Well, my son has forgotten to tell me that he is having a costumed party at school that morning! What to do? School is about to start in 15 minutes! This is all I came up with at such short notice; I decided to dress him up as a pirate. I looked around in a … Read more
My father and I made this ship costume for my 5 yr old son. He loves everything about Titanic. The wood ship is 8 ft long and weights about 30lbs. My father assembled the wood by dipping it in water and bending it. Painting it did not take to much time but it was especially … Read more
I’d wanted to do a costume for the Hulkster for quite sometime but unfortunately I don’t have the body for it. This was probably the most embarrassing part of the costume, as I’m quite pale I had to get a spray tan done just to have that bronzed skin look. I can’t claim entirely homemade … Read more
I’m a huge fan of the Ender series by Orson Scott Card, so when I found out they were making a movie, I was really excited. As soon as I heard that it was to enter theaters the day after Halloween, I immediately decided what I wanted to go as this year. I set to … Read more
My friends and I decided to dress up for Halloween as a group and the theme we picked was captains. We had Captain Morgan/Crunch/Lela/Kirk with me as Captain America. Since there were so many store bought versions of Captain I decided to make a cheap one out of Card board and Colored Duct Tape. I … Read more
Made all the bolts with hot glue painted them glued with eyelash glue to face silver paint for face the empty heart made out of paper towel painted with black and red paint with some vasaline for the Tin Man, Scarecrow was made with straw and moss with a bird on the arm half Scarecrow … Read more
So Hallowwen is my favorite holiday of the year, Lat year my brother and I di Cheech and Chong and submitted it This year I did my favorite Sitcom TV show The A Team.. B.A. Baracus (MR.T) the hardest part was doing the Mohawk, so I bought styrofoam placed my head onto it and traced … Read more
It was September, and just as has been the case for many years now, I asked my 10 year old son Chance what he wanted to be for Halloween. “Something headless”, he replied. Gone are the days of cute Halloween costumes, replaced in recent years by zombies and the like. “Okay”, I said, all the … Read more
My toddler son wanted to be a ghost this year and not just any ghost- a spooky ghost. I scoured the stores, but everything I saw was just a sheet with a zig zag edge. I wanted something that billowed and floated to give it an eerie feel. I decided that I would make a … Read more
I made the face from poster board and construction paper. I first studied Randy Marsh’s face on google images. Then, I decided what facial expression I wanted to give him. After I chose it, I free handed the shape of his head with a pencil in the poster board. After that, I placed a large … Read more
This Meatballs and Spaghetti for both male and female costume idea came to me like magic. Actually Halloween was the next day and I was at home in my room when I just remembered that tomorrow was Halloween, so I was thinking “I don’t have any money, what am I going to do? “Then it hit … Read more
Originally I was just fooling around at work and starting making giant minions out of cardboard to decorate for Halloween. Everyone loved them so much I decided to make a costume version. This was a very simple costume made to be worn like a human billboard. It consists of 2 giant sheets of cardboard from … Read more