My children grew up watching The Magic School Bus and we all loved Ms. Frizzle. Last year, my daughter, 16, told me that I would make a perfect Ms. Frizzle, so I decided to whip up the costume. I searched for what I thought was the perfect fabric, then I searched for the perfect pattern. … Read more
This costume came to me when I started contemplating a creative group costume for me and my 4 other friends. Then I thought of dressing up as the cereal characters and updating them into cute costumes! They were a huge hit, we were in Chico that year and everyone loved them! The best part was … Read more
I knew that an off the rack pencil costume would be lame so I took it in another direction. I found yellow dress at Goodwill a few sizes too large and sewed ridges into it (which made it the right size). I spray painted some old rain boots pink and used green duct tape to … Read more
Me and my girlfriends were trying to do a group costume, but we didn’t want to be wearing the same thing. One night we decided to be the four seasons! We went to the craft store and got a lot of hot glue, sunflowers for summer, leaves for fall, icy blue and silver things for … Read more
Rocky, Colt, and Tum Tum from 3 Little Ninjas. We spray painted white robes and wore white scrubs. We also wore white tshirts under our robes. We bought white masks and paint from the craft store and painted the masks ourselves. Painting the masks was not easy and it took a little time. People went … Read more
My husband and I came up with this idea a few years past, both huge Michael fans, we hoped it wasn’t going to offend anyone…. Luckily folks got the humor and we were a huge hit! We had people yelling “we love you Michael ” out the car doors this past Halloween. Black Michael was … Read more
This has to be the most fun costume that I have ever been a part of! It was so simple. All we did was buy a five pack of men’s shirts, a pack of different colored headbands, and a large sharpie. The hardest part was definitely writing our letters of the shirts. It took forever … Read more
I had wanted to be Carmen Sandiego for a while, because I had the long red pea coat already. Once you have that, the only other thing you really need to worry about is the hat. I had a hard time finding a fedora big enough that it looked like hers. I finally found one … Read more
My friend and I weren’t sure what we wanted to be for Halloween, but we knew we wanted to be a pair. We thought long and hard about it, and decided to just go with what it is that we are. My one friend is very sweet, and is just like sugar, and I am … Read more
Inspired by Día de Muertos my boyfriend and I did our make-up ourselves and went thrift shopping and used clothes already on hand to complete the look. We got a TON of complements and even got a heartfelt thank you from a Mexican woman for representing her country! I did a lot of Googling and … Read more
The chest-buster shirt is just a t-shirt with the chest-buster sewn in. The Ripley outfit is baggy green/avocado pants found on eBay, a plain white shirt, suspenders strapped to a belt around the upper torso, Reebok shoes, and of course, the “M41-A pulse rifle” with a shoulder strap (men’s fabric belt) wrapped around it. Everyone … Read more
Hello Scuba Steve here… This costume was an easy one to make. I made it out of cardboard and yellow duct tape. If you don’t know who Scuba Steve is he is a little action figure in the movie “Big Daddy” staring Adam Sandler. In the movie you see Adam Sandler dressed as Scuba Sam, … Read more