So this yr we decided to dress up as Super Mario Bros characters, since my 4yr old son wanted to be Luigi. Dad was Mario, baby brother was Toad and I was Princess Daisy. For the Mario and Luigi, I simply purchases overalls with red and green long sleeve shirts. I found 80% of the … Read more
My Son and his best friend and their girls wanted to Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Princess Daisy. I hand dyed white overalls (in a garbage can)in hot water using blue dye, had to do this twice to get them darker. I painted wooden buttons yellow and Velcrod them to the buckles of the overalls … Read more
My friends and I are always looking for a funny Halloween costume. We want to stick out and be something original! I think we did it last year with our Homemade Mario Kart Character Costumes. We started off thinking of our favorite characters in the game and then decided how we would approach making them! … Read more
Every year my boys, Dylan (18) and Dustyn (12) choose a unique character to be for Halloween! This year, Dustyn wanted to be Diddy Kong. To make the Diddy Kong costume, I needed to figure out how to make the (monkey) mouth piece. Since I only had a week to make it, I decided against … Read more
My husband dropped on me that he wanted to be Super Mario for Halloween the day before he needed a costume. We went to some thrift stores looking for items to use for his Homemade Super Mario Halloween Costume, and we found an old extremely large choir robe in the exact color we needed for … Read more
My daughter always starts thinking about what she would like to be for Halloween by January! This year she decided she wanted to be the Twilight Princess version of Princess Zelda. I started researching in June and getting some rough ideas of how we wanted the finished costume to look. The major factor would be … Read more
My friends and I decided to be Mario Kart for Halloween. It’s not an original idea, but I believe it makes up for that in the construction. I made (I have a lot of free time on my hands) 4 Karts, one for Mario, Luigi, Peach and Baby Luigi, out of foam board, glue, duct … Read more
This was probably going to be the last Halloween that my cousin/best friend and I were going to be able to hang out on Halloween and I wanted us to be the Mario Brothers for Halloween since we are like brothers. I started working on the Mario and Luigi Halloween costumes three months prior to … Read more
My daughter had a Zelda kick after the Twilight Princess came out on Nintendo, and she wanted to be Princess Zelda for Halloween. She is wearing a T-shirt under the costume in the photo because it was cold, but the neckline is where the purple ends. The dress is a layer of cream crepe in … Read more
When my son was 3 years old he was very into Mario & Luigi. So he wanted to be Mario for Halloween. So I went on the hunt to create a homemade Mario for him. Then he told us he wanted his dad to be Luigi cause he was the taller one. :-) This year … Read more
Here you see my four children, AKA Luigi, Koopa Troopa, Yoshi, and Princess Peach, and my niece and nephew, AKA Mario and Toadette. My oldest, seen here as Luigi, had been teaching himself the Mario theme song on the sax for weeks, so as we gave thought to what the kids might want to be … Read more
This Halloween my daughter gave me almost no time to get her costume ready but she did tell me exactly what she wanted to be. Princess Peach was it! So, I went to Walmart and bought some fabric… spent about $12 (we had some trimmings already) and got to work. With no pattern and only … Read more