Our family went as Shrek and gang in 2007 and I was dared to top my Shrek. To do so, I could only think of cross-dressing, but didn’t want to do anything rude. Then one day the Wizard of Oz was on TV and the rest is history. My wife’s lion costume was a simple … Read more
It was four days before the big day and Tim and I were still struggling to fit half a hula-hoop into an elbow joint of PVC that was oozing with bathroom caulk and epoxy. How were we going to make four identical Ms. Pac-man ghosts to win the group costume contest? Our vision was to … Read more
We are all in college and on a budget. We found boxes at the local hardware store and spray painted them and added foam wheels, numbers, and string to attach to our body. For Mario and Luigi we bought mens suspenders, colored tee shirt and base ball hats, we super glued foam letters on the … Read more
This is a group of seventeen college students from Wichita, KS. We are dressed up as Crayola crayons (ladies) and markers (boys). Each person made their own costumes to reflect their personality. I , Rusty (the Pink Crayola), came up with this idea, and we planned and began the creative process in early September. The … Read more
We had the most adorable bee costume for my 22-month-old but since we are a family that likes to go all out in everything that we do, we thought we should all get in on the bee action. Noelle (the daughter) is the precious bee, Hero (the dog) is the other bee, Daddy is the … Read more
We are submitting our six-pack of Coors Light Costume for the coolest homemade costume contest because we believe it is the best costume we have seen on your website. My friend and I had this Beer Group Costume Idea for Halloween 2009. We can not really remember why we chose to do Coors light other … Read more
Every year my friends an I do the best to hand make our costumes and to do what we can to make them top the year before! Most items are found and put together to create costumes, we’ve never had to buy them which is quite the feat if I may say so! Our favorite … Read more
We came up with the idea of being trolls after seeing pictures on this website. We needed something that would make us stand out at the local Halloween party. This definitely did it! We wanted to be a little different so we decided to each have a theme. Our themes were Hawaiian, 70’s, Christmas, Halloween, … Read more
We decided this year to have a group Halloween theme. My friend, Christina, and I have toddlers 6 weeks apart and we thought it would be perfect to dress them up as Pebbles and Bam-Bam. Then we figured, the kids can’t do it alone! So, I designed, re-created and sewed seven costumes for the group. … Read more
I made this Homemade Monsters Inc. Family Costume to be different from other people since every kid loves Sully. I figured hey why not buy a sewing machine and try it out! Lol, well needless to say I succeeded and everyone wanted pictures with us especially Sully! Sully is made out of faux fur and … Read more
We did a family theme this year: “The Scooby Doo Crew”. I was the only one with a costume made mostly from home. It was very simple. I had an orange shirt, a red skirt and a pair of brown shoes that I used from my closet. I bought the wig for around $9 and … Read more
We are all big Simpsons fans, and while looking around for costumes at a store we found a Homer mask and decided it was a must do! Making Homer was pretty easy – we found the mask at Target, all the other clothes were pretty easy and he already had most of them. We did … Read more