During the chilly months, friends, family and strangers constantly comment on how much our daughter, Isabella, looks like Cindy Lou Who with her red and up-turned nose and sweet demeanor. I kept that Cindy Lou Who Costume idea in the back of my mind when I ran across the perfect dress at a second-hand store, … Read more
To make this Homemade Edward Scissorhands Costume for my 9 year old son I headed to a couple of local thrift stores to purchase a leather jacket & several belts and to Home Depot for some furniture nails, rings and washers. First I cut the jacket’s sides, arms and wrists and sewed them with an … Read more
This homemade Stay Puft from Ghostbusters Halloween costume started with a pre-made inflatable costume from Kmart. We spray-painted all of it white. The head was made by using 1/2″ soft green foam hot-glued together to create a cylinder. It was then covered with white fabric. The face was drawn on with marker and the eyes … Read more
This Homemade Ghost Buster Costume was my daughter Christy’s idea. We used a large cardboard box and painted it red. Used another piece of the box to cut out the face. After cutting out the face we smeared glue on top of the box and placed the fabric over it to make the white ghost … Read more
I told my daughter that it would be cool for her to be Pippi Longstocking for Halloween last year. She had no idea who that was. So I found a book and this web page, and she looked through both. She didn’t decide on a Pippi Longstocking Halloween costume untill this year, 2008. I bought … Read more
Kendall LOVES Pippi Longstockings (she acts a bit like too!!) so this was a great costume for her! We bought an old jumper at the Salvation Army and quickly basted some mismatched patches cut from old fabric scraps. You could even hot glue them if you’d like! We also made a front pocket for Mr. … Read more
Homemade Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot costume… This costume and accessories were all homemade (except light saber). We used bright orange cotton fabric for the suit and a white synthetic fabric for the vest. The helmet was a racecar helmet that we painted and decorated to reflect the X-Wing Pilot’s helmet. Pieces on the helmet were … Read more
For my daughter’s first Halloween I was adamant that she not wear a stereotypical store-bought baby costume. No bugs. No flowers. No pets. No, she had to wear something different. Something original. Something cool. And as with everything I try to make, it had to not only look good, but be functional as well. And … Read more
Our son is pretty much obsessed with R2D2. So he had to be R2D2 for Halloween. We set about creating a Homemade R2D2 Astromech Droid Costume. The base was a laundry tube with the bottom cut out of it, with a sheet, sewed into a tube, and then sewed on to the laundry tube to … Read more
The charm of this Homemade Yoda Costume was entirely due to the size of the child. My son was almost 2 and he was just the height and had the perfect waddle of Yoda. The costume was just a simple burlap cloak, a wooden staff, ears constructed onto a homemade skullcap (some strands of horse … Read more
I saw some homemade Teen Wolf costumes on here and wanted to go all out, so I did. Cost me about $125.00 but I won that back in a costume contest I entered. I bought a Big foot costume for the body fur suit, wolf man makeup kit, and ordered the basketball jersey and shorts … Read more
This Where the Wild Things Are Costume was a huge hit at our church’s Trunk or Treat party. I had the idea of making this costume for my son due to the Where the Wild Things Are movie debut and it being one of my favorite childhood books. However, there were no store bought costumes … Read more