I love Halloween and was thrilled to celebrate my daughter’s first Halloween in grand fashion, and celebrate our first Halloween as a family of three with an ensemble. A corny Halloween Every good idea starts with a kernel I love sweet corn even more than I love Halloween. As an Iowa native living in Minnesota, … Read more
Another year at work, our group went as counselors from Camp Crystal Lake and Jason Voorhees. We found a website where you can design and print out your own iron-on decals. So we made ones for Camp Crystal Lake and ironed them onto plain white tee shirts. We wore khaki pants, and bought whistles wear … Read more
This last minute group costume was quite easy to put together. Although I already had everything in my costume drawer (yes I’m an adult and I have a costume drawer). For Ed McMahon I borrowed some pants and a shirt from my dad. I bought the jacket at a resale shop. I bought a wig … Read more
We bought the blue tshirts from Michael’s for $4 and cut off the sleeves and neck. We got the red shorts at Academy for $6 and we used white fabric paint to paint the stripes on. We realized that it was too time consuming so we just bought athletic tape to do the guys shorts. … Read more
My kids love Phineas & Ferb, and l have to admit, l enjoy watching that cartoon with them. When trying to come up with an idea for Halloween costumes this year, l thought of being Phineas & Ferb. l figured that Phineas, Ferb, Agent P. and Dr. Doofenshmirtz wouldn’t be too hard to make, and l … Read more
This drunk Things and Sexy Cat in the Hat group costume was a nine month process that was completed in stages!! It started out as a birthday gift, home made for me by my great friend, Julie!! She handmade my skirt with red and white tooling and got the red and white striped socks from … Read more
These Superhero Lego Minifigure costumes are fairly straightforward to make. You need a lot of cardboard boxes, sono tubes, spray paint, and your choice of adhesive. I drew a rough design for each character and started with building the bodies, then the hands, heads, and finished it off with spray paint and small details such as … Read more
In high school, my close friends and I loved making group costumes for all six of us. Our senior year we decided to be unique and be the important roles in the movie Up. We had Kevin, Carl Fredricksen (me), Ellie, the house with balloons, Russell and Dug the talking dog. These Up Cast costumes were … Read more
The idea for this Flintstones group Halloween costume all started with just Wilma and Betty as us girls had to bar tend the night of the Halloween party at our local bar ~ and it GREW into the whole Flintstones gang including “The Great Gazoo”. I found a sewing pattern for the Flintstones costumes. Not that … Read more
This year I wanted to pick a costume for my family of four. One of our favorite movies is The Addams Family, and it was a perfect fit for us, and very easy and inexpensive. This is how I made our Addams Family Halloween costume. Morticia- that’s me. I bought a cheap, long black witch’s … Read more
Road: I bought a cute black skirt and shirt and stuck reflecting tape down the middle for the street lines. I bought led lights from the dollar store for the headlights that already had sticky tape on the back (bring double sided tape for back-up) and for the sign I just printed up a deer … Read more
We wanted to do a funny, yet sexy costume for Halloween this year. We made our bath Loofah Girls homemade Halloween costumes by buying 20 yards of tulle, a package of 1 inch elastic, and a package of thinner elastic. Leaving the tulle doubled (as it comes on the roll) roll it out, and cut … Read more