This breathing Jellyfish costume was a really easy costume to make. I already had everything at home so it didn’t cost me a cent. I used a see-through dome umbrella for the top, covered with white tulle. The tentacles were made from strips of white fabric. Some of the strips I hand sewed a large zigzag … Read more
I work at Adobe Systems and they have an annual Halloween party that is out of this world! I am always trying to come up with a costume that rivals those that win the grand prize. I decided a few years ago to give it a try and didn’t win the grand prize until this … Read more
My daughter Victoria is modelling my interpretation of The Wonder Woman Costume. It was inspired by the original Linda Carter costume with the first eagle. I studied many photos of eagles to come up with my drawing I then separated it into three parts to make the pattern. I used gold lame added some cotton … Read more
For my child’s 5th birthday we decided that we wanted a mascot to visit to present the birthday cake, at that time their favorite Disney film was Toy Story. I spent many hours trawling the internet for a decent looking mascot to hire for the event but felt none of them were worth the money … Read more
This is Bob dressed up as Jack Sparrow and his Pirate. They are carrying their treasure chest loaded with booty! The front part of Bob’s costume is a pirate costume that I bought and modified to fit his chest. The hat and wig were purchased also, I just added elastic to hold it on his … Read more
I started off this Gumby Halloween costume with tracing my entire body on a large piece of paper I got from the newspaper printers. I got the outline and then drew the shape of Gumby over the pattern of my body outline. Cut the fabric pieces out from the new pattern and made the eyes out … Read more
In searching for an idea for a costume to make this year, my brainstorming led me to H.P. Lovecraft, and naturally my mind immediately thought of Cthulhu. Now there was great potential for a unique and challenging costume. In H.P. Lovecraft’s stories, Cthulhu is described as vaguely humanoid, with wings and scales, and writhing tentacles … Read more
My girlfriend and I always spend too much money on supplies to make our Halloween costumes, which is a big reason why this year we decided to be classic cardboard robots. But as usual, we felt the need to take it further. Before I actually started building, there was a lot to think about and … Read more
The only problem I can see with making Halloween costumes, is I have to outdo myself each year. Pretty soon I’ll be starting my costumes a year in advance. I like to try and come up with something that hasn’t been done before. This year, I decided to go with a video game theme. I … Read more
This costume was inspired by Tim Burton’s Film “Nine”. There were a lot of workarounds to make this costume, so measurements should be used as a guide. Also, it was made based on my body measurements. Hopefully, this will give you an idea of what process I went thru to create your costume and you … Read more
This is a Killer Croc costume I made. My son and I had a conversation back in February ’12 about what costumes we’d like to do for this Halloween. I know.. we plan ahead. He decided that Killer Croc would be the most challenging costume so that’s the one I should do. Also, you really … Read more
This cool Flashing and Blinking homemade Robot Costume was a fun costume to make. After viewing some other robots on this website, we came up with the perfect robot costume ideas for our son Will— and WILL-BOT was born! My husband did most of the work, against his better wishes (and pleads for a simple … Read more