I made this Space Girl Costume for my little 3 year-old this year. She wanted to be a “Space Girl” and fly to the moon. We started by making a simple dress/jumper out of some curtain material that had a silver backing. Someone had made adult pants from the material and I just dismantled it. … Read more
My homemade Avatar Halloween costume idea is made up of blue and white body paint, I used dark blue and mixed some white with it to make the all-over blue a bit darker then the stripes. The stripes were the dark blue body paint alone, brushed on with sponge brushes. A blue swimsuit bikini top … Read more
This Ghost Buster costume took some work, but it turned out really good. My son won our local costume contest. We first found the coveralls at Goodwill and a military style belt at the army surplus store. Those were the only things we had to buy for the costume. I used a Ghost Buster web … Read more
This homemade Leeloo from the 5th Element Halloween costume cost me $30; the wig was the most expensive part ($25). I then bought a roll of white duct tape and used a white bikini bottom I already had. I folded up paper underneath the duct tape in the slightly more “sensitive” areas, so that removal … Read more
Here’s our 2010 submission of my 9 year old son’s Halloween costume… he’s been a fan of the Predator movies and since seeing the previews and now knowing the DVD is out… decided that that’s what he wanted to do this year. So… after 4 weeks and 30 hours of prep and a lot of … Read more
My little cousin decided that he wanted to be Slimer from Ghost busters this year. In order to make this Homemade Slimer Costume I used a child pajama top pattern that I had from a previous project, so that I was able to have the width and the sleeves done correctly. The rest of the … Read more
This Homemade Princess Leia Costume was very inexpensive. My son wanted my husband and I to match his “theme” and I didn’t want to spend additional on the costume, since I already had purchased matching-couple costumes for our night out. Every year my husband and I dress up in matching “couples” costumes for the evening, … Read more
For our son’s first Halloween (2006), he had an NG tube due to a health issue. We decided to incorporate it into our Halloween costume and made him an alien while we joined him as the Men in Black. Our Men in Black costumes were simple black suits, black ties, white shirts, and black glasses. … Read more
This R2D2 Halloween Costume is 100% Homemade! It has lights and sounds too! The costume is made out of a garbage can, bowl mounted to a bike helmet and plastic downspouts for the legs. The battery operated speakers played a loop of downloaded r2d2 sounds on the ipod and the lights are all battery operated … Read more
I’m kind of a Star Wars geek, and what better to celebrate Halloween then creating my own modified storm trooper outfit! I built this Homemade Heavy Storm Trooper Halloween Costume with cardboard, duct tape, electrical tape, white spray paint and a whole lot of time and love. I used reference images from all 6 Star … Read more
This homemade Star Wars Yoda Halloween costume idea was for my little boy Josiah who is 2 and a big Star Wars fan! The first this that I knew I had to make was the hat. I looked into purchasing the Yoda costume for toddlers but I felt like it should and could be a … Read more
My son wanted to be a hi-tech robot Halloween costume this year, and it had to have a shrink ray. So my husband and I worked out an idea and did all the clever measuring that was necessary. He constructed the body parts and I decorated. We make a pretty good team. We just used … Read more