For this homemade Thomas the train costume I took my son’s Radio Flyer and modified it to look like Thomas the Train. The idea was to have a costume he could ride in, so his little legs wouldn’t get too tired. Most of the body is made from old diaper boxes, duct-taped together. The front … Read more
For the gal, start with “a little fb lack dress” then go to Lowes or Home Depot (not with the LBD) and head to the hvac aisle. Purchase a tool of metal tape to be usEd for the center line on the road. It runs about $7 then in the lighting department there are the … Read more
Jackson is our 4th son. He is 10 years old and this was the last school parade for our family (this is our last year in Elementary school). All four of our boys have learned to tube and ski behind our 1982 Master Craft ski boat at our cabin in Kentucky. So, we thought this … Read more
My two year old granddaughter, Chloe, lives for cars, trucks, tractors and trains so it was a natural that she should be Thomas the Tank Engine for Halloween. Her daddy told me six months ago that I must make her a train costume for Halloween this year. He also insisted that Mom (9 months pregnant) … Read more
What a last minute costume… As I only had 5 days to get a Halloween costume together for my family. Just had my newborn baby and wanted to do something unique and special. So we had a radio flyer airplane around the house so it hit me, how about airplane pilots and stewardess. I first … Read more
I got this idea when spotting a couple of boxes lying in the shop here at our Napa Autocare Center; visualized them as Thomas the Train..My friend’s little 3 year old is in love with Thomas; his whole bedroom is filled with comforters, blankets, toys, toyboxes, train cars, plates, cups, clear down to a knife, … Read more
We’ve just moved to the USA so this was our first ‘real’ Halloween and my 4 year old son was VERY excited to be able to choose his own costume. He started out wanting a Police outfit, then he wanted to be a Fireman, then a spaceman and finally he settled on being a pilot. … Read more
My one and a half year old son loves airplanes or “aepains” as he calls them. Whenever we are outside, and he sees on he points and shrieks “aepain!” Sometimes eleven if we’re were in the house he can hear them and he does the same thing! So about 2 months ago, I starTed googling … Read more
This is a family costume which started with a 21/2 year olds dream of being an orange race car (he also wanted me to be a red race car and his daddy to be a blue one… through our costumes I fulfilled one of his three requests. In decided what we as a family were … Read more
My son is obsessed with construction equipment, like most little boys, especially any kind of Skid Steer Loader. He has a toy one that was the model for what I made. My original plan was to make something wearable but I decided after getting all the materials it would be awkward for him to walk … Read more
My husband created the boat from a cardboard box. We then painted it to match the boat from the Jaws movie. We added so much detail to the boat trying to get it exactly; yellow barrels, wire, ladder, windows, life ring, tower, lines, letters on the back spelling orca, lights and the funnest accessory was … Read more
We came across an airplane as we were thinking and browsing for Halloween Costumes. Of course the 5 year old thought it was ‘cool’ and I thought, ‘I can make that’… famous last words. It actually was not nearly as difficult as I thought it might be. I found one big box for the body … Read more