My mom made these adorable Mr.and Mrs. Potato Head costumes for my daughters. She made the eyes out of black mesh so they could see and the rest of the face is made out of felt. She spray painted on the brown fabric to give it a more “potato” look. She used batting to make … Read more
My husband and I decided to go as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head to our friends Disney party. Your site helped tremendously with ideas and how-to from others who made awesome Homemade Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head Costumes. I bought felt and cotton lining for the bodies, cut out a potato shape and sewed the … Read more
This year for Halloween our group of friends or “Club Awesome” as we call ourselves (minus 1 in the pic because one of our good friends wasn’t able to go this year) decided Troll dolls would be a unique and funny way to do a costume together. Since we all did not feel “leotard ready” … Read more
I decided I wanted to make a costume that was both recognizable, as well as original, so I made one of everyone’s favorite art projects as a kid a “Lite Brite” costume. I wanted something that actually worked, so I knew I had to find a way to get the pieces to move and have … Read more
I wanted to make Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head costumes for my husband and me. Many of the costumes that I saw online were two dimensional costumes, where a person wears a simple tunic with facial features on the front. My husband insisted that our costumes should be three dimensional, that is he wanted the … Read more
I’ve never seen an episode of Thomas the Train, but what if he had an alter-ego? What if he had the ability to stand up, unrestricted by rails, and fight evil-doers? The Transformers Halloween costume was about two months in the planning stages, including collecting random pieces of cardboard, plastic and packing foam. Torso and … Read more
Our family theme for Halloween was going to be Toy Story because of our 3 year old wanting to be Buzz. However we didn’t want the same characters as everyone else. While talking with friends, I had the idea of making a homemade Slinky Dog Halloween costume. If you search for costumes, there are none … Read more
This Zombie Barbie and Ken Couple Costume idea came up in a weird way because my fiance wanted something weird and zombieish and I wanted a cute couples costume so we compromised and put the two ideas together. Once we decided we were going to be zombies we were just looking for a good couple … Read more
My 8 year old daughter did not want to be your average clown for Halloween. She wanted to jump out of a box too! Her “Jack in the Box” costume started with a cardboard box with the bottom cut out to allow for easy walking but still had a flap on the back to look … Read more
Two weeks in the making it was inspired by the original created by Felix Jung in 2004 and somewhat by Jack W. Bell’s take in 2005 I took it upon myself to reproduce it this year with the addition of the mask and light up nose hence the “Take 3”. It even has its own … Read more
(Editor’s note: We decided to put this costume in the Transformer’s category although it was called “Armor of God” by its creator). I made this Halloween costume entirely out of ‘WASTE FOAM” from appliance boxes. It was a project for our Church and I wanted to be a bit more creative than an “Angel” or … Read more
Concept: There have been other Lego costumes; however no others must be kept at least 200 yards from a playground or school. It is the small details that make a homemade costume great. Please note the tiny 6 pack abs, nipples, Lego logo on the underpants, thong on the rear, and above all THE BALL … Read more