Wasn’t sure what to do for Halloween and I always love to be different. I stopped in a Halloween store to look for a dress and I mentioned to them that it would be so cool to have someone paint a design all over me. Wasn’t sure what , but that’s what came to my … Read more
Asked my two and a half year old son what he wanted to be for Halloween last year and his response was simply, “I want donuts”. This has been a common request because donuts are his favorite desert, but it got me thinking… why don’t I make a donut costume for him? So I bought … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday! I love doing family costumes. We have been farmers with our kids as animals, we did a Star Wars theme, and we have done knights and a princess. Most years I pick the costumes for the boys because they are little and easily swayed. This year Q was 6 and … Read more
I wasn’t sure what to dress my six month old son as for Halloween, and I wanted him and his older brother to have a common theme. So after my other son picked a donut I thought of another cute treat for the baby to dress as… a gingerbread man costume! The costume was very … Read more
I could not say no to my son Dylan when he wanted to be a Transforming Optimus Prime for Halloween. We made this creative Transformers costume from scratch. Deciding what materials to use as we went along. To make this costume we used boxes, paper towel tubes, tires from an firetruck toy, spray paint, paint, … Read more
This is an adult halloween “Macho Man” Randy Savage costume I made last Halloween to pay tribute to the late wrestler “Macho Man” Randy Savage who passed away in 2011. I took a suit jack and painted it gold. I then added green/yellow ribbon and zebra print to the jacket as well as the Macho … Read more
At dinner I asked my 8 year old son what he wanted to be for Halloween. He thought for a moment and then said that he wanted to be something scary. So I prepared myself for a zombie, something bloody, or something just plain gross. But then something just awesome happened. “Mom, I want to … Read more
Here’s my awesome Deadmau5 head costume! I actually made the entire head in only 3 days!! And it turned out phenomenally well!! Was a great hit at all the costume parties!! It even took 3rd place at one!! And at another I had soo many great reactions, people wanting pictures and telling me it was … Read more
My son’s favorite video game is Little Big Planet so he decided he wanted to be Sackboy for Halloween. There are NO commercial Sackboy costumes on the market so mama had to step up and make him a costume! I bought some cheap jersey fabric at the craft store and made a quick little jumpsuit … Read more
As the mom of new twins, I wanted their first Halloween costumes to be perfect. I had boy girl twins in 2010 and everywhere I looked I could not find the perfect costume set. One night I was reading them the Cat in the Hat and it hit me, Thing 1 and Thing 2 twin … Read more
He is four, and his favorite movie is The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s Halloween time, so he wants to be Jack the Pumpkin King, of course! How can we say no to that? Well, we couldn’t, and we nearly ran out of time figuring this one out! But, we did it, and here’s how we … Read more
These are my children’s Pebbles and Bamm Bamm homemade Halloween costumes.. Four year old Pebbles – pants were hand-sewn out of felt material (measurements were made by guesswork). Top – Over sized leopard print T-shirt cut up. And hair tie- bone molded out of playdoh and left to harden for a week ten glued onto … Read more