Coolest DIY Astrid Costume for a Girl

Coolest Homemade Astrid Costume

My daughter, Logan, is wearing this Astrid costume from How to Train Your Dragon 2. It’s her favorite movie character. The Astrid costume is completely home made/fabricated and stylized pieces. She is even wearing a wig that was altered to match the right Astrid shade and braid style. She is a natural redhead, like me, … Read more

How to Train Your Dragon Group Costume

How to Train Your Dragon Group Costume

My youngest daughter loves the How to Train Your Dragon Movies.  When she asked to be Toothless I thought it would be fun for the whole family to dress up (we love costumes). For Toothless I used a black hoodie from Goodwill as the basis for the costume.  I added stiff felt ears and spines … Read more

DIY How to Train Your Dragon Toothless Baby Costume for $12

DIY How to Train Your Dragon Toothless Baby Costume for $12

How To Train Your Dragon is one of my family’s favorite movies and my husband and I thought it was quite fitting that our 9-month-old (who has no teeth yet!) dress as Toothless the Night Fury for Halloween. My husband and I went as Astrid and Hiccup from the movie as well (not pictured.) I … Read more

How to Train Your Dragon Family Costumes

How to Train Your Dragon Family Costumes

It started the day after Halloween last year, when my fiance thought of the idea to make our daughter a dragon rider with a dragon to ride on while trick-or-treating. As this Halloween drew near, we made various trips to craft stores to gather our supplies…mainly faux leather, styrofoam, modeling clay, and hot glue…lots of … Read more

Awesome Astrid and Hiccup Couples Costume

Awesome Astrid and Hiccup Couples Costume

I LOVE Halloween and my husband decided on our costumes this year. After seeing “How to Train Your Dragon 2”, he really wanted to try to recreate Hiccup’s armor. For Hiccup, my husband got EVA foam from Home Depot and used a hot air gun to bend it into shape. He used a shirt pattern … Read more

Coolest Homemade How to Train Your Dragon Costume

Coolest Homemade How to Train Your Dragon Costume

When my son told his grandma he wanted to be a dragon for Halloween, she was super excited.  She happened to have a dragon she had already made for her brother about 15 years earlier and luckily she had kept it.  Of course she’s a perfectionist when it comes to Halloween costumes so she may … Read more

How to Train Your Dragon Valka (Hiccup’s Mom) Costume

How to Train Your Dragon Valka (Hiccup's Mom) Costume

For 30 years I have been making costumes for my family. Finally, I made one for myself. There are not many strong middle aged mom characters out there to imitate until now. Valka, Hiccup’s mom from How To Train Your Dragon is the coolest mom ever. In an effort to keep cost down and try … Read more

Homemade How to Train Your Dragon Astrid Costume

Homemade How to Train Your Dragon Astrid Costume

This costume was VERY time consuming! I am not somebody who has any real sewing skills, I don’t make sewing patterns, and I have never used a sewing machine. Needless to say, wanting to be Astrid (from How To Train Your Dragon 2) would prove to be a daunting task! I started off by searching … Read more

Preschooler’s Detailed Homemade Boss Dragon Costume

Preschooler's Detailed Homemade Boss Dragon Costume

Last year, I had noticed my boy was saying something about wanting to be an alien with one hundred eyeballs for Halloween, but I’d already found him a $2 Cookie Monster costume at a garage sale and I didn’t really think about it. As I’m putting him to bed the night before his preschool Halloween … Read more

Awesome DIY Toothless Alpha Costume

Awesome DIY Toothless Alpha Costume

The base was a re-purposed plain witch dress and some tight fitting black pants. We already had blue shoes to match. Making the rest is where it got tricky! I started with some bee wings and smaller bat wings, plus a wire flower for the tail. I covered both sets of wings with black felt … Read more