My family is pretty crazy about Halloween costumes, so the kids need to decide on their costumes early to give me enough time to build them. Luckily, my 10 year old son had his heart set on a Star Wars Clone Wars theme for quite a while. I think he has seen every episode of … Read more
For the past 15 years, I’ve been going to my friends annual Halloween party in Woburn MA. The party attracts anywhere from 200-400 people and each year I have won the “best overall” category which means that after the party, I usually begin thinking about what I want to do the following year to top … Read more
Coming from a family that always made handmade costumes, creating homemade costumes runs in my blood. This year was the first time I would celebrate Halloween outside my home as I am a freshmen in Cleveland Institute of Art. I traveled from sunny Miami, FL to cold and rainy Cleveland, OH. Besides being in a … Read more
Ever since I was little, I have enjoyed watching sci-fi movies. Especially those that included aliens. I always wanted to come up with my own alien species and this year for Halloween I finally got my chance. Being a sophomore in college studying biology makes it hard to find free time. But Halloween is important … Read more
I always look forward to Halloween, so that I can dress my little girl as some sort of Princess or in a cutesy costume. Well, this year she went to Daddy instead of me and asked if he would help her build the greatest robot costume. They started searching for the perfect box in order to … Read more
i was thinking what costume to wear for my 30th i wanted soething different had 2 be unique and unusual so i thought ooohhh thats it im gonna be ronald mcdonald looking online i realised just how much the costumes were and thought theres no way im paying that so i bought a yellow boiler … Read more
My two year loves to walk around acting like a robot, so when it came time to pick costumes my son thought it would be fun to dressup as a whole robot family. I started with double sided foil insulation. They sell it by the roll at the hardware store. It comes pretty thick as … Read more
I wanted to be a Dalek (an evil exterminating roabotish thing from the British tv show Doctor Who) but the only costume I could find was a dress. The dress was nice enough but it didn’t instill terror in me like a real Dalek. So I decided to build a costume out of cardboard, tape … Read more
Since this is the big anniversary year of Back to the Future, my boyfriend and I decided to go with that amazing theme. It would’ve been easy, and unoriginal, to just dress up as Doc Brown and Marty so we took it to the next level with building a wearable Delorean! The Delorean is 100% … Read more
I was more than delighted when my four year old asked me in spring if he could be the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for Halloween. Immediately after his first time watching, he knew he needed to be that monster. As summer went on, his choice never waivered and his plan grew. He came up with … Read more
I am an 11-year-old boy who loves to make stuff with electronics and programming. This year for Halloween, I decided to make a robot costume. This robot costume that took me about 4 weeks to make, most of the time was soldering and programming/testing the microcontroller code. This costume has 4 microcontrollers inside (2 in … Read more
How we came up with it: My son absolutely loves robots. He points them out everywhere, loves any movie or book involving robots, has a few robot toys which are his favorites, and we have even begun decorating his room with robots because he loves them so much. So when it came time for Halloween, … Read more