Our Office Halloween Tribute to Prince We are fans of the late great Prince, and so we decided to decorate our office to go along with our Prince themed costumes. We turned our office into a hall of fame type tribute to Prince. It was complete with gold and platinum albums and pictures of Prince over … Read more
I LOVE doing family costumes and although we couldn’t get my son to participate on this one, it’s still one of my favorite years! I made my daughter’s Alice dress and put my husbands costume together with Goodwill finds with my own special additions. Everyone LOVED them and stopped us all night asking for pictures. … Read more
Every year we have the kids (aged 11, 9, 5, and 4) brainstorm on a common theme for Halloween, then we try our best to make it happen! The idea of doing the LEGO movie costumes seemed simple enough, but in reality it took all 6 of us pulling in all of our talents to … Read more
I first thought of being a milkman at the high school at which I teach. We have smaller advisories and I had the idea of having my students be milk cartons (one chocolate, of course!) for a group competition. I then thought it would be a good idea for my family and thought of a … Read more
This is my homemade Optimus Prime transforming costume for Halloween. This is based on the Cab Over Semi truck from the original Generation 1 (G1) 80’s cartoon. My costume is detailed with several different items to make it unique, such as: the vanity Manitoba Licence plate, the windshield wipers, the working LED lights, the beer … Read more
When I was a young kid my mother would put on Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas for me to watch everyday, it was and still is my favorite movie. One scene that always excited me was at the beginning when the “Pumpkin King” is pulled into Halloween Town on a giant straw horse by … Read more
This is me and my two daughters in our Hocus Pocus group costume. It’s funny we all kind of resemble a Sanderson sister, and my youngest looks eerily like Sarah Jessica-Parker in the right makeup. Hocus Pocus Group Costume: Winnie Green panne velvet under dress with large draping sleeves and a strip of purple down … Read more
We were planning to attend a Halloween event at our local zoo. My five-year-old daughter had decided to dress as Little Red Riding Hood and wear a red cape that was knit by her great-grandmother and worn by me when I was also five years old. My husband jokingly suggested that he could dress as … Read more
For Halloween this year my boyfriend, his friend, his friend’s girlfriend and I decided to go as characters from the popular television show “Arrow.” The show is based off of the DC comic Green Arrow. The characters for our Arrow costumes are (left to right) Black Canary, Green Arrow, Arsenal (Red Arrow/Speedy), and Felicity Smoke. … Read more
Planning our Family Alice in Wonderland Costumes For the last 9 years I had been trying to get my dear husband to dressed up with the kids for Halloween, to no avail. This year I got lucky, finally!! His mother told us she was throwing a Costume/Birthday party for her boyfriend the first weekend in … Read more
I found the Toucan Sam and Captain Crunch jacket at the thrift store and got my inspiration there. The Tony the Tiger costume is a Broncos sweatshirt with fake fur and black duck tape. The pants are also black duck tape. All items are thrift store bought except a few things. We were quite the … Read more
This costume cost about $80 – $100 to make for 8 people. We bought 18 cans of gold metallic spray paint, yellow hair spray, gold metallic latex paint from walmart, rubber gloves and each of us supplied our own old clothes and props. We then painted everything gold. On the day of we painted our … Read more