Once upon a time, there was this seemingly innocent website called Pinterest. Now, if you were to casually peruse aforementioned website, you would find some of the most amazing ideas you have ever seen. These amazing ideas will be followed my seemingly overly simple instructions to make the amazing creation that has piqued your interest. … Read more
My nephew told me one day that I should be Blue from the Disney movie Rio. I’m a dancer so I got the inspiration from Rio Carnival – love the colors and they themes. I use yarn because I crochet. I also used Christmas ornaments, dollar store products, rhinestones and feathers plus glitter. I started … Read more
This is the first costume I have ever made. I have 2 little ones. A 7 month old boy, and a 4 year old girl. My girl wanted to be Nigel from the movie Rio for Halloween. I knew in order to really represent Nigel in all his glorious madness I would have to make … Read more
Halloween is my favorite time of year. Every year I try to make my now 7 year old daughter’s costumes rather than buy them, because to me, that’s the funnest part. My daughter loves animals and this year, she wanted to be a parrot. I knew this was going to take me a long time to make, … Read more
After seeing the Halloween episode of “How I Met Your Mother” where Lily wears a parrot costume, I quickly decided I wanted to make my own, because who doesn’t like feathers? (I’m pretty sure I may have been a drag queen in a past life …) Speaking of, one of my drag queen friends was … Read more
We love the movie Rio… Usually when I make a costume I start out by sketching my idea(s). In the case of this Rio costume I made sketches off of the movie. It took a lot of rewinding to get a good look at what Linda (Blue’s owner) was wearing. The costume had to be … Read more
For Halloween, I decided to theme our family as Pirates. My husband and I were dressed as pirates and our 2 year old son was the parrot. The costumes I found were very unoriginal and bland. I decided to take the costume into my own hands and had so much fun doing it! The costume … Read more
My son Benjamin who is 19 months, has watched the movie Rio almost daily and sometimes 2-3 times a day since he was 6 months old. He loves the vivid colors of the birds and the music in the movie. We decided that with his love for the movie and the birds, he would go … Read more
This year for my friend’s annual Halloween party I really wanted to be a bird. There was a two hundred dollar peacock costume I liked, but spending that much was out of the question. I usually make my own costumes so I decided to create my own bird costume this year. I decided to base … Read more
My name is Kaila, I’m 8 years old and made this Blue Macaw (Jewel) costume from the Movie Rio with my grandma and grandpa. First I cut the brim off my brother’s baseball hat (he still doesn’t know) and spray painted it blue. Then I took the handle off one of my brother’s plastic swords (ha, … Read more
My son Aaron was selected to be a parrot at his preschool fancy dress contest. I was very apprehensive at first but going through this website “Coolest homemade costumes” I got some great ideas and also executed it well. This is what I did for my child parrot costume. First, I bought a red t-shirt … Read more
I made this parrot dress because I’ve admired the one Lily wears in Season 1 of How I Met Your Mother since it originally aired. I am rubbish at sewing so I bought a dress and covered it in feathers (which was messy but worth it!). I covered the bodice with individual green feathers and … Read more