My 5 year old son Brayden was dying to be the coolest Iron Man this year. My husband and I brainstormed over it while looking at pictures online to get an idea of what materials we could use (inexpensively) to pull off a very cool costume for our son. Looking at some photos I thought … Read more
This is my son Jake in his Plane costume! My husband made this costume for him. I just did quality control. Call me the project manager! He started with a box and cut out the top and bottom. This will be the cockpit. He then used chicken wire to construct the shape of the plane. … Read more
This is a baby gnome costume I made for my son, Max, who is six months old. I wanted to make his first Halloween special by making him a unique costume that we would all remember forever! After a lot of brainstorming my husband and I agreed that a gnome would be the perfect choice. … Read more
My son Jimmy went as a penny coin. We cut it out of cardboard and cut a space for his shoulder. We added a handle on the other side using duct tape and cardboard. We cut out cardboard letters to say “In God We Trust” and added the year he was born. We spray painted … Read more
My oldest son wanted to be a NY Yankees baseball card so I wanted to have the copy store enlarge a card, but due to copyright restrictions, they couldn’t so we used a photo off the internet and had them enlarge it. I then cut it and glued it to foam board. I then printed off … Read more
This Sam Shakusky costume from Moonrise Kingdom is relatively easy to make, the only thing you have to boy is the hay which is like a racoons tail and can surely find it in any gun store or any 99 cent store. The shirt I knitted some buttons onto it I had from the past that … Read more
Erik, my ten-year-old son, wanted to be Zane the white LEGO NinjaGO character for Halloween. There was an awesome handmade costume on eBay that I was dying to buy but it was waaaay expensive ($150 for the head alone and $280 for the whole thing, plus shipping). The eBay seller had made Lloyd, the green NinjaGO character costume–but was … Read more
This awesome Backhoe Loader Preschool Halloween Costume was put together with 7 “ingredients”: 3 paper boxes 2 cans white primer spray paint 2 cans yellow spray paint 2 cans black metallic textured spray paint One million hot glue sticks Yellow duct tape for wheel stability and for emergency repair on Halloween night Black fabric straps … Read more
My son wanted something scary but has sensitive skin so we always had to be creative with his costumes because he can’t wear Halloween make-up. We searched online and combined a few other ideas to create this masterpiece. He is now a headless mad scientist that carries his head around with 2 of his 4 … Read more
When I decided that I wanted to do a Batman costume for a comic convention I went to with friends this past September, I went in with the thought that it would be easier to do a costume that was kind of funny rather than trying to make some epic looking Dark Knight get up. … Read more
We put this easy, super cool Ghost Rider costume for kids together for our 7 yr old son. He wanted to be Ghost Rider for Halloween. So I decided that I would figure out a way for him to be the coolest Ghost Rider ever!! He wore just simple black jeans, some boots, a black … Read more
This Captain Underpants costume was easily the simplest costume I’ve done in the past 3 years. The hardest part was shaving my full beard and going clean shaven after over 2 years of wearing a trimmed beard! JoAnn’s Fabrics was a time saving stop en route to completion. I bought the plunger new for $3.49 … Read more