My little brother wanted to buy a costume at the Halloween store, but he is very short so all of the costumes didn’t fit him and he got very frustrated. I felt bad so I thought I have to make him something. I started looking around on the Internet for ideas and found this Vending … Read more
This was my daughter’s first Halloween, so I wanted to make a special costume for her even though she wouldn’t remember it any more than I remember my high school trigonometry class. I’m almost never creative (I can’t even cook without following a detailed recipe), so like many others, I scoured Pinterest for an idea … Read more
My friends and I do a group theme every year and this year we settled on going as an arcade. These costumes took about 20-30 hours apiece and were well worth the time and effort! We won two costume contests and had a lot of fun. All the costumes are made from dollar store foam … Read more
I had the idea to make a costume for my daughter based around my daughter’s stroller rather than having to carry her around all night, but I wanted something I had never seen before and I kept brainstorming and came up with absolutely nothing. The idea for her costume actually came to me when I … Read more
This costume was inspired by my daughter’s love for the crane game with stuffed animals inside. We decided to make the machine as a Halloween costume. We took an ordinary cardboard box and cut out the windows accordingly. We then made a panel for the joystick out of a shoe box and added a backpack … Read more
My Claw Machine costume didn’t cost my family a single penny to make. On Wednesday, after I had decided that I wanted to be a Claw Machine, I found two toilet paper rolls and some tape in my house. I cut and rolled one of the rolls in order to make the “stick of the … Read more
I bought a white shirt, 2 pounds of colorful and glittery pom poms from Amazon, and a red pencil skirt from the thrift store. I hot glued the pom poms to the shirt and added a silver candy dispenser flap (a notecard covered in duct table) with a 25 cent sign on it to the … Read more
I have always loved making things with cardboard and duct tape. I made my own slippers and my own flip flops. I made a suit of armor complete with sword and shield. So making a crane game costume out of boxes and duct tape was a natural! I used two boxes, covered them with duct … Read more
Needed: A Strapless LRD (little red dress), two-three large packages of multi-color medium sized pom-poms (about 250-300, depending on size of area to cover), silver duct tape (wide), black fabric (I used scrapbook fabric-paper), scissors, wax paper, stickers (two, five, cent symbol), hot glue gun, hot glue, patience. How to: 1) Start with the Pom-Poms … Read more
Our sixteen year old daughter is a magician and escape artist by profession. She loves anything magical or mystical, so naturally she wanted to dress up as something that showed her personality. She decided to be a fortune teller, but we took it a step further and made her into an old fashioned fortune telling … Read more
I went as the fortune teller Esmeralda. My inspiration came from Zoltar in the movie Big. My boyfriend Kevin constructed the frame and box out of wood I purchased at a hardware store. I wanted it sturdy because it had to go over my wheelchair. We used big pieces of plywood and different sizes of … Read more
First I got medium sized sour gumballs from the dollar store. I had to use about 6 bags. Then I cut them in half and hot glued them to a white tank top. I purchased the tank top and a middle of the knee length red skirt from the Goodwill. I also got red fishnets, … Read more