I love to dress the whole family in one theme. My kids love Scooby Doo, so when my youngest said she wanted to be Scooby Doo for Halloween, it was with glee that I decided we should all dress up as the Mystery Gang. My son was all too happy to be Shaggy. I vacillated … Read more
The tights for all 3 Smurfs were bought online. Color medium blue. We used a grease facepaint, but had to mix two shades of blue to match the tights. The Smurf hats were bought. Smurfette’s shoes were platform disco shoes from the Halloween store, the dress she owned. Brainy was carrying around a real nice … Read more
With the help of this site, our band decided on making our own Willy Wonka and Oompa Loompa costumes. We bought the green Oompa Loompa wigs, orange and white face paint, brown turtle necks, white scrub pants, striped socks. For the neck we cut white medical tape into strips. For the buttons on the pants, … Read more
We decided to use one of my favorite movies of all time as our Halloween Costume! At first it was just going to be me and my husband but my sister and her husband decided to join in. For the girls costumes I went to Modells and got kids hockey jerseys. I also went to … Read more
This Spaceball costume is a homemade costume put together after scouring thrift stores, shopping online, and crafting stuff ourselves. Dark Helmet’s Helmet (though it’s hard to see in pics) was made from a planter and hand-painted, Barf’s name tag actually has Barf embroidered on it, and Dot has a light-up LED”Virgin Alert” and is on … Read more
We decided to do an easy group costume with Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi. We found men’s tshirts, gym short and white leggings in the colors we needed. The we found matching tan hats and dyed them ourselves. We took color duck tape to create fake suspenders (Waluigi’s is backwards). We cut float paper for … Read more
My roommates and I decided that we did not want to be a store bought regular costume. We bought black felt fabric and the specific colors we wanted from the local fabric store and picked up the felt and Velcro. We also printed out the name CRAYOLA from a website and used it as a … Read more
These Homemade Crayola Crayons Costumes were very inexpensive but fun, cute and easy costumes to create! We went to a local fabric store and bought about a yard each of whichever color we wanted to be and about two yards of black felt just to be safe. We then took each color felt and sewed … Read more
We made this homemade beerglass group costume (16x) from wire netting and newspapers glued on to it. First we made a die to put the wire netting around so it would create the shape of a scaled beerglass. Because the shape is conical the wire netting was easy to remove from the die, so we … Read more
My three kids just love this camp site treat! So I thought, why not be what they eat and make them a Homemade S’more Family Costume! I used cardboard and wire hangers as the frames. The graham cracker is felt, the Hershey bar is fabric with individually stuffed rectangles, and my toasty marshmallow is batting … Read more
Two of my friends and I do a local Halloween contest on a dinner / party cruise boat every year. Each year we make our own costumes. So far we have one first place award (for these Homemade Lego Men Halloween Costumes) and two second place awards. We decided on the Legos because we wanted … Read more
My costume is specifically the light blue square Tetris, out of all five of us. My friends and I decided to be the Tetris pieces after seeing a picture of another group of Tetris people online. For the homemade Tetris costume we used cardboard boxes for the base of the shapes, solid color wrapping paper … Read more