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
This homemade costume was fun, quick, inexpensive and easy to make. I went to the local art store and got ivory colored yarn which we used for the spaghetti and foam balls which we used for the meatballs. We then cut the yarn into 12″ pieces and glued them using a glue gun onto a … Read more
My 8 year old wanted a creative homemade costume for a party this year. We saw this in a magazine and wanted to try it out. The costume was so easy to make. I needed to buy the red sweats and that is the only reason the cost was as much. I had a small … Read more
For the pasta gone wild costume I bought a colander at the Dollar store. I added Cream colored yarn and brown pom-poms (from Michaels). I used a red T-shirt and glued yarn and pom-poms to t-shirt and colander. For the pizza costume I glued two triangle shaped materials into a pizza slice shape. Rolled end … Read more
Well, this costume was a hard choice. Coming from an Italian background pasta is a big part of life so I decided to be a GIANT box of Barilla Pasta. It took me about a week to make and about $45.00 worth of paint to cover. I won the best costume at the Halloween Dance. … Read more
Our boys are close in age and my husband wanted to dress them together. He brainstormed and walla, he came up with this spaghetti and meatballs costume. The spaghetti noodles are mop heads spray painted yellow, add a little red paint for the sauce. The meatballs are Styrofoam balls painted brown. All attached to a … Read more
Ingredients needed for this homemade costume: 1 Child, 1 red sweatpants, 1 red sweater, 1 red hat, 1 bowl, 1 new mop head, 1 bag large brown pompoms, 1 Italian bread bag (optional for treats), 4 pieces of Velcro both sides needed, some tread to match. For this homemade costume I took the bowl, put … Read more
Materials, which may be purchased for 40% off a few weeks before Halloween at some sewing/craft stores (retail prices quoted): Fabric glue ($10 at sewing/craft store) Hot glue gun (craft store, about $10) Plastic snow sledding disk Two 32 oz. bags of polyfill ($6 each at sewing/craft store) 3 yards ivory colored taffeta, which is … Read more
For this costume I purchased a red sweatshirt with a hood and red sweatpants. I purchased straw colored yarn for the spaghetti and brown pom poms at a craft store. I cut the yarn in approx. the same length and applied them randomly a few pieces in each with a hot glue gun, then using … Read more
Here is a picture of my daughter Darienne’s Spagetti and Meatballs costume. We had so much fun making it. We started with a black turtleneck shirt and a black hat and added yellow yarn for spaghetti and red paint for sauce. For meatballs I used foam balls from the dollar store, painted them brown and … Read more
My son’s school doesn’t do Halloween parades but character parades instead. The costume has to be based on a character in a book (it helps if the kid himself decides on a book character he likes!). In the early years my son picked his costume then we would find a book. This year he picked … Read more
This is what you will need to make this Homemade Italian Dinner Costume: 1 sheet of foam core 1 red and white plastic table cloth 1 plastic plate 1 napkin 1 fork, knife, spoon 1 plastic wine glass red/black paint fake bread light weight salt a pepper shake 1 mop head 2 knee high nylons … Read more