2008 Homemade Costume Contest Submissions - Part II

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Here are the 2008 Costume Contest Results...

With over 1000 costumes entered into this year's contest, I've decided to add this SECOND page of costume submissions. On this page, below, you'll find Part II of the costumes submitted to the 2008 costume contest. After you're done viewing them all, click on to Part I of the costume submissions...

Contest Ended Midnight, November 15, 2008

Submission Form and Contest Details Here...

Holding homemade costume contests is one of the most fun traditions all around the world. Our contests are no exception and we eagerly wait each year for October (Halloween) to hold a new contest and to see the wonderful costumes that are submitted.

Costume celebrations are held in different times around the world, so send us your costumes (via this form) and they'll be automatically included in our next contest.

Here are the winners of past year contests...

Below are more costumes that have been submitted to this year's contest. Don't forget that there's a Part I and Part III with more costume submissions.

All the costumes below can also be found in their appropriate category.

2008 Costume Contest Submissions - Part II

Coolest Robot Halloween Costume 21 My son wanted a robot Halloween costume. I threw several different ideas up in the air but couldn't get any ideas set in stone. One day I just started ...

Coolest Pokemon Halloween Costume 6 My son is a Pokemon fanatic! He asked and asked for a Pokemon Halloween costume, but I couldn't find a costume. I found a few patterns online, but I ...

Coolest Trash Costume 3 There was a civic strike which affected Garbage pickup when I made this costume. I actually had people ask me who was carrying me! Here is how I made ...

Coolest Tetris Costume This is a picture of my friends and I in our 2008 Tetris Halloween costumes. We took one-and-one-half foot by one-and-one-half foot boxes and wrapped ...

Coolest Catwoman Costume Michelle Pfeiffer may have had more fun playing Catwoman in the 1992 productions of Batman Returns. But, I made Catwoman a piece of ART! I spent 2 days ...

Coolest Ring Costume 4 The TV sequence in The Ring is the scariest moment in any film which I have seen so I decided that the Ring costume would make an ideal costume for this ...

Coolest Gilligan's Island Costumes We had a group of seven going to a party so we went with the Gilligan's Island theme.

I was Ginger and I used a gold long dress that I already owned....

Coolest Headless Costume 16 We started a little late so the "scavenging" didn’t really take place and instead we ended up purchasing a good deal of the items used to construct this ...

Coolest Piñata Costume 2 I was talking to a friend of mine about what I should be for Halloween and came up with the bright idea of me being a piñata. So I went to Walmart and ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 15 Hello Everyone,

My name is Joshua I am 6"10. Yes, that's right - 6 foot 10 inches. I am 375 pounds and I live in Nebraska.

Every year I find myself ...

Coolest Cotton Candy Costume 5 Here is the How To for one large cotton candy on a paper cone costume!

Supplies:

One Roll Clear Cellophane Wrapping ($2.99)
One Yard Pink Felt ($2....

Coolest Easy Mac Costume 2 I didn't have a lot of time and saw this costume on this website!

I started with a laundry basket and cut out a hole in the bottom that was big enough ...

Coolest Loofah Sponge Halloween Costume 3 This Loofah sponge Halloween costume is easy to make and fairly inexpensive. It was all my daughter’s idea. It was awesome.

The ladies at the fabric ...

Coolest Mummy Costume 8 This mummy costume I made for my son Terrell. It wasn't hard to make but looked as if it was. All I paid for were some glue sticks and some fake bugs ...

Coolest Cruella De Ville Costume 3 My niece is not the kind of kid who is happy with being a simple princess or Hannah Montana look-a-like. No, she was set on a Cruella De Ville costume....

Coolest Washing Machine Costume 6 My son has CP and I wanted to make him the cutest and most loved during the holiday. The Washing machine costume was very easy to make and unique around ...

Coolest Mermaid Costume 10 My daughter uses a wheelchair so a Mermaid costumee was a perfect costume for her.

I used real shells on her top by drilling holes in them then sewing ...

Coolest GraveDigger Monster Truck Costume 8 In 2007, my nephew wanted to be Gravedigger more than anything for Halloween so I offered to try and make a gravedigger monster truck costume for him.

With ...

Coolest Cabbage Patch Kid Costume 2 My husband and I decided to have our baby be a Cabbage Patch Kid for her first Halloween because everybody says she looks like one. We built it out of ...

Coolest Monsters Inc. Costume 4 Our family has an annual Halloween Party, this year was inspired by a Sully costume purchased from a local Goodwill. We have a family of five. The obvious ...

Coolest Shower Costume 1 From the movie "The Karate Kid". I had always loved the scene where he went as a shower. It was a little difficult to fabricate.

Materials used for ...

Coolest Autumn Leaves Costume 5 I saw this idea for an autumn leaves costume on Familyfun.com web site, it was called Leaf Man. I wanted a unique and unusual costume for a co-workers ...

Coolest Pokemon Grovyle And Empoleon Costume 4 My sons love Pokemon! This year they selected two of their favorite Pokemon characters and I did my best to create costumes that other kids would recognize....

Coolest Flower Baby Costume 10 My 5 month old baby Madison is so cute I just had to make her a flower costume. I started by taking pink flannel fabric and made a hood. Then I took foam ...

Coolest Robot Costume 17 I love Robots, but I wanted something different! I wanted to be a girl robot. I just took 2 boxes, painted them, cut out arm holes and a spot for me to ...

Coolest Blackmail Costume 18 My friend and I couldn't decide what we wanted to be for Halloween so we looked up different compound words and figured we would each be half of the word ...

Coolest Thing 1 and Thing 2 Costume 14 How cute is this?? My sons, which I lovingly call Thing 1 and Thing 2 are too adorable. This Thing 1 and Thing 2 costume was a very simple costume.

Red ...

Coolest Tea Bag Costume 9 This is my one year old grand daughter in her tea bag costume.

I took interfacing and sewed, added crushed leaves to make the tea bag. Then I sewed ...

Coolest Old Man Costume 4 This is my 3 year old grandson. He is dressed up in an old man costume.

I went to the thrift store and bought the clothes then to a Halloween store ...

Coolest Starbucks Coffee Costume 10 I wanted something original for Halloween last year for my oldest daughter. She loves Starbucks hot chocolate, and I love their coffee! So our minds were ...

Coolest Alex from the Clockwork Orange Costume I really enjoyed the movie Clockwork Orange and I had always talked about dressing up as the main character for Halloween at some point, but never really ...

Coolest Magic School Bus Costume My 5 year old absolutely loves the Magic School Bus and was insistent that he would be the Magic School Bus for Halloween this year. Our aim was to make ...

Coolest Dessert Sampler Platter Costumes 12 I wanted my kids to have a theme, and we chose dessert. My son is Owen 6, and he wanted to be BLUE cotton candy. My daughter Charlie is 3 and wanted ...

