The Grinch Who Stole Halloween Costume

The Grinch Who Stole Halloween Costume

The Grinch Who Stole Halloween, by Erin Pegram. What a Grinchy trick! Just when you thought that the Grinch grew a heart, well, Christmas presents are one thing, but candy is a different story! The GRINCH’s heart was pounding the beat of a different tune, “Maybe Halloween isn’t all about the screams, maybe perhaps, it’s … Read more

Creative Play on Words Bud Lightyear Costume

Creative Play on Words Bud Lightyear Costume

This Bud Lightyear costume was such an easy costume to make. I already had a Bud Light shirt that I cut, but you can just tape a Bud Light symbol onto your chest too. I bought Buzz Lightyear inflatable wings at a costume store for $10. I used purple and green duct tape, and at … Read more

Greatest Optimus Prime Auto Bot Costume

Greatest Optimus Prime Auto Bot Costume

My son is in 8th grade and wanted to end middle school with the best Halloween Costume. I was little worried on how I could pull this off. I first printed out pictures of the cartoon, original and new versions of Optimus Prime. We then began to search for certain box shapes. One wide enough for … Read more

Last Minute Super Original DIY Connect the Dots Costume

Last Minute Super Original DIY Connect the Dots Costume

This year, I didn’t have the time to start weeks ahead to attempt an elaborate and detailed costume. With only three days until Halloween, I had to think of something that would be easy to pull off, but would still stand out. Something simple yet better than putting a bed sheet over my head and … Read more

The Cast of Phineas and Ferb Family Costume

The Cast of Phineas and Ferb Family Costume

I love shopping at our local second hand stores for items I need!  I can usually find everything I’m looking for.  This is were I found all the clothing for our costumes including yellow shirt/purple pants for Ferb (just had to hot-glue on finishing touches on the shirt), striped shirt for Phineas and skirt/shirt for … Read more

Alice in Wonderland Group Costume With a Twist

Alice in Wonderland Group Costume With a Twist

Hi there! At my job, we are BIG on Halloween every year. Everyone dresses up and the groups of people are always different. This year, it was groups of three and it was picked at random by drawing numbers! For the past three years, my group has always won, so I knew we had to … Read more

Cool Porcupine Costume That’s Safe for Kids

Cool Porcupine Costume That's Safe for Kids

My 4 year old son became obsessed with porcupines after seeing a dead one on the side of the road.  He decided he wanted a porcupine costume for Halloween. We went shopping at a local craft store for supplies and came home with black fur fabric, multi-colored black/brown/tan fur fabric, black and gray foam sheets, … Read more

Dead Masquerade Zombie Couple Costume

Dead Masquerade Zombie Couple Costume

We did this look for the Toronto Zombie Walk this year.  It’s a masquerade look with half zombie, half skeleton makeup. :) Male: I used dollar store vampire teeth (cut the fangs off) to build a prosthetic mouth piece using toilet paper and liquid latex.  Once dried, I added some smokers tooth makeup, plus brown … Read more

Coolest X-Men Mystique Costume

Coolest X-Men Mystique Costume

After watching the most recent X-Men movie, I was completely in love with the character Mystique and decided I had to be her for Halloween. I googled Mystique for days and scanned through 100s of pictures to find which ones I would like to use for my Mystique costume. I also looked at other peoples’ … Read more

Creepy Reagan from The Exorcist Costume

Creepy Reagan from The Exorcist Costume

This is a costume I helped my aunt pull together.  All she needed to buy was a nighty, slippers, a wig, contact lenses and food colouring.  She mixed green food colouring with porridge and put it on the nighty, like Reagan’s vomit from the movie.  That took 2 days to dry.  On Halloween day, she … Read more

Creepy Zombie Cheerleader Costume

Creepy Zombie Cheerleader Costume

This zombie cheerleader costume was super easy to make.  Most of the look was achieved with makeup. Putting the Look Together We found the cheerleader outfit at a local second hand store. We purchased the hair clips  and pom poms at a Dollar Store. For the makeup I watched a youtube video on creating zombie … Read more