I got the idea for my daughter to be “Boo” while watching Monsters Inc with my daughter and nephews in the spring. The original idea being that they would all be characters from the movie. But as time passed on, true to form, the boys decided they wanted to be Super Heroes. My daughter though, … Read more
My son Ezra asked for a Buzz Lightyear costume, and once I was convinced he wasn’t going to change his mind, I started working on it the first weekend in October. I decided a few elements that were going to be essential to achieve the look I wanted were an oval-shaped spacesuit, creating a “laser” … Read more
This is a group that works at an elementary school so the theme had to be kid friendly. We had a lot of fun with these Toy Story Halloween costumes! The start To start, we all bounced ideas off one another and decided how to do certain costumes. Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Mr. Potato … Read more
The adventure began when we decided we were going to Mickey’s Halloween party at Disneyland. (Oct. 21 2013), dressed up. If you go to Disney we thought we should do a Disney character couple. I’m a big guy so we wanted it to look good and fitting. When we first got married all those years ago I could … Read more
I used different kind of cardboard boxes, yellow, silver, gold and black paint, a lot of tape, bottle caps, 3 LED lights (on eyes and at the front), bicycle helmet, gloves, Velcro. Front can be open up and close (I used Velcro) and my son collected there his sweets. My son collected twice as much candy on Halloween night than … Read more
Ever since our trip to Disney World earlier in September, my kid was fixed on being Woody from Toy Story for Halloween this year. Since my kid is 4, he wanted me to dress up as Buzz Lightyear. I remember sitting at my desk attempting to do my nightly homework when I took my pencil … Read more
Leave it to my son to choose the 3rd or 4th main character in the Disney Cars movie. The sequel, no less. My four year old Jonathan wanted to be Francesco Bernoulli, the indy type race car from Cars 2, so away we went. We started with some sketches, some cardboard, some masking tape, some … Read more
I have a 2 year old daughter who everyone told me she should be Boo from Monsters Inc. The plan was Daddy be Sully, Mommy to be Celia and Aya to be Boo with a Mike Wazowski doll that I made out of an old t-shirt and felt. We watched Monsters Inc. over and overt … Read more
My cousin and I decided we would go as woody and Jessie for Halloween(even though she decided to go as Miley Cyrus instead). I found the shirt and the jeans at a thrift store. I bought yellow fabric and cow print fabric and hot glued them on. I used puff paint for the designs on … Read more
We dress up with a family theme every Halloween. This was our best ever. My three kids, Andrea age 3 was “Buzz”, Charlotte age 7 was “Jessie”, and Molly age 5 was the skinniest “Hamm” ever. My husband Andre is “Woody”, and our sweet au pair Christin, from Germany, was “Bo Peep”. But the most … Read more
We decided on the costume after watching the movie and trying to come up with a fun and loveable costume that hopefully nobody else would wear out this Halloween. All of the clothes for both costumes we either had or borrowed from friends. A few things we had to make like the flag with paper … Read more
I got the idea to make my daughter a Boo costume from the movie Monsters Inc because my son wanted to be Mike Wazowski and I thought it would be cute to stick to the Monsters Inc theme. I had never sewn anything before making this costume. I literally taught myself to sew from watching … Read more