Here’s another good Halloween costume, a Homemade Claw Machine Halloween Costume which is fun and easy to make. All the items you will need are some big cardboard boxes, some duck tape, a load of teddy bears, some fake money notes and rubber bands. Also some lightweight see-through plastic and some silver foil cardboard for … Read more
This is Isabella in her homemade Lemonade Stand costume. I started out with the box and wrapped it in yellow paper. With one of the flaps I made the shelf by adding 2 pieces under it to make it stay up. Wooden dowels in the pack attached to a sign. I wrapped both yellow and … Read more
My costume is a Homemade Zoltar Costume from the movie “Big” with Tom Hanks.
I came up with the idea for this kids Halloween costume after helping fill the vending machine at my work. I used one large box. First thing was to cut arm holes and an opening for her head. I then made a back panel in the box so you could not see my daughter inside … Read more
My daughter was in love with the bubble-gum machine at a local video store. So of course when asked what she wanted to be for Halloween-a Bubble Gum Machine Costume Idea it was! We started of with about 144 ping-pong balls, stabbed toothpicks into them and dipped them in to cups of paint, as if … Read more
The movie “Big” has always been a favorite of mine. As I was pondering what to be this year, and, more especially, what would go with the new beard I’d been fostering, it came to me: ZOLTAR. Zoltar is the machine that was asked by Tom Hanks to make him “big” and, of course, Hanks … Read more
This Kissing Booth Costume I came up with when I was thinking about getting my first kiss. I was really depressed because everyone at my school was kissing girls and I was really jealous. I thought maybe, if I can’t get the girls to come to me with my looks, maybe I can get them … Read more
This year my daughter Margaret age 10 came up with a homemade Fortune Teller Halloween costume idea like the machines in arcades. Each year she has an idea for a homemade costume and we work together to figure out how to do it. For this homemade Fortune Teller Halloween costume idea we started with 4 … Read more
While out shopping one day my son and I were trying to come up with original ideas for kids Halloween costumes. We stopped at a vending machine to get a soda and my son thought a vending machine would be one of those original kids Halloween costumes to create. We found a large box and … Read more
Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. We’ve had lots of fun doing just that! Sarah was 13 the year we did this Kissing Booth Wheelchair Costume and not sure she wanted to dress up for Halloween. We were just afraid she would change … Read more
My daughter, Madelyn, REALLY wanted to be a gumball machine this year after seeing some of the ideas on this website. Last year, she was a robot, which won her 1st prize at her school’s Halloween party. Her 2 year old brother inherited her costume this year. We’ve started a tradition in our family of … Read more
The idea behind this year’s costume actually started before last Halloween was even finished. My son Ian has always had a love for the Halloween season. My wife and I, actually think he loves Halloween more that Christmas. With that said, we have had to come up with some different ideas that only a child’s … Read more