This year my friends and I decided on being Lock, Shock, and Barrel from Tim Burton’s ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. Always been an advocate for creating my own costumes, opposed to store bought… spent the better part of two and a half weeks making them, and I feel they came out pretty successful.

I have a 4 year old who has wanted to be Jack since last year, after watching “The Nightmare before Christmas”. I looked EVERYWHERE for a costume to buy one. I could not find one!! They are all for ADULTS. SO we had to make our own homemade Jack Skellington child costume. I came here … Read more

I originally wasn’t even going to make a Halloween costume but then a few of my friends ended up having their birthday’s over the Halloween weekend and they made it “mandatory” that everyone dressed up for the occasion. Since I hadn’t actually dressed up for the holiday in so many years I figured I had … Read more

I decided to do a Homemade Jack Skellington Halloween Costume from Tim Burtons The Nightmare before Christmas. The entire costume cost roughly $30. The suit: the suit started with a black suit/white button up shirt from a thrift store. The strips are white acrylic paint just run down the front in strips. A little splatter … Read more

I’ve made this dress FROM SCRATCH. I painted the colors and stitches with fabric colors, yellow, red, green, purple,and black. Spray painted my hair red, bought the comb at the Dollar store, and got the camera for Christmas. The dress used to be white (if you couldn’t tell lol). I have been IN LOVE with … Read more

My sixteen year old daughter wanted to be Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas for Halloween, so of course I obliged her. I searched for a dress pattern that had the basic shape of Sally’s dress and sewed that pattern from old bed sheets. I then started collecting scrap fabrics in the basic colors that … Read more

I made this for one of my best friends for our Nightmare Before Christmas group this Halloween. I like to dress in theme so this year we picked something she liked since she normally will just wear whatever we ask her to. We all love the movie too of course! This Oogie Boogie Costume was … Read more

The head of the Jack Skellington costume is made from papier mache over an old crash helmet. Underneath, the plastic visor has been removed and was replaced with thin cereal box card, out of which I cut eyes and a mouth hole. I added rolled up cardboard to the sides of the helmet to get … Read more

My husband and I decided to dress in Homemade Sally and Jack Skellington Costumes. Jack’s mask was the most intricate part of the costume. My husband blew up a punching bag and applied multiple layers of paper mache, also using this process to form the eyes and the nose. This process took about two weeks. … Read more

My 2010 costume is a Homemade Jack Skellington Costume. I knew from the start I would need more height because I am only 5’7″ so I purchased some sports stilts. From there, I used pipe insulation (similar to pool noodles) to build the basic structure of the arms and legs. The arms and legs were … Read more

The round heads started as a very round balloon, were paper mached and then covered in felt. Lock and Shock are simply taped cardboard with nose and ears masking taped on and then covered in felt. The round heads are particularly hard to cover in felt so I pinned down the felt before I hot … Read more

My daughter decided she wanted to be oogy boogy from Nightmare before Christmas. We racked our brain and came up with this homemade Oogy Boogy costume!!!