This year my whole family dressed up as characters from Toy Story! We had Buzz, Jessie, Bo Peep, Woody, and Mr. Potato Head! And I was very excited that I was assigned to be Lots-O-Huggin Bear! I made my Lots O’ Huggin Bear Costume with lost of help from my mom (Thanks Mom!). The head … Read more
For Halloween this year, my daughter dressed in a Homemade Little Bo Peep and Her Lost Sheep Costume. To make the sheep costume, I purchased an inexpensive, plain, long-sleeved white cotton T-shirt, several sizes larger than my daughter would typically wear. I placed a piece of cardboard inside the shirt to ensure the glue wouldn’t … Read more
This Plastic Toy Soldier Costume was really easy. I took some old clothes out of my closet and spray painted them with army green spray paint… shoes, hat, socks, shirt, etc. I found the binoculars and gun at the $1 store and spray painted them too. My face I covered in a very thick layer … Read more
We decided to make this Homemade Mister Potato Head Child Halloween Costume because our son loved the toy. It was actually very easy to do. I followed the pattern of a bumblebee and made the body of the potato. I then included an extra flap in the back and had false pieces hanging out, just … Read more
Last year my 5 year old son was all about Mr. Potato Head and that is all he would play with so it was only fitting to let him be a “taterhead” for Halloween. So for the Mr. Potato Head costume I found two small brown fleece blankets. I cut them out about twice the … Read more
Last year, my son, Reese, wanted to be Wall-E. The challenge was creating a costume around my son’s wheelchair that would still enable him to drive his wheelchair inside the costume. He also wanted to be able to move Wall-E’s arms and grab the candy with them. Everything is controlled from inside. I started this … Read more
These are our cool homemade Monsters Inc. family costumes. I dressed as Mike, my husband was Mike and our little girl was Boo. For Mike’s costume, I used 9 layers of paper mache over an exercise ball. Be careful not to cover the plug so that you can deflate it and save it for another … Read more
Our family decided to be the Incredibles Family. I started Bob, Helen, Dash and Violet’s costumes with a red unitard, and Jack Jacks’ with a red sleeper. Each costume needed a black collar (sewn on swimsuit fabric), black “undies” (ready made undies for adults, amended black leggings for kids) with orange trim (sewn on swimsuit … Read more
Last year my daughter was obsessed with all things WALL-E. So, naturally, she wanted a Homemade Wall-E Halloween Costume. I found a costume by Disney, but it was way over priced and not that cute. I figured WALL-E is just a box, so I found the right size, that was not too bulky and spray … Read more
My friends and I wanted a group theme this Halloween. We brainstormed for a while and came up with the idea of dressing in Cast of Toy Story homemade costumes. From left to right are: – the piggy bank. This consisted of a pink outfit, pale pink face paint, pig ears, nose and tail and … Read more
The actual house took about a week to make. I made it from a cardboard box with the intention of actually floating it with balloons. As I got into it, it got way more detailed, and much heavier. Eventually I realized that I would either need hundreds of balloons, or another way to suspend the … Read more
Last year, in 2010, me and my boyfriend decided to wear a Toy Story’s costume in a Carnival’s party, he like a Wood and me like a Little Bo Peep. It was easy and cost us very cheap, because we used items of clothing we already had in the closet, others we made and some … Read more