Coolest Scooby Doo Family Costume with Hand Built Mystery Machine!

Scooby-Doo! Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Mystery Machine!

We had so much fun with our Scooby Doo family costume! I said our Jetsons family costume last year would be it as we are running out of room (other previous costumes include our ‘Flintstones Family’, ‘Chips & Buds Spud Wagon’ as well as a ‘Pest Control mouse trap’, all of which included a mobile … Read more

Coolest Flintstones Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Car!

Coolest Flintstones Family Halloween Costume with Hand Built Car!

What great fun we had with our Flintstones family Halloween costume. Having kids seems to have rejuvenated my inner-child and rather than buy our Halloween costumes, I’ve gotten the bug to create them the last few years, and hopefully provide the kids with lasting memories along the way. A couple of years ago we did … Read more

Ridgeway Dog Catching Company Family Costume!

Ridgeway Dog Catching Company Family Costume!

It’s been almost a year since we adopted (and almost immediately lost) our first dog. Kleo squirmed out of her harness a whole six hours after we picked her up and went on a 48-hour adventure covering over 9km on her journey. The outcome was looking bleak, but after endless searching, we finally got a … Read more

Coolest Guns N’ Roses Family Halloween Costume!

Guns N' Roses Family Halloween Costume!

Here’s the story behind our Guns N’ Roses family Halloween costume. The kids are old enough now that I try to give them free reign to decide what we do for Halloween – whether we carry on our family group costume tradition, or they venture off to their own individual costumes. They both wanted to … Read more

Awesome Homemade Red Queen and Mad Hatter Couple Costume

Kirby is the Red Queen and Gary is the MadHatter from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. I (Kirby) love Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's spo

Kirby is the Red Queen and Gary is the Mad Hatter from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I (Kirby) love Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s spooky spin on these classic movies he’s directed. I’ve been begging my fiance to do a couple’s costume with me for years now with no prevail – until this year! … Read more

Original Portable Toilet Homemade Costume

I decided I would do a fresh take on the traditional "Man Being Carried" costume.  So I took the idea and ran with it, or carried it.  I

I decided I would do a fresh take on the traditional “Man Being Carried” costume. So I took the idea and ran with it, or carried it. The basic idea of the costume was to take the “man being carried” style of costume and put a more comical twist on it rather than the usual … Read more

Coolest LittleBigPlanet Sackboy Costume

Coolest LittleBigPlanet Sackboy Costume

Here’s our Sackboy costume. My son loves the LittleBigPlanet video game series and really wanted to be Sackboy for Halloween. I had no idea how I was going to do it, but just decided to figure it out as I went. The Sackboy character itself can wear costumes in the video game, but we both … Read more

Coolest Homemade Witch Doctor Costume

Coolest Homemade Witch Doctor Costume

WHATS UP GUYS! Hello My name is Andy and I’m 24 years young. I live in Larose, Louisiana SWAMPS!!  I’ll be showing you my Witch doctor costume 100% hand made. I spent many hours in the late night on this costume. Details are what I stride for. My favorite part about this costume is the … Read more

Coolest Homemade Despicable Me Minion Costume

As soon as my son saw Dispicable Me, my son immediately knew he wanted to be a minion.  I had made his costumes for the past several years (&aci

As soon as my son saw Dispicable Me, my son immediately knew he wanted to be a minion.  I had made his costumes for the past several years (Coolest Homemade Luke Skywalker Pilot Costume 2 and Coolest Bumblebee Transformer Halloween Costume 24), so I started working on this new challenge.  He can be pretty shy, … Read more

Coolest Baby Golfer in a Golf Cart Stroller Costume

This baby Golfer in a Golf Cart stroller costume is so easy, all I used was: Single Stroller, large sheets of card board , several  different si

This baby golfer in a golf cart stroller costume is so easy, all I used was: Single Stroller, large sheets of card board , several  different sized boxes, 4 wrapping paper cores, hot glue and glue gun, newspapers, water, flour, and large bowl for paper mache, long bolt (longer than 3 inches) with matching wing … Read more

Coolest Homemade Costume Idea: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Costume

This “Greg” from ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ cartoon drawing is very simple to make and only requires a few materials. Though I ha

This “Greg” from ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ cartoon drawing is very simple to make and only requires a few materials. Though I have written quite a bit on how to make this costume, overall the task is quite simple.  Don’t let the length of these instructions discourage you from attempting.  I have gone into … Read more

Amazing Cemetery Angel Costume

Amazing Cemetery Angel Costume

I asked my 8 yr old daughter Trinity what she wanted to be for Halloween, she replied with “a cemetery angel” – a challenge was made! I bought 2 pieces of foam core board to use as the wings, free handed the wing shape and cut out with a box cutter. I used craft foam … Read more