I sewed 14 costumes this year for my grandchildren. No matter how we tried, we couldn’t talk Kallan out of being Link from the Wii game, Zelda. His brother, Riley, wanted a costume so he could “fight, fight, fight!” I had to look on the internet to see what Link even looked like. I knew … Read more
My youngest daughter loves Mario brothers and wanted to go as Princess Peach so to stick with the theme I decided to try my hand at making a costume instead of buying one so I decided to try to make a “man in cage” costume with a Nintendo theme. Here we have Bowser carrying Mario … Read more
This is a Homemade Princess Zelda Costume from the ‘Twilight Princess’ era. The dress was purchased but the armor, and the crown were handmade. I found some templates and used some foam offcuts and layered them to make the shoulder guards and other chained up entities, and the crown is a combination of craft foam, … Read more
Our 5-year old daughter loves Super Mario, so we decided to go as a group. I made the Toad hats by sewing 2 round pieces of fleece together, then cutting a hole in the bottom for the head. I used a piece of craft mesh (it’s kind of like a screen door but stiffer) stuffed … Read more
My son wanted a Homemade Dry Bones Costume from the Mario Games this year. Since they don’t sell one in the store, I had to get crafty! We started with a black sweat shirt and sweat pants and hot glued bones from the dollar store to make the body. The shell we made out of … Read more
We decided to do an easy group costume with Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi. We found men’s tshirts, gym short and white leggings in the colors we needed. The we found matching tan hats and dyed them ourselves. We took color duck tape to create fake suspenders (Waluigi’s is backwards). We cut float paper for … Read more
I looked all over the internet and could not find any Yoshi costumes for my little boy to wear. We had decided to do a Mario Brothers theme for the whole family for Halloween and we were so excited about it that I knew I had to find a way to make a Yoshi costume … Read more
My friends were throwing a Halloween party and 2 of them were going as Mario and Luigi from Super Mario Brothers. I thought it would be fun to tell them I was going as a zombie to throw them off, then show up as Bowser, their mortal enemy! It was priceless when I barged through … Read more
My son wanted to be Luigi for Halloween. I purchased the overalls and hat (both new) on EBay – total of $25 including shipping (not bad). A green shirt for $4 and white gloves for $1 at WalMart, and bought fake black fur to make the mustache and black hair and a piece of yellow … Read more
My son is a huge Zelda fan and he wanted a Link costume. I got some material and threw a Homemade Link from Zelda Costume together. My wife made the shield out of the poster board with a foam core, and she hand painted it. I saw the Link costume on your website and thought … Read more
My video-game loving kids wanted to be Zelda and Link for Halloween, what a challenge! Zelda’s dress was an actual dress pattern, and by far the easiest part of all of this (although the pattern itself was rather complicated!). For Link, I found the instructions online, but had to make all my own patterns (I … Read more
My name is Emma and I handmade all of the costumes shown here. It’s been like a tradition to be resourceful and make nothing into something for our Halloween costumes every year in my family since I was a kid myself and now I get to do this with my kiddos. Mario(the star of the … Read more