My oldest (he’s 8) is obsessed with Spongebob. And I insist on theme costumes, so this year I made my 3 kids characters from Spongebob. For the boys, it was obvious– Spongebob and Patrick. For my daughter, I really wanted her to be Plankton, ‘cuz she’s tiny! :) [Spongebob:] I had my son lay down … Read more
For Doug, my boyfriend ordered the green vest off of ebay. It cost about 12 dollars plus shipping. He had the white t-shirt, the shorts, and the white tennis shoes. For Patty, I found the blue top at Walmart for five dollars. I got the pink felt from Ben Franklin for 25 cents a sheet. … Read more
My husband loves Taz so I thought, why not? I bought 2 union suits and dyed them dark brown, then painted a lighter brown for the chest and stomach area. I then made a little fluffball tail with medium brown yarn and attached that to the rear. To make the horns I just cut out … Read more
For a production I do, in order to get everyone excited some of us were asked to come dressed as superheroes. After looking on this very website for inspiration I decided on a Handmade Wonder Woman Costume. To make it I simply went out and bought a target red corset and high waisted blue underwear … Read more
Battle of The Planets Costumes: Princess and Mark We were invited to a retro cartoon Birthday Party in which we decided to go as BOTP’S characters. These Homemade Battle of the Planets Costumes were all made by me. The costume was mainly made from Lycra, with cotton fabric for the capes and plastic for the … Read more
I made the house from UP completely out of cardboard. After a few sketches, I started out with a base box and cut out the porch and some of the roof parts. I then proceeded to add on more and more cardboard parts. I then painted everything with tempera paint (not advised because it caused … Read more
This homemade Voltron: Defender of the Universe Halloween costume was truly a labour of love. Love for Halloween & love for the baddest Defender of the Universe… VOLTRON! This design was primarily constructed out of cardboard (lots of it!) taking trips to local grocery stores and asking them for cardboard that was going straight to … Read more
This year my husband and I rocked out our favorite Looney Toon characters Wile E Coyote and the Roadrunner. I made his costume first out of 5 yards of fleece. I made some elastic-waist pants and a fleece shirt. His coyote head started with a baseball hat, cardboard and foam. I sewed and glued the … Read more
Thundercats, hooo! – Liono and Cheetara Thundercats Couple Costume! This year, for Halloween my boyfriend Jason and I were brainstorming couple’s costume ideas. When Jason suggested that we be Thundercats, I ran with it! For the Cheetara costume I used an orange one piece bathing suit that had the exact same neckline shape as the … Read more
My 6yr old son fell instantly in love with the movie, How to Train Your Dragon. I searched a little while on the web, but there really weren’t any offerings for a Homemade Toothless The Dragon Halloween Costume Idea. And reluctantly, I told him we would try to work something up. A bit later while … Read more
Inuyasha! This Manga costume one if for all those Manga fans out there! I believe that it took me about five hours give or take to put this ensemble together. This is one of my daughter’s favorite characters! She asked me to make her costume and I had no clue what to do! I have … Read more
For my Master Shake costume, I bought two hula-hoops, the color does not matter. It doesn’t even matter if they match. What does matter is that one is big and one is small. Then I bought two pieces of white cloth. Each piece is one half of the shake. I made one piece fit exactly … Read more