Coolest Cupcake Costume 13 I am a Cupcake Fanatic and I am constantly picking up anything that has cupcakes on it. So it was only natural for me to be a Cupcake costume for Halloween!...

Coolest Cindy Lou Who Costume 2 My daughter's school had a Christmas in October party. She wanted to dress in a Cindy Lou Who costume.

I purchased a child's wig and hair extensions....

Coolest Mary Poppins Costume 7 This year my husband coaxed me into being something more attractive than my past costume choices. I kept nixing all his suggestions until he said "Mary ...

Coolest Monster Carrying Baby Costume 14 I spent time contemplating on what I was going to be this year, then it hit me! I was originally going to be just a simple headless teen, then I had a ...

Coolest "I'm thinking Arby's" Costume Inspired by the “I’m thinking Arby’s” commercials, this is a really easy and cheap costume to make, and I got more compliments about it than anyone who ...

Coolest Residents Costume So, I'm a big fan of the obscure band The Residents. They've kept their identities hidden for over 30 years, although they've become known for their signature ...

Coolest Avatar Aang Costume My 6 year old son Connor wanted to look like his favorite cartoon character on nickalodean's Avatar Aang.

His Grandmother made his Avatar Aang costume ...

Coolest Optimus Prime Halloween Costume 19 I saw your site and loved it. I also wanted to be part of your costume contest. This year for 08, I custom made a costume of my own. ( keep in mind the ...

Coolest Jukebox Costume I got my inspiration from the "You can't handle me" video by Robyn. In the video, she has a jukebox-type outfit on, so I thought it would be really cool ...

Coolest Tea Bag Costume 11 I saw the idea for a tea bag costume on this web site. A friend made it for me for Under $20.00 with crinoline and brown fabric for the tea (leaves eventually ...

Coolest Worms Costume 3 To make the giant bucket of fishing worms is very cheap and inexpensive. First we bought a silver 30 gallon trashcan and cut the bottom out of it. We bought ...

Coolest Tomato Costume 2 Two year-old Kadyn's favorite food was tomatoes. When we asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween, he decided was going to be a tomato, or as he pronounced ...

Coolest Saturn Costume My 3 year old son is obsessed with space. He spouts off all sorts of facts about the solar system and universe. His favorite planet is Saturn. Of course,...

Coolest Grinch Costume This Grinch costume is 100% handmade, no sewing machine used. Dad made everything using only the faux fur, some wiring (for the hair) and glue.

The ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 16 I thought this Oompa Loompa costume would be such a cute idea being that he is so short and cute! I had looked on several sites looking for a pattern on ...

Coolest Ursula Costume My mom loves the song under the Sea So I was downloading the song when I suggested she should be Ursula – she didn’t like the idea but I stated Googling ...

Coolest McLovin from Superbad Costume This is my Halloween costume. For those of you who don't know, I am McLovin from the comedy Superbad. I made this costume myself including the vest and ...

Coolest Muppets Halloween Costume 5 While strolling through the Jim Henson exhibit at the Smithsonian, my two friends and I decided we needed a Muppets Halloween costume. And not just any ...

Coolest Peacock Halloween Costume 4 I was inspired to make the peacock Halloween costume by a mask that I have. It was so much fun and I received a lot of compliments on it!

To start,...

Coolest Snoopy Halloween Costume 9 When my 4 kids wanted to be the Peanuts gang for Halloween, your site was the first place I hit - and got great ideas for paper mache heads for the 3 older ...

Coolest White Tiger Halloween Costume The trunk of this White Tiger Halloween costume is separate from head and boots. The head was made from a pattern of a hoodie and I made ears from a 1/...

Coolest M & M Halloween Costume 3 This year my 15 year old daughter wanted a M&M Halloween costume. It could not be found anywhere. I started to research some sites on how to make the costume....

Coolest Iron Man Halloween Costume 4 Made this Iron Man Halloween costume (by myself) out of 5/8" and 1/2 inch thick(polyethylene) foam yoga mats, hot glue and other items found at thrift ...

Coolest Mystique Halloween Costume 3 Every year when choosing a costume I look for a strong, kick ass, female character. Preferably a Villain but not exclusively.

I was in my office thinking ...

Coolest Teen Wolf Costume 4 Sick of seeing hundreds of people wearing easy bought costumes thought Teen Wolf Halloween costume would be pretty damn original and I got an amazing response ...

Coolest Super Mario Bros Halloween Costume 12 We're all characters from Super Mario! All were handmade(except for Peach)! This was an incredible time consuming, sometimes hard project, but definitely ...

Coolest Kissing Booth Costume 2 My kissing booth costume came about after a few nasty rumors went around about my husband and myself (all untrue!). I was thinking to myself, "Those people ...

Coolest Mario Halloween Costume 11 One of the cheapest home made costumes ever!

Overall's...already had ( $20.00)
Red Sweater....already had ($15.00)
Brown Boots...already had ( 25....

Coolest Leprechaun Halloween Costume 6 I came up with the Leprechaun Halloween costume because last year my 3 year old son saw a commercial of the Leprechaun movie and it fascinated him!

He ...

Coolest Flintstones And Rubbles Halloween Costume 16 Meet the Flintstones and the Rubbles!
We made our Flinstones and Rubbles Halloween costumes out of felt and dress from Goodwill. While making them, we ...

Coolest Tennis Player Costume For the last five years I have been creating walking illusion costumes and this year, I did it again. I created the "Wrecked Tennis Player". The best ...

Coolest Little Mermaid Costume 4 My friend Alex and I wanted to be dressed as Ariel and Prince Eric from the Little Mermaid, but then I realized that Prince Eric's would not have been ...

Coolest Mario and Luigi Costume 9 My two sons wanted to have a costume theme together but couldn't agree on anything. They love video games of course and I suggested a Mario and Luigi costume,...

Coolest Robot Costume 19 I always wanted a robot costume, but never had a good enough reason to make one. So when I got invited to a Hero & villains Halloween/birthday bash (he ...

Coolest Angelina Jolie Costume One of my all time favorite costumes was Angelina Jolie, circa 2006. Original, funny and best of all it was super easy and comfortable.

I wore a black ...

Coolest Three Amigos Costume I've always wanted to make this Three Amigos costume ever since I saw the movie years ago. I just had to figure out how I was going to pull it off. And ...

Coolest Cheshire Cat Costume 6 For this Cheshire Cat costume I started with making the face as wide and big as the character in the movie. Materials used are: fabrics (purple and pink)...

Coolest Bird Costume 4 My daughter Emily loves all birds,and asked me to make her a bird costume. I searched home-made bird costumes, and found this site.

At first I was ...

Coolest Mario Bros. Costume 6 Mario! The image that pops into our head is of the mustached Italian. Okay I may not be Italian, a man, have a real mustache, and an awesome fro. But I ...

