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
I don’t know how I came up with the idea of this Kool Aid Jug Costume, but decided I must be the Kool Aid Jug! My starting point was going to Michael’s arts and crafts to look around for supplies and start to visualize how it would all come together. From a fabric store I … Read more
I’ve always loved the iconic “Rosie the Riveter” image and decided I’d like to try to go as her for Halloween. Most of the Homemade Rosie the Riveter Costume was very easy to put together. Due to the rise in fashion of the USO-style/flavor jeans, I already had a pair on hand. I paired them … Read more
This Homemade Boo Berry Costume is a super easy costume to make. Paper mache a complete helmet, paint it white. Then cut out eyes and nose. Next, buy a white fleece blanket and hot glue it to the helmet. Cut the eyes out and paint the fleece with a little blue spray paint. Find and … Read more
Growing up in the 80’s, breakfast was always a big deal for me. Watching cartoons and eating all kinds of cereal made waking up something to look forward to each day! One of my favorite cereals was Frankenberry. I would indulge in that while my brother would eat Count Chocula. Years later, I find myself … Read more
This is my Energizer Bunny costume but with a little twist. I spiced it up a little bit by combining the regular Energizer Bunny idea with a Playboy look to make a new sexy version of the classic icon. I started with by purchasing a Playboy Bunny costume online along with matching ears and tail. … Read more