From the moment I knew that I would have a good sized belly during Halloween I told my husband, I want it to be a part of our costume. I didn’t want to do the typical pumpkin belly, or bun in the oven belly, so I kept looking. Somewhere I saw an earth and then … Read more
Halloween 2008 we went as original four season trees, mother nature and father time group costume. Mother nature wore an old dress and accessorized with craft store garland, flowers, birds etc…Father time borrowed the robe, a clock from his mantle, and bought the faux-sickle. As for the trees, we got 99% of our items at … Read more
Year after year my friends and I rack our brains months before Halloween to come up with the most creative costumes! A friend came across this idea for a Four Seasons Girl’s group costume online and we immediately began working. I was Fall and my friends were Summer, Spring, and Winter. All the tutu’s were handmade, … Read more
I was searching for an awesome costume idea. I came across a struck by lightning costume on a website (no picture included). I started thinking how to do it and my idea won my work Halloween costume contest. I took a pair of jeans and a button up shirt and burned holes all over with … Read more
My friends & I ADORE Halloween, it’s that time of the year that you can be a big kid again and no one judges! We were looking for something original to do and were brainstorming for weeks when we hit upon the Sugababes “Change” video. We all wanted the basis of our costumes to be … Read more
“Fire and Ice” plus a “snowflake”. I made this Homemade Fire and Ice Costume over a few weeks, with most pieces coming from Goodwill stores and the rest was art/craft supplies I already had. “Fire” was A plain red dress that I painted flames coming from the bottom of the skirt-with yellow acrylic ceramic paint-and … Read more
For this homemade tornado Halloween costume idea I wanted to use one of those tall bushel baskets as the frame, but ended up with a tomato cage. I cut it open, so it could be held opened while he stepped into it. I was going to cut out spots for his arm, but on my … Read more
We were looking for a costume that was creative, maybe a play on words. When we mentioned “partly cloudy with a chance of rain costume” he jumped on the idea because he’d get to hold a squirt bottle. We started with a light blue t-shirt and light blue sweatpants. I doubled over white felt and … Read more
My 5-year-old is quite the free thinker and she insisted on a Homemade Rainbow Costume. Not being very crafty, I scoured the internet looking for ideas and couldn’t find much of anything. I was at a thrift store one day where I found a rainbow-striped sundress and that started the ideas rolling. After finding the … Read more
I made this homemade raindrop costume for my daughter when she was 4 years old. I started with two large pieces of foam that I found at the fabric store. We were lucky enough to find this great shimmery blue fabric that was just perfect for the water effect. I cut out a raindrop shape … Read more
For this Four Seasons Group costume, we each picked what season we wanted to be. For Winter we bought a white t-shirt from Michael’s and directed it in Christmas decorations and snow flakes. Spring made a dress out of flowers and glued them to an existing old dress paired with rain boots. Summer used a … Read more
Hello, my name is Laura, I’m a senior in high school, and I make crazy costumes for my school’s spirit week and for Halloween. This was for Caveman Day at my school, so I was fire. The costume: Actually, this was one of the easiest costumes I have ever made, and certainly one of my … Read more