We like to go as a family theme for Halloween. This year, everyone agreed on Alice in Wonderland. From oldest to youngest, my children dressed as the Red Queen, Alice, the Cheshire Cat, and the White Rabbit. I dressed as the March Hare and my husband was the Mad Hatter. To make the White Rabbit … Read more
My daughter and I love Alice in Wonderland so we decided to create homemade Alice and the Queen of hearts costumes. She even carried a scepter that was huge and said “off with your head”. My dress had actual cards all along the bottom. It was a fun year. I was a peacock another year … Read more
Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, we decided to make the new Johnny Depp movie come to life. I (Jamie) personally made and/or assembled the costumes of the Red Queen, White Queen, Mad Hatter, Alice and Cheshire Cat. Here is how I made this Homemade Alice in Wonderland Group Costume. Red Queen: enjoyed picking out the … Read more
I wanted an original costume that I couldn’t buy from any costume store and that I wouldn’t expect to see on the street. After a lot of thought I decided to make my 2 year old an OOMPA LOOMPA!!! I need to add, never in my life have I made any type of costume, clothing … Read more
This is how we made our Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat Costumes: MAD HATTER COSTUME: I took an old jacket and then attached ribbons, lace on the sleeves and pockets. I cut out old pants, and made some brown gloves. Finally, I added old shoes, two socks of different colors, colored fabric for the staple … Read more
This is a Homemade Queen Of Hearts Costume. The dress was purchased as a vampire dress but soon converted to the Queen of Hearts. The checkered pattern is a sheet from the thrift store that was cut and wrapped around the torso. The necklaces is made out of a deck of cards that have holes … Read more
To make this Homemade Edward Scissorhands Costume for my 9 year old son I headed to a couple of local thrift stores to purchase a leather jacket & several belts and to Home Depot for some furniture nails, rings and washers. First I cut the jacket’s sides, arms and wrists and sewed them with an … Read more
We wanted to dress up as Tim Burton characters, so we decided on Jack Skellington and the corpse bride. I made the head for Jack Skellington out of papier mache. I covered an inflatable ball with cling film, and put 2 or 3 layers of papier mache (using old newspapers) over it. I didn’t want … Read more
I was in nursing school and attended Halloween of 2004. I remember being the only student out of my nursing class of close to 40 students, who dressed up. If that was not the most embarrassing, imagine having your entire face painted orange, white doll hair glued to my eyebrows and about 6 cans of … Read more
We decided to do a family theme for Halloween. My daughter’s favorite movie right now is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so what better theme than that!!!! My husband was Willy Wonka, costume made with many thrift shot items, and my daughter and myself were his factory helpers, the Oompa Loompa’s.
Alice in Wonderland characters are always a good go-to for a Halloween costume. But you just can’t go with a run-of-the-mill Wonderland costume if you want to impress; you have to create a really good one. I decided to base my costume on both the new Johnny Depp version of the Mad Hatter and the … Read more
While searching for some other ideas I ended up in this website with an Oompa Loompa picture, and I started looking through all the pictures. I ended up with these Homemade Oompa Loompa Couple Costume Ideas for this 2010 Halloween. It was a success. The bad thing is that I could only find one of … Read more