This is a super easy costume that I assembled 1 hour before we went Trick-or-Treating! I bought two inexpensive baseball hats and cut the brim of one. This I attached to the bottom of the other hat’s brim (forming the beak). I used yellow felt to cover the front of the hat and glued two … Read more
This year for Halloween my boyfriend and I were “Dunkin Donuts”. We only wanted easy costumes and he loves their coffee and who doesn’t love a pair of basketball playing donuts? The donuts are made of a polar-fleece material stuffed with polyfiber (which helped keep us warm for much of the night and also served … Read more
I was trying to come up with easy costume ideas for a Halloween party my friend was throwing. I came up with the Jeopardy Contestant. You will need one large cardboard box, one medium cardboard box, one or two cans of flat gray spray paint (will depend on size of box), one can of metallic … Read more
My 8-year-old son went in a King Tut costume this Halloween. I did make 3 actual purchases for this costume, the staff was store bought for $6, the snake on his headpiece was a broken plastic armband with a cobra on it that I bought for $2, and a plastic mask for about $1. I … Read more
For this costume I followed the McCall’s pattern #MP357, size 1/2. My son Timmy is 5 months old. I started making this costume early September and it took me 5 weeks! I have two small children, so I don’t have long sewing sessions. This costume is a pretty difficult pattern with lots of hand-stitching, especially … Read more
I started making this Eric Cartman costume because it was for my art class during the Halloween season. I started by using paper Mache and making a large sphere and then wrapped it in chicken wire to make it sturdier then some more layers of paper Mache. Obviously next I painted the face and used … Read more
The head of the Ernie costume was made by using foam. I used pictures from the internet to get the basic shape. Ernie’s head is basically a football. I cut that out of foam and made an exact copy for the back piece. I then sewed the head together using a heaving denim thread. This … Read more
I got most of the ideas from this website for a firefighter costume. First I got a black shirt from Wal-Mart. I got it a size 4-5 even though my son wears a 2T. That way it would fit over his clothes if it was cold on Halloween night. I cut off the shirt tails … Read more
I asked my 2-year-old what he wanted to be for Halloween and he said “a fish”. I found a fish pattern at a local store and used it as a guide. Justin picked out the material – shiny stretchy polyester stuff (excellent fish material for fish costumes). I used 1-inch foam for the form. It … Read more
Food costumes are great! Materials needed for this sandwich costume: 2-inch-thick white upholstery foam (sold at fabric stores) cut into two 24-inch by 30-inch pieces and one 12-inch circle, scissors or bread knife (for cutting the foam), brown and green acrylic paints, paintbrush, 12-inch by 18-inch sheets of craft foam: 4 pink, 1 green, 2 … Read more
I had this mask and didn’t really know what to do with it, so I got creative and made a football costume. I used a cardboard box and hot glued fake astro-turf to the front of it. I then painted the back of the box green and painted white lines on the front. I used … Read more
You gotta love it, Asterix and Obelix are the supreme choice, far better than dressing as an inanimate object such as a shuttlecock or a needle. They have no life, while these cartoon characters have given joy to people all around the world, and we have craftily brought them to life. We then went out … Read more