Cool DIY Participation Trophies: A Family Costume Adventure

Participation Tropthies

My 3 boys started sports this last year and our schedules gut even crazier then they were. At the end of each season, they would get a participation trophy and my husband and I would argue that we the parents should get one too. The boys wanted to be trophies for Halloween and make a … Read more

Shiny DIY Baseball Trophy Costume for a Boy

Shiny DIY Baseball Trophy Costume for a Boy

This trophy costume is one of the easiest costumes we have done. We already had everything since my son has played sport’s. We went with baseball trophy. We used an old uniform, spray painted it gold. For his hands and face we purchased some gold face paint Amazon for less than $10 bucks. The base … Read more

Great Couple Costume – A Couple of Trophies

Great Couple Costume - A Couple of Trophies

My hunny and I decided on being trophies this year!! Oh boy!  It was fun :).  I am a 2015 World series champion and April was a 2015 US open champion.   So we went thrift shopping picking out clothes that matched our theme. We also found old clothes laying around the house.  I painted … Read more

Coolest Living a Trophy Life Couple Costume

Coolest Living a Trophy Life Couple Costume

I always joke with my wife Jodi that she is a trophy wife. So we came up with the idea of being trophies and wanting to match, and being golf fans we chose to be golf trophies. I chose to be the likeness of Payne Stewart – the 1999 Men’s Us Open Golf Champion, and Jodi … Read more

Golden Trophy Case Group Costume

Golden Trophy Case Group Costume

These costumes were for our school Senior Social, which was a Halloween party for the senior class! We got together as a group and spray painted our sports equipment and clothing in order to make it as gold as can be. Next we painted our bodies completely gold, which took about 2 hours total! Once … Read more

Amazing Golden Trophies Group Costume

Amazing Golden Trophies Group Costume

Last years costumes were a blast! I first had seen this trophy idea done with some high school students and fell in love with it! I knew this was what us girls had to do for Halloween. Our local small town has some pretty competitive Halloween costume contests and we had won the group costume … Read more

Cool Homemade Baseball Trophy Costume

Cool Homemade Baseball Trophy Costume

My grandson loves baseball and wanted to do something different this year than just a baseball player so we made our grandson a MVP All Star Little League trophy for his costume this year. It turned out awesome. We used his old baseball uniform top ,pants, socks and cleets and spaypainted them all gold. We … Read more

Gold Trophy Wife and Master Baiter Couple Costume

Gold Trophy Wife and Master Baiter Couple Costume

In the past my husband and I have created costumes to mimic movie characters such as Zombies, Alice & The Mad Hatter, Professor Dumbledore & Professor McGonagall.  This year we decided to take a more creative approach along with the goal of saving as much money as possible. WARNING: Do not be surprised to find … Read more

Original Homemade Costume: The Joe Paterno Statue

Original Homemade Costume: The Joe Paterno Statue

Our company has an annual Halloween Party and the costume competition is very competitive. I knew this year if I had a chance of winning, I had come up with something extremely different. Since I’m a diehard Penn State fan, I thought the idea of doing where is The Joe Paterno statue now…would be a … Read more

Coolest Homemade Baseball Trophy Halloween Costume

Homemade Baseball Trophy Halloween Costume

For this homemade Baseball Trophy Halloween costume I took his last season’s baseball uniform, cleats and this toddler baseball bat I had gotten at Wal-Mart on clearance and spray painted them all gold. I had started out using a special cloth stencil spray, but it didn’t go far at all and was expensive! I then … Read more

Coolest Homemade Baseball Trophy Costume

Homemade Baseball Trophy Costume

This Baseball Trophy Costume was so easy and inexpensive to do. I was inspired by my son’s baseball trophy. Supplies for this costume: Gold Spray paint, golf hair color spray and gold makeup, his baseball uniform, shirt, pants, cleats, socks, helmet, gloves & a plastic bat. I sprayed painted gold on everything, about 5 cans. … Read more

Coolest Homemade Living Baseball Statue Halloween Costume Idea

Homemade Living Baseball Statue Halloween Costume Idea

My son Nicholas is all about baseball and my son and my husband decided to make him a Living Baseball Statue for Halloween. I bought an old baseball uniform a plastic wooden looking bat and cleats at yard sales for a couple of bucks and my husband used bronze spray paint with gold highlights to … Read more