My boys decided on a homemade Alvin and the Chipmunks group costume idea. We used the “old style” costumes. I searched the web and stores for 3 matching shirts of different colors. I found 3 mock turtlenecks in Men’s sizes (so the shirts would be oversized on my boys) in Red, Blue and Green. To … Read more
We have 9 children in our family (ages 1-10) and we participated in a “Trunk or Treat” this year. We decided to include our van in our Halloween show – Scooby Doo and The Mystery Machine was the obvious best choice! Three of our costumes were not homemade – 2 Scooby Doos and one Velma … Read more
The most expensive thing here was the paint for the Mystery Machine. It costs about $45. Everything else came from a sale rack or thrift store, or things we already had. We felt it best to rent the Scooby costume for the kids sake vs. trying to make a Scooby costume on our own. It … Read more
We had great fun dreaming up this group Homemade Arby’s Family Halloween Costume Idea. I was trying to think of something minimal for my husband as he doesn’t like to dress up. The guy “thinking” Arby’s seemed like the perfect minimal costume. Then the wheels started turning in my head. Every husband should be thinking … Read more
These Homemade Ompa Loompa Costumes were the best homemade costumes ever! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I knew I wanted to be something good, but didn’t know what! A friend had suggested an Ompa Loompa and I LOVED the idea. I searched everywhere for the costume, but couldn’t find one that I liked and … Read more
My friends and I decided this year to dress up as a group: here is a picture of the homemade Zombie Wizard of Oz group costume! The Tin Man decided he was tired of everyone complaining and, since he didn’t have a heart in the first place, took his ax and started wielding it! Let’s … Read more
This is our Princess Peach, Mario and Lugi Costumes for Halloween. We had to dye the overalls to make them the same shade. We dyed the shirts and hats plus made the M and L. The gloves and mustache were purchase at a Halloween store to add finishing touches. Princess Peach costume was found at … Read more
So this yr we decided to dress up as Super Mario Bros characters, since my 4yr old son wanted to be Luigi. Dad was Mario, baby brother was Toad and I was Princess Daisy. For the Mario and Luigi, I simply purchases overalls with red and green long sleeve shirts. I found 80% of the … Read more
On the 19th of September 2008 a group of friends wore the homemade Crayola crayons costumes to a 21st fancy dress birthday party! Our crayons now have the number one group for ‘Crayola Crayons costumes’ on Facebook, with messages regularly asking ‘how can we make one ourselves!’ The Crayons featured are: Orange – Robert Whyte. … Read more
This is our Four Seasons Group Costume: I was winter, husband was fall, in-laws were spring and summer. Winter – white top and skirt I already had, cut-out snowflakes from paper, stickers and any other lightweight Xmas decorations that I could pin onto my clothes. The head piece was a stuffed tree decoration we already … Read more
We were looking for cute but cheap ideas, after throwing things around and taking a look around Walmart we decided we wanted to make a duct tape dress. We found wings, and thought that a Homemade Redbull Costume Idea would be original and cute! We bought 3 rolls of silver and blue duct tape, one … Read more
We wanted to do a really original costume and found one of a Lego man head on the internet. But there were no instructions so went ahead and made our own Homemade Lego Men Group Halloween Costume. We bought several sheets of Styrofoam and cut out circles with smaller circles cut inside them and stacked … Read more