The Star Wars Tie Fighter with Tie Fighter Jet was a little intense but ultimately the end result was better than expected. I re-used an old Boppy pillow and covered it with black material and used it for the body of the ship. To this I glued the two side panels of the ship. The … Read more
Since I saw the movie Tron, I have been amazed with the lights and the visual effects. I thought the main characters were fresh and inspiring. The story wasn’t bad too! I wanted to try and be Quorra, a brave and sexy woman! This Quorra costume cost me only 9$ to accomplish and everyone was … Read more
These alien costumes were made from a Simplicity pattern. Both costumes were made from liquid lame fabric which is stretchy and comfortable. The helmets are made from acrylic globes which have the face portion cut out. The globes are actually exterior light fixture covers which I found on the internet. The boy’s boots are rain … Read more
When my son told me he wanted to be a robot for Halloween, I knew only a homemade costume would do. It was so much fun to make and most of the supplies I already had at home. This Homemade Robot Boy Costume was the hit of his school and all over town! I used … Read more
The body and head of this homemade robot boy costume are made from cardboard boxes then wrapped with art paper to make the silver chrome paint more metallic. Head has a construction helmet (we duct taped the helmet in) making the inside fitted to head, eyes are plastic cups painted silver with lights inserted, mouth … Read more
My girlfriend and I decided to do a vintage sci-fi theme this Halloween, and I started by scouring the internet for ideas for my robot costume. The ideas submitted by so many creative folks for a Homemade Vintage Sci-Fi Robot Costume to your site were a huge help, and it’s my honor to return the … Read more
The Predator costume idea was from the movie. I thought it would be a cool costume to make. I started by carving the head piece, body armor and weapons piece by piece out of water based clay. Once I had one of the pieces finished the next step is to spray the piece with crystal … Read more
I created this Homemade Character 9 Halloween Costume for my son. This costume is based off the main Character “9”, from the movie “9”. Me and my wife worked on this costume for over a month. We molded the head from a balloon with paper mache, and then finished it off with Fiber glass. We … Read more
It took us about 3 hours to get our costumes on the second time around. We painted ourselves with body paint, mixing teal and dark blue for the base and painting our stripes on with just dark blue. I made my loin cloth and top with a fake leather material and he bought khaki pants … Read more
This homemade Stay Puft from Ghostbusters Halloween costume started with a pre-made inflatable costume from Kmart. We spray-painted all of it white. The head was made by using 1/2″ soft green foam hot-glued together to create a cylinder. It was then covered with white fabric. The face was drawn on with marker and the eyes … Read more
3 weeks to Halloween 2009 and I have no costume! Searching for inspiration on the web resulted in the following options: Sexy witch Vampiress Slutty devil Ugghh! Where are all the cool original costumes?! The only option was to make my own, just what…. Well after a week of a lack of ideas via facebook … Read more
My son dressed up as Star Wars’ Cad Bane this Halloween and it was such a cool costume. I started with a brown jacket and a tan shirt, bought at the thrift store. I made sure the jacket was big so I would have extra fabric. I pulled in the back of the jacket to … Read more