I wanted to do something special this year so I chose the “Gender” Bender. For Bender I spent a lot of time on Bender’s head. It was important to get the right look. The cutting of the cardboard visor was a tricky part. The head is constructed of cardboard rolled and taped. The dome of … Read more
Every year I try to find a costume that has been done before, and then take it to a whole new level. This year was inspired by a ridiculous unicorn costume you can find on Google searching for “unicorn costume”. A sad man with tap shoes and a fake horse rear end. I knew I … Read more
As soon as my son saw Dispicable Me, my son immediately knew he wanted to be a minion. I had made his costumes for the past several years (Coolest Homemade Luke Skywalker Pilot Costume 2 and Coolest Bumblebee Transformer Halloween Costume 24), so I started working on this new challenge. He can be pretty shy, … Read more
This baby golfer in a golf cart stroller costume is so easy, all I used was: Single Stroller, large sheets of card board , several different sized boxes, 4 wrapping paper cores, hot glue and glue gun, newspapers, water, flour, and large bowl for paper mache, long bolt (longer than 3 inches) with matching wing … Read more
This “Greg” from ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ cartoon drawing is very simple to make and only requires a few materials. Though I have written quite a bit on how to make this costume, overall the task is quite simple. Don’t let the length of these instructions discourage you from attempting. I have gone into … Read more
Palmcon 2011 was the first con I ever went to, after going I was inspired to make a costume for 2012. I worked all year on a Dr. Doom costume and barely finish it in time for the convention. It’s made out of anything and everything and has a lot of trial and error, some … Read more
My son expects a hand made costume made by “yours truly” each year. He does not want to wear a store bought costume since he knows “mom can make him ANYTHING”. This greatest homemade Mario Bros Bowser costume took me about 40 hours to make. I used a skate helmet for the head piece and … Read more
I am the one wearing the Malfatto costume from Assassins Creed and it is entirely hand made. The costume is based on original art for the elite form of Malfatto/plague doctor from the hit game Assassins Creed. I’ve included the picture I used as my reference for designing the costume. It took about 70+ hours to … Read more
My son has a love of, or more like a passion for, Cosmo, the Cougar mascot for Brigham Young University. For years anything even remotely Cougar-related has sent my son into blissful hysterics. After finally meeting his hero in person at a BYU basketball game, Ethan asked (more like begged, pleaded, etc.) if I would … Read more
My goal was to make a homemade dinosaur costume as cool as possible by spending as little as possible in only 2 weeks. I had to start somewhere. Some of the “How to make…” sites used foam to shape heads for costumes, so I figured this is where I should start. I had some foam … Read more
Anybody can be Johnny Depp’s version of The Mad Hatter, but I decided to take the Hatter’s madness to its (il)logical extreme. In my vision, the poor Hatter was so confused as to which hat to wear to the Queen’s Tea, that he decided to wear EVERY hat he owned at once. Now, of course, … Read more
BrainStorm is made mostly of aluminum, along with PVC, plastic salsa bowls, and a good amount of electronics. I used EL wire, an infrared security camera, a toy voice modulator, several LED’s, vacuum tubes, and a tiny laser pico projector. This robot costume took three months of solid work to design and build it in … Read more