I created this Frankenstein costume for my son Faisal from scratch. He needed a character from a book for the book week. I bought a leather fabric which is used for the car seats. I then sewed the jacket and glued the extra fabric on an old trousers using the hot glue gun. the small … Read more
I had the great idea to make my son, the infamous Captain Spaulding from the famous Rob Zombie`s films, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects. I made his entire costume myself. I bought white clothes and sprayed them with fabric paint to put the design on there. I made his hat out of toilet … Read more
The story behind this DJ Banana costume is that a good friend of mine is a DJ….in fact, DJ Banana. Every year he throws an amazing Halloween party, sometimes two in one year. I had to show up with an unique costume because I and my wife’s friends always go to these halloween parties and … Read more
Having a kid is a ton of work but it also means you get to dress them up as whatever you want for Halloween (at least until they can fight you on it.) I have always had a love for 80’s movies, especially the fun and iconic characters that came from them. Chunk from The … Read more
Halloween has always been a big thing around our house. Each year we try to top our costumes from the years prior. This Halloween we decided to make Anger from Inside Out for our 5 year old son. Items we used: Concrete tube form (purchased at Home Depot) Red Fleece (Angers Body) White Fabric (Anger’s … Read more
This is my Pirates of the Caribbean costume for a pirates carnival summer 2015. The head is made from Plastercine tentacle shapes that were dipped several times in liquid latex, dried off, then added another coating of liquid latex. Let dry and repeat process at least 8 times. There were 30 tentacles in total, add those to a latex … Read more
My son Loves Paw Patrol and Marshall. Naturally he wanted to be his favorite character for Halloween. So we made this Paw Patrol Marshall costume. Making our Homemade Costume To create this costume I searched my local children’s consignment store. I found a plain red zipper vest and a white long sleeved t-shirt. It was … Read more
I love Once Upon a Time. Rumple is my favorite male character. So my wife and I decided to create the first season costumes of Belle and Rumple for the next comic con. It turned out to be a labor of love for me to create Rumple. I started off visiting the used clothing shop. … Read more
I wanted a costume for riding with my Harley Davidson. So there was Terminator or Wolverine and I went with Wolverine. The Claws were created by adapting the wolverine claws that come with the back of the hand made of plastic which i removed. I added metal thick coat hanger bent into a dowl of wood and … Read more
We got the Idea for the F-16 costume right in this site, from Kristina R. First we made a paper model to get the picture. Then we measured and cut two cardboard pieces, and cut a crack in one to them to let the stabilizer (two pieces of cardboard, each is folded, taped to the … Read more
This idea came to me after Terminator Genisys and looking for other Endo costumes, which none did it any justice. So I decided to challenge myself and go a step further on this project but mind you, I’m cheap lol. I hate spending money on costume so I usually go with cardboard on my costumes and … Read more
Hello guys, sorry for my English. I tried to make an original costume for my son. He is 4 years old. She wanted to dress up as a superhero, but we excluded the most obvious ones (Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Captain America). We opted for Wolverine, as beautiful is the contrast between a child of 4 … Read more