My daughter is 8 years old and she thinks about halloween all year round. She knew last year that she wanted to be a headless person. Now how we were going to do it was the trick. We bought a couple long trench coats from a local thrift store. For only $2.00 each we didn’t … Read more
My sister and I are best friends, so when our sons were born only three days apart, we knew they would be close. Although they have very different personalities, the boys like to do as much as possible together. My family loves Halloween, and we like to make our own costumes. The boys were nine … Read more
We made the coolest scuba diver costume for Halloween this year. It even glowed!!! Our son was the happiest kid in town. It started back in the summer. We bought him a youth scuba diver kit for when we go to the local swimming pool. Our son is fascinated with the ocean, ponds, swimming pools, etc. If … Read more
From an early age, I was a fan of Generation 1 Transformers and was fascinated by them. Therefore, when I had the opportunity and the know-how, I decided to create my own life-sized transformer costume. I chose to model my costume after Optimus Prime, as the most recognizable character and to stick to the Gen … Read more
These are our costumes that I had made 4 yrs ago. It was 100% of pure fun! Look how many arms and feet we’ve got ! how to make To create this costume you will require a foam
My inspiration was Nemo, little curious fish from my our favorite cartoon. I used: foam 1 cm thick, dimensions 1 x 2 m pigment (the one you use to tone wall paint) orange and black spray, newspapers, scissors glue gun I have found Nemo! He was here all along! Tailoring the Foam On newspaper dimension … Read more
My friends (all Moms like me) and myself decided to make this fabolous costumes for our kids, and for ourselves, too! Nobody had recognized us ;) Frog Costume How To Make We used 2 cm thick foam, green and red pigment, and this disposable overalls that we bought in paint store, made out of some … Read more
well I was inspired by a creepy doll make up tutorial- but I wanted to include my husband is I added some strings and became a marionette puppet so he could be a creepy puppeteer.. I started with a really cool corset and wore a black lace top underneath a black pedicoat and some added … Read more
I live, love, breath for Halloween. I am always in love with illusions and quirkiness, missing body parts, etc. I have the “Corpse Coming Alive” on here from a couple of years ago as well. Which led me to The Contortionists idea. I love all things Freak Show and Vaudeville, so that helped with my … Read more
Wizard of Oz – our way! Let me introduce to you Dorothy and her little dog Toto (sleeping in a basket), Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man. They were travelling trough the Land of Oz, looking for The Wizard himself. They belived that he can give to them something they were longing for. Scarecraw needed … Read more
My friends and I decided to dress up for Halloween as a group and the theme we picked was captains. We had Captain Morgan/Crunch/Lela/Kirk with me as Captain America. Since there were so many store bought versions of Captain I decided to make a cheap one out of Card board and Colored Duct Tape. I … Read more
Our family is serious about two things – food and Halloween costumes. So this year, we combined our two great loves and created the “All That and A Bag of Chips” costume. And it was delicious. Every year we think of a group costume, in the past we’ve done your typical famous groups…The Wizard of … Read more