Coolest Mailman Costume 2 I deliver mail and my 3 year old son thinks it's pretty cool, so I decided to go to home depot and got a big cardboard box. I made it fit around his power ...

Coolest Transformers Costume 18 My son Gabe decided last year, after an impressive first attempt at a transformers costume (he was Optimus Prime), that this year he wanted to be Bumblebee....

Coolest Oreo Cookie and Milk Costume My daughter and her friend wanted to be very creative. My daughter and her friend's favorite cookies are Oreos. So we figured why not make them what ...

Coolest Barbie Costume 7 I was stressing about an original costume, with me being pregnant. I didn't want the same old paint your belly thing, so I came up with this Barbie costume....

Coolest Yo Gabba Gabba Costume My son decided for this Halloween, he wanted to go as one of his favorite television characters - Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba. While we were in our local ...

Coolest Lawn Jockey Costume Here's my "Jocko" Lawn Jockey costume.

A lawn jockey is a small statue of a man in jockey clothes, intended to be placed in yards. The lawn ornament,...

Coolest Centaur Costume I was out at a festival one summer day when I spied a Centaur walking by. I thought to myself, how wonderful would it be to bring that idea home! And ...

Coolest Garbage Truck Costume 7 My son loves the garbage man and the garbage trucks. All he wanted for Halloween this year (2008) was a garbage truck costume. First he wanted to be a ...

Coolest Lion Costume 10 Luke is an 8 month old living in Wichita, KS. He has been crawling for 2 months now, and has quite the cute growl.....that was the inspiration for this ...

Coolest 70s Theme Costumes Bigger is Better... Fore these 70s theme costumes, we made the Afros from balloons, paper mache and pillow stuffing to make them super huge. They weren'...

Coolest Blood Angel Space Marines Costume This year, as with every year, my roommate and I made our costumes entirely out of duct-tape and cardboard. I decided on a Blood Angel Space Marines costume ...

Coolest Gift Box Costume This year I decided to make my childrens costumes. My youngest daughter, Katie, age 4, was pretty much a surprise to us. We weren't expecting to have anymore ...

Coolest Riddler Costume 7 This is my Riddler costume. The Riddler is the lead vocalist in my husband's band 'The Villains'. It took some time to find the correct green to make the ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 11 I made this Oompa Loompa costume for my girls this year using a combination of tips found on this site. The pants were purchased at the thrift store in ...

Coolest "One Night Stand" Costume 17 I saw a store bought costume called "One Night Stand" while I was out looking for parts to my costume for the character 'Alex' from Clockwork Orange. I ...

Coolest Prince Costume I grabbed a lady's suit from what must've been the 80s, a curtain, a button-down shirt and some rubber boots at a thrift store. Picked up some cardboard ...

Coolest Tacky Tourists Costumes I got this idea for tacky tourists costumes from a costume I saw in a catalog. I looked at it and thought, "I can do better than that." It was easy once ...

Coolest Sportacus and Stephanie from Lazytown Costumes 3 When my daughter was three, she became enthralled with a kids show called Lazytown. The two heroes of the series are Stephanie and Sportacus, and they ...

Coolest Angler Fish Costume 2 I enjoy making masks, so when my friend asked me to make her a tropical fish mask, I thought "wouldn't an angler fish be cooler?" so while I used bright ...

Coolest Pillsbury Doughboy Halloween Costume 3 I found this Pillsbury Doughboy Halloween costume idea from this site and I had to do it! The hat was so easy! The bottom is construction paper that ...

Coolest Exorcist Halloween Costume 3 I wanted to be very scary this year for Halloween. I thought the Exorcist Halloween costume would be an interesting costume to try. I had to experiment ...

Coolest Owl Halloween Costume 3 My daughter tends to have trouble with falling asleep at night. I pondered upon what she would be, when in popped my head the idea of a "night-owl!" It ...

Coolest Thing 1 And Thing 2 Halloween Costume 16 My two boys are 17 months apart, with the youngest being nearly 11 months. I looked for an idea that would incorporate a theme and came up with Thing ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Halloween Costume 17 This Oompa Loompa Halloween costume is completely homemade. I am not sure the cost of it all, I gathered things as I went.

The Oompa Loompa shirt is ...

Coolest Energizer Bunny Halloween Costume 3 This Energizer Bunny Halloween costume really was easy and most of the stuff I had or got from the dollar store. A friend found the bunny costume at a ...

Coolest Corpse Bride Halloween Costume 8 I made there two costumes all by myself. Only the Emily's blue hair was bought.

For the Emily's dress I bought some old curtains (altogether 5$) and ...

Coolest Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd Halloween Costume 2 This year I was Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd. I studied several photographs of her costume and tried to recreate it as close as possible (even down to ...

Coolest Mortal Combat Halloween Costume 4 I envisioned Ninja suits made all of duct tape. After downloading numerous photos of Ninjas online, the project took on a life of it's own.

The Mortal ...

Coolest Loofah Halloween Costume 8 I wanted to be something completely different and not wear some expensive piece of plastic from a Halloween store. So, I went to a fabric shop, purchased ...

Coolest Christmas Costume 5 My idea for this Halloween came a week before last Halloween. I am a costume NUT! I already have some ideas for next year. I am into family themes as you ...

Coolest Spy vs. Spy Halloween Costume My husband and I love the old school Mad Magazine, especially these guys. I looked for months to find a costume and there is not one in existence other ...

Coolest Gene Simmons Halloween Costume 8 I got this idea for a Gene Simmons Halloween costume a few months back and started gathering bits and pieces. Here's a basic run-down of my costume:

Bought ...

Coolest Space Ace KISS Costume 7 You wanted the best, You got the best...The hottest band in the world, KISS.

This Space Ace costume was easy! I took a piece of cardboard and cut out ...

Coolest Flower Pot Halloween Costume 11 This Halloween I had a one month old and a 3 years old at home. Of course my 3 year old wanted to go trick or treating and I couldn’t say no. I had to ...

Coolest Zombie Halloween Costume 13 I had just found this new job, and been working there for less than a month when they announced that we should dress up to come to work on Halloween day....

Coolest Pee Wee Herman Halloween Costume 2 My Pee Wee Herman Halloween costume made a big splash this year and it was easy too! I used an old gray suit that my Dad gave me a while ago that he doesn'...

Coolest Bjork Halloween Costume Halloween is my most favorite holiday and I wanted to have a unique costume that didn't cost a bundle and run the chance that someone else might be wearing ...

Coolest Popeye Halloween Costume 8 Each year I look for costume ideas that aren't the latest trend or fashion. I like for my son to have a unique costume and this year was no different when ...

Coolest Seven Deadly Sins Halloween Costume The idea I got was for a Seven Deadly Sins Halloween costume for one person. It was comprised of elements representing each of the sins: Pride, Lust,...

