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
Every year we try to come up with something cutting edge, funny, simple but everyone knows who you are. This year, we took it back old school in a tribute to the classic Hair Trolls that everyone had as a kid. I turned my living room into a workshop to create the prefect most ridiculous … Read more
Meet the Flintstones and the Rubbles! We made our Flinstones and Rubbles Halloween costumes out of felt and dress from Goodwill. While making them, we really had no clue what we were doing. We just looked costumes up on line and started cutting away. My friend and I had never used a sewing machine prior … Read more
This Homemade Alvin and the Chipmunks Group Costume is super easy! Just used regular t-shirts, and foam with self adhesive strips for the letters. We found ears at the Dollar store and I found a cheap red hat to use for Alvin. Leggings and tube socks helped unify our costumes.
In 2007 my family went as Shrek and his cohorts. My son’s donkey costume was purchased in 2004 when my daughter went as donkey and I as Shrek the first time. She had been in the hospital and when trying to cheer her up I promised to go as Shrek which included shaving my head … Read more
Our Scooby Doo and the Gang costumes are all custom and original. For Fred we used an old white long sleeve t-shirt, blue pants (altered to fit) that I found at a yard sale, and an orange sash. For Daphne we used a larger size t-shirt and cut it to add in the lighter purple. … Read more
After browsing on your site for baby costume ideas I decided on the chicken. With help from previous entrants made one for my baby girl. After I finished I started thinking about what my husband and I would be. At first I thought rooster and hen with a baby chick, but my husband quickly vetoed … Read more
Our Family has been participating and have won first place three years in a row in our city Upland Ca Scare Affair Halloween costume contest. Last year we decided to dress up as The Addams Family. The winner to our costumes was our 5″6 Cousin It with hair to the floor. Mortisha Me dyed my … Read more
My friends and I did a Wizard of Oz theme for Halloween a few years ago. We even have a yellow brick road!!! The Tin Man is the only purchased costume:( All Others were hand made. I myself made the Dorothy and Lion costumes with no patterns….I just winged it! The shoes were a cheap … Read more