I decided to dress my 12 month old son, Jason, as a zombie after watching him walk around at Magic Mountain Fright Fest and noticing that he walked just like a little zombie ( he has only been walking for a few weeks). Not only did he walk like a zombie, but he was growling … Read more
This is my Iron Man Halloween Costume for Halloween 2011. The Iron man movies being such a big hit, influenced my decision to make this costume. I wanted to make it fairly realistic but still have a cartoony feel to it. Using my two favorite things, cardboard and colored duct tape, I constructed this costume over … Read more
My 7 year old son loves to play the Claw game! He wins a prize every time. He even prefers his allowance to be in quarters so that he can play. So when asked what do you wanna be for Halloween this year, he said inside the Claw Machine! So we decided to make it … Read more
This was my Buzz Lightyear Halloween Costume for 2010. Buzz Lightyear was something I always wanted to do, but didn’t know how I would do it. I was working at a paint store and I grabbed a one piece painters cover-all, and realized it would be perfect for the space suit. Buying more foam core to … Read more
This Is Halloween 2009’s costume. I watched Wall-e 3 weeks before Halloween and it instantly made me decide that this needed to be my costume. I started by getting a large cardboard box for the body, and buying about 3 sheets of foam core for the head, arms, wheels, and panels. Using paint I had … Read more
This is my Oscar the Grouch Costume for Halloween 2008. Trying to find something that could compete with the previous year was difficult. I was walking through a Wal-mart when I saw some Fuzzy green microfleece blankets on sale. It hit me that I needed to be part of Sesame Street. Deciding on Oscar was easy, … Read more
Our little man is a rough and tumble kind of kid. After watching him try and push around his older sister during horseplay we thought that a Sumo Wrestler costume would be totally appropriate for him! Putting the costume together was the easy part. Getting it off him was the hard part! He loved running … Read more
Our 6yr old really wanted to be a Ninjago for Halloween, but since the closest costume was a regular Ninja we decided to step it up LEGO LIFE!! We used cardboard’s from Home Depot (large) for the body. To hold it together we just used duck tape. The legs are just from regular boxes we cut and … Read more
Another Halloween, another great wheelchair costume for now 6 year old William Joel! This year I simply acquired 3 large pieces of cardboard from a local supermarket and bent them to fit around the chair. I made a “Jolly Booger” Pirate Ship Wheelchair Costume. I attached the cardboard pieces together with large adhesive Velcro tape. … Read more
My son, Elijah, 2yrs old, is wearing bloody zombie costume. I’ve researched the ideas online on how to do fake wounds and fake blood. I started learning the techniques first week of October. Yes I know! I was so excited to do the zombie baby, me and my son practiced a lot so he can … Read more
My son wanted to have a costume that was unique so we decided to make his costume. He wanted to be a video game so we picked the Claw Machine and we got started. This was a lot of fun to make, we used a large box for the costume covered with vinyl and poster … Read more
First I used glue sticks to make a square for my Ice Cream Man Costume. I shaped it into a cone, painted it, added some maggots that I made with hot glue. Glue ice cream cones with melted looking ice cream onto clothes. Sprinkles were glued on face with eyelashes glue. Use eyeshadow makeup for … Read more