Last year I had a bunch of left over boxes, so instead of throwing them out I decided to build a Halloween costume. The shape of the box immediately made me think of a school bus. Once I began, several different variations and classic movie/TV characters, which suited the idea, came to mind. Lots of bus … Read more
Yes, we’ve all done it. A silly slip of the tongue. A brief baring of subconscious sentiment spilling out whatever we were fixated on at the time. Freudian Slips happen to the best of us! As a frequent contributor to this site and yearly winner of the local costume contests ’round these parts, I felt … Read more
My son loves to watch bull riding! When he told me he wanted to be a bull rider I thought this will be a fun project. My mother always made our costumes growing up so I am continuing the tradition. We used diaper boxes for the bull. Brown spray paint for the boxes and cardboard … Read more
So I’ve always been a big transformers fan, and I’ve always made my own costumes, so I thought it would be really cool to make my own Transformer. Since I’m an over-achiever, and I’m really competitive, I couldn’t just do it the way others did it. I wanted to actually transform. I also wanted to … Read more
This costume was made for my brother, Stetson. He’s 13 and as his sister, who is 22, I can no longer openly participate in trick-or-treating so he is my gateway into the creative candy collecting world! This costume consists almost entirely of t-shirts and hot glue. The hat is a straw hat with yellow fabrics … Read more
My son watches monster jam all day long it is his total favorite!! so of course he wants to be a monster truck for Halloween!! I recycled a box and some packing from my husbands work. We cut the body parts out individually, and taped it all together. The hot glued all the other parts … Read more
We went through a lot to create this crafty train costume. It was difficult at first. Then it got to be fun to make. The face was hard. We had to make it a perfect circle to fit on the container. Could never get a perfect circle. So we got two containers and used the … Read more
First of all I found this site for ideas on making a lego costume and saw this group of lego costumes and thought, hey, I can try this. So, I figured to start a month ahead of time because I would be making 3 costumes. And I picked the minifigures from the Lego Movie….Emmet, Wyldstyle-Wild … Read more
I started off my Maleficent costume with 3 yards of black fabric to make a long black dress with drape like sleeves. Everything was measured to my height. For the horns I took a wire hanger, cut in half (one half for each horn) and shaped them like that of Maleficent using a picture for … Read more
This is my 4 yerar old son Dominic, he loves Lego Ninjago Jay! So mommy thought it would be really cool to dress him up as Jay for Halloween. Of course I searched online for something, but could only find a normal boy costume and not a lego man. So my creative juices started flowing. I … Read more
This was a very difficult & fun costume to make. I used things I had around the house. First I cut a laundry basket attached a cardboard ring at the bottom covered it with alum foil added green an blue material inside with battery operated lights covered the whole thing with clear heavy plastic. I used … Read more
To create this toddler minion costume, I started off with a foam mattress that I cut to fit my 22 month old daughter. The Body Cut the top of the mattress like a flower to get it to fold and form a round head. Used Velcro and hot glue to keep the seam together on … Read more