Coolest Simpson Halloween Costume 9 This Simpson Halloween costumes was the product of unemployment. Weeks before Halloween I began strategizing and paper mache-ing the head pieces. Marge'...

Coolest Barrel of Toxic Waste Halloween Costume This was my sons idea to be a Barrel of Toxic Waste Halloween costume. I took a sheet of foam and spray painted it gray. Then I formed it into a barrel ...

Coolest Head in Fridge Halloween Costume 4 I won for best for this head in fridge Halloween costume! Very easy to make.

Coolest Headless Hockey Player Costume 2 Got the idea from this site. My son used his hockey pants and socks and we bought a jersey from Goodwill ($3.99) I took his old back pack and stuffed it ...

Coolest Crime Scene Costume I got the idea for my "Crime Scene" costume when I was watching CSI one day. It was a few days before Halloween, and all my friends were being ghosts,...

Coolest Wall-e Costume 2 Here's our try at Wall-e. He has a working audio player, playing the same music Wall-e did in the movie (I used an mp3 player with a portable speaker)...

Coolest Living Dead Doll Costume I was thinking of an idea for good and original costume for this Halloween. I thought a "living dead doll" would be cool. I found some living dead dolls ...

Coolest Headless Halloween Costume 20 My 8 year old was tired of being cute for Halloween and came up with this headless Halloween costume.

We used and old rolling back pack, a piece of ...

Coolest Marshmallow Man Halloween Costume 4 This is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Halloween costume from Ghostbusters fame. He is about 7 1/2 ft tall. The upper body is made of layers of foam remnants ...

Coolest Bucket Truck Halloween Costume 9 Our son wanted a Power Company bucket truck Halloween costume. (His costumes usually involve some kind of vehicle.) We took a box (24X16”) for the body,...

Coolest SpongeBob Halloween Costume 22 SpongeBob is one of our favorite fictional characters. He is a little silly but innocent, honest, hard-working, kind, and friendly. Our 5 yr. old daughter ...

Coolest Cousin It from the Addams Family Costume My daughter thought of the idea at the beginning of the year. Could not find a costume so we had to make one. We bought two 5 foot long wigs and one 3 ...

Coolest Zombie Halloween Costume 12 All I did for this Zombie Halloween costume was got some old normal clothes, put a few cuts in them, put some mud and fake blood on them. Then I covered ...

Coolest Moulin Rouge Costume 2 Greetings from the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico USA! I have ALWAYS wanted a costume from "Moulin Rouge" and this Halloween, I decided to make a Pink ...

Coolest Loofah Costume 5 I saw the two other loofahs on this site and started working right away on my loofah costume. However, I couldn't find any direct instructions to make ...

Coolest Ashley Todd Costume Ashley Todd - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched in her face was released ...

Coolest Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Halloween Costume 3 This Stay Puft Marshmallow man Halloween costume wasn't very difficult. The pants, I had to make, with a simple pattern, but made the waist huge, and with ...

Coolest Fred and Wilma Flinstone Halloween Costume 17 My husband is actually the one who came up with the idea of The Flinstones. He is a DJ for the local Pub where he works, and we decided to get into the ...

Coolest Astronaut Costume 3 I am super-cheap, so I look for the most inexpensive items for my Halloween costumes. This year I made an astronaut costume. I bought a white sweatshirt ...

Coolest Troll Dolls Costumes 2 We went as the infamous 1980's treasure troll dolls. We found nude body suits at a costume shop and hose from a local clothing store. It was very hard ...

Coolest Flamingo Costume 5 Firstly for this flamingo costume, I covered a tube top (nylon/spandex blend) in light pink feathers using a mix of fabric glue and super glue (60/40 ratio)...

Coolest Mr. T Costume 6 A native American guy dressed up in a Mr. T. costume. Just used brown body paint, fake gold chains, camo pants, combat boots, and a weightlifting belt....

Coolest Loofah Costume 6 I found the idea for a loofah costume here and ran with it. I used pink tulle and a LOT of safety pins. I gathered squares of the tulle in one bunch then ...

Coolest Headless Halloween Costume 19 I got the idea from something similar I saw on this site for a headless Halloween costume. We used a small backpack and used an extra long telescope handle ...

Coolest Rainbow Brite Halloween Costume 5 Like every other girl growing up in the 1980’s, I was obsessed with the cartoon Rainbow Brite. For whatever reason, it is not something I grew out of. So ...

Coolest Robot Halloween Costume 20 I made this robot Halloween costume with a plastic case, vent hoses, plastic boxes for feet and plastic jar for the helmet. I took duct tape and glue and ...

Coolest Mario Halloween Costume 10 I made this Mario Halloween costume for my son using blue cotton fabric, yellow and white felt, an old red cap, an old red sweatshirt and some white cotton ...

Coolest Alien Costume 15 I created this alien costume to wear to work and also take my kids trick or treating in. I made a lot of costumes and thought that this would be a really ...

Coolest Pippi Longstockings Halloween Costume 10 OK, so I am 8 months pregnant, and have decided to be a Pippi Longstockings Halloween costume

I put my hair in pig tails. Got a wire hanger, and put ...

Coolest Sushi Geisha Costume 2 My daughter loves sushi, so we had to figure out how to make that for an 11 year old who didn't want the “california roll” look. We decided to be a Sushi ...

Coolest Marilyn Monroe Costume 2 I was shopping at the thrift store trying to find costume ideas because I hate packaged costumes and I came upon this adorable dress. It was the same style ...

Coolest Headless Costume 18 I took the idea for this headless costume from the site obviously. I thought it was a very easy yet awesome idea so I decided to do my own version of the ...

Coolest Dog The Bounty Hunter Halloween Costume 12 Here is our interpretation of a Dog the Bounty Hunter Halloween costume. We went to several local consignment shops for the clothes and jewelry. If you ...

Coolest R2D2 Costume 13 This R2D2 costume was a very simple, inexpensive costume to make, but it got really great reactions from everyone. We purchased a garbage can with a dome ...

Coolest Corpse in a Coffin Costume This was a fairly simple costume to construct once I had planned it out the angles for the construction of the body of the box. The frame of the coffin ...

Coolest Loofah Costume 4 Well, basically I was searching frantically and wanted something that was somewhat original, and yet still looks hot. I got millions of comments, thousands ...

Coolest Hot Chocolate Costume 12 I knew I had to top my daughter's light up robot costume last year so I searched the web for fun costumes. I saw a hot chocolate costume and knew I could ...

Coolest Raggedy Ann Costume 5 I have always loved Raggedy Ann even as a little girl.

I decided to make the Raggedy Ann costume from just going to a thrift store and picking up a ...

Coolest Roger Rabbit and Jessica Rabbit Costumes 2 Our favorite movie from the 80's was "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" We have been doing couple's costumes for a few years now, and each year at the parties ...

