These Mary Katherine Gallagher and Mr. Peepers Couple Costume from SNL have received a ton of great feedback from friends and trick or treaters! So we wanted to share! If you aren’t familiar with them, they are reoccurring characters from a popular Saturday night sketch comedy show. They are both quite easy costumes to put together, and with … Read more
What do you get when you have a Mom Chocolate Bar and a Peanut Butter Father? A bunch of candy bar kids and one sweet Halloween costume! Each year we create a family Halloween costume that is a secret to everyone but the members of our family. Our friends and extended family have to wait … Read more
I’ve been making my own costumes for years now and it’s one of the things I look forward to during Halloween. Each year I spend a great deal of time thinking of costume ideas and how to execute it. I almost decided to pass on making any this year because my husband and I just … Read more
My wife and I were thrilled at the chance for our first true family group costume. We were going to be all the “bouncy” characters from Winnie the Pooh stories! My wife and infant son would be Kanga and Roo, and I would be Tigger. We were lucky enough to find a commercial jumpsuit pattern … Read more
“Hoppy” Halloween! My daughter wanted to be a frog for Halloween. I made her first frog head a bit too big, so we decided to go as Mama and baby frog. We love to go leopard frog catching in the summer. Sometimes we draw a circle in the middle of our large driveway and put … Read more
If you love Minions, this is the costume to choose! It will fit majority of people, if you can fit in a kitchen bin, you can be this Minion! It was a long bit extremely fun process, all up about one week in time and $90 maximum per Minion. But totally worth it! There were many entertaining clips … Read more
I was looking at the different homemade costumes on your amazing website, and I came across this minion costume here https://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/2012/10/17/coolest-homemade-despicable-me-minion-costume/. Not only did I immediately fall in love with it, but my son just so happen to be a tremendous fan of minions himself that I decided to try making the costume myself but … Read more
After the inspiration of Smurfs 2, my boyfriend and I went as Papa Smurf and Smurfette. This costume was very easy thanks to the new second skin costumes that are so famous now. The bought items were 2 full body suits (blue), red sweat pants for Papa, red socks, blonde wig, white sun dress. I … Read more
I sculpted the Ludo mask from construction foam and created his fur suit. I altered Sarah’s dress from an existing wedding dress and added layers and layers of tulle. I hand painted the goblin King’s wig and cut and styled it to look like Jareth. His clothing is a collection of thrift finds that have been altered … Read more
What DO you call a group of unicorns? A blessing, of course! And THAT, is our Halloween costume. We are a blessing…boy are we a blessing. In the back is daddy-corn, who works really hard so that mommy-corn can be home with the baby-corns (who are dressed up as a ballerina-corn and Ninja-corn). We can’t forget … Read more
My oldest daughter recently lost her two front teeth which inspired this costume couple. I couldn’t get the oldest daughter to be the tooth because we had already made her costume, and there was no changing her mind. It seemed simple enough to make, and I used extra craft stuff I had laying around my … Read more
We attended MNSSHP at Disney World and wanted to have a family themed costume. See the Wizard of Oz was celebrating 75 years this year, we thought that would be a good inspiration for our costumes. All of your costumes were homemade except for the Dorothy costume which did have a homemade accessory which was … Read more