My 7 year old son decided he wanted to be a green plastic soldier, like the ones that come alive in the movie Toy Story. He loved the way they hopped around on their platform, and then froze in place when a person came in the room. He wanted to do both of those actions, … Read more
My 5 year old decided last year (when he was 4) that he wanted to be Edward Scissorhands for Halloween. I consider myself pretty crafty and thought “Awesome, I have a whole year to get this ready”….or NOT! This year brought on many stresses and at the end of August, when I would have been … Read more
This year I decided to make my 4 year olds Halloween costume. He loves the movie UP and when looking at different ways people have made the costume I decided to being as much as possible from the movie into this one costume. I made the house from foam board and cardboard. The only thing … Read more
I have to give the credit to my wife for the idea of the Geico Money Man costume. However, when it came time for the actual creation of the costume that is where I took over. We have always enjoyed the fact that we create our own costumes every year. My wife used play money … Read more
That’s right, a Bug Zapper. When your 7 year old requests to be a bug zapper, you should say, “No”. But I said, “Yes.” And truth be told, it was the best Halloween EVER. Let me start by saying there are ZERO internet searches you can do to figure out how to construct a bug … Read more
As children of the 80s, Halloween has a few quintessential elements to me and my husband. Obviously there is candy, pumpkins, scary movies, and trick-or-treating, but another thing we both loved was the movie “Ghostbusters “. Every year you can guarentee it will be on TV in all it’s awesome quotable glory. Our son is now old … Read more
Everyone always tells me how much my son reminds them of baby Pubert from the Addams Family, so we went with that! I just grabbed one of his grey onesies, cut a spider and bow tie out of felt, and glued them on with felt glue. Paired the onesie with black pants and his grey … Read more
My 9 year old son decided he wanted to be a minion for halloween this year. I saw the paper mache minion costumes and thought they looked nice but I have no paper mache skills. A man posted a great trash can minion costume and I decided to give it a try. I found the … Read more
The Story of How to for BeeDoo My son is a first grade teacher and loves dressing up for Halloween for his class in a character the kids can identify with. Thus this is how CARL was created. It all began with a cardboard drum for the body.. I cut the drum to my son’s … Read more
So my work has an annual costume contest. This year the theme was witches and wizards. So I decided to do Harry Potter. With all the details I was able to win amongst my pears this year. This costume is relatively simple and has a huge impact. Everyone at work loved the details and how … Read more
My grandson wanted to be Buzz lightyear and I set out to make him a Buzz different than most Buzz lightyear costumes. I didn’t want it to be just out of material, I wanted to have him feel like he really was Buzz so I decided to make it three dimensional which was by far … Read more
So I’ve seen plenty of people go as Alan with Carlos from the Hangover, but never seen anyone go as Carlos. So I decided to try it out. This costume was a real chick magnet and got a lot of attention. It is very creative and eye catching while not being expensive to make. In … Read more