wig set and cut it.