My four year son was obsessed with T-Rex’s last year, so Mom had to deliver! I made his T-Rex head out of a children’s plastic fire fighters helmet. I turned it around and started shaping the head from cut up cereal boxes and masking tape. I glued on the fabric with carpenters glue and plastered … Read more
This year I decided to build a velociraptor from Jurassic Park. I wanted it to be life-sized (in the movie it’s 12 and a half feet long); it would be my most ambitiously difficult Halloween costume yet. Shortly after last Halloween, I settled on the male raptor design from Jurassic Park 3 (it would be … Read more
The head of the T-Rex Dinosaur Costume is made of chicken wire fitted over a Star Wars trooper helmet and two shoe boxes. The shoe boxes formed the snout. Then the head was covered with paper mache and spray painted. The body is made of two sets of long johns, one pair is the pants … Read more
My son always wants a costume that you can not go buy at any store. One year it was a Rainbow Trout (He had to be a full length fish. He could hardly walk, and truly looked more like a merman in my opinion.), the next was a Dungeness Crab (which won the contest here … Read more
My son is really into Dinosaurs and wanted to be a Velociraptor. So with a lot of imagination I came up with this costume. The head is made from plastic canvas that I cut and sewed together to get the basic shape of the dinosaur costume head. I then used paper mache to form the … Read more