This DIY Little Bo Peep Halloween Costume was VERY simple to make! All we used for the body was panels of cut cardboard (4 in a potato-like shape and 4 for the side panels) and various colors of felt for the body details. We wore white long sleeve shirts and bought two cheap pairs of … Read more
This is our Monsters INC costume. Our son was Sully (purchased costume), our daughter was Boo dressed in the monster suit, and our unborn daughter was Mike Wazowski. For Boo’s costume I found similar patterns of the purple snake body and grey octopus arms, white felt for the teeth, black sticky back felt for the … Read more
After my daughter got her first haircut last October, people kept telling us how much she looked like Boo from Monster’s Inc. I decided that Monster’s Inc Boo Costume would be a great costume for Halloween, but I couldn’t find one anywhere in her size (9-12 mo.). She wasn’t walking yet so I figured I … Read more
Our family loves the movie “UP” so we all picked characters we wanted to be and set out to make a do it yourself UP group Halloween costume. My husband and I shopped thrift stores for weeks to get our costumes completed. My husband found a shirt, sports-coat, bowtie and even the four-legged cane (complete … Read more
I found the Woody shirt and hat at a thrift store. I bought a red fabric marker and created the grid pattern on the yellow shirt. I made the vest out of cow fabric from a craft store, and hot-glued the same fabric on my jeans for Jessie’s chaps. I found a plain white button-up … Read more
When my oldest was 2 we decided to take her out to the movies for her first theater experience. Wall-E had just come out and it looked like something she’d enjoy. Since then Wall-E has been one of her favorite movies. These homemade Wall-E and Eve costumes ended up costing me the price of the … Read more
For my 18th birthday I had a costume party and it was cartoon character themed. I decided to go as one of the Aliens from the claw in the popular movie “Toy Story”. I made the Toy Story alien DIY costume by using mesh wire and moulding it into the shape I wanted using wire … Read more
This is how we made these Homemade Toy Story 2 Woody’s Round Up Gang Costumes. For Woody’s shirt and Stinky Pete the Prospector neckershief, I bought bright yellow material and added the checkered board pattern with red fabric pen. I bought denim material for Woody’s pants and Stinky Pete’s Overall and made my own pattern. … Read more
My daughter Aleah who is 4 years old wanted to be Jessie from Toy Story but could find no costume at Walmart or Target. So I said, baby, I am going to make you a Homemade Easy to Make Jessie from Toy Story Costume from the oddballs like ribbon on her hat, hat from the … Read more
This Little Bo Peep Looking for her Sheep Costume is one of my mom’s amazing Halloween costumes. It is Little Bo Peep who is looking for her lost sheep. She made a very cute little pink dress with the white apron and Bo Peep hat. They used a wig with the big blond curls. The … Read more
I put this Homemade Plastic Army Man Costume together using ideas from your site; I particularly loved the costume of the plastic army man and thought I could do it as well or better. It took about ten hours to paint my clothing, boots, helmet, gun and accessories and get the right color. I used … Read more
So here is our photo of us dressed up in our Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Couple Costumes. The body and the pieces were made from thick card and the kids were up really late colouring in all the pieces. The pieces were actually attached with Velcro, so you can move them around, which was … Read more