Every year I try to do a character costume. I love the reactions I get when people see something they remember from their past. This year I went with a character that haunted my childhood, Judge Doom. The costume didn’t require much for materials. All I needed was two ping pong balls, bald cap, cotton … Read more
Bought pants and shirt from Goodwill, bought fake money from a teaching store, used about 4 to 500 actual bills, they were all different from $1 to $100 bills…used fabric glue and spray adhesive to glue the money to the shirt and pants. Bought biking gloves and used my black helmet and black boots to … Read more
My husband and I love Halloween so much that we got engaged on Halloween night 2006. He hid my ring in a pumpkin that I was to carve. Once I opened it up, his proposal was complete. I wanted to make him a nice costume cause he likes to be scary . So I screwed … Read more
This Minion costume is one of the easiest costumes I have ever made. It takes about 15 minutes and you only need a few supplies. Supply List: Gold Hooded Sweatshirt ($15), Overalls ($3 at the thrift store), 1 Package of black pipe cleaners ($1 at Walmart), Glue Gun ($2.50 at Walmart), Glue sticks ($1 at Walmart) and … Read more
To create this look was a fun and creative process! We searched our local thrift shops and online and found a cheap black suit that came with pants, jacket, tie, shirt, and vest for about $15. Then we bought a pair of black slip on for about $5 from Dollar store then we had to … Read more
My daughter-ini-law suggested a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the Ghostbusters movie as my grandson’s costume. I’ve made every one of my two son’s costumes over the years and now can follow up with costumes for my grandchildren. It took me a week of thinking and planning to come up with a way to do … Read more
I am a big fan of Spaceballs and it just seemed a no brainer to attempt a Barf costume. With a lot of help from my wife, my mother, and a dvr (to rewatch it a few times), we pulled off this costume. We had to fabricate the feet, tail, arms, and ears using faux fur, … Read more
Welcome to the 85th Academy Awards! I am your host Oscar and I will be with you for the whole evening! I am wearing this little number from the 2013 “Sweitzer Fall Collection!” I got the idea to be the host of the Oscars from looking at past pictures on Coolest Homemade Costumes! This … Read more
I got the idea for making the Zoltar costume from the movie Big, then it just happened from there. I made my costume out of a refrigerator box that I got from Lowe’s, and the rest of the items in the fortune telling machine are just some things that I found laying around the house. … Read more
After watching some old school A-Team cartoons with pops, I got Mikade stoked on portraying the iconic character. I cut his hair. Glasses and vest were bought from Goodwill. We ironed on the word A-team on this vest which was adorned with jewels prior to the work I put in it. Shorts were size 24-month, … Read more
My son really wanted to make the “made of money guy” costume. At first this seemed easy; then challenging; then easy again. It’s kind of an experiment. When I first started this project I thought finding play money would be easy to find. You could find small amounts here and there but not enough for … Read more
I originaly got the idea for this costume looking for wolf masks. Once I saw the mask, it was all over after that. After a lot of work and time I was able to get the mask ordered. Once that was done, I was sitting in my living room one night by myself and got … Read more