“Okay, you primitive screw-heads, listen up!” This year I went as ASH WILLIAMS. The hero from The Evil Dead series starring: Bruce Campbell. Lucky this costume is pretty simple. It consists of: 1 Blue Collared Shirt. 1 Brown Pair of Pants. 1 Pair of work boots. A leather harness. A Holster. A Toy Shotgun. A Toy Chainsaw. Fake … Read more
7 year old son: “Dad, I want to be a bumblebee for Halloween.” Dad: “Really, you mean one with black and yellow stripes and cute little wings. Kind of baby-ish don’t you think?” Son: “No Dad, Bumblebee! From Transformers.” Dad: “Oh, of course. That’s better. That will be cool, we can make it look like … Read more
My husband and I were hosting a masquerade party and needed to come up with a creative costume that still covered his face. I noticed we had a basic respirator mask, got a wild hair, and in the words of Bane, “let the games begin!” I started by simply drawing directly on the mask with … Read more
When asking my kids what they wanted to be I should have expected exactly what I got. It’s not hard coming up for costumes for Ariel and Snow White. The difficulty comes when your 7 year old self-proclaimed Dinosaur Expert says “I want to be a dinosaur!” Never ask what kind and how might I … Read more
I’m a big fan of ROYGBIV so I knew I wanted to make my son’s costume colorful, so that’s when I choose to make him an awesome gumball machine costume. Now he’s only 2 so I knew there would be certain limitations and things I couldn’t be too creative with, like having his head in … Read more
This Scary Pop Quiz costume was my son’s idea. As a middle-schooler, he decided that the most frightening thing ever is being caught of guard by his teachers. So the costume idea was born! It was super simple to make. With an all white set of sweats, I took a blue permanent marker and added the notebook lines … Read more
Max is my 16 month old baby boy! We went to North Carolina to visit family. I wanted to make Max a super hero this Halloween but I really wanted it to be homemade Somi, decided to make him Clark Kent! I bought him some pants, a white button-up shirt, a super man undershirt and … Read more
Garret as the Green Plastic Army Man. This costume was awesome but boy let me tell you the problems we had. When Garret first decided he wanted to do this for his costume we thought, oh this will be cheap, we have all kinds of stuff around the house. We were going to use an … Read more
This glowing daft punk couple costume with Tron EL wire suit was hand sewed to clothing with fishing line. The jacket is leather. I even outlined my Nike shoes with the El wire. The helmet was made from clay and then mold was made. Then pour with smooth cast plastic. Total of around 100ft of EL wire was used. A … Read more
I was so happy when Ezra (turned 3 on November 1st) gravitated to the idea of being Super Grover instead of Elmo! However I still waited until a week before Halloween to get going. The top and pants were sewn using a set of his carter’s pajamas as a pattern, I have basic sewing skills … Read more
We needed costumes for a party thrown by my husband’s coworker. I enjoy science fiction and have been wanting to do steam punk outfits for a while. We had to keep the cost down so here is what we came up with. I found a masquerade mask online that my husband liked and then borrowed some elements … Read more
Finn from Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time is an easy costume! We already had a blue t-shirt, dark blue shorts, white socks, and black shoes. The hat is handmade, but I bought it off Ebay. If I were going to make the hat, I would simply have found a white beanie and added white fabric stuffed little horns to it. … Read more