This is a costume I made as the character Russell from the Disney Pixar’s movie UP. I bought a yellow long sleeve shirt from goodwill and just cut off the sleeves to make it a short sleeve, hat, orange fabric for the scarf, brown fabric for the sash, and I bought felt fabric to cut … Read more
I made this homemade kids Thor costume for my 3 year old son using a pattern for a race car driver’s jump suit. The “flesh” has muscles sewn in, although not visible when he is wearing the vest. I made modifications to the pattern to fit the illustration of Thor I was working from. I … Read more
My husband and I decided to be Snorks this year. We purchased full body suits to help us complete the look. We hand made our Snorks out of pipe installation and used colored duck tape to make the color stay. We then cut holes in top and hand sewed our snorks into place. My husband … Read more
Well, this year I wanted to dress up as Wonder Woman but it was a lil expensive for the costume, so I started brainstorming and decided to make my own Wonder Woman Costume. I went to a fabric shop and bought pretty blue and gold fabric, foamy white, and a glittery red and yellow. I … Read more
I made this dress in this Homemade Belle from Beauty and the Beast Costume by altering a dress pattern I used for my sister’s bridesmaid’s dresses. I gathered up the skirt panels to give a fuller effect to the skirt and to get the rouching like Belle’s dress in the film. I used brocade fabric … Read more
I started making this Eric Cartman costume because it was for my art class during the Halloween season. I started by using paper Mache and making a large sphere and then wrapped it in chicken wire to make it sturdier then some more layers of paper Mache. Obviously next I painted the face and used … Read more
My Sponge bob costume idea came about because my nieces of four years and two years of age love SpongeBob. I decided to make a dream come true for two special little girls in my life. Up to a challenge and about two weeks of work I came out with costumes in which my nieces … Read more
This is my friends little boy. He wanted to be Danny phantom. I used black sweats for the outfit and white flannel for the arms, boots, belt, DP logo and hair. I had an old Gogo costume that had boots in it. I used that for the boot pattern. The arms I designed on my … Read more
I had a blue pajama, which was getting too small for my son so I decided to make good use of it and make it into a fuzzy animal. Then one day when my son was watching “Blue’s Clues” rather enjoyably, I decided to make it into a Blue’s Clues costume. Of course Blue is … Read more
From Disney’s 101 Dalmatians this is a Cruella DeVille Mobile Child Halloween Costume and one very unlucky dalmatian puppy. They are riding in a DeVil mobile. This is a family affair Gram made the costumes, mom fixed up the salvaged car, Papa mounted steering wheel and horn and dad was the muscle and pulled the … Read more
Aladdin was always my favorite Disney movie so this year I decided to be Jasmine. My Grandma is very good at sewing so I asked her to make my homemade Jasmine costume. We found a pattern for genie type outfits. I bought some teal satin-like material from Hobby Lobby. For the earrings I used gold … Read more
My Joker costume. Like the previous Riddler costume added to the site, this Joker costume was made for a band member(my husband). When starting any new costume especially when I’m unfamiliar with the pattern I always cut a trial costume out in a cheap cotton fabric (calico in Australia). The suit is roughly put together … Read more