A group of friends and I love halloween and try to have the most unique costumes every year! We always want to wear something that now one else will have. Last year we came up with the ideas to be dinosaurs. We each chose a dinosaur we wanted to be and decided what color we … Read more
Used an old grey flannel blanket as the base. Created a hem at the bottom and fed a foam pipe cover through it to keep the shape. Did the same at the neckline, but smaller. Glued on some crazy material scraps I found at the fabric store for the lava and then topped it off with … Read more
To create this Cave-Woman and Cave-Man Couple Costume: You need to hit up a few thrift stores. The skin tight leopard dress was found at a thrift store as a ladies long leopard print dress. Cut garment to look torn and wild. I used leather strips to “sew” my dress to myself. It should be tight and … Read more
To make the caveman costume, I grabbed some animal print and fur remnants at a fabric store and picked up a “Wayne’s World” mullet wig on sale at a Halloween store. I used a brown t-shirt and a pair of sweatpants and sewed the animal print and fur onto the clothing. My son made a … Read more
I have loved dinosaurs ever since I was a little girl, and this Halloween, I knew right away what I wanted to dress up as- a Velociraptor! This was probably my most ambitious costume to date, and my lovely boyfriend was a tremendous help to me while making it. I thoroughly enjoyed wearing it out, … Read more
When asking my kids what they wanted to be I should have expected exactly what I got. It’s not hard coming up for costumes for Ariel and Snow White. The difficulty comes when your 7 year old self-proclaimed Dinosaur Expert says “I want to be a dinosaur!” Never ask what kind and how might I … Read more
Well, I wondered how my husband would top R2D2 and Wall-E from previous years, but I think he managed to do so with my son’s 13′ long, 7′ tall walking Raptor Dinosaur costume this year! He started with making the frame out of very light-weight wood and foam sheets. The tail attached to a backpack, … Read more
My niece is a real girly girl most of the time, but she also likes bugs and dinosaurs. When she saw a pattern I had for dinosaur costumes (Simplicity 1765) she insisted that we scrap the rainbow princess idea she had originally presented and go with a triceratops. And it had to be pink. The … Read more
My little boy wanted to be a caveman so I bought some material and whipped this up in no time flat. The booties I made large and they slipped over his shoes. I picked up the bone and bone necklace at a Halloween store. I used a marker and colored on the bone and smudged … Read more
A lot of people thought we were Pebbles and Bam Bam from the Flintstones. The last-minute Cave Man and Cave Woman couple costume were very last minute and easy to make. For the Cave woman costume I bought a cheap bra and animal print fabric at a Walmart. For the top I cut the fabric … Read more
My boyfriend is a huge Jurassic Park fan so we went as Dennis Nedry and the Dilophosaurus that spit on him from the movie. I used a Jack Sparrow pirate hat for the head piece and cut out the center and a little of the sides. I sewed a printed scarf on the head piece … Read more
My son Joey is five years old and he LOVES dinosaurs. He wanted to be a Trex this Halloween because that is his favorite dinosaur of them all. He is such a fan of them that a silly cartoonish costume would not do. He needed something realistic so I decided to make make the coolest homemade … Read more