Coolest Popeye and Olive Oyl Halloween Costume 7 My husband is in the Navy and was able to re-enlist on Halloween, (in costume!), so we made these Popey and Olive Oyl Halloween costumes for the ceremony,...

Coolest Female Pikachu Costume 5 We found a chicken costume at a store and cut off red feathers, sewed on brown stripes cut hole for the tail of the body of the Pikachu costume.

For ...

Coolest Monsters INC Costume 5 This is our Monsters INC costume. Our son was Sully (purchased costume), our daughter was Boo dressed in the monster suit, and our unborn daughter was ...

Coolest Alien Queen Costume I built a Queen from the 1986 James Cameron movie 'Aliens'. The head was built on a base of foamboard insulation, then used sprayfoam insulation for shapes....

Coolest Mario and Luigi Costume 8 My boyfriend and his son were Mario and Luigi for Halloween. I bought the Luigi clothes from Wall-mart.

I bought the Mario clothes from a childrens ...

Cooelst Ms. Frizzle and the Magic School Bus Costume 2 While a natural red head is preferred for this costume, a red wig will always suffice. We found a purple dress and decorated it with construction paper ...

Coolest Holy Cow Costumes 2 Okay. For our costumes we decided to be holy cows. We came up with the idea because I tend to say holy cow a lot, so we were like hey! Let’s be holy cows....

Coolest Jessie and Woody from Toy Story Costumes 2 My daughter wanted to be Jessie from Toy Story 2 so it was only natural that my husband was going to be Woody.

For her costume, I used a pattern for ...

Coolest Moses Costume My son is growing his hair so that he can donate to Locks of Love. We were trying to think of something that we can incorporate his long hair into his ...

Coolest Dancer in a Jewelry Box Costume This is my daughter Belle. She is 4 years old. She loves to dance and loves jewelry so what a great combination

Materials:
Cardboard boxes, felt, plastic ...

Coolest Evil Joker Costume I currently am a Substitute Teacher in the Huntington Union Free School District. Teaching is a great profession and I was notified that I would be teaching ...

Coolest Scarecrow Costume 13 This year my daughter decided she wanted to be a scarecrow? It sounded simple enough, right?
First I searched my house for items I could use. For what ...

Coolest Popcorn Costume 7 This popcorn costume was jointly made by a friend of mine and myself for her daughter. I did a similar version of this costume when my children were younger ...

Coolest Mummy Costume 10 My son's mummy costume was a huge hit. I stared with his old karate costume, bought some gauze fabric for $3 at Walmart and used fabric glue.

I cut ...

Coolest Rock Star Costume 5 Inspired by Waynes World which was very popular during my brother's teenage years, I made this rock star costume for my 11 year old nephew. It was created ...

Coolest Headless Costume 17 We got the idea for a headless costume from others on your site. I bought a $5 large man's jacket from a thrift store, plus $8 for 2 plastic hands you ...

Coolest Gene Simmons Costume 6 Here is my attempt to become Gene Simmons for a night. I have been a Kiss fan since seeing them in 1978.

Everyone loved this Gene Simmons costume.

...

Coolest Cat In The Hat with Thing 1 & Thing 2 Costume 15 We had a blast preparing the Cat in the Hat with Things 1 & Thing 2 costume. First we started with the "THINGS". We purchased plain red sweat pants and ...

Coolest Yo Gabba Gabba Costume 2 I have to start off saying my husband hates this show but our boys love it. So I found it very amusing when my 4yr old asked for me to make him a Plex ...

Coolest Bug Costume 3 Our family went as bugs. Praying Mantis, Ladybug, Butterfly, Bumble Bee & Firefly. All of the bug costumes ( except for the wings) were homemade.

I ...

Coolest Headless Costume 15 CHEF NIEDA BANDAID was the name of our headless costume and was fun to make as much as it was to wear!

Items needed:
Rolling knapsack- we had an old ...

Coolest Spongebob Halloween Costume 21 It's Spongebob! My son likes to draw Spongebob and watch the shows. We couldn't find the costume in the stores and I had just bought a sewing machine, so ...

Coolest Pippi Longstockings Costume 9 I used the copper wire idea and it worked great for the hair of this Pippi Longstockings costume. A few bobby pins kept it in place on the top of her head....

Coolest Mortal Kombat Costume 3 We made our Mortal Kombat costume starting from mainly scratch. We really liked Mortal Kombat and wanted to be Scorpion and Sub-Zero for Halloween, but ...

Coolest Jack Skellington Costume 12 My son Zedd has always been infatuated with Tim Burton so Jack Skellington costume was a natural for him this Halloween.

We researched the Jack costumes ...

Coolest Pillsbury Doughboy Costume 2 It started with a white painter’s coverall provided by a friend – also available at hardware stores for about $5. I always like to have an item for the ...

Coolest Princess Costume 3 Last year, on Halloween, I made my daughter a dress similar to those in the 15th century because she wanted a princess costume. The only fabric where ...

Coolest Mermaid Costume 11 This is a mermaid costume I made for Halloween this year. At first, my daughter wanted to be The Little Mermaid. Then, she saw this rose fabric I still ...

Coolest Hot Air Balloon Costume The basket of this Hot Air Balloon costume is a cardboard box covered in burlap material that was attached with an adhesive spray. Inside the basket is ...

Coolest Little Riding Hood Costume 6 I wanted my daughter to have a Little Red Riding Hood costume for Halloween but she wanted to be something scary. SO I turned her into Little DEAD Riding ...

Coolest Monster and a Man's Head Costume 14 I am a grade 12 student and my school always gets dressed and we have costume contests. I was thinking of what to be for Halloween as I wanted to do something ...

Coolest Mermaid Costume 12 The top includes shells made from an iridescent quilted fabric attached to a metallic jersey. The tail is made from a wide variety of fabrics including ...

Coolest Spongebob Costume 20 The Spongebob costume is made of cardboard with wood reinforcements, a layer of fiber fill (the stuff you fill cushions with), and felt (yellow, brown,...

Coolest Recycling Bin Costume 2 While helping to take out the recycling in September, my daughter started playing with some of the containers and the idea just came to me to make her ...

Coolest Fish Aquarium Costume 3 I made this costume using 2 boxes, one to fit my upper body and the other for my head. I adhered a black table cloth to both boxes in black, cutting the ...

Coolest Hitchcock Costume 2 My office had a party and our theme was horror films so I decided to go as Tippi Hedren from Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds."

I found the green ...

Coolest Pregnant Woman Costume 16 In an effort to use "the belly" to it's fullest extent, we just couldn't cover it up!

With our coming arrival, we also wanted to keep with the "kiddo"...

Coolest Frozen Chopped Off Head 2 This was a fun costume! everyone loved it! I sprayed the freezer with fake snow to give it the frosted look, used a fake packaged "heart" and a little ...

