This Homemade Ghost Buster Costume was my daughter Christy’s idea. We used a large cardboard box and painted it red. Used another piece of the box to cut out the face. After cutting out the face we smeared glue on top of the box and placed the fabric over it to make the white ghost … Read more
My 5 year old son Chase is a huge Ghostbusters Fan. After Halloween last year we purchased a stock Ghostbuster costume online with the blow up backpack. After a year of catching ghost, the backpack had a blow out and would not hold air. So, we decided to make our own Ghostbusters Homemade Halloween Costume. … Read more
This group Spaceballs Costume was put together by myself and friends. It consists of six characters from the Spaceballs movie created by Mel Brooks that is a spoof of Star Wars and a few other movies. From right to left the characters include Yogurt, Dot Matrix, Barf, Princes Vespa, a Spaceball (aka-Major Asshole), and Lord … Read more
My 5 year old son wanted to be Darth Maul for Halloween this year. We found a Darth Maul costume reference from the 501st Legion. I took a karate pattern and modified it to make the Sith Robe. Then sewed the tabards, the pants, and the loin cloth. I modified some gauntlet style gloves to … Read more
For this Neo from the Matrix costume, you’ll need to raid you closet and possibly some of your area thrift stores to make this costume. The good thing is that black is very forgiving so texture and fabric are versatile. You will need a black pair of pants, a long sleeved black shirt, a black … Read more
This year we decided to create a homemade Spaceballs group costume. I was Dot Matrix, my brother was Dark Helmet and my husband was Colonel Sanders. The costumes were all homemade from various products including dryer tubing, plastic planters, kids craft foam and of course duct tape! The Dark Helmet costume was started with a … Read more
Our oldest son is an Arnold fanatic! When he asked to be Terminator, we knew this would have to be a homemade ordeal. So we started our Homemade Terminator Costume with a basic pair of blue jeans, a black belt, a pair of black dress shoes, a black undershirt, and a leather hand-me-down jacket. He … Read more
As a child of the 80’s I decided virtually a year ago that I wanted to do an accurate version of a Homemade Vicki Costume from the 80s TV Series Small Wonder Vicki for Halloween which as far as I could tell hadn’t been done before. Every version I found online seemed to be an … Read more
I built a Queen from the 1986 James Cameron movie ‘Aliens’. The head was built on a base of foamboard insulation, then used sprayfoam insulation for shapes. The front incorporates a plastic skull from a costume shop, and I used black plastic to make the shiny skin of the head itself and spray painted the … Read more
I wanted an original costume instead of the stuff my friends were going as. Anyways they were a little to revealing for me. My one friend kept telling me to be a robot but in a joking way. After a while i started thinking about a Robot Halloween Costume and was really into it. I … Read more
This homemade robot Halloween costume idea was based on a 1950’s genre. I have included a small box on the front of the robot with a voice changer to make me sound like a robot and many sound effects. There were several lights all over my robot costume. On the top I have a bowl … Read more
Last year my daughter and I wanted to make a really cool handmade costume for her and decided a robot was the best way to go. I didn’t know where to start so I went online and found this website which really gave us some great ideas, so I wanted to come back and share … Read more