My 7 year old son wanted to be Optimus Prime this year, and I embraced the challenge! We used cardboard boxes and made several trips back to the store for “just one more roll” of duct tape. Coffee can lids make up the wheels, and square tissue boxes fit his legs perfectly. Flashlights from the … Read more
Every year our horse club has a Halloween contest where horse and rider can dress up. It is the Mid Rivers Saddle Club and all the shows are held at the National Equestrian Center in Lake St Louis Missouri. We have done this now for the 3 years we have shown horses and have been … Read more
My son is absolutely obsessed with Transformers and he wanted more than anything to be Optimus Prime (the leader of the autobots). he also wanted his costume to be able to transform. I told him that i didn’t think they made costumes like that. He insisted that I make him one. Not wanting to disappoint … Read more
My costume is a homemade transforming transformer tank costume that I built for my 7 year old son Jaiden. This Halloween he asked for a costume totally outside the box (no pun intended lol) He asked me if I could make him a transforming tank costume! The challenge was on!!! I love to create things … Read more
When starting this costume I was determined to make it a no sew costume let me tell u the hot glue gun became my best friend. I spent about 8 hrs on each costume and less then 40$ each but it was all well worth it. My kids and I could not walk anywhere with … Read more
I’ll be the first to admit I’m a Harry Potter nerd. I grew up with the books and I’ve read all seven of them about 10000000 times at this point. So when I entered my awesome horse, Lina, in a Halloween horse show I immediately starting thinking about Harry Potter themed costumes. Once I settled … Read more
We came across one of these classic fortune telling machines while on a family vacation. Our oldest daughter thought it would be a hoot to dress as one for Halloween. Whoa boy, was she right. With 5 kids to costume, we knew we needed to keep costs down as much as we could so wherever … Read more
My son Antoine (8) had won the Sartorette Elementary’s harvest festival costume contest in San Jose for the last 3 years in a row. This year was a challenge coming up with an original costume for the contest. While driving by a Red Box I told my wife what about we built the box, we can … Read more
She’s fierce, an original songwriter artist. a Rockstar! Feisty feline but nice. Sweet but you must think twice. She has a heart of literate gold. A passion for puzzles. Riddles, fill in the blanks and the puzzle game “Double Trouble. May I formally introduce. Cynthia The Rock-Star Puzzle Cat Goddess! Cynthia originated from Cairo Egypt. … Read more
This year I decided to pay homage to everyone’s favourite Bio-exorcist, Beetlejuice. My goal with any costume I make is to do it differently than anyone else has ever done it before. I decided on the basic idea on the drive home from last year’s Halloween Contest. This costume features a kickable leg, a Sand … Read more
I am a mechanical engineer by trade and am lucky enough to work on the Curiosity Mars Rover project! My love of Mars and technology runs deep and I could think of no better way to honor that this Halloween than with a Marvin the Martian inspired Halloween costume! Planning Once I had my muse … Read more
I came up with the idea for this tornado costume after watching the movie “Twister” for the first time with my 6 year old son and he started spinning around pretending he was a tornado. I didn’t have a plan when I started, but the fun part was coming up with different ideas as I … Read more