Coolest Ninja Mummy Costume 9 There is a history behind this Ninja Mummy costume. :-)

My 12-year-old son wanted to be a "furry character" for Halloween this year, so I went shopping....

Coolest Charlie Brown Halloween Costume 8 Charlie brown has always been a childhood favorite of mine and I decided to search for a Charlie Brown Halloween costume from the internet by searching ...

Coolest Snail Costume This is my son at the pumpkin patch costume contest where he took first place this year in has garden snail costume... or as he calls it a "scary snail ...

Coolest Midget Rapper Costume 18 My costume “Midget Rapper” is fairly easy, adaptable and cheap... First off the base (top) and face (front) of the radio are made out of the same material....

Coolest Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Costumes 10 After searching the web for costume ideas, we decided to be Mr. and Mrs. Potato head... We started by using a pattern for a bumble bee costume. We altered ...

Coolest Kidnappedby a Skeleton Costume 17 This costume was made for my son this year (08) so we could enter him into the local Halloween costume contest. Turns out he won 1st place in the scariest ...

Coolest Dancing Ballerina Elephant Costume 3 This year (2008) I made my daughter a Ballerina Elephant costume. I live in Ohio and needed something that would be warm for her but also pretty.

I ...

Coolest Belle Berry Costume 2 My daughter Isabelle wanted a costume no one else would have... something unique. I came up with the idea and my husband made it for her. He did a fantastic ...

Coolest Guns N Roses Costume The kids and I LOVE Guns N Roses and what better way to show your age than having them dress up like the two main members?

My son is Slash. His costume ...

Coolest Thomas the Tank Engine Costume 15 Who doesn't love Thomas? My 3 year old loves everything Thomas and after seeing the other Thomas costumes on this website he made his costume decision....

Coolest Lego Costume 6 Trying to encourage my children to be creative at Halloween, I sent my 4 year old upstairs to find a toy that he likes to play with. He came back with ...

Coolest Bender from Futurama Costume 3 I built this Bender from Futurama costume from scratch, mostly stuff from a surplus supply store, Lowes and Hobby Lobby. It took me 2 weeks to complete ...

Coolest Spongebob Squarepants Costume 19 For this Spongebob Squarepants costume we used felt material for the main part of the costume, then we added a hat to the interior to hold the suit in ...

Coolest Mama's Family Costume I choose to be something a little different this year. I didn't want to match anyone else at work or while taking my kids Trick or Treating. I hit up ...

Coolest Wall-E Costume My son wanted to be Wall-E from the Disney Pixar film of the same name, more than anything. Not being particularly creative, I tried to convince him that ...

Coolest Headless Costume 14 My little guy wanted to be something scary for the first time this year, so he decided to go in a headless costume. I searched the internet for ideas ...

Coolest Cross Dresser Costume 3 My brother in law and I were dressing up for Halloween and didn't know what to do. So he dressed up as a chick and I dressed up as Jeffry Star who is a ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 14 My boyfriend and I decided to go as Pimp Willy Wonka and the Naughty Oompa Loompa. However, the more I searched the less I could find by way of 1971 Oompa ...

Coolest Volcano Costume 2 This is a volcano costume I am wearing that is 100% hand made from a chicken wire shell covered in paper mache.

There is a rock climber and hula dancers ...

Coolest Mario Costume 7 It's easier to dress up as Mario if you're a guy. In my case, the added touch I used was that I tied my long black hair in a bun and hid it under my hat....

Coolest Parrot Costume 9 My oldest daughter (3) wanted to be a pirate for Halloween, so I dressed my younger child (7 months) up as her parrot. Gleaning ideas from the other parrot ...

Coolest Doug! The Cartoon Costume This Doug! costume was thought up by a group of creative individuals who also happen to be poor Resident Assistants at college. We were all born in 1985 ...

Coolest Cow Halloween Costume 3 This cow Halloween costume is a very fun costume! It takes two people to work it and can make a lot of people stop and look at it to figure out how it ...

Coolest Halloween Scarecrow Costume 12 This is the scarecrow costume we made for our three year old son.

We brought some raffia and thick white cord from the hobby shop, an old shirt and ...

Coolest Crayon Halloween Costume 3 This crayon Halloween costume was really simple. The materials used to make this box of crayons costume were: hot glue gun and glue sticks, several large ...

Coolest Harry Potter Halloween Costume 5 This Harry Potter Halloween costume was the best ever. My friend Caitlin's (Harry) mom made the capes, ties, badges, and broomsticks. Harry just pinned ...

Coolest Pyramid Head Costume For this Pyramid Head costume I took cardboard and made the mask. I then bought a sheet for my legs, made stilts out of 2 by 4s then I made the sword.

Total ...

Coolest Frankenstein Costume 3 I made this Frankenstein costume from some craft foam. It took about an hour and a half and cost about $10.00 to make. I had lots of fun making it!

Coolest KISS Group Costume 5 We most definitely made history this year!

Every year since 2004 our office has dressed up. This one particular year we went with the KISS theme. It ...

Coolest Corpse Bride Costume 7 For this Corpse Bride costume I used my real wedding dress. I made black and white roses and attached them to the dress, and made a bouquet.
I used an ...

Coolest Pet Costume 20 I took a large plastic bag (the ones made for gift wrapping baskets) and cut two holes in it for my dog's front feet. Then I reinforced the holes with ...

Coolest Gene Simmons Costume 4 Each year a group of eight of us have to come up with a unique costume idea for an event we have called the "Beaver Convention". I won't get into the ...

Coolest Family Guy Costume My son is a huge fan of Family Guy and asked to be Stewie. First I took a hockey helmet that fit, then I made a frame the shape of a football using cut ...

Coolest Jack In The Box Costume 6 My son had a Jester costume for trick or treat this year but I decided why not make him look like a Jack in the Box instead of a plain Jester. So I ran ...

Coolest Frozen Head in Fridge Costume 3 My daughter wanted to be inside a fridge so we made her this "Kenmore elite" for her costume this year. She also won first place for her age group at the ...

Coolest Banana Halloween Costume 2 I hand stitched every last stitch on each of these costumes. It took me a very long time but was well worth the effort.

Banana:
The banana Halloween ...

Coolest Cereal Killer Costume 3 My 9 year old son, Stevie, went as a ‘cereal’ killer this year. We stabbed small cereal boxes with a knife and then put fake blood on them and waited for ...

Coolest Gift Box Costume My four year old daughter, Katie, went as the perfect little present this year for Halloween. I handcrafted a bow for the top of her head using two spools ...

Coolest Grim Reaper Costume 4 Always fascinated by fooling the eye with the unexpected placement or appearance of the human body adapted to another entity, i.e. a classic horse and ...

Coolest Spaghetti And Meatballs Costume 10 Our boys are close in age and my husband wanted to dress them together. He brainstormed and walla, he came up with this spaghetti and meatballs costume....

