My ten year old daughter came up with this idea and built just about all of this costume by herself. She won the grand prize at her school’s trunk-a-treat costume contest and most creative at her school’s Halloween parade. It was hilarious seeing her walk around the neighborhood at night as a girl in a … Read more
I saw the topiary bush Mickey Mouse costume someone had made in child’s size and thought that I could do it myself, so I did it! I started by purchasing the leggings, shirt, and men’s basketball shorts off of Amazon, along with a 3 pound box of dried moss, (Three suggestions- 1: if you’re tall, … Read more
Here’s the story behind our legendary Green Man tree costume DIY. daughter wanted to be something whimsical this Halloween and finally, we decided to go with the legendary “Green Man”. This costume was so much fun to make! We created a form of her top out of tinfoil and tape and the bottom and legs … Read more
Hello, my name is Laura, I’m a senior in high school, and I make crazy costumes for my school’s spirit week and for Halloween, and here I am as bush. This is particularly relevant to me because I made a pun out of this costume. My name is Laura, so when anyone asked, I said … Read more
Check out our Homemade Haunted Tree Costume: In years past our family has stayed away from themed costumes, but this year a “Haunted” theme fell into place. Our oldest daughter (13 years old) thought it would be super cool to be a haunted tree that could move around and surprise people. When we went to … Read more
I used a pop-up laundry basket for the torso of the costume and covered it with a large turtle neck shirt. I stapled the basket to the shirt around the collar and bottom hem, and then stuffed the sleeves with small dryer vent hoses. Then I covered the whole torso with paper mache strips of … Read more
The story of this costume actually starts with my 2013 Halloween costume, which included a large homemade pumpkin head I’d made out of an old piece of upholstery foam. The costume-making mess left me with a large garbage bag full of foam scraps that I really didn’t want to toss in the landfill, so I … Read more
I made this costume for my next door neighbor Lilly! I wanted to do something happy and bright! When I was young the high school parade floats were always made in my grandparents garage which I have great memories of getting to help out. So I decided to try and create a costume using this … Read more
My kids decided that they both wanted to have quad costumes, that is to walk on all fours. I am always up for the challenge but I worried that I had over extended myself by committing to two such huge projects, but they jumped in and helped and we pulled it off. The kids wanted … Read more
My eight-year-old daughter had to dress up as her favorite literary character for school this year, so when I was tossing around ideas for Halloween costumes my favorite childhood book, The Giving Tree, popped into my head first thing. I’ve always loved the story about the little boy going through the stages of life with … Read more
I made this easy costume – a tree costume – for my son’s poem contest. At first, I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do… Since the tittle of the poem is The Little Plant, I thought of making a seed costume, but I changed my mind and thought that it would … Read more
My boyfriend and I wanted to do something that was different than the traditional costumes that you purchase at the Halloween store. We both grew up watching Bob Ross paint and still make jokes about happy little trees to this day so when I got the idea for this costume he was all for it. … Read more