This was by far a great homemade group costume idea: The Four Elements, Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire and the funnest to make. We found a dress pattern that was suitable for all of us because we all used the same one; and we also found a cape pattern and sewed it to mach our … Read more
This simple and easy to make Velma costume from the Scooby Doo Gang is homemade, after looking at off the shelf costumes I thought I could do better. I started off breaking the costume down into what items I needed. It’s basically an orange polo top which I found a few on eBay. I already had a … Read more
Having a serious love for sewing and the delight in having an outfit, costume, or décor/craft item that no one else has…gave my daughter and often times several of her friends an edge on Halloween. Nearly all of her life, I was thrilled to put my talent to work on costumes, most were from patterns … Read more
This Hot Taco Bell Sauces Girls Group Costume was my costume last year for a Halloween party and got tons of compliments!! It was extremely easy to make and super cheap for those worried about a pricey costume. With two of my other friends, we each bought a shirt for the color of the sauce we … Read more
Being 7 best friends it was very hard to find a big group costume. We narrowed it down to the 7 dwarfs and matched each character with our personalities. We are from the city Hoboken in New Jersey, so for fun we called ourselves the 7 sexy Dwarfs from the City (a play on words from … Read more
Buy all the supplies, garbage bags, Dollar store old shirt, pants and boots fatigues if you can find them. Cut trash bags same shape as shirt and pants, spray, adhesive them to clothing. PVC pipe is most expensive piece, cut to what size you want. Buy green spray paint in the same green face paint … Read more
Since our first son was born I have always made our costumes. The more kids we have the more fun it is getting. This year we decided to do a Flintstones family costume. It took me about 5 months of planning, sewing, airbrushing, hot gluing and painting to make all of the costumes. You can’t … Read more
We love Monty Python. Everyone did their own Monty Python group costume and we did not see any of them until we all came together. We all did it very inexpensive. Lots of looking around at Goodwill stores and fabric depot. We all watched the movie and picked which character we wanted to be. Also a … Read more
This last-minute Six Pack group costume was a lot of fun to make. Took a couple hours too, just went to the Dollar store and got tape and black garbage bags. It took a lot more tape than we thought so make sure you get lots. The logo was just found on the internet and … Read more
My son wanted to be Woody for Halloween. And as a 3 yr old, he wanted all of us to dress up with him. I was assigned Jessie, Daddy was Buzz Lightyear, and Aunt Shannon was Rex the dinosaur. Shannon made her Rex costume from a large green sweatshirt, foam visors and foam teeth with … Read more
Our work goes all out for holidays and decorates the entire company with contests between departments and all kinds of fun. One year when funds were tight, they challenged us to create a “recycled” Halloween. Our department took this literally, so we decided to do a “Recycle” theme. I made costumes for most of our … Read more
Heroes in a half shell….Turtle power! So, the plan was fancy dress for our friends 30th birthday party, we wanted something fun, but also a bit sexy! Really easy to make and really cheap too! We bought plain green tights and dresses really cheaply from EBay. Then visited our local fabric shop for materials. We … Read more