Coolest Pamela Anderson Costume I spent ages on thinking of a costume for my friends fancy dress party. I wanted something unique that know one else would have. I looked around the costume ...

Coolest Addams Family Costume 7 I made this Uncle Fester costume for my brother after he caught wind that I was making my daughter Wednesday Addams. For his costume I just sewed a simple ...

Coolest Adam and Eve Costume My boyfriend and I were looking for some clever couples costume and couldn't find any at the stores so we decided to make our own. We decided to do an ...

Coolest Lion Costume 19 I love dressing up my pets but there are no costumes in the stores that will fit my giant dog. So each year I have to make him one! This year he has a ...

Coolest Wine Costume 3 I was bored with having to spend a lot of money to come up with a creative costume. So after a few days of consideration, I got this amazing idea to be ...

Coolest Jon Stewart Costume Believe it or not, my nine year old came up with this idea for a Jon Stewart costume.

For the TV we used a shipping card board (an apple computer box,...

Coolest Pez Costume This Pez costume is very easy to make, and everybody loved it. All I did was cut arm holes out of a long box (box that Styrofoam cups came in from work)...

Coolest Gold Digger Costume For Halloween I wore a Gold Digger costume, hence the gold costume and the construction worker hat and shovel. At the same time, I was trying to portray ...

Coolest Bollywood Dancer Costume Here is my daughter, 20 month old Elise, as an Indian Bollywood dancer!

I rummaged through a bag of material that my friend was giving away to the ...

Coolest Captain Planet Costume I’ve always loved Captain Planet as a kid and I’d been thinking about it for years now. I finally just went out and made a Captain Planet costume.

For ...

Coolest Wednesday Addams Costume 6 For this Wednesday Addams costume, I braided a black wig for her hair. I bought a black dress with puffyish sleeves. The dress was short sleeved so I ...

Coolest Samara Costume 4 I was Samara from the movie The Ring coming out of the well. The Samara costume took me quite a while to create. The wall of the well is made up of three ...

Coolest Eye Costume 19 You take a vest, white fabric, eye color fabric, black felt, grey gauze and padding. Fabric paint and glow in the dark paint. You cut the eye color fabric ...

Coolest R2D2 Costume 11 I made this R2D2 costume so that my 6 year old son, who has cerebral palsy, would be the coolest kid in elementary school for the parade.

I am pretty ...

Coolest Scarecrow Costume 11 I am a frugal mother who was not paying big bucks for a "wear it once" costume for my 10 month old son. I decided to do a scarecrow costume because I ...

Coolest Fireman Costume 7 My 2 year old son is infatuated with firetrucks and firefighters. He has 2 of his very own volunteer firefighters in his family, so coming up with an idea ...

Coolest Beer Costume 2 Well wanting to be something original, and not believing in store bought costumes, my friend and I were thinking of possible costumes that would make people ...

Coolest Shrek And Fiona Costume 4 Shrek was home made with brown shoes, some plaid pajama bottoms, off white shirt, homemade vest, painted green gloves and a ton of green make-up.

Fiona ...

Coolest Snow Queen Costume This Snow Queen costume is totally handmade without any sewing at all. It started with a dress that was too small, so I wrapped two layers of fabric around ...

Coolest Devils Food Cake Costume 18 We came up with this idea for a devil's food cake costume after looking at your website for quite some time. We liked the cupcake ideas, but my daughter ...

Coolest Flinstones Costume 15 I've always loved the characters Pebbles and Bam Bam, and I thought it would be so cute to dress my little ones up as them this year, this might be the ...

Coolest He-Man and She-Ra Costumes 2 For my birthday I wanted a superhero themed night so my brother and I came up with the ultimate brother/sister combo of She-Ra and He-Man costume.

He ...

Coolest Iron Man Costume 3 Since I was little I have loved Iron Man. When I heard that the movie was coming out I was extremely excited. I turned that excitement into creativity ...

Coolest Myspace Costume I wanted to find something original, so I browsed the internet for a good idea. I did not find anything that would be interesting to make, so I got bored ...

Coolest Christmas Tree Cake 4 I used an old satin sheet, cut it into a Christmas tree pattern and sewed it together. For trunk of the tree I just used a piece of brown scrap material ...

Coolest Pet Costume 18 I make my dog's Halloween costumes without a pattern. I get an idea, draw it on paper, take measurements, gather supplies, cloth, embellishments, etc....

Coolest Smurfs Costume 10 My friends and I decided to go in a Smurfs costume for Halloween. None of us sew so the glue gun is our best friend! We bought some thick foam and cut ...

Coolest Duck Costume 3 I am a wildlife refuge manager and I made this duck costume for a Halloween event at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island refuges where I work.

Wood ...

Coolest Baseball League Costume 3 We decided on a baseball league costume from a girls in a league of their own. We made the dresses and then sewed on the buttons and what not.

We ...

Coolest Robot Costume 18 This website was such a wonderful resource for our family this Halloween. Words cannot describe my feelings of the potential for parenting inadequacy when ...

Coolest Spaceballs Costume 5 DARK HELMET (AKA my mother!)

Its a cat litter box! No joke. There were some really good ideas for Spaceballs costumes on this site, but we only had ...

Coolest Roger Rabbit Costume After a couple of years of begging my husband to dress up as Roger Rabbit to my Jessica Rabbit, he finally caved! It all started when one of my friends ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 13 This is my Oompa Loompa costume. It was made entirely by me in 1 day. The pants are a textured white material heavy enough to poof out on their own at ...

Coolest Pet Dog Costume 17 While trying to come up with an original idea for dressing up my two Havanese pups, I browsed the internet for ideas. I saw a Tootsie Roll costume, which ...

Coolest Storm Trooper Costume 12 This is my home made storm trooper from Star Wars. He's constructed from billion boxes and egg boxes, duct tape, loo rolls, a cider bottle and loads of ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 12 I definitely wanted something no one else would be and I love the original movie, always knew I would make this Oompa Loompa costume one year. So the pants ...

Coolest Popcorn Costume 6 This is my son Bryice. He is 2 years old. Each year I try to come up with a very original costume. This year we decided on a Box of Popcorn costume. I ...

Coolest Carmen Miranda Costume 3 I've always loved the 1940's and what a better costume idea to have and enjoy the look of the 40's than a Carmen Miranda costume! I knew I'd have to make ...

Coolest Smurfs Costume 9 We decided to dress in a Smurfs costume for this summer for our yearly trip our closest festival. It took a bit of hunting for my red jeans but I got there....

Coolest Barbie Girls Costume 6 Our Barbie girls costume was based on our favorite childhood toy. We used large storage boxes, paint, and loads of hot glue! After cutting and painting ...

Coolest Kandy Korn Costume The school that my children attend asks that parents try to have their children wear costumes that keep with a fall theme, as the parties are now called ...

