Last year, my left leg was amputated. This year, my costume decision was obvious: I had to be a pirate with a wooden leg. I used an old socket and attached a dowell and a crutch tip. This is a costume that my two legged friends can only envy. We got a womans coat from … Read more
It took two and a half months to make the ship. Made entirely out of cardboard and duct tape, and put together using a hot glue gun and super glue. I came up with the idea when my then four month old started to “watch” the Disney show “Jake and the Neverland pirates”. I got … Read more
As a kid, my father would build us Halloween costumes/floats for the local parade and contest in our small town. As a child, I remember vividly, the cold night of the parade down main street each year, wearing or riding in whatever creative costume my Dad put together for us, and we usually did well … Read more
Initially I told myself my baby was only 4 1/2 months old, so I wasn’t going to dress him up in some over the top hot costume, especially because we live in Florida, and it is always hot on Halloween! But I kept thinking about him possibly being a pirate, then I could put him … Read more
My Pirate costume took about half an hour, had my wife do the make up in my face, put on some crazy all shirt and made the pants of a old table cloth. Painted my nails black and put on fake teeth. Had some old boots, rings and chains; borrowed my sons fake knife and … Read more
Sometimes you get an idea in your head and you just start running with it! Hence, our Halloween outfits this year. I suppose this idea started a couple months ago. We had a few family date nights where we sat around, ate pizza and watched The Pirates of the Caribbean together. Any scary parts, we’d … Read more
To make this Pirate ship, I started by taking sheet wood and tracing and cutting out a pirate Ship, did that twice one for each side. Then I added 3 wood pieces to the front and center and back to hold the side of the pirate ship together. I then spray painted everything. I then … Read more
To make the boy pirate costumes, we started with long sleeve button down shirts. We cut the collars off, added string in the top button holes, and made the edges ragged. For the pants, we used pajama pants that we made ragged at the bottom. The belts were made from scrap fabric that we had … Read more
It’s a priate’s life for me! There is no more iconic character than Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack Sparrow. This Jack Sparrow costume took some time and a lot of studying to make the character come alive in the most authentic way possible. My husband is a stickler for detail and I’m the costume designer, … Read more
My 8 year old son is wearing the costume. The idea came from watching the Despicable Me movie. Everything that I used in making this costume is recycled materials. His pirate shirt is my old white maternity blouse that I altered to make it fit on my son. His fake legs is a combination of … Read more
My youngest son and his best friend decided to be Will Turner and Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Carribean this year. It became a group costume when my oldest son wanted to be Ragetti (pirate with wooden eye). My son actually helped design and also sew the costume. We had some of … Read more
When we decided that my son was going to be a pirate this year for Halloween, I knew that I could make one better than the store bought ones and I knew I could do it for a fraction of the price. I went to my local thrift store and I went with an idea … Read more