The year I wore this Homemade Lion Tamer Ringmaster Costume from Britney Spear’s song “Circus”. It was popular and I really loved the costumes in the video. This costume, made mostly from thrift store finds and eBay items. Items needed: Top Hat – From Savers Thrift Store Vest or Jacket with Tails – From local … Read more
I used to have a job working as a character in a costume, and though it was difficult at first, I learned to love talking to people using only body language. So this year I decided to be a mime to relive those days of talking with only my hands. This was the perfect idea … Read more
This year me and my sister wanted to be something scary for Halloween and had the idea to be clowns for a while now. People are always saying we look alike on a normal basis so we decided we would do a ‘twin-clown’ idea with opposite black and white pieces. Then we decided that one … Read more
I got it into my head that I wanted to use some sort of fake hair for my Halloween costume, so I ended up deciding on a bearded lady costume. Once I settled on that idea, I figured I needed to fully commit to being a carny. For me, this meant layers. The beard and … Read more
I thought of dressing my son, Robbie, as a strong man for Halloween shortly after he was born. However, I knew I had to wait patiently for him to be able to walk. I knew the costume would not be as cute as possible unless he was walking and able to take direction to hold … Read more
This is a Homemade Krusty the Clown Halloween Costume from The Simpsons. For Krusty, I drew immediate inspiration. The biggest challenge for me was, of course, emulating that zany hair. How I did it(from head down): I cut up a long, wool-like, aqua-green scarf from Walgreens into two pieces. I then filled each end with … Read more
This Pennywise the Clown Costume is very simply, one of the most frightening clowns of all times. I used a latex bald cap to keep my own hair down, white face with the correct makeup. I unfortunately couldn’t use the razor sharp prosthetic teeth I wanted to use – they were just too uncomfortable. I … Read more
This is a headless clown costume I thought up about a couple of months before Halloween 2008. Originally it was to be a large inflated fat suit with the clown mask, but I couldn’t find a fan to keep the costume inflated well enough yet fit in my budget, or a fat costume in my … Read more
Materials needed: For Costume: Tan twin sized bed sheet ($2 from WalMart) 3 brown t-shirts (different shades of brown) ($1 each from thrift store) Dark brown felt ($0.25 from fabric store) For Cage: Garden cart PVC pipe ($5) Black spraypaint Posterboard in red, yellow and blue Iridescent wrapping paper ($1 from dollar store) Foil circles … Read more
I undertook making this Pennywise the Clown Costume with the aim of getting it nearest the original as possible. With no experience on a sewing machine I perhaps ambitiously purchased my clown costume pattern and sourced the best matching material I could find and cut the sections to size. In the end the sewing side … Read more
We kept the Love Bug Car we made for Sarah’s Hippie Halloween costume the previous year and wanted to recycle it somehow. Trying to come up with an idea of how to use a small car, we thought of a Circus Clown in a Clown Car Wheelchair Costume. The car was already cut out from … Read more
Materials needed: Nightgown ($2 from thrift store) Beard ($4 from costume store) This year our theme was “Circus.” My sister was our bearded lady. This Homemade Bearded Lady Costume is the easiest costume in the world to put together. We found a cheesy nightgown from a thrift store and she wore a beard that matched … Read more