My son has been learning about multiverses and black holes. He wanted to go as some sort of multiverse/parallel universe and we decided the best way was to show all the different possibilities of how he may progress in the various universes. We used styrofoam, black webbing, printer, and popsicle sticks to design it.
My five year old son wanted to be an army tank and marine for Halloween, so that’s where my idea started for this Homemade Army Tank Costume. I used a toy army tank of his to model the costume after. 1. Bottom part of the Tank: The bottom part of the tank is a box … Read more
I started off this Homemade Pirate Woman Costume by going to some thrift stores and bought the skirt and white shirt first. I cut the shirt to fit over my shoulders and also cut the edges on the bottom of the skirt and some holes on the skirt as well. The finished product I also … Read more
This Homemade Earth-Quake Wordplay Costume is made of 100% cardboard. Mother earth and The Quaker Oats Man came together to become an EARTHQUAKE!
This Rocky Horror costume is Magenta and Riff Raff from Rocky Horror Picture Show. We used an old tailed tux jacket for Riff Raff. My husband has thick black hair but we used a latex rubber bald cap kit from a costume store and glued that sucker down with special latex adhesive. Then applied make-up … Read more
There was a Lady Gaga themed party and instead of dressing up like her, I wanted to mimic a certain costume. I replicated her bubble costume. I purchased a black leotard from Joyce Leslie and bought a package of 50 opaque balloons. I blew up the balloons ranging in size and pinned them with safety … Read more
I wanted to do something very original for Halloween this year, and when Lady Gaga wore the meat dress to the VMA’s this year, I thought it was the perfect costume idea. The DIY Lady Gaga meat dress Halloween costume took me about 3 weeks to finish, working about 1 to 2 hours on it … Read more
This Homemade Hungry Hungry Hippos Costume took about 6 hours off and on to make. I used fabric, paper mache over chicken wire and other odds and ends to the the shapes correct. I spray painted cardboard to shape the back pieces, or buttons from the game.
When I was pregnant with my first daughter I wanted to be fat bastard thinking what a funny costume it would be but being to tired and not feeling the holiday spirit I didn’t. I swore if I got pregnant again during that time of year I wouldn’t pass up such an opportunity. I then … Read more
I was about 7 months pregnant and worked in an environment where my bare belly (painted or not) could not be exposed but I wanted a costume that showed off my growing belly. I came up with an idea of being a Homemade Cat Who Swallowed the Fishbowl Pregnant Costume. I simply wore black pants … Read more
The Black Devil costume was worn by my son in his Trick or Treat Costume Contest. The whole body was painted black. Eyes were painted yellow. A huge pair of wings were added to make it scarier. The wings were made of old newspapers. The skeleton of the wings were from old strings. It was … Read more
Every Year we find a new way to go out for Halloween and every year I let my son pick what he wants to be. This year he picked “Cat in the Hat”, and then the wheelchair project begins. We decided to put the Cat in the Hat in his crazy vacuum cleaner that he … Read more