Coolest Deviled Egg Costume We loved the deviled egg pun and thought it would be a cute costume! We made this costume by paper macheing the egg on top of a 24"balloon that we bought ...

Coolest Spaghetti And Meatballs Costume 9 Here is a picture of my daughter Darienne's Spagetti and Meatballs costume. We had so much fun making it. We started with a black turtleneck shirt and ...

Coolest Smurfette Costume 8 The Halloween party was on Saturday and my original plan was to dress up as the Grinch. Plan B was to go as a Soul Train dancer from the 70's. Well, I ...

Coolest Elephant Costume 2 I made this elephant costume with soft grey velour I found at a garage sale. The tusks and toenails are made of white felt.

It was a McCall's pattern....

Coolest Peacock Dog Costume 16 We took our Fox Terrier to a local contest and did very well with this easy peacock dog costume. Just take a bright blue and can have green on it, jacket ...

Coolest Box of Wine Costume 1 This is a fully functional box of wine costume. I took pictures of a box of wine on all sides and blew it up and printed it out on my home computer.

I ...

Coolest Gameboy Costume My son loved playing his Gameboy so much that I was certain he would become a part of it. So we decided to put him into his game by making him a gameboy ...

Coolest Skittles Costume Every Sunday at church a gentleman gives my son a bag of skittles. I told him if he didn't stop one day my son would turn into a bag of skittles, so this ...

Coolest Joker Costume 8 My Joker costume. Like the previous Riddler costume added to the site, this Joker costume was made for a band member(my husband).

When starting any ...

Coolest Night Stand Costume 1 Our friends had a Halloween party and was low on cash so I had the idea to make my own costume. It took about 2 hours to make this one night stand costume....

Coolest Autumn Fairy Costume 11 I made this Autumn Fairy costume for my daughter this year, at her request. I used the McCall's pattern # M4887, for the dress, vest, and skirt, and purchased ...

Coolest Gumball Machine Costume 3 I saw this gumball machine costume here and had no idea how to do it. My sister in law helped me using a skirt pattern for both parts of the costume. I ...

Coolest Sky Costume 2 I’ve been a skydiver for about five years and have 130 jumps as of today. Always trying to come up with unique, homemade costumes, I decided to be every ...

Coolest Reno 911 Costume 5 We have a good friend in the Sheriff’s department that gave us a few of his old shirts for our Reno 911 costume. Another friend in the Highway Patrol loaned ...

Coolest Fantana Girls Costumes 2 We were the Fantanas for Halloween in high school! Took forever to make them because we are so bad at sewing but it worked out and they were the best!

Coolest Superman Phone Booth 2 I wanted to share my costume with my son, so we decided to be Superman and coming out of a phone booth. I made the costume out of a wardrobe box. It ...

Coolest Clown in the Box Costume 5 My nine year old daughter couldn’t decide what she wanted to be this year. I gave her choice after choice. It had to be something we could make from ...

Coolest Baking Elf and Gingerbread Girl Costume 3 My twins love the book Gingerbread Baby. So when it was time to pick Halloween costumes Alison wanted to be a gingerbread. I was quite scared to attempt ...

Coolest Edward Scissorhand Costume 6 My twelve year old son wanted to have an Edward Scissorhand costume for Halloween, So I started looking for ideas to make it happen. We went to thrift ...

Coolest Piggyback Costume 15 For this piggyback costume I used a garage suit stuffed in the bottom and worn on the top. A graduation gown - worn on the bottom and stuffed with a mannequin ...

Coolest Ostrich Jockeys 16 Tapers stilts help you stand about 7.5 feet tall, an old fur coat or similar around chicken wire makes for a great ostrich body, split an old pair of pants ...

Coolest SpongeBob and Patrick Costume 18 These days SpongeBob and Patrick is all it's talked about at home. So, there was not a surprise when the kids picked a SpongeBob and Patrick costume for ...

Coolest Medieval Knight, Prince And Servant Costume 3 I love family Halloween themes – so this particular year I decided that we were just a servants to our little prince! I did a lot of research on the internet ...

Coolest Pick Of The Litter Costume 11 This pick of the litter costume was a fun costume and very easy to make. I went to the dollar store and found a bunch of stuffed puppies and a Dalmatian ...

Coolest Birds Nest Costume 3 This year Savannah Rose went in a Birds Nest costume. We bought a Grape vine wreath, two vines, brown leggings, red hooded sweat jacket, 3 red stuff animal ...

Coolest Rock Star Costume 4 My 3 year old is a rock star at heart and wanted to share that with the world for Halloween this year. He had a pair of ripped jeans that I embellished ...

Coolest Sponge Bob Square Pants Costume 17 Our Spongebob Square Pants costume was made first from a rectangle shaped box, large enough to fit an adult male.

I purchased a piece of foam large ...

Coolest Cactus Costume I was sitting around thinking of a great idea for a costume and remembered my boyfriend telling me a story. His mother had a Cactus ornament on her antenna ...

Coolest Miss Robot Costume 16 Our 5 year old daughter wanted to be a robot for Halloween, so we went to work on her robot costume. Salvaged some left over foam-core board and cut it ...

Coolest Corpse Bride Costume 6 Salvation army here we go! Grab a old wedding dress or a princess costume and tear it up, spray paint it and Voila, you have a Corpse Bride costume!

Makeup ...

Coolest Christmas Elf Costume 2 Found under the tree Xmas morning. Not! This Christmas Elf costume took me weeks to fabricate. I used curtain material for the body, satin for the cuffs ...

Coolest Marylin Monroe Costume I went on an art trip with my school to Castle Toward. When we arrived there I was told that we had to think up and make a fancy dress costume for the ...

Coolest Darth Maul and Slave Leia Costumes 10 My sister-in-law likes her parties to have themes, and the theme of this particular party was "lost in space". I had a Darth Maul mask from a previous ...

Coolest Ewok Costume 10 For my daughter’s first Halloween I was adamant that she not wear a stereotypical store-bought baby costume. No bugs. No flowers. No pets. No, she ...

Coolest Dog and Beth the Bounty Hunters 11 This is a photo of my husband and myself as Dog the bounty hunter and his wife Beth. I made Dog's bullet proof vest from left over fabric I had lying around,...

Coolest Carrie Costume A few months before Halloween 2005 I happened to catch Carrie on TV and thought, "what a great, gory costume that would be." As the day drew closer I just ...

Coolest Dog Costume 15 Echo, our Boston terrier, is dressed as a scuba diver. Her homemade costume was made from two aluminum spray bottles with the tops of soda bottles. A ...

Coolest Hockey Costume On May 2nd 1967 the Toronto Maple Leaf's were facing the Montreal Canadian's in game 6 of the finals. With the series three games to two for Toronto, they ...

Coolest Lite Brite Costume I decided I wanted to make a costume that was both recognizable, as well as original, so I made one of everyone's favorite art projects as a kid a "Lite ...

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