My son (5yo) loves Minecraft and he was asking to be Steve this year 2014. I checked online and there is no Steve costume I can buy. So…. This is once a year big thing for my son. (I know he likes Christmas, But Halloween is more mean it for him). I decide to make … Read more
I tried a couple of ways to make this storm cloud costume. Our items used are mostly found around the house… Old chair cushion, old pillow, a bag of black and white spider web,old black winter hat, old glittery gold shirt and shiny blue material. First I wrapped a rocking chair cushion in white fluff … Read more
This is my 8 year old son Colin in his Headless Lego Guy costume. The idea originated with us wanting to make a standard Lego Guy costume. Once we had the idea, we were looking everywhere for ideas and thoughts on how to create it. We then came across his Lego bucket from a past … Read more
My costume is a homemade transforming transformer tank costume that I built for my 7 year old son Jaiden. This Halloween he asked for a costume totally outside the box (no pun intended lol) He asked me if I could make him a transforming tank costume! The challenge was on!!! I love to create things … Read more
We came across one of these classic fortune telling machines while on a family vacation. Our oldest daughter thought it would be a hoot to dress as one for Halloween. Whoa boy, was she right. With 5 kids to costume, we knew we needed to keep costs down as much as we could so wherever … Read more
My son Antoine (8) had won the Sartorette Elementary’s harvest festival costume contest in San Jose for the last 3 years in a row. This year was a challenge coming up with an original costume for the contest. While driving by a Red Box I told my wife what about we built the box, we can … Read more
I started off with taking measurements from my 10 year old daughter. I then used cardboard and masking tape to construct the torso and legs. This process was a lot harder than I thought. Only because Lego men are not perfect squares. They taper. I then made the hands and head which were made out … Read more
For those of you who have never had a Del’s lemonade or even heard of it let me explain. Del’s lemonade is a frozen icee treat almost like an Italian shaved ice, but a million times better! The original flavor is lemon, but now you can have it in a variety of flavors. It is … Read more
How did the awesomeness that is Kitty & Keroppi’s California adventures begin? Well, me (Anthony) and my awesome boyfriend Joe are goofballs. I personally am not a fan of sexy costumes that are supposed to show off your body more than the costume, so being a sexy caveman or sexy police officer were out of … Read more
I started with reference photos of the character, from there I made templates after taking my measurements, I made the templates out of construction paper, making sure I got the sizes correct before I started cutting the foam. Once the templates were made, I started tracing them on the foam. Using an exacto knife, … Read more
Krank Shaft the Steampunk Engineer with Achimedes the Owl Hello my name is Charles and I’m a Steampunk artist, I have created my own original character. Ever since i was a young boy i loved to make things from model planes to LEGO. Once I heard what Steampunk was, I knew it was me from … Read more
I made this pumpkin patch scarecrow costume for my five year old son Reid Garcia. My husband has a scarecrow costume from a previous year, and he plans to wear it again this year. Reid is so passionate about Halloween that we decided we would all be scarecrows. To create my son’s costume I began … Read more