My two year old daughter decided she wanted to be an alien for Halloween, after watching E.T and other alien movies, so thought we’d try to make our own child alien costume rather than buy one. I bought blue and black water based body paint and white glow in the dark face paint for face … Read more
I was searching for an awesome costume idea. I came across a struck by lightning costume on a website (no picture included). I started thinking how to do it and my idea won my work Halloween costume contest. I took a pair of jeans and a button up shirt and burned holes all over with … Read more
Hi there, I was so made up with how this Marge Simpson Costume turned out and it went down a storm at the fancy dress party I went to. So here’s a little bit about how I put the costume together…. first I purchased a Zentai second skin suit in yellow. Not the most practical … Read more
This Lobster Dinner family costume was very simple to make and got lots of laughs. We dressed up our 10-month old baby as a lobster. The base of the costume for her is a pair of red pajamas. I used foam paper to make crustacean claws and stripes across her belly – just used tape to … Read more
This Pest Control family costume had many parts to make, but was worth it. First, the central part – the young mouse caught in a trap: The baby is affixed to me using a gray Moby wrap baby carrier that I borrowed from a friend. To make the trap, I took a big rectangle of foam … Read more
I have always loved Nightmare Before Christmas, so I decided to make a Sally Rag doll costume out of scraps of material and a few of my old clothing laying around. The first time I did the makeup I used LOTS of blue liquid eyeshadow and powder eyeshadow. I finally found an awesome makeup at … Read more
I wanted to make a Popeye and Olive Oyl couples costume. I wanted to make a fun, sexy version of Olive oyl. All of the materials for this costume (except the shoes) were from the thrift store. The skirt was a skirt bought from the thrift store. The yellow band around the skirt was from … Read more
We had a sponsored walk at school and the theme was bright colors! What is a better idea than 8 different colored M & M’s! We made the whole M & M costume our selves and it cost around $15 each including the paint! Much cheaper than buying an outfit and much more creative. It … Read more
I wanted to do something different last year so I though of Smurfette costume. It was very easy to make I went and purchased a full body Spandex suit in the color Royal Blue, the dress was just a $3.00 white dress and the shoes $5.00. The hat I bought at a street vender for … Read more
I got the idea of this Mac ‘N Cheese costume from this website. It was all-in-all a pretty easy costume to make. The most time consuming parts were spray painting the toilet paper rolls the orangey color and blowing up/gluing the Mac n Cheese logo onto my ‘cup.’ I also felt this costume was quite inexpensive; … Read more
My son is getting old enough to pick his own costume now (boo for me). On the upside though, we usually have several “festivities” to go to between school parties, parties with friends and Trick or Treating, that he has had to have two costumes each year so as to not destroy his “main” costume. … Read more
On New Years eve me and a friend of mine went to a Hollywood celebrity party as members of the A-team! I was Hannibal Smith (with kaki shirt, grey hear and a big cigar) and a friend of mine was B.A. Baracus (with the gold necklaces, dark skin and the hair).