Cap’n Crunch and Cereal Costumes: Crunch-a-tize me Cap’n!

Crunch-a-tize me Cap’n!

We create homemade costumes every year for our annual Halloween camping weekend! The cereal box was hand-painted on cardboard that was spray-painted yellow. The captain’s hat was made of foam and covered in blue and yellow felt. The cereal was created from cardboard, a white tablecloth, yellow felt-covered boxes (teachers in the family used math … Read more

Coolest Frankenberry Homemade Costume

Homemade Frankenberry Costume

Of the three monster cereals, Frankenberry was always my favorite as a kid. But I had to wonder, now that I’m all grown up, what Frankenberry would be like today? So I went out to create a larger-than-life-size, pink, reanimated, mechanized corpse that’s all hopped up on his own sugary sweet breakfast cereal. I started … Read more

Easy DIY Fruit Loops Costume

Fruit Loops Costume

For my Fruit Loops costume, I first created the paper mache bowl which was definitely the hardest part! Then I cut up colorful pool noodles and glued them into the bowl. I then covered a cut up piece of cardboard and covered it with tin foil as the spoon. To finish it off, I added … Read more

Awesome Homemade Cereal Mascot Group Costumes

I found the Toucan Sam and Captain Crunch jacket at the thrift store and got my inspiration there. The Tony the Tiger costume is a Broncos sweatshirt with fake fur and black duck tape. The pants are also black duck tape. All items are thrift store bought except a few things. We were quite the … Read more

Count Chocula Paper Mache Mask

Count Chocula Paper Mache Mask

I created this paper mache Count Chocula mask after looking for a mask that would fit comfortably over my prescription glasses, which has been a recurring issue since childhood. I chose to use paper mache due to the process being fairly inexpensive and fun, with the entire mask costing me roughly $20.00 in total to … Read more

Nostalgic Cereal Mascot Group Costume

Nostalgic Cereal Mascot Group Costume

When you are 24 years old, in entry level jobs, and moving away from home, it’s hard to carry traditions carried out from when you were in middle school. However, one tradition that my friends and I never fail to come together for is Halloween. Since age 13/14, we have made Halloween our passion, picking … Read more

Cool Snap, Crackle and Pop Child Costumes

Cool Snap, Crackle and Pop Child Costumes

I have 3 children (ages 9, 9 and 8) and have always loved dressing them up for Halloween in themes of “3’s”.  I got this idea a couple years ago, while eating Rice Krispies for breakfast one morning.  I finally had the time to make the costumes this year.  :-) Snap: I found a white … Read more

Giant Bowl of Cocoa Puffs Costume for a Child

Giant Bowl of Cocoa Puffs Costume for a Child

I came up with this idea of a giant bowl of Cocoa Puffs costume for a child, because I am an avid cereal fan. There was a trick or treat event going on at our local orchard, so I wanted to “WOW” the thousands of people that I knew would be in attendance. So, I … Read more

Sexy Cereal Box Characters Group Costume

Sexy Cereal Box Characters Group Costume

This costume came to me when I started contemplating a creative group costume for me and my 4 other friends. Then I thought of dressing up as the cereal characters and updating them into cute costumes! They were a huge hit, we were in Chico that year and everyone loved them! The best part was … Read more

Most Stylish Snap-Crackle-Pop Girl Group Costume

Most Stylish Snap-Crackle-Pop Girl Group Costume

We purchased for our Snap-Crackle-Pop Girl Group Costume two XXL men’s t-shirts, in red and royal blue, then an XL goldenrod yellow button-up men’s shirt, and went to town cutting them up! We acted as each other’s seamstresses, cut down the sides of the tees, made slits, and tied the side slits together one by one. … Read more

Coolest Homemade Captain Crunch Halloween Costume for a Woman

Coolest Homemade Captain Crunch Halloween Costume for a Woman

I decided to be Captain Crunch for Halloween, it took a lot of work but was well worth it! I found the jacket at a thrift store, bought blue, yellow and white foam for the hat, had cardboard and a beanie hat at home already, then bought tassles for the shoulders pads and pockets. 1) … Read more