This homemade Peanut Butter and Jelly family costume first started when I purchased this store-bought Wonder Bread costume for my youngest son (in the center). I wanted his two older brothers to have something that “complimented” the theme. The inside frames of the costumes are both pop-up hampers (the Jelly one was hemmed up for … Read more
Me and my girls decided to dress up like trolls this year, but with clothes, so we used the craziest clothes in our closet. More important than the costume is the hair cause it tells the people you are trolls, so we bought each one a different temporary color hair spray, $2 each, and with … Read more
I was at a thrift sale and I found a super pink prom dress that started the whole Homemade Adventure Time Family Costume. Not perfect, but it worked. Found a white hat for Finn and made his backpack out of a Goodwill t-shirt. Cut a hole in the hat and used the fabric to make … Read more
Our group decided we wanted something fun and easy to put together. I’m all about making the Scooby Doo and the Gang Group Costume from stuff I can find at the Goodwill or Salvation Army! Our knee highs are actually sleeves from sweaters we cutoff! I love Halloween and can come up with just about … Read more
This Homemade Rugrats Group Halloween Costume Idea was by far the best costume I’ve done so far. Angelica is a total brat so we made her act it all night. For her hair we sprayed it yellow and put big purple bows in made from ribbon. We took a long sleeve orange shirt and drew … Read more
My children usually do a group costume every year, and this year’s theme was Scooby Doo! I made this Homemade Scooby Doo Group Costume within about a day. Shaggy’s costume was relatively easy, a large green shirt and baggy brown pants, a wig and goatee. Fred’s was also fairly easy with a plain long sleeved … Read more
My siblings and I were going on a cruise that fell on Halloween. The ship had a costume contest and being competitive, I wanted to win! We thought for months what would be a great group costume that would work with our body sizes and personalities. It finally hit me… since WE are a family, … Read more
My housemates and I go to the University of Winchester in the UK and our SU has themed nights most Fridays which we almost always go to and we always try to be original with our costumes and make them ourselves because it is often a lot cheaper and its fun! The theme this week … Read more
Just wanted to say your site inspired me. Found your collection of Lord Helmet costumes and thought “Totally awesome” and “I can do that” so here is my own Spaceballs Costume. Using nothing but a plastic colander, some coat hangers, newspaper, black spray paint and some glue I fashioned a giant Space balls Helmet to … Read more
Here is a brief overview of how each went about making their Gilligan’s Island Group Costume. Gilligan: Gilligan went in search of his clothing at a local thrift store. Luckily, his first visit was a massive success. He found the perfect pants for the costume and found a great red sweatshirt. For the white collar, … Read more
The company I work for has a fundraiser every year with a ‘Centipede’ contest where teams of 8 or more make creative costumes and parade them in a 5k walk. Our team was inspired by the Pac-man on Google and found the coolest homemade costumes site, which gave us the ideas for how to create … Read more
My daughters and their friends wanted to wear costumes that went together so we all came up the idea of them being different colored crayons. For their Crayola Crayons Halloween Costumes they each picked out a different colored felt for their crayon. I cut a tall thin rectangle out of each color long enough to … Read more