Cool Homemade Popcorn Costume Idea

Homemade Popcorn Costume Idea

Started looking online for some costume ideas and came across this homemade popcorn costume idea – and decided to create it myself. I started out with a plain cardboard box, cut it to fit my body and covered in red and white paper. Took packing peanuts and glued them on. After they were glued on, … Read more

Coolest Homemade Fancy Ketchup Packet Costume

Homemade Fancy Ketchup Packet Costume

I didn’t have much money this year to purchase materials for my Fancy Ketchup Packet Costume. I went to the Dollar store and got a white shower curtain and grabbed a Red shirt out of my closet that “shrank”. I glued the shower curtain so that it would fit like a skirt. Do not use … Read more

Coolest Box of Popcorn Costume

Homemade Box of Popcorn Costume

Every year at Halloween time I ask my son what he wants to be for Halloween. This year he chose a Homemade Box of Popcorn Costume. Knowing I couldn’t go purchase one his size, I decided to make it. I made the frame out of pipe insulation from Home Depot and stiff floral wire. It’s … Read more

Coolest Pretzel and Peanuts Couple Costume

Coolest Pretzel and Peanuts Couple Costume

I was looking through this website for costume ideas for my 3 year old and came across Eric L.’s Coolest Homemade Chinese Take Out Costume. I loved it and started thinking of what other food would be good as a costume. My husband works for Southwest Airlines, and my daughter loves the pretzels they serve … Read more

Coolest Homemade PopCorn Box Costume

Homemade PopCorn Box Costume

The main part of this PopCorn Box Costume is just a box that fits my son. I just cut out the armholes and neck hole. I spray painted the box white then taped off the stripes and painted them red. I got letter cut outs and traced them and hand paint the POP CORN logo. … Read more

Coolest Dessert Sampler Platter Costumes

Don't eat me...ahhhh!

I wanted my kids to have a theme, and we chose dessert. My son is Owen 6, and he wanted to be BLUE cotton candy. My daughter Charlie is 3 and wanted to be a birthday cake. The baby is 1 1/2, and she was a cupcake. I wanted to make this as cheaply as … Read more

Turn Yourself into a Sandwich! One of the Coolest DIY Food Costumes

Coolest Homemade Food Costumes - Photos and Tips

Food costumes are great! Materials needed for this sandwich costume: 2-inch-thick white upholstery foam (sold at fabric stores) cut into two 24-inch by 30-inch pieces and one 12-inch circle, scissors or bread knife (for cutting the foam), brown and green acrylic paints, paintbrush, 12-inch by 18-inch sheets of craft foam: 4 pink, 1 green, 2 … Read more

Ice Cream Children Costume

To start off with this homemade children costume, I had a plastic bucket that I zig sawed out the bottom. Spray painted the whole outside. Then my son and I painted the outside the best that we could. My son painted the cows on the back. The top is made out of cardboard and tape. … Read more

Spaghetti Homemade Costume

The idea for this homemade costume actually came from this website! My six year old daughter thought it would be a lot of fun to prance around as a mess of spaghetti. This costume sure had a lot of people smiling, laughing and asking how I did it! First I purchased about six skeins of … Read more

Coolest Homemade Kool Aid Man and Kool Aid Girl Costumes

Homemade Kool Aid Man and Kool Aid Girl Costumes

For Halloween 2010 my boyfriend wanted to be Kool-Aid Man more than anything. We Googled it for months, trying to find directions, an actual Kool-Aid Man costume… ANYTHING that would help us create what we knew would be such a unique task. The internet proved to be no help. Late one night I sat straight … Read more

Coolest Cosmopolitan Costume

Homemade Cosmopolitan Costume

I love Halloween so I decided while watching Sex and the City one night what I would be… a COSMO. Perfect. I Have a back strapless dress as my base. I went to a fabric store and got a role of upholstery foam, 2 yards of pink cosmo fabric, 2 yards of silver fabric, spray … Read more

Coolest Homemade Cupcake Adult Costume

Homemade Cupcake Adult Costume

This Homemade Cupcake Adult Costume took me a little over a week to make. I sewed it both with machine and by hand. I bought some thick silver material, that looked like foil, and sewed the folds to resemble cupcake foil. Then I wrapped the fabric around a quilting hoop. I sewed old light pink … Read more