Awesome Beetlejuice Couple Costume: Resurrecting Adam and Barbara Maitland

Awesome Beetlejuice Couple Costume: Resurrecting Adam and Barbara Maitland

Creating Adam and Barbara Maitland from the infamous 1988 cult-classic film “Beetlejuice” was not an easy task, but a challenge worth taking on.  My boyfriend (Brae) and I agreed to wear a couple’s costume for the first time (usually, we dress up independently), and were up to the challenge of trying to recreate the classic … Read more

Creepy Beetlejuice Couple Costume: The Maitlands

Creepy Beetlejuice Couple Costume: The Maitlands

You will need paper mache and paper mache clay, recepies for this is avalible online. Start by using coat hangers for the frame and tape them to a hat. Then cover everything with silvertape to add stability and use paper towels for filling also reducing weight. Cover with paper mache and newspaper. I then used … Read more

DIY Beetlejuice Costume

DIY Beetlejuice Costume

I made this DIY Beetlejuice costume because I like being in Character when dressing up. I love the character Beetlejuice. He is very whimsical and the movie cracks me up. I ponder from year to year what I can be for Halloween and once I get something in my mind, I start searching thrift stores, … Read more

Beetlejuice Family Costume

Beetlejuice Family Costume

Our family/ group costume!! =) This is my hubby, our 3 boys,& myself dressed up as Beetlejuice characters! I used homemade air dry clay to sculpt and create Harry the hunters shrunken head (which came out awesome). I attached it to a old bicycle helmet for my son to wear it easily. I found a … Read more

Shrunken Head Costume from Beetlejuice

Shrunken Head Costume from Beetlejuice

I LOVE Halloween movies!! I try to use the characters that most people wouldn’t think to try to replicate! This year, I introduced my daughter to the Beetlejuice movie and she loved it!! I always loved the shrunken head guy so I set out and made it my goal to create it. I covered my … Read more

Beetlejuice and Miss Argentina Couple Costume

Beetlejuice and Miss Argentina Couple Costume

My wife always used to make fun of me because I didn’t know who Beetlejuice was. So one day I bought the movie and watched for the first time. Beetlejuice was my next costume so asked my wife to be Miss Argentina. The costumes came out great, but it was alot of work. For Beetlejuice I bought black … Read more

DIY Beetlejuice Adam and Barbara Maitland Costumes

DIY Beetlejuice Adam and Barbara Maitland Costumes

A couple weeks before Halloween the fiance suggests we make masks and be the the Maitlands from Beetlejuice. She had suggested this a year or two before and I was afraid of the complexity of the masks, especially Barbaras. This year I was feeling optimistic so I began construction by getting a couple sheets of … Read more

Cool Beetlejuice Costume for a Boy

Cool Beetlejuice Costume for a Boy

Our son recently watched the old movie “Beetlejuice” that everyone loves! He fell in love with “Beetlejuice” so Beetlejuice he was. His costume got lots of “Ewww’s and Awww’s”. He had people stopping to take pictures of him. We had so much fun making this costume come to life for him. We put a lot … Read more

Homemade Two-Year-Old Toddler Beetlejuice Costume

Homemade Two-Year-Old Toddler Beetlejuice Costume

I wanted my son to be Beetlejuice so bad, so even though he just turned two, I knew I had to try. I searched high and low for a tux in second hand stores, mainly because I felt unsure how it would turn out, and suits are expensive. I finally found one, but it was … Read more

The Beetlejuice Clan Family Costume

The Beetlejuice Clan Family Costume

My oldest daugher chose our costumes this year. She decided she wanted us to dress up at “Beetlejuice” she wanted to be Lydia, sister would be Beetlejuice because she has crazy hair. My husband and I would be Adam and Barbara Maitland. We chose the “crazy” version of them. Lydia’s costume was all found at … Read more

Lady Couple Lydia and Beetlejuice Homemade Costumes

Lady Couple Lydia and Beetlejuice Homemade Costumes

This was one epic Halloween for my girlfriend Jacquie and I. Yes, Beetlejuice is a girl under there; a very pretty one actually. See, my very festive and enthusiastic coworker throws a HUGE Halloween party every year. And basically if you don’t show up in a fully committed costume, you may as well go home. … Read more