We did this Homemade Headless Girl Costume last year too, but after trial and error made the costume better and lighter which my daughter loved. We used coat hangers for the arms and a wooden stick for the shoulders. A rolling back pack but it wasn’t tall enough so we tore it apart and used … Read more
My son wanted to be the headless horseman for Halloween last year so… where do I start? A trip to Goodwill yielded a trenchcoat, a scarf, and a black dress shirt. Total cost $10. Cool. I found an old backpack with wheels and the extendable handle and had my husband put some screws into the … Read more
For this Scariest Headless Dead Bride Costume I went off and bought a used bride’s dress at a thrift store for $20. At the waist line I unsewed the stitching to make sure your head will fit through it. The body part of the Headless Dead Bride Costume is a pillow. to form the shoulders … Read more
CHEF NIEDA BANDAID was the name of our headless costume and was fun to make as much as it was to wear! Items needed: Rolling knapsack- we had an old one and the handle was stuck in the extended position so that helped. men’s suit coat hanger chef jacket- bought it at a thrift store … Read more
This Homemade Witch’s Brew Halloween Costume was made because two cousins wanted to be something together. My niece was going to be a witch so I thought she needed her brew! And that’s how this costume was born. I used a large cauldron and cut a circle in the bottom (just enough to slide over … Read more
I made my son into a bookworm for Halloween this year. There were two major parts to the costume. Books: I created the illusion of a worm crawling on a pile of two books. The worm being green in color, I wanted the books to have contrasting colors to make the costume more fun. I … Read more
This Homemade Gorilla Caged the Zookeeper Costume was inspired by one that I saw on a website for like $1500!! Well I knew that mine wouldn’t look as professional but I decided to try and have some fun with it! I bought the hands and mask for 15 dollars from a party store and used … Read more
My 9 year old son and his best friend wanted to be something original for this year’s costume parade at school. They were throwing out inappropriate and outrageous ideas (mostly potty humor, again they are 9 year old boys) when my son’s friend yelled “How about a midget?” I said “I can do that, but … Read more
I made this aquarium costume for my 3 year old son using a box for the base, 2 yards of material (could use a cheap table cloth), a swimming cap, craft foam, fake eye lashes, aquarium gravel, thin strips of wood, and fish tank decor. I started by cutting the bottom out of the box … Read more
This is the second year in a row that the boys came up with optical illusion funny Halloween costume ideas. I purchased the granny mask from an internet store and filled it with a nylon stuffed with poly fill I hot glue gunned goggle eyes on the mask to fill the eye-holes. I sewed the … Read more
This costume is a variation of the “headless-boy” costume we’ve made in previous years that was just too spooky! It’s easy to make out of cardboard and old clothes. You simply use cardboard to build some fake shoulders and fake arms that rest on the child’s shoulders. Then you use an old trench coat that … Read more
We started a little late so the “scavenging” didn’t really take place and instead we ended up purchasing a good deal of the items used to construct this headless costume. We started with a basic set of football shoulder pads and we modified them (cut off the portion of the padding that wasn’t needed for … Read more