My costume is a homemade transforming transformer tank costume that I built for my 7 year old son Jaiden. This Halloween he asked for a costume totally outside the box (no pun intended lol) He asked me if I could make him a transforming tank costume! The challenge was on!!! I love to create things … Read more
When starting this costume I was determined to make it a no sew costume let me tell u the hot glue gun became my best friend. I spent about 8 hrs on each costume and less then 40$ each but it was all well worth it. My kids and I could not walk anywhere with … Read more
She’s fierce, an original songwriter artist. a Rockstar! Feisty feline but nice. Sweet but you must think twice. She has a heart of literate gold. A passion for puzzles. Riddles, fill in the blanks and the puzzle game “Double Trouble. May I formally introduce. Cynthia The Rock-Star Puzzle Cat Goddess! Cynthia originated from Cairo Egypt. … Read more
I started off with taking measurements from my 10 year old daughter. I then used cardboard and masking tape to construct the torso and legs. This process was a lot harder than I thought. Only because Lego men are not perfect squares. They taper. I then made the hands and head which were made out … Read more
This year my son asked me to make a costume from the movie TRANSFORMERS… BUMBLEBEE. I put the costume together using mostly some white plastic board and foam sheets from the craft store. The whole costume cost me about $8 (and most of that was spray paint). I bought a gladiator helmet at the dollar … Read more
So my son loves to challange me in costume making, because I don’t sew at all. He decided to be a praying mantis. There is no where to buy this costume so I started resurching what they looked like and warmed up my hot glue gun. I will tell you he was thrilled with it. … Read more
This year I decided to pay homage to everyone’s favourite Bio-exorcist, Beetlejuice. My goal with any costume I make is to do it differently than anyone else has ever done it before. I decided on the basic idea on the drive home from last year’s Halloween Contest. This costume features a kickable leg, a Sand … Read more
I came up with the idea for this tornado costume after watching the movie “Twister” for the first time with my 6 year old son and he started spinning around pretending he was a tornado. I didn’t have a plan when I started, but the fun part was coming up with different ideas as I … Read more
I started with reference photos of the character, from there I made templates after taking my measurements, I made the templates out of construction paper, making sure I got the sizes correct before I started cutting the foam. Once the templates were made, I started tracing them on the foam. Using an exacto knife, … Read more
For the Despicable Me group costume we used contractors cardboard cut into giant toilet paper rolls – exercise ball in the middle with foil over it so we could paper mache domes in the tops – yellow paint, then spackle buckets and country crock containers for the goggles (painted silver). Camping mat for the goggle … Read more
A completely DIY costume for me and my best friend. Most of the items we already had and it only took about 10 mins to put together the costumes! Maddy (Wayne)’s outfit was put together with high-waisted 80’s style shorts she already had, a black tshirt and black hat she purchased from a local thrift … Read more
My three year old son was obsessed with vacuum cleaners so I just knew that it would be the perfect costume for Halloween! The majority of the costume I made from foam core that I spray painted red. With a box cutter, I cut out one large rectangle for the main body of the costume … Read more