This year for Halloween I made a TRANSFORMABLE Homemade Mini Cooper Transformer Halloween Costume. Let me tell you why. Last year I made the coolest Iron man costume, for a school contest, entirely out of flat cardboard boxes and with absolutely no help from anyone. After winning the contest, I thought: “what will I do … Read more
This is 4 year old Logan. He is in a homemade Transforming Bumblebee kids costume. First we started with the top of the camero. We rolled the cardboard to round it to the shape of the top of the car. We hot glued the sides on to keep the shape of the top. Next we … Read more
I used 30 glue sticks, paint cardboard and paper mache. Later..here it is….Homemade Transformer Bumble Bee Animated Costume, animated from the cartoon!!
My Homemade Transforming Optimus Prime Costume is made entirely out of recycled cardboard boxes and is completely homemade except for the helmet, only because I was short on time. The costume is made with three boxes that collapse into each other so that the costume transforms from a robot to a truck and back. For … Read more
(SORRY-in the pictures one of my lights fell off…i noticed just now, If you scroll at the bottom… you’ll find links to see my costume in a better way). This homemade Transformer (that actually transforms) Halloween costume took a whole week to make. I got the idea to make a transformer costume, but then I … Read more
When first beginning my search for the most AWESOME Halloween costume ever created, I wanted to pick something I’ve always loved… this lead to my childhood amore for Transformers which eventually became my love for Magnus Opus or Optimus Prime to be exact. Once I had the idea I shared it with my family and … Read more
This Homemade Transformer Tank Halloween Costume Idea took nearly twenty hours of work to make. It was inspired by viewing many attempts of Transformer costumes online. I decided I wanted to be able to keep it simple and functional at the same time and still look as real as possible. This costume was built twice. … Read more
After watching the movie I was inspired to build my very own transformers costume that can actually transform. It took several attempts and several weeks of collecting cardboard boxes, that I was able to put together a functional costume. I modeled my costume from the old Optimus prime. I used cardboard of all shapes and … Read more
My 4 year old son absolutely LOVES Transformers. Last year he wanted to be Optimus Prime. I bought one of those cheap Walmart costumes with the little jumpsuit and plastic parts. I hated it! When he told me he wanted to be Bumblebee this year I looked at the same type of costume and was … Read more
My 6 y.o. son wanted to be Bumblebee from transformers for Halloween. I thought it would be cool if he also transformed. I wanted the homemade Bumblebee Transformer costume to be easy to transform so his Dad and I wouldn’t have to fuss with it b4 and after transforming. We pieced together 3 different sized … Read more
There are a few transforming costume designs out there, but it seems like they usually just settle for the idea that any arrangement of pieces that looks like a car or truck when it is on the ground is good enough. My goal was to build a costume accurate to the design of Optimus Prime … Read more
My son Gavin LOVES Optimus Prime so my husband and I made this Optimus Prime Wheelchair costume to fit over his wheelchair. It was a lot of work but totally worth it when we saw the look on his face!!