I am a huge Mets fan, I know I know. So I decided to be Mr. Met. It was a pretty easy costume to make, but if I were to do it again i would take more time and try to get the head more round. In the description I didn’t mention any cost but … Read more
This Christmas Tree costume is a 13 foot tall fully lit Christmas tree with 280 ornaments. The construction is PVC pipes, garlands, duct tape and two laundry baskets. The costume is supported on my head through out the night. One of the pictures shows a friend of mine wearing a Capt Crunch costume I created a … Read more
This SIMON (the Game) costume was lit in four colors with a hand controller inside the costume. The structure was made of bent PVC pipe covered in fabric and lights on the exterior. This was probably my most successful costume. Literally hundreds of pictures were taken of it at the Dallas street party. Total cost for … Read more
My son wanted to be something fun for Halloween and he always wants something homemade so we came up with a flyswatter costume where his face was the squished fly. I used white foam core board and cut it in the shape of a flyswatter, cut a hole through the middle and used silver tape … Read more
Energizer Bunny Halloween costume, very simple: 1. Pink Pajama Outfit to cover you top to bottom. 2. White Gloves 3. Bunny ears 4. Shades 5. THE DRUM! Key component to any energizer bunny! Each year costumes get that more elaborate and creative. The idea is to keep your eyes open and constantly thinking outside the … Read more
Honestly, it just came to me in an epiphany. I just thought to myself, “Hey, how cool would it be to just glue candy all over a t-shirt and an old hat and go as ‘The Candy Man?’” So, I went to my local Wal-mart, bought a really cheap long sleeved shirt, and two HUGE … Read more
Remember the Lennox commercials that featured men dressed as “bad air”? They were funny because they each had a different type of bad air that their system would get rid of. My husband found these commercials so funny and he loved the “hot air” one best of all. It had a man dressed in red … Read more
I made the hat out of an empty Sparks can. I used water and flour for paper mache over the can and attached a small round piece of cardboard to the bottom. Then I painted it and attached white speaker wire to it so I could tie the hat on behind my ears and it … Read more
I decided to go all out and make a costume for this Halloween. On a tight budget but with a head full of ideas and inspiration from other peoples creations I got down to it. Total build was less than £100 and this required lots of searching for things which were just right, and at … Read more
Last year my 1 yr old son Sebastian went as a “Stud Muffin”, and I must say, I don’t think that I could ever top it. I was looking for a “muffin” costume, but all I could find were girly “cupcake” costumes. So I found instructions on this site for making a cupcake costume, and … Read more
Started out with the head. Classic paper mache with a mix of DIY products to harden the mold (plaster, cornice cement and aquadere) (also had to be scary to have the effect with the young kiddies at the party.. Ha ha ha…). Bought a suit from second hand shop and then pin striped with a … Read more
Wanted to do an awesome homemade Little Green Plastic Army Man costume of these for years. I made the bazooka from plumbing parts, the walkie-talkie is from a Barbie refrigerator and plumbing parts, the rifle and grenades were toys painted to match. The stand is a routed piece of wood painted to match. This was … Read more