This costume has taken me 8 months to create. Its made out of cardboard, black duct tape, felt and hot glue. The eyes light up and the entire costume breaks down easily for transportation. The creature is based off the 2003 Mechagodzilla design aka Kiryu. I wanted to do something challenging this year and this … Read more
This year I decided to go all out and create a great movie icon costume, calling it Han Solo frozen in Carbonite. It started with a wooden frame held together with screws and nails. I was initially going to make it out of foam, but decided it had to be really sturdy in order to … Read more
This Homemade Queen Amidala Girl’s Costume was made largely with recycled “dress up” items. This year we had three kids doing a Star Wars theme (Yoda, Amidala and Han Solo) so I wanted to keep the sewing to a minimum. The main feature here of course is the headdress and makeup. The structure of the … Read more
My sons are Star Wars fanatics! When they said they wanted to be Boba and Jango, I looked at the store-bought costumes and thought, “Ugh!” They look cheap and really don’t look much like their on-screen counterparts. Being creatively inclined, I decided to make my own. In an epic journey that involved plastic trash cans, … Read more
My children came home from school and announced they wanted to enter the fancy dress competition at the summer fare the next morning! I was at a complete loss! Until I found this site! I quickly came up with three ideas stolen, as you will see directly from other people! As we had no time … Read more
I wanted to make a Robot costume reminiscent of a 50’s Sci-Fi Movie. Since I wanted a Retro-metallic look, I made body and head all out of metal. I used about 1000 nuts and screws putting it together, when it was finished it weighed about 35lbs. The head is connected to the body so that … Read more
Being a college student money is hard to come by. So when I found a large cardboard box, at work, around August I knew I had to turn it into a costume for the upcoming Halloween. Over the next month I glued and taped and cut an entire Homemade Robot Halloween Costume from this humble … Read more
My 3-year-old son said he wanted to be a robot for Halloween, so I knew I was going to have to make a homemade Robot kids Halloween costume. Wastebasket body, dryer vent arms and legs, custom cardboard head, plastic cup ears, and LED battery-powered Xmas lights from Target, with white plastic leg caps from Home … Read more
My son wanted to be a robot for Halloween. So my husband and son began creating their masterpiece. They decided to make the Robot Costume from duct tape, cardboard boxes, dryer duct, insulated bubble wrap, and accented with reflectors and lights. They started with the body by laying duct tape in strips and laying a … Read more
I made my sons, ages 2 and 4 each a robot costume out of cardboard boxes, duct-taped together and spray-painted silver. The arms, head, and the bottom were all cut out with an Exacto-blade. I drew gauges, and used pop bottle tops for on/off buttons. I had to cut out holes for the buttons and … Read more
This Homemade Na’vi Avatar Unique Halloween Costume Idea is what I made for Halloween this year. I ordered blue latex paint online and yellow UV contacts. I purchased normal light blue and black paint from the local craft store to paint stripes over top of the liquid latex. Over the stripes I then applied glow … Read more
My best friend since second grade, Kelsey and I, dressed up in a Homemade Avatar Halloween Costume! Making a costume is always ten times more fun than store bought and we love makeup! So I painted our faces blue and we wore blue leggings and outfits. We had fake bow and arrows and tails made … Read more