We created this Lego Family Costume to wear for a local 5K Halloween Costume Race. We wanted to include our son and have really fun and unique costumes. We ended up deciding to go with one of our son’s favorite toys, LEGOS! The base of each costume consists of a solid color jogging suit, gloves, … Read more
Saw the idea of this Troll Dolls Group Costume on this website, and decided to do it for a charity day, and ended up raising lots of money.) We wore coloured shorts, and some used kitchen roll holders instead of bottles on our heads.
This is our Homemade Alvin and the Chipmunks Group Costume. We bought long turtle necks from Walmart and used fabric paint to put our letters on. We had shorts on under our turtle necks. Then we got glasses for Simon, and hats of the other two. Really easy and cheap!!
The whole family decided to get in on this Shrek and the gang costume! We had Shrek: Sleeping pants and shirt from the thrift store, cut and old brown vest short and put brown socks over some slippers for the boot effect. Fiona: Cut and old red Renaissance gown and trimmed in gold with hot … Read more
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
My friends and I had no clue what we wanted to be for Halloween, until one day the Pacman group costume idea popped into our minds. We made our costumes out of felt, and we made them dress length so we wore black tights and black shoes. The felt colors that we used were red, … Read more