This Carmen Sandiego costume was an easy costume to make, and was items I could re-use after Halloween so it was a total win-win! Everything was right at Charlotte Russ: Red Pea coat, Yellow tank top- folder up so the top part would hang down, Halloween underwear that said “Boo” on the back, and the red … Read more
Who didn’t love searching the world for Carmen Sandiego growing up? The mystery, the intrigue, the geography lessons. Those were the years when Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego were the go-to computer games—the years of my childhood. Now that I’m grown up and have long hair for the first time in years, I realized I … Read more
We had a great time making this Price Is Right Costume. We got corrugated board and spray painted them green. Then we vinyled all the letter designs. Tied a string through it to hang. We also made the shirts. The fronts says “I $ Plinko” and the backs say “Spay and Neuter your Pets”. We … Read more
This Double Dare couples Halloween costume was a HUGE hit a few Halloweens ago, and our friends still talk about it! If you are a child of the 90’s and remember watching the show Double Dare on Nickelodeon…you and everyone else will truly love it. My husband and I really got into “character,” which … Read more
Well this is me and my wife in our Homemade Howie Mandel from Deal or No Deal Costume! We love your site cause gives us great ideas, or just fun to enjoy. We chose to look like the TV hit deal or no deal, because its a neat and easy idea. We recently won first … Read more
This year in honor of Bob Barker’s retirement we decided to deck our family out in a group Halloween costume of “The Price is Right”! Dad was the Big Wheel, Mom was the game, Plinko the oldest daughter was a Barker’s beauty, and the younger daughter was the contestant! Our newest addition (six weeks old!) … Read more
We started making our Homemade American Gladiators Couple Costume with old high school singlets and sewed several red, white and blue stars all over them. We made the jousting sticks with old brooms, towels, and colored duct tape. Instead of wrapping the entire stick, we used the old method and made the square look from … Read more
I won’t lie, I got this idea of a Homemade Jeopardy Contestant Costume off of someone else on this web-site and thought it was amazing so I made my own version! I don’t have much of a write-up but I did get loads of compliments on it. All I did was create the artwork on … Read more
Cardboard Box + grey spraypaint + construction paper + whiteout + sharpie + red reflective sticker + pen + ribbon! I made the box pretty obviously. I used the reflective sticker for the red squares at the top and attached a pen with ribbon as my clicker. To make it a little bit more sexy … Read more
Last year my friends and I decided to go as Global Guts contestants. It was a fairly simple to make. We used bought blank t-shirts and ironed on the Guts logo. We then bought arm pads, knee pads, and helmets (which we covered with yellow duct tape). Underneath we all wore black spandex tops and … Read more
For Howie, he simply wore a suite that he already had. The shirt underneath had red stripes with a red tie, since Howie wears red or purple a lot. We put hoop earrings in, and drew the facial hair on with black eyeliner, he is already bald. There is a bottle of hand sanitizer in … Read more
This is a homemade Price is Right contestant costume. It is made to look like I bid the winning number and am ready to ‘come on down’ to contestants row. I made this with a sturdy white board that I purchased from a convenience store and carefully placed yellow and green construction paper to make … Read more