My son Trey LOVES the pumpkin king! He has been wanting to do this Jack Skellington DIY costume for years and this was the year! He was very thrilled with the final product… We picked up a pin-striped suit from Goodwill, which I cut to resemble a tuxedo with tails. I gathered the back and … Read more
Who doesn’t love the classic movie “A Christmas Story”? The idea for our Homemade A Christmas Story Couple Costume came from an ornament we bought last year for Christmas: the infamous fragile crate containing the illuminated leg lamp. This ornament, of course, was inspired by this movie. We started by looking online for pictures of … Read more
When my school announced that we could wear Christmas themed fancy dress on the last day before we broke up for Christmas me and my best friend knew it had to be something special as our school was never this much fun! We needed something that was original but could be done cheaply and that … Read more
While in college, a group of my sorority sisters and I were all broke and trying to figure out what to be for a Halloween party. My friend Eliza, and I went to the store to look at the costumes in hopes to find some inspiration of something we could mimic. However, most of the … Read more
My friend and I decided about 1.5 weeks before Halloween that we wanted to dress up to go out. I was looking for costume ideas on the internet and had a thought to use paper mache for a costume. While exploring this idea, I decided that I wanted to try to dress up as Jack … Read more
Jack Skellington and Sally from the movie ‘the Nightmare before Christmas’. The Homemade Jack and Sally Costumes are entirely handmade (except for the skeleton gloves). We wore them at the annual ‘Elf Fantasy Fair’ in the Netherlands and we were a huge hit. I tried to get the costumes as close as possible to the … Read more
So, a month before Halloween, my boyfriend and I were looking at costumes. He came along a Jack Skellington one and said that that would be a cool one. However, looking at the shoddy make of the costume, I said “I can make one better than that!” and thus began my month long costume project … Read more
I have made my costume every Halloween for the past 3 years and this year I decided to tackle my boyfriend’s. We both agreed on The Nightmare Before Christmas since were both huge fans of the movie. I never really liked the way the store bought costume looked so I decided to tackle his Jack … Read more
I apologize if this costume was entered more than once. I had a great deal of trouble with the submission form! I have always been in love with “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” This Jack Skellington DIY Halloween Costume Idea was created for my boyfriend. I had handy a plastic helmet (cheap hard hat with an … Read more
My idea for these Homemade Leg Lamp and Ralphie from A Christmas Story Costumes comes from the coolest Christmas movie ever – “A Christmas Story”. I had actually previously made the Major Award Lamp and it sits in my window every holiday season! To make it as a costume was harder than I imagined. I … Read more
My daughter decided she wanted to be oogy boogy from Nightmare before Christmas. We racked our brain and came up with this homemade Oogy Boogy costume!!!
I decided to make my children the Sally and Jack Skellington costumes from a nightmare before Christmas for last Halloween. To make the Jack costume, I bought some black trousers, waistcoat and t-shirt as I could not find a jacket suitable at a reasonable price. I painted the white stripes on