Having been invited to a Disney themed 30th party, we were a bit lost as to what to go as. My friend discovered Dalmatian “Onesies” in a local shop so set about adding ears, tail etc and finished them off with face paints. This inspired me to put together my Cruella DeVille outfit. I did … Read more
This is do it your self Value Village/Goodwill costume. We all bought our jackets at second hand stores a few weeks before Halloween. We wore slacks, collard shirt and ties and tried to match the real characters as best we could. We made the microphones from a dowel rod, black duct tape, tennis ball and … Read more
My friends and I came up with the idea of a Hungry Hungry Hip-Hop Hippos group costume for Halloween last year. It was a great success. We each ordered Adidas fire bird style track suits and old school Adidas shoes matching our suits. We made the helmets out of safety helmets with hinges for face shields … Read more
For Halloween me and my friends decided we wanted to do something completely different. I came up with the idea of a group alien costume. I wasn’t quite sure how we were going to pull it off. Things we used to make the costume: Black maxi dress Light Green latex paint Darker green water based body … Read more
This Lobster Dinner family costume was very simple to make and got lots of laughs. We dressed up our 10-month old baby as a lobster. The base of the costume for her is a pair of red pajamas. I used foam paper to make crustacean claws and stripes across her belly – just used tape to … Read more
This Pest Control family costume had many parts to make, but was worth it. First, the central part – the young mouse caught in a trap: The baby is affixed to me using a gray Moby wrap baby carrier that I borrowed from a friend. To make the trap, I took a big rectangle of foam … Read more
We had a sponsored walk at school and the theme was bright colors! What is a better idea than 8 different colored M & M’s! We made the whole M & M costume our selves and it cost around $15 each including the paint! Much cheaper than buying an outfit and much more creative. It … Read more
Sick of the same-old animal costumes and onesies from Kigurami, I made my own “where the wild things are” costume, as Max, for a charity hitch-hike I was participating in. After then making another of these onesies for my boyfriend in the form of a fox I started to cause quite a stir amongst other … Read more
This ultimate Spaceballs group costume was made up of Lord Helmet, Princess Vespa’s stunt double, a Space Ball Trooper, and Barf. We picked characters based who we looked like and what people would recognize. PS princess Vespa did not look like a man but we thought it would be funnier. Barf had made his costume … Read more
We wore these Playdoh costumes to the Rugby Sevens 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand which is a huge dress up event that 40,000 people in costumes go to. It is very hard to have an original costume but this Play-Doh Group Costume did the trick. These costumes were easy to make and took us about … Read more
Each year, our family chooses a Halloween Theme. It usually takes two to three months of sewing and assembling and raiding of the second hand stores to find what we need. This year, our favorite movie was How to Train your Dragon. We decided this year to be animated characters, just a little bit harder … Read more
Each year, our family chooses a Halloween Theme. This was the year for the Night at the Museum Characters (taken from both movies). Our costumes were made out of inexpensive fleece found at our local Wal-Mart. Where we live, it is usually cold on Halloween and I didn’t want anyone wearing coats over their costumes. … Read more