These Homemade Wendy and Ronald McDonald Costumes really played to my infatuation with fast food. All in all, it took a bit of digging and the help of my girlfriend’s sewing ability to create these fun costumes. We got plenty of laughs, plus we raised awareness of Ronald and Wendy’s secret tryst. Since we could … Read more
Created this homemade Ronald McDonald Halloween costume idea with the help of my grandma (whose excellent at sewing). We purchased the fabric needed for the costume at a local fabric store. She sewed the costume up to my body dimensions starting with the yellow main part first working outward going to the sleeves and then … Read more
I made this Jack in the Box costume for my husband for a Halloween costume contest at work. It took about 3 days to make the head. I used a punching balloon and paper mached it, leaving an opening at the base. You can set the balloon in a large bowl while doing this. It … Read more
I started this Homemade Colonel Sanders Riding a Chicken Costume about 10 days before Halloween. I began by bending chicken wire to shape the outline of the chicken itself. When that was in place, it gave it 4 layers of paper mache. There was a large hole left in the middle for me to stand … Read more
For Halloween 2010, friends and I decided to turn ourselves into the McDonaldland Gang! If you were a child of the 80’s, you absolutely know the names “Ronald McDonald”, “Grimus”, “Birdy the Early Bird”, and “The Hamburglar”. Here are instructions for each costume: Ronald McDonald costume: Required my excellent face painting skills on my husband. … Read more
Homemade Chicken Costume: I bought a cheap feather pillow at Big Lots ($3.99) and a can of spray adhesive … and a long sleeve white tee … sprayed one side of the tee and patted the loose feathers onto the adhesive. I bought orange ladies scrub pants for chicken feet, and used the spray adhesive … Read more
This Homemade Colonel Sanders Costume was made for our 6 year old daughter. It just came to us one day as we were driving by a KFC. The costume itself was easy. We bought a white suit at a thrift store. The tie is just a piece of ribbon bought at a textile store. We … Read more
Through the years, when I wore my hair in braids, all my friends said I looked like the girl from Wendy’s fast food restaurant. When it was time to decide what I wanted to be for Halloween I just knew my friends would be happy when I told them I was going to be Wendy. … Read more
This is a twist on a Ronald McDonald costume. The costume was super easy to make and very affordable. All the clothes were bought at the goodwill and then spray painted. It consists of a suit vest, khakis, and a white collared shirt that went underneath which was taped with duct tape and then spray … Read more
I’ve always wanted to make a Halloween costume from one of the McDonald’s characters. It took me awhile but I settled on a Grimace from McDonald’s Costume. As I was making the costume, I decided to add a twist to the costume and made him Grimace’s cousin from Mexico, Pedro. So I fitted him with … Read more
We had great fun dreaming up this group Homemade Arby’s Family Halloween Costume Idea. I was trying to think of something minimal for my husband as he doesn’t like to dress up. The guy “thinking” Arby’s seemed like the perfect minimal costume. Then the wheels started turning in my head. Every husband should be thinking … Read more
I had the idea to be Jack from “Jack in the Box” for Halloween. The head was a plastic dome from a Halloween fortune teller globe decoration and I wrapped it in a stretchy white see-through cloth that I glued down. I cut the mouth, eyes, and hat out of colored foam sheet from the … Read more