It was very difficult to come up with this idea! I would have never came up with the idea myself, but I saw the idea for it online and as soon as I saw it, I knew it was the perfect costume for my son and we weren’t going to see another one while we … Read more
Growing up one of my favorite movies was always ET so my goal for this costume was to bring the movie to life. First thing i did was print out the best possible picture of ET that I could find, then i attached the picture to a store bought plastic mask. After attaching the picture … Read more
I’ve always loved Star Wars and wanted to do something different then the common Luke Skywalker which everyone expected my blonde boy to play. Then everyone assumed I would be Leia but I thought it would be more accurate for a mother of a toddler boy to be his bounty hunter. So I was Boba … Read more
So this costume started off with my seven year old really wanting to be Anna or Elsa from Frozen. I told her that there would be a million and one of them and she needed to be something more original and maybe something scary. So I went looking around on this site and found a … Read more
Since in Germany, where I live, Halloween is not so popular as in other countries, I made this costume for carnival, when many people in Germany wear costumes. The idea for this costume came into my mind one night while falling asleep. Such an idea, when you are nearly gone into dreamworld but then you … Read more
Well due to the Freaky fusion movie for Monster High being recently released there are no actual Dracubecca costumes so I made one myself took me about two months with several prototypes due to the costume being a vampire robot. I also wanted to keep my cost low so that it didn’t cost more than … Read more
We have always collected movies and movie memorabilia, but we especially love the old cheesy 80’s movies. Our five year old daughter, Livi, has watched some of these cheesy movies and has her own Robocop, Beetlejuice, Gremlins, etc toys. (action figures, stuffed animals) Livi wasn’t sure what costume she wanted for Halloween until we rented … Read more
Inspired by fellow jellyfish wannabies, this costume was a true labour of love, took about 24hrs to make and necessitated the purchase of my first sewing machine. Combine the largest wire hanging basket you can find, five metres of bubblewrap, five sets of battery operated LED fairy lights, a couple of metres of semi-opaque turquoise … Read more
Like many kids today, mine love Minecraft. My son wanted to be a creeper this year and we were up for the challenge. We found some unused cardboard boxes at the local home depot and built each body part from the pieces (head, body, telescoping part of body, and 4 feet). The biggest challenge was … Read more
This 2014 Halloween, I thought long and hard on what I could design for my two sons, Ryan (4) and Joshua (3). I knew I wanted a cohesive design to put them in. After many thoughts and ideas denied from Ryan, as I asked him his take on it too, it was decided. A little … Read more
As we stood in the midst of hundreds of people at the 2013 Halloween festival in my hometown of Elgin, Illinois, watching the annual costume contest unfold on the stage before us, I turned to my family and friends and said, “I’m going to be up there next year.” And, as it worked out, I … Read more
My children are 5 and 3 years old, and I love making coordinating costumes for them to wear for Halloween. I can’t remember exactly how the idea came to me, but I thought it would be cute to dress them up as a gumball machine and a quarter this year. These costumes were a good … Read more