My name is Karin Nickel and my 4 year old son Zachary wanted to be an iPhone for Halloween this year. At first I thought “How in the world am I going to make a homemade iPhone costume?” but after a trip to the fabric and craft store, everything came together. The base is a … Read more
For Halloween, we really wanted to do homemade costumes with which we could have a larger group wear. We knew we would be going to one of the biggest parties on campus, and needed to think of something creative and fun, yet functional. After hours of brainstorming, we spotted our idea- iPods! To make them, … Read more
My daughter Isabelle wanted a costume no one else would have… something unique. I came up with the idea and my husband made it for her. He did a fantastic job I think!
The whole point of my Homemade iPhone Costume is to look awesome but still be able to wear it all year round. All it is is a T-Shirt with other clothing I wear on a daily basis and it’s easy and gets great feedback! How I made it: -Get a plain black T-Shirt and some … Read more
I got my inspiration from the “You can’t handle me” video by Robyn. In the video, she has a jukebox-type outfit on, so I thought it would be really cool to make a jukebox dress that would be cute because it’s a dress, but also take it up a notch and make it functional by … Read more
My entire plan was to wear one costume, all Halloween weekend. However, with more Halloween parties presented to me than ever before, I decided I needed another quick one to maintain a fresh Halloween look. So I found instructions for creating an iPhone costume with posterboard but decided I wanted something more original than that. … Read more
This is a televison costume I made for my 9 year old son. We used a large box that had a screen sized hole in the front for his face, as if he was the picture on that channel. The box had arm holes and rested over his head. It came complete with a huge … Read more
After the iPhone craze I decided it would be great to dress up as one. I bought two pieces of foam board (gray and black). I printed the icons large and pasted them on. I used foil for the apple on the back and silver duct tape for the outside rim. I used regular duct … Read more
We were told to make your own Halloween costumes for our Halloween party. I got the inspiration for this costume from my iPod, no other! I found this great Styrofoam board from Lowes. Then I cut the board, attached it with string and added the roll thing! It took about three hours to make. Total … Read more
My son loves calculators and when Halloween was coming up a few years ago we told him he could be anything he wanted to be. Of course he wanted to be a calculator. I knew it would take a little work but it wasn’t so difficult. We used a box and cut it down to … Read more
This year I decided to go with that old iPod Commercial where the people are blacked out and dancing with a lot of energy. The commercial also consisted of a colorful background and, of course, an iPod with white earphones. I gave it a little twist, though; I replaced the old iPod with an iPhone. … Read more
I was always told that if you make your own Halloween costumes it is always much more fun than buying one ready made so I got the idea to do an Ipod shadow commercial by watching a commercial during one of my regular television shows. I saw the commercial and decided that’s what I wanted … Read more