New and exciting costumes are added all the time to our homemade costume gallery. With so many costumes already on line, this blog will point you to the newest and coolest costumes the moment they're added!
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Note from Elad: Making your own costumes is always a big challenge and lots of fun. We're always hoping that the ideas on our site will inspire
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Make a costume on your own and become your favorite Web Page. You'll also find the most amazing photo gallery of homemade costumes and lots of party ideas.
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Take a look at the coolest Tetris group costume ideas. You'll also find the most amazing photo gallery of homemade costumes, how-to tips for making your own, and lots of Halloween and costume party ideas.
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Once upon a time, there was a 47-year-old man who wanted to have some fun for Halloween. So, on a whim and a prayer, he decided to dress up as Alice
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My husband and I were Dog and Beth for Halloween and were a big hit! I got us both wigs online and a leather vest for him. He wore black jeans and
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We dressed her up as a puppy by using a black sweatshirt and adding patches of faux fur, white and brown. We added faux fur ears as well and then the
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I wanted something that would turn heads... something between sexy and shocking. After watching bloopers on TV I decided to be a censored streaker.
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First of all, I am not a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination. So, you can imagine how upset I was when my daughter, Paige, let me know that
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Take a look at the coolest homemade Bill on Capitol Hill adult costume idea. You'll also find the most amazing photo gallery of homemade costumes, how-to tips for making your own, and loads of Halloween ideas.
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My son won first place with best costume from the entire pack at our cub scout pack night. His picture was also featured on genesimmons.com in the
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In 2007 my family went as Shrek and his cohorts. My son's donkey costume was purchased in 2004 when my daughter went as donkey and I as Shrek the
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I put together this Batman costume for a relatively small investment of about a hundred bucks. The mask is a party store knock off which I slit up the
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Here is what I used to make this costume: Cotton balls - 350 (2.5 bags - 140 cotton balls in 1 bag) White hooded jacket 1 black felt for ears (white
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I actually got the idea for this costume from this site! I was really excited, as I'd never made my own costume before. I had an old black dress in
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I based my costume off of Glinda's Bubble dress in the Broadway musical Wicked. The skirt has 14 layers and about 25,000 sequins which were all sewn
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This owl is taken from a cartoon - a really old and smart owl. I made the costume from old cloths, paperboard and I used some paint. It's really easy
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Our family went as Shrek and gang in 2007 and I was dared to top my Shrek. To do so, I could only think of cross-dressing, but didn't want to do
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I had a work Christmas party to go to, and the Theme was Black and Gold, and it doesn't get more Black and Gold than Mr T! This was made with a red
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My wife was just elected to office, so I wanted to surprise her on her first day in office. Thanks to Tammy B. (see her awesome Bill costume also on
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For this star costume, I started with a paper mache headpiece that had a wire base, one measured around the top of my head, another measured around my
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For this Thomas the Train Halloween costume I used: 1 diaper box 2 cans of Primer spray paint 1 can of Blue Spray Paint 1 can of Red spray paint 1
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This is my version of one of the most popular characters from the Mortal Kombat genre - Scorpion. This was my FIRST attempt to make a costume from
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We had a “P” party where everyone had to dress as something beginning with P. We love our poker so came up with Pocket Aces. We got four pieces of
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Here we are as Jack and Sally from The Nightmare before Christmas. I made Jack's head out of paper mache - which is flour, water, and newspaper draped
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It took a long time to design this Peacock costume, but I really liked how it turned out. The hardest part for me was to find the right kind of fabric
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My son decided he wanted to be Spongebob for Halloween. I suggested to him that I make the costume and his head could be the Krusty Krab hat. Oh no,
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For the back of the costume which is the monster, I made the torso out of Styrofoam. The mask head has a plastic milk jug for stability. The head is
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This costume was made for my 15 month old daughter. I wanted to make a pink and brown cupcake with sprinkles. We started with a pink fleece shirt.
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While preparing cotton candy at a street carnival during the summer, I realized that a cotton candy cone would make an excellent Halloween costume for
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First, I bought an old white shirt, tie, suit coat and pants from the local thrift store. I tore holes in the pants and shredded the coat and tie to
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Got the idea from Wendy of FL. Thanks by the way!!! Thought is was an amazing and unique idea especially for a costume contest. We used about 30
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For my costume I sewed plastic tubing to a black sweater and sweat pants in the shape of a stick man. Then I bought one of those grim-reaper/face-less
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My birthday party theme was 'Comic Book & Cartoon Characters' this year. I chose this theme mainly because I've always wanted to dress as Catra from
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Both the Popeye and the Olive Oyl costumes are completely hand made. I found almost everything at Goodwill and Walmart. Olive Oyl wore a red long
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My Dad helped me make the coolest costume ever, a Pokemon costume. Which one, you ask? A big, bad, blue Lucario, of course! To make this costume,
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I ran across this site last year and knew that next year my 16 month old twin girls would be at the perfect age/stage to be Thing One and Two. So I
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My boyfriend's son is really into the ocean. The life inside of it, the colors, the animals, everything about it. So, last year he went as the
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My children attend a school where they are given a theme for the costume dances. This year’s theme was ‘Disneyland’. I have four children so they
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Take a look at these homemade Mega Man costume ideas. You'll also find the most amazing photo gallery of homemade costumes, how-to tips for making your own, and lots of Halloween party ideas.
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I made this costume from cardboard (donated from Trader Joe's), blue duct tape (Joann's), blue spandex (oann's), hot glue (my basement) , a hockey
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