My daughter always starts thinking about what she would like to be for Halloween by January! This year she decided she wanted to be the Twilight Princess version of Princess Zelda. I started researching in June and getting some rough ideas of how we wanted the finished costume to look. The major factor would be … Read more
My name is Emma and I handmade all of the costumes shown here. It’s been like a tradition to be resourceful and make nothing into something for our Halloween costumes every year in my family since I was a kid myself and now I get to do this with my kiddos. Mario(the star of the … Read more
This year we wanted to do something that was fun and creative. We decided on a Homemade Sonic and Tails Couple Costume. Sonic: We used blue leggings and a blue tank top. We got fabric from the fabric store to create the belly and the ears. Glued fabric onto some black cat ears. We ratted … Read more
What we have here is Dry Bones from the Mario games. Last year right after Halloween, my son decided he wanted to be Dry Bones and he stuck with it all year long. I have always made all of his costumes, so this year was not going to be any exception. Plus I don’t think … Read more
Growing up in the early 90’s, my sister and I were OBSESSED with MK! Over the last several months, we frequented this site. We saw a bunch of interesting costumes, very fun and unique. What we didn’t see a lot of were homemade Mortal Kombat Halloween costume ideas. So, that’s when we decided, we needed … Read more
It has always been my boyfriend, Chad’s dream to dress up as Pac-Man for Halloween. So last Halloween I made his dream come true! Being a couple we wanted to have a couple costume and being a gamer couple we wanted to have a video game couple costume. So Pac Man and Ms.Pac Man Costumes … Read more
My friends and I had no clue what we wanted to be for Halloween, until one day the Pacman group costume idea popped into our minds. We made our costumes out of felt, and we made them dress length so we wore black tights and black shoes. The felt colors that we used were red, … Read more
My five year old daughter became entranced with the online role playing game World of Warcraft after watching her father and older sister play. One of her favorite characters are the Murlocs, a sort of fishlike creature. More specifically, she loves Murky, a baby Murloc. After finding some pictures of Murky online, I set out … Read more
To make the dress for my Princess Peach costume, I looked over many pictures of her online and noticed that her dress resembled a standard princess dress . So I bought a pattern for a Disney princess dress and then modified it into a likeness of Peach’s dress. I started with the pattern and bought … Read more
Mario, Princess Toadstool, Toad, Toadette, Wario, and King Boo battle it out on the streets of Honolulu. Not an original concept, but we like to think the execution was a success. For the most part, the characters were easy to recreate. Creativity played a role in making the spherical shape of King Boo, Toad, and … Read more
This is a Homemade Mario Kart Group Costume with our favorite characters, Princess Peach, Luigi, Mario and Waluigi. The karts are painted and crafted from kids’ go-karts. Props such as lighting bolts are a must to stop your opponent.
I have been playing the Zelda games since I was a kid, so when my little blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy was born, I knew exactly what he would be for Halloween! For the underclothes, I used an Osh Kosh B’Gosh white turtleneck onesie over white baby tights from Target. For the tunic and hat, I bought … Read more