I love to make my own costumes, I think its much funner than those boring store-bought costumes. And now that I’ve made a few creative costumes on my own for my work’s halloween costume contest, its pretty much expected of me to do something even better than the year before. This year another creative friend … Read more
The first time I saw the idea for the gumball machine costume it was from this website. I originally planned to make my costume exactly like “The One and Only Sexy Gumball Machine”. However, because I am SUCH a procrastinator I was forced to make some changes- which in my opinion ended up looking awesome!! … Read more
I decided to go out as a bubble gum machine. I made my costume. Thought it out and said sweet this is going to be original and fun!! I went out with bubble gum in a pumpkin bucket, and gave it out to people, some guy gave me 25 cents so he could have a … Read more
This costume was very easy for me to create. The first thing I did was buy a red maxi dress on clearance for $9. Next I went to a craft store (Michaels) & bought a big bag of assorted Pom-Poms in a variety of colors for $6.99. At home I hot glued the Pom-Poms all … Read more
This costume was inspired by my eight year old daughter Elisabeth. She wanted a unique costume. We were on a budget and only had balloons, posterboard and our imaginations. We tied a piece of red posterboard around her waist(I used duct tape on the edges so it wouldn’t rip and fastened string on each corner. … Read more
Putting this together was pretty simple. I took an old tank of mine and just covered it in different colored pom poms using a hot glue gun. I had a red skirt at home and just used duct tape to draw on the dispensary part. Although I originally wanted to use real gumballs, I wasn’t sure … Read more
Halloween is my favorite time of year and I literally start thinking about next year’s costume the day after Halloween. Halloween allows people to transform into something creative and magical. With Halloween costumes, I strongly believe one should always make their costume so you are unique and stand out. This year I decided to be … Read more
I bought the skirt at a thrift store for about 2$ and used a body suit bra thing I already had for the top. I used silver ribbon for the top and bottom of the skirt to make it look like metal and cute of course. I used felt fabric to make the gumball slot … Read more
I wanted to be a gumball machine and didn’t like the options for anything homemade. I didn’t want to spend a whole lot of money so obviously wasn’t going to buy something from a Halloween store. 1. I went ahead and bought a bra from Forever 21 because its cheap. I spend about eight dollars on that. … Read more
I’m a big fan of ROYGBIV so I knew I wanted to make my son’s costume colorful, so that’s when I choose to make him an awesome gumball machine costume. Now he’s only 2 so I knew there would be certain limitations and things I couldn’t be too creative with, like having his head in … Read more
I had this idea in my head for years, but didn’t have the ambition to put it together until this year. I had a plan in my head and just envisioned a bag of balloons, a red skirt and hat and viola-a bubble gum machine. I got the skirt at a second hand store and pinned it … Read more
This is a picture of our son as the Homemade Bubble Gum Machine Halloween Costume. He loves them, and I thought what better costume than to make something that he loves. We thought he looked “pretty sweet”. I make his costume every year, but we got such a wonderful response with this one he wanted … Read more