This great pet dog Halloween costume came about since our dog already comes with his own “fro.” I bought about 2 yards of tie-dyed fabric, and 1.5 yards of brown fringe. This was enough for my child’s costume as well. Plus hippie glasses, wig and necklaces. We already had a shirt for my child. I … Read more
Of course my son doesn’t want to be anything easy… lol, but I love to sew and this is my one chance to shine. I went to cut octagons for his Dry Bones costume, he (7yrs old) says “no…turtles have hexagon shells not octagons”, silly me. Material was left over from last year’s Angry Bird, … Read more
This great homemade Super Mario costume I handmade. I made the hat from felt and the overalls from blue nylon material. It was not too difficult and it was a Halloween when Mario was not as popular. We put raccoon ears and a tail to be the Mario with flying powers. My boy loves Mario … Read more
Our son wanted to be a scary tree and there are no “tree costumes” that we could buy so we got some material from Joanns and a lot of leaves from Michael’s. We made his body suite to be shaped like the trunk and we made a hat to hold the leaves and branches and … Read more
My son Joey is five years old and he LOVES dinosaurs. He wanted to be a Trex this Halloween because that is his favorite dinosaur of them all. He is such a fan of them that a silly cartoonish costume would not do. He needed something realistic so I decided to make make the coolest homemade … Read more
This is an easy and cheap homemade costume idea: Car Wash costume from a few years ago but I’m putting it out there for mothers who have a similar child and might need an idea. So my 4-year-old son LOVED car washes. He made them out of shoe boxes, tables, crates, ANYTHING and loved pushing … Read more
I made my 18 month old son, Oliver, a Book Worm costume this year for Halloween! I started by making a hoodie from green fleece, and added a big black bow tie to the front of that hoodie from felt. Then made matching green fleece pants. I had to use Youtube.com to learn how to … Read more
My son who is 8 has started a tradition for me for Trick-Or-Treating. He loves homemade costumes. He has been a bath tub of bubbles, zombie who died via DVD impalement and much more. He is a cub scout and wanted to enter the costume contest at the annual Spook-O-Ree last year. First place was … Read more
My son really wanted to be a Ninja Turtle for Halloween so we checked out costumes online and they all looked so cheesy so I decided to create my own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Costume but modernizing the color. First I went to a store that sold ninja turtle shell t-shirts (Spencer’s or Hot Topic) and … Read more
This is a Lord of the Rings Sauron costume I made for my son. When he told me he wanted to be Sauron for Halloween, I wasn’t really sure how to pull this off. I started with the “easy” parts. Cloak: I purchased a costume grade set of shoulder pads and attached layered/shredded black fabric. Hands: … Read more
We considered buying costumes but they were expensive and surprisingly hard to find. So my husband had the great idea that was to make my son’s costume this year the REDBOX. At first I thought that it would not be good enough and would not have enough detail to it. But I can’t tell you how … Read more
Every once in awhile my husband and I refer to my little destructive infant son Henry as H-Bomb, so it was quite fitting for us to choose a Bob-Omb from Mario as his first costume. I sewed the entire costume myself (except for the long sleeve top underneath) out of fleece and felt with a … Read more