A plain white T-shirt, striped pants from the Thrift store and a borrowed pair of black coat tails. We purchased a $1 pair of skeleton gloves, a $1 Christmas hat and a $1 pumpkin. His tie was handmade out of black craft foam and white fabric paint. Black and white face paint finished the job … Read more
I dressed up as a Ninja Turtle when I was 5, so I figured that 20 years later would be the perfect time to have a Ninja Turtle Costume again! Since I live in FL, I had two versions of the costume, the hot weather (green bathing suit) and cold weather (t-shirt and track pants). … Read more
This year, I decided I wanted to dress up with a group and it came down to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Group Costume. This website is my favorite website to find amazing homemade costumes, so I searched and gathered all the ideas and added my own ideas to come up with the simplest way … Read more
Charlie brown has always been a childhood favorite of mine and I decided to search for a Charlie Brown Halloween costume from the internet by searching the internet. I got the paper mache idea from this site and other paper mache how to info from the internet. This was a two part process, first the … Read more
We actually followed a description of a Charlie Brown costume already on this site! We used large balloons (the punching balloons worked really well) and paper-Mache (one part water, one part flour and a little Elmer’s glue for strength and to keep pests away – as instructed by an elementary school art teacher). We did … Read more
On a dare from my nephew, I dressed as James from Team Rocket for a Pokemon Trading Card Game event and Halloween in the year 2000. So, I cropped an old turtleneck shirt that I bought at a Salvation Army store, sewed a felt “R” in red on the front, got a white pair of … Read more
This was our first Halloween as a family of three! So I knew I wanted to do something special. We decided to go with Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Swee’ Pea. I figured it would be fun to make the costumes myself. I purchased all the clothing pieces from a thrift store. The costumes were created … Read more
For Halloween this year I wanted to pay tribute to one of my favorite movies as a kid, Popeye. I was trying to go for the same style as Robin Williams, so I chose the white middy and blue trousers rather than the navy blue/light blue or all white outfits commonly seen in the cartoon. … Read more
I like to be “hard to find” costumes for Halloween. I’ve wanted to do this Homemade Rainbow Brite Halloween Costume for over a year and finally had the resources to do it.
We planned all year long for this, we went from Goodwill to Goodwill looking for just the right clothes and when we finally pulled this Scooby Doo Gang Ever costume together it was awesome! We got so much attention from kids and adults. We went to the famous 6th St in Austin and people thought … Read more
The most expensive thing here was the paint for the Mystery Machine. It costs about $45. Everything else came from a sale rack or thrift store, or things we already had. We felt it best to rent the Scooby costume for the kids sake vs. trying to make a Scooby costume on our own. It … Read more
For Homemade Shrek, I used: old clothes, gourd ends cut and glued on head, fake teeth, and I sprayed body with colored hairspray For Homemade Fiona, I used my own wedding dress, head piece with wig, and I also sprayed body with colored hairspray. Good luck with your own Shrek and Fiona homemade costumes!