I love the story of Alice In Wonderland so, for our work Halloween costumes, a friend and I dressed up in Homemade Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Costumes. We went to a used bargain store and found red sweat pants for under $5. Then we bought cheap, extra large yellow T-shirts. The collars/bibs were easily … Read more
When our 5-year-old son saw a trailer for the movie 9 he insisted on being the 9 character for Halloween even though he couldn’t actually see the PG-13 rated movie. It was so visually interesting that we agreed it would be a fun costume idea. However, there was nothing out there that we could buy … Read more
These are homemade Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter couple Halloween costumes. I bought the wigs/hat/bowtie. The rest of the costume was made using a pattern and then improvising to make it as realistic to movie. Pictures from the movie were used to help put the make up on the girls just like the movie.
Tim Burton inspired Queen of Hearts and Mad Hatter… a DIY Alice in Wonderland couple Halloween costume.. Mad Hatter Halloween costume: We went to the thrift store and found a suit jacket and shoes. We spray painted it several colors and spray painted the shoes gold and attached old large earrings which were also spray-painted. … Read more
Our costumes are based on the Alice In Wonderland characters the Mad Hatter from the second movie and the Cheshire Cat from the first. For the Cheshire Cat we used face-paint and eyeshadows for the face makeup, and canned hair sprays for the hair. We cut up an old tshirt to represent the cats stripes. … Read more
Homemade Oompa Loompa and Willy Wonkette Costumes. Except for the brown shirt and white glvoes, entire Oompa costume was made from scratch. Cuffs and collar brown felt with white fabric paint. White pants were completely from scratch. Orange face makeup white grease pencil, blond wig spray painted green, home made pom-poms are balls of yarn.
I made this Oompa Loompa Halloween costume for my children (ages 2 & 5) by using a few ideas from this site. I created my own pattern for the Oompa pants and sewed them with heavy felt. I purchased white socks and painted brown stripes and used Styrofoam balls painted with brown swirls for their … Read more
The Edward Scissor Hands hands, boots and wig were purchased at a costume shop. The wig required some trimming so that my son could see and so that it looked more like the character. For the top we used a tight fitting long sleeve shirt and then added a black mesh shirt over it. I … Read more
For Halloween this year, I decided to pull off one of my dream costumes: Edward Scissorhands. I didn’t want to use the “Licensed Scissorhands” sold in my local costumes store, so I began work on my own. I found close-up images on Google of movie stills, as well as other images of homemade Scissorhands. I … Read more
Our 5 yr old daughter wanted to be the corpse bride from her favorite movie. We took her baptism dress and used black sidewalk chalk to make it look a little dirtier. We made a veil with netting (tulle) that I sprayed very lightly with black paint just to make it not so bright white … Read more
I definitely wanted something no one else would be and I love the original movie, always knew I would make this Oompa Loompa costume one year. So the pants I found at a thrift store (yes they are woman’s but shhh don’t tell anyone). I couldn’t find a brown turtle neck anywhere in the world … Read more
I love dressing up for Halloween and I love having creative costumes. I thought I would give the Homemade Oompa Loompa Costume a try. It came out pretty good. The shoes are just brown shoes with white balloons. I colored the swirl on the balloon. The socks were white and I colored the stripes on … Read more