I put on my pink pants & sweet shades, borrowed a drum from a good friend, printed out & taped on the ‘Energizer’ logo, strapped the drum on with a small backpack & some zip ties, wrapped some socks & cloth around the ends of a couple drumsticks to create my mallets and topped it … Read more
For my works Halloween contest, I wanted to be something different and I thought, why not Jack? so it took me awhile but I definitely got through it and made this Homemade Jack in the Box Costume. I started with a giant bouncy ball you get from the beach, paper mache, and with a lot … Read more
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Android devices and I hate Apple products. So I have decided since everyone will be zombie Steve Jobs this year someone is going to have to destroy that zombie and who more appropriate that Andy the Android! I made a Droid Android Costume, put it on and am pretty happy with … Read more
My mother always made us homemade costumes for Halloween. I always liked being something creative instead of a store bought costume, I always thought it was so special. So I am trying to carry out the same tradition with my son. He’s only 2, so it’s been going good so far. His first year he … Read more
I got an idea for turning our six month old into the Pillsbury Doughboy for Halloween. We already had a long sleeve white onsie and white cotton pants so I bought a small piece of white material to make his neck handkerchief. I went to a restaurant supply store for the chef’s hat and had … Read more
This year I wanted to be something original for Halloween. I looked around on the internet for ideas and I noticed that this site had illusion costumes. I thought I would try to make a variation on the Alien Abduction costume. Mine was a Jack in the box Halloween costume carrying away Ronald McDonald in … Read more
I’ve always wanted to make a Halloween costume from one of the McDonald’s characters. It took me awhile but I settled on a Grimace from McDonald’s Costume. As I was making the costume, I decided to add a twist to the costume and made him Grimace’s cousin from Mexico, Pedro. So I fitted him with … Read more
My daughter Jen is a graphic designer and came up with the Homemade FLO Progressive Insurance Unique Costume Idea in her little community. Jen wore a simple plain white v neck t-shirt, plain long white BBQ type apron, plain white pants…and made graphics / laminated sayings: a name tag that said: FLO, a circle button … Read more
This Fandango Puppet Costume came to me at the last minute, and only took about a day to put together. Use plain lawn bags. If you cannot find any, I used two with writing and glued them together with a glue stick so that each side was blank. I cut facial features, and hot glued … Read more
This year I decided to dress in a Homemade Hamburglar Halloween Costume. This was a fun costume. My buddy Shawn went as Mr. T, another very good costume as well!!! This was so much fun. I went to McD’s and ordered, well… HAMBURGERS!!! We got pics of it and everything. Also we went to West … Read more
I love the WWII era and decided to be Rosie the Riveter for Halloween one year. I just went out and purchased a small red lunch/tool box, a pair of dark denim overalls, and a Dickies men’s work shirt. I used a red bandanna to tie in the look and dark red lipstick with a … Read more
We made the coolest Homemade California Raisins Group Halloween Costumes of 2010. We created real life California Raisins. My friends and myself always do Halloween right. We have a crazy passion for it. No amount of excessive effort is to much when it comes down to Halloween costumes. It took 2 of us 9 days … Read more