Every once in awhile my husband and I refer to my little destructive infant son Henry as H-Bomb, so it was quite fitting for us to choose a Bob-Omb from Mario as his first costume. I sewed the entire costume myself (except for the long sleeve top underneath) out of fleece and felt with a … Read more
My son was having a Super Mario birthday party and we thought it would be fun if all the kids could dress as Mario. Since we had several kids at the party and I was going to let the kids keep them as favors, I had to make it easy and cheap. I found some … Read more
From start to finish I spent 4 hours making this original Mario Brother’s Toad costume. It is made of things I found at Goodwill. It consists of a white long sleeve t-shirt, white pants, a blue t-shirt, a gold vest, a red place mat, a round box and scrap white t-shirt from another project. The … Read more
This is a Homemade Skull Kid in Majora’s Mask from Zelda Costume. It is a character in my favorite video game, Zelda. The costume is all made by myself, my mom and my dad. We only purchased a few items such as felt and most items were re purposed or recycled from around our house. … Read more
The dress material for my homemade Princess Peach costume is light pink silk with embedded glitter. The flounces and arms are made with a sheer hot pink material with sparkly beading (also embedded). The trim is also hot pink and sparkly; I stumbled upon it while walking through Joann’s. The crown is made from thick … Read more
My sons are big fans of the Super Mario Games. They’ve been watching me play Super Mario Galaxy for a while. One of the “characters” in the game is a Luma. It’s a star like creature, and actually there are many of them in a variety of colors. My son wanted to be a red … Read more
One of the cheapest home made costumes ever! Overall’s…already had ( $20.00) Red Sweater….already had ($15.00) Brown Boots…already had ( 25.00) White mittens ($1.00) Red winter hat ($3.00) Face make up ($2.00) Yellow, Red, and White foam paper ($1.00 each) Pins($1.00) I cut the foam paper to make the buttons and the white circle and … Read more
My friend and I created this Homemade Mario Brothers Costume. We grew out our mustaches for 2 months and stenciled out logos for our hats. We made fireballs out of multi-colored paper, color coordinated to match with the corresponding character. We bought overalls from salvation army and got the appropriate long sleeved shirts and shoes … Read more
These Mario, Luigi and Princess Daisy Costumes are “put together”. I added things to purchased items. For example: I bought the caps and just added (painted) the M for Mario and the L for Luigi. Also, the dress was something I already had, so I decided to “make” it into princess Daisy. I removed all … Read more
We wanted to make these homemade Mario and Princess Peach costumes look as realistic as possible, and I think we did a pretty good job. Mario: We found rather cheap overalls on eBay and was able to find a red long sleeve shirt at Goodwill. We also found workboots at Goodwill that were already old, … Read more
I wanted to be a partner costume with my little sister but she was very stubborn so I had to find something she loved to be. I considered many different pairs but then after watching her play video games it was decided! Lily, my sister would be Luigi and I, Emily, would be Mario. It … Read more
My two sons wanted to have a costume theme together but couldn’t agree on anything. They love video games of course and I suggested a Mario and Luigi costume, but we didn’t like the ideas we had seen. We came up with Bobble Head Mario and Luigi. Using the kitchen table for a month was … Read more