We collect movies and movie memorabilia, particularly 80’s movies. Our 6 year-old daughter, Livi, loves most of them too. Her favorite character in the Back to the Future movies is Doc Brown. We decided that this would be the year to make a tribute to the Back to the Future movies, and let Livi pretend … Read more
We spent months brainstorming this awesome bot costume! Our 4 year old talked about being a robot for quite a while, so we decided to make it happen. We started with some used hockey pads and shin guards, used little felt pads (for under appliances) as rivets, and spray-painted them all a shiny silver. Toilet … Read more
Where to start… ok 106 hours, 38 Days and The Millennium Falcon was born. I wanted to take my 15 month old Daughter to our local Comic Convention and thought that her wagon would be the best way to take her, it’s very very busy and she is getting big/heavy and I can not carry … Read more
So my 8 year old son Ethan is obsessed with the Predator vs Alien movies and decided mid-september that he wanted to be the Predator. We watched the movies and mama started brainstorming. He was going to be predator no matter what I had to do! You cannot just go buy this costume, so I … Read more
I made this Invisible man Costume for a Halloween party and no one knew who I was. I had so much fun dancing in it and it was a blast. I made it from Styrofoam and duct tape and I used a wire hanger to hold up the glasses and the hat. I used a white mess as the shirt and … Read more
Perhaps these are the droids your looking for? We just finished making these for our children (Scout, Age 5 and Declan, Age 3). My daughter is a born princess. Everything she owns is pink and sparkly. When we asked her what she wanted to be this year she said that she wanted to be BB8 … Read more
Here’s a classic E.T. Costume for two little kids. Every year we go all out! This year these two best friends, did it again! Rylan is 2 years old dressed up as E.T. Eli is dressed up as the little boy riding his bike up to the moon, he is 3 years old. They had … Read more
I created this The Terminator costume for my son this year. We love watching sci-fi, action, and fantasy movies together. And every year he picks a character from one of the movies we watched. For the actual costume I used black jeans, black shirt, black pleather jacket, black combat boots, and a pair of my husband’s … Read more
I wanted to make fantastic glow in the dark costumes after discovering EL (electroluminescent) wire. It’s cool to the touch and bends and shapes easily. So I researched how to solder and connect it, then began my project. I bought simple robes for my husband and myself and made them into the basis for the … Read more
I decided to do an original ghostbusters costume this year. It’s Vinz Clortho, keymaster of Gozer, as portrayed by Rick Moranis in the original Ghostbusters film. In the film, Louis Tully is an accountant who is possessed by the demon dog Vinz Clortho. He is taken to the Ghostbusters’ headquarters, where a brain-scanning helmet is … Read more
My son wanted a classic box robot costume. We had a lot of fun putting this together. After attaching the cardboard boxes, we painted, taped, and glued away. We added bottle caps, print-outs, reflectors, etc. We also added battery operated lights. We used string lights to poke through from the inside. We also used push … Read more
In 2006, I wanted to make a homemade R2D2 costume that I could drive from the inside. You might not believe this but I am 5′ 11″ and 200 lbs and I fit in and drive this costume around! I did a little research and printing out pictures and I came up with a basic plan how … Read more