I have always loved playing the game of Tetris. I thought it would be fun to create a Homemade Tetris Costume for Halloween. The difficult part was figuring out what kind of boxes to use because they had to be the same size. I went with medium sized u-haul boxes. It took 4 boxes for … Read more
As we do every year, we as a group of good friends, decided to do the Flintstones Group Costume and had fun doing it. Pebbles: Found a yellow dress at a salvation army and glue gunned on some cut out black triangles. Then we found a pink wig and attached a bone headband. Bam Bam: … Read more
Our community has a Halloween Costume contest every year. We had seven employees in our office and wanted everyone to dress in a theme. Since everyone in the office was old enough to remember the 80’s when the Smurfs were popular it was an easy choice. Each Smurf costume was less than $20.00 to put … Read more
These costumes came together very simply. First you start by painting yourself with green paint and spray painting your hair green. The ears were made by rolling green felt and hot gluing them together and then wiring them onto black plastic headbands. Any kind of shirts work, as long as your look is rustic. I … Read more
OOmpa Loompa Doopity Doo, Willy Wonka Let us off work for a day of Candy making to enjoy Halloween. I really wanted to be something different than the normal Halloween costume you end up seeing so we made a modern spin on the old Homemade Willy Wonka and Oompa Loompas Group Costume. We where able … Read more
With one trip to the Goodwill, and another to the costume store for wigs, we were able to create the 4 news anchors of the Anchorman Crew Group Halloween Costume. Ron Burgundy: We found a great burgundy coat and pants that were plaid and the correct 70s cut. We paired that with a brown wig … Read more
This group Spaceballs Costume was put together by myself and friends. It consists of six characters from the Spaceballs movie created by Mel Brooks that is a spoof of Star Wars and a few other movies. From right to left the characters include Yogurt, Dot Matrix, Barf, Princes Vespa, a Spaceball (aka-Major Asshole), and Lord … Read more
The whole Wizard of Oz costume idea got started when my sister-in-law lent my son a homemade lion costume she had made several years ago for her son. Then my daughter got red sparkle shoes for Christmas and it just seemed like I had to go with it. My oldest daughter wanted to be a … Read more
This is our Homemade Mario Bros., Princess Peach and Toad Group Costume. For my dress, I used an old prom dress. Dyed a piece of ribbon and gloves to match. I sewed the tinsel to my dress giving it the flowing look, then hot glued the ribbon over it. Found the crown in the toy … Read more
My name is Emma and I handmade all of the costumes shown here. It’s been like a tradition to be resourceful and make nothing into something for our Halloween costumes every year in my family since I was a kid myself and now I get to do this with my kiddos. Mario(the star of the … Read more
We grabbed some fabric, made up a pattern for a simple dress, used puffy paint to paint on the dresses. For the hats we used a simple party hat and incorporated all of our colors and glued the fabric on the hats. This was such an easy DIY Crayon Group Halloween Costume.
I’ve been thinking of group/family costumes for us the past few years while the kids are young (and willing to go along with my ideas!). This Bee Family Costume fit the bill for us: cute, inexpensive, and my husband didn’t have to be too silly. Bees: Basic cylinder/tube pattern. I sewed black and yellow fuzzy … Read more