I wanted to create a unique and interactive costume this year so I decided on a fortune teller costume. I wanted people to be able to receive a paper fortune so I built a booth out of three medium sized moving boxes from Lowe’s. I created a small table by folding one of the lid … Read more
The best thing is I had to buy very little for the Annabelle costume since I had most of it already! I only had to buy ribbon and a few regular makeup products just to make sure it didn’t have any sparkle to it. I used a white old stained shirt and glued ribbon to … Read more
The theme was chosen by Benjamin, my 7 year-old son. Shy by nature and not the least bit outgoing, he takes after his mom, the wallflower! In order to help my son overcome his social anxiety, I’ve been making costumes of his choice and joining in. My thought is this: if his seriously boring and … Read more
This is my 4 yerar old son Dominic, he loves Lego Ninjago Jay! So mommy thought it would be really cool to dress him up as Jay for Halloween. Of course I searched online for something, but could only find a normal boy costume and not a lego man. So my creative juices started flowing. I … Read more
Here’s our Magic School Bus and Ms. Frizzle couple costume. I am Ms. Frizzle and my cousin Elizabeth is the magic school bus. We absolutely love the TV show The Magic School Bus, we even own all the DVDs and we wanted to make our costumes instead of buy them in a store. We just … Read more
To create this toddler minion costume, I started off with a foam mattress that I cut to fit my 22 month old daughter. The Body Cut the top of the mattress like a flower to get it to fold and form a round head. Used Velcro and hot glue to keep the seam together on … Read more
My daughter’s favorite movie is Mary Poppins, so of course that’s who she wanted to be for Halloween this year. At first I thought this would be a super simple costume but I was highly mistaken. First I bought a Navy uniform jacket and took white piping and hot glued it to the front. Luckily, … Read more
When I was real little, My brother and I played with trolls. Everyone around me wanted to be a princess, not me I wanted to be a troll. Who wouldnt want cool spiked colored hair? So this year I wanted to bring the coolness of the 80’s back. So my daughter got to be what I always … Read more
Halloween has always been one of my favorite Holidays and I never cared for those typical store bought costumes, so every year I try to think of something that is unique and fun! Last year my boyfriend and I wanted to go as something together, but the procrastinators we are we waited till the last … Read more
My son has an affinity for orange, and has recently discovered Tic Tac candy. He likes how the box opens and closes, and makes a cool rattling noise in his pocket. So, I set about making a giant tic tac costume! He won Most Unique costume in our local contest, and posed for more pictures … Read more
This is my daughter Laila as Maleficent. I was very happy to find out my 5 year old gave me a fun and not horribly popular costume choice this year. I had to google a lot of images to really figure out how to put this one together. The body was pretty easy, I used … Read more
This is my 8 year old son Colin in his Headless Lego Guy costume. The idea originated with us wanting to make a standard Lego Guy costume. Once we had the idea, we were looking everywhere for ideas and thoughts on how to create it. We then came across his Lego bucket from a past … Read more