My son Anthony has been obsessed over the Titanic and my wife decided to make a replica Homemade Titanic Costume with Styrofoam board and suspenders. We have been reading books and going to exhibits so he learns as much as he can about the tragedy. I know it is not a typical event that children … Read more
I deliver mail and my 3 year old son thinks it’s pretty cool, so I decided to go to home depot and got a big cardboard box. I made it fit around his power wheels truck (3×5). I cut it out to look like my mail truck. I painted it white and put some postal … Read more
My two year old wanted to be a Choo Choo train, and I wanted the costume to be something that involved sewing, which I am in the process of learning. So instead of creating the typical cardboard train costume, my mother-in-law and I brainstormed and made our own pattern out of news-paper. We came up … Read more
My wife and I came up with a vision of a “Trucker Girl on a Mud Flap” (you know the little hot silver seductive women on the back of mud flaps). I don’t know how it started or came about… but It came out pretty incredible. I am an extremest, I take things over the … Read more
I got this costume idea from another Coolest-Homemade-Costume submitter. They made the original version of this and I wanted to share my version of it… and prove that with a little elbow grease it’s possible to recreate these great costumes on this site! My son is obsessed (to say the least) with Hot Wheels cars. … Read more
My son wanted to be a traffic light for Halloween, so I went to work. Considering I do not sew, I put the entire homemade traffic light kids Halloween costume idea together with a hot glue gun. My son’s reaction when he first saw the finished costume made all the effort worthwhile … he said … Read more
We had some homemade Halloween costume ideas but this costume we made two days before Halloween. All told it took about 8hrs, most of that spent engineering the cuts in the foam and holding the cut pieces together in order to fabric glue them. It wasn’t overly difficult just took a lot of time. I … Read more