My friends and I decided to go in a Smurfs costume for Halloween. None of us sew so the glue gun is our best friend! We bought some thick foam and cut out the shape of the smurf hat, glued the two pieces together and then covered them with a white flannel sheet. We also … Read more
I try to get my three kids to dress in similar costumes for Halloween. Then we recycle the pictures I take and use them as our Christmas cards. This is one of my favorites. Have a “smurfin” Christmas! I bought regular white t-shirts for the girls and sewed lace around the bottom edges. Then I … Read more
My roommates and I decided to be the Anchorman news team for Halloween two years ago. So for our Homemade Anchorman Group Costume we got all of our suits, shirts, and ties at a local Goodwill store. They had a great selection of 70’s style suits and oddly colored shirts. I went as Brian Fantana … Read more
For Halloween 2008 we dressed up as some of the characters from Richard Linklater’s cult-classic “Dazed and Confused”. My friend and I dressed as the “Senior” girls in the hazing scene, and our boyfriends went as Dave “I love them high school girls” Wooderson and O’Bannion (complete with paddle). Everything was a Homemade Dazed and … Read more
Based on the 1964 Rankin and Bass holiday classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Homemade Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Character Costumes were created to capture the true fun of the characters Rudolph, Yukon Cornelius and Bumble, the Abominable Snow Monster of The North. Rudolph and Yukon costumes were hand-stitched, using very simple patterns. And … Read more
My friends and I love the Wizard of Oz and we wanted to dress as a group last year so we all went as different Wiz characters! Everyone except for Dorothy got their costume at Goodwill and modified it or used pieces of their own wardrobe, I’ll elaborate a little… Scarecrow – Neon Green Blouse … Read more
One of my children’s favorite video games is Mario Brothers, so that’s what they wanted to be for Halloween. The Homemade Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi Family Costume is pretty much the same, the only difference is the colors: Mario: red turtle neck and red baseball cap with the letter “M” Luigi: green turtleneck and green … Read more
For the red Angry Bird I bought a 5XL sweater and a 2XL for the black at the 1$ store, cut the sleeve off which then were used to make the hats, and filled them up with any type of filling and made the faces out of felt. For the yellow one I cut out … Read more
This is how I made our Homemade Outer Space Family Halloween Costume. I got 3 large 36 inch balloons and paper mached them for the earth, moon and sun. I let them sit for a couple of days so that everything was dry. For the moon, I added craters. I popped the balloons and painted … Read more
My friends and I were trying to think of group costume ideas for our high school Halloween dance, and we were drinking pop, and someone said , “HEY! let’s be pop cans!” And we did it! We made a popular pop cans costume. We picked our flavors, our fabric colors, and painted on our logos … Read more
We usually try to all dress up in a theme each year and this year we decided S’mores would be fun. However, I made a twist on the idea and had each child be a different ingredient! Put it together and “voila”….a S’More Costume. For the crackers, I used tan felt and glued two poster … Read more
For each homemade Lego costume we went to a place that sold boxes and we each bought a huge box to cover our body. We painted it whichever color we wanted. Then we glued on plastic cups (painted the same color as the box) to make it look like a Lego. We cut out a … Read more