Adolescent Aristocats Girl Group Costume

Adolescent Aristocats Girl Group Costume

Every Halloween has every group of female, college students who wants the ultimate, Halloween costume. It’s the cleverness and sex appeal to a costume that attracts all the eyes at a college party. This year, every campus had a select group of girls who continued the Disney Princess, Minion, or Cat Woman tradition. My friend, … Read more

Where The Wild Things Are Homemade Group Family Costume

Where The Wild Things Are Homemade Group Family Costume

Every year our school has a Book Character Parade(Kingsbury Elementary, Sumter, SC).  We encourage the kids to dress as their favorite book character.  My assistant and I teach kindergarten so we are always looking for dual characters.  This year we dressed as “The Wild Things” from the book “Where The Wild Things Are”.  We dressed … Read more

Bugs Family Costume

Bugs Family Costume

We were starting to feel a litte “bugged out” after the birth of our 2nd child, and we were getting cabin fever. So it’s only natural to become bugs for halloween. Also, with 2 kids, we didn’t want to pay anything, so we just got a few shirts from the thrift store. mama and daughter’s … Read more

Awesome Beetlejuice, Lydia and Shrunken Head Group Costumes

Awesome Beetlejuice, Lydia and Shrunken Head Group Costumes

For our second year attending and supporting the local Annual Jacob Soley Jr. Memorial benefit for a needy child we needed to go big. Last year when we attended as first timers it inspired us to be “the Ghost with the most” as Beetlejuice would say, for this year. After looking through our DVD’s, yes we … Read more

Cool Group Minion Costumes

Cool Group Minion Costumes

The following instructions only show how to make the costume for the purple (evil) minions, but by adjusting them only slightly you can create the yellow minions as well! Supplies Black overalls or overall dress Purple long sleeved shirt or sweatshirt Purple tights or leggings Purple beanie Purple pipe cleaners Small Mason Jar screw-on lids … Read more

Fantastic Back to the Future Family Costume

Fantastic Back to the Future Family Costume

In our house we love classic 80s movies. We wouldn’t be good parents if we didn’t introduce our kids to such favorites as The Goonies, The Princess Bride, Spaceballs, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. My kids, 7 and 9, indulged my wish for a family costume last year when we went as the Addams Family … Read more

Halloween Steampunk Style Family Costume

Halloween Steampunk Style Family Costume

Hi, I’m grandma.  I have been making my granddaughters costumes for the last couple years.  Halloween is my favorite holiday.  Right after last Halloween the girls started talking about this year.  We looked online at lots of pictures.  They liked the idea of having a flying umbrella and a jet pack so we went with … Read more

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Group Costume

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Group Costume

The Idea What started as a joke would become one of my most ambitious projects. I remember sitting in my car with my best friend and girl friend. it was about 9:00 and somehow we had gotten on the subject of what costume to make for Anime expo which was coming up in about 6 … Read more

Zombie Kids Halloween Costumes

Zombie Kids Halloween Costumes

This year my three children couldn’t make up their mind on what they wanted to be for halloween. I have almost always made thier costumes just because homemade costumes are way better then strore bought. Well all three of my kids were looking at costumes in the little costume magazine that party city always sends … Read more

Coolest Monsters Inc. Family Halloween Costumes

Coolest Monsters Inc. Family Halloween Costumes

I got the idea to do Monsters Inc when my 2 year old daughter was screaming and I found myself wondering if the lights were going to start flickering.  I realized she sounded just like “Boo” and was the perfect age to use that as a costume for Halloween.  Then I decided to have my … Read more

The Insurance Superheroes Group Halloween Costume

The Insurance Superheroes Group Halloween Costume

It all started with a gal who looks a lot like Flo from Progressive. So we added the Geico Money Man which took 8 hours to construct, one package of  hot glue sticks and 500 fake dollar bills.  Rounding out the team is the not so memorable Erin from Esurance – a cartoon character brought … Read more

Sexy Loofah Group Halloween Costume

Sexy Loofah Group Halloween Costume

This costume was beyond fun to be!! Everyone loved it! It’s easy to make you just get a dress and see on the tulle of what color you chose! They were so fun and hot! we got a lot of compliments on how nice and cool they were! Overall great Halloween costume!