Every year I begin my search at a thrift store searching for one “inspirational piece” to create my costume — a hat, a dress, a wig — anything that will get the gears in my mind cranking. This year I found a black and gold leotard that reminded me of one of my old jazz … Read more
This Coolest Giraffe Costume is very easy! Ears and ossicones came on a headband I bought from eBay for about a fiver, just clipped my hair over the band to make it look like they were coming out of my head. Fabric was an effort, couldn’t find any giraffe print so just painted onto gold … Read more
We decided to come up with a cheap, home-made costume with supplies we already had around the house. It was easy to cut out felt leaves for my husband’s part–a eucalyptus tree– which he created by taping cut-out felt leaves to his brown shirt and hat using heavy-duty, double-sided picture mounting tape. My koala costume … Read more
I wanted to have a large, grey bum for Halloween so my husband and I created this elephant costume for the big night. It started with a fat suit from a Big Bertha costume, then a large, grey homemade dress with pink paw pads and a tail with the fuzzy black tip. The head was … Read more
My 7 year old daughter LOVES stuffed animals and I thought it would be a great idea to have her dress as a kitty and try to find her pets a good home!This cool homemade kitty costume was very cheap to make and got rave reviews everywhere we went!
We have a dog and my eight year old girl is a big dog lover and she really wanted a dogs costume this year. We surfed the internet and decided “Puppies for sale” would be a great theme. We saw lots of great ideas on your site and those were our inspiration to the costume. … Read more
I really wanted this adorable lion costume for my sons first Halloween. However there was absolutely no way I was paying $100 for it. I looked at the costume for weeks before I decided to just go for it and make my own homemade lion costume. I bought fleece and fake fur fabrics from the … Read more
I hate buying costumes so I was trying to do something a little different, so I decided a Homemade Peacock Halloween Costume! I started with a simple black skirt that looked like a petticoat. For the top I went to K-mart and bought what I like to call “a long bra” LOL. I had my … Read more
It all started about a week ago. Me, and my friend were sitting around the table, doing the norm. Suddenly we decided a costume was needed. We were going to be hitting up all the major clubs in AC, getting crazy in NYC, and a standard costume was not gonna cut it. Of course, being … Read more
My costume is a Homemade Peacock Costume! Absolutely love being different so I had to go all out and make my own. The one I admired online was $200! So after I seen that price, I said no thanks and had to do it myself! So here is what I came up with. Feathers were … Read more
Beautiful flowing zebra tutu dress made out of yards and yards of flowing tulle and zebra stripes galore! Two cute looks with a coordinating zebra mask and a headband mane. This is our Homemade Zebra Costume.
The college where Grandma worked got all new Gateway computers and Grandma wondered if we could use the cool cow motif boxes for Halloween somehow. That got us thinking… Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. Obviously, we needed to figure something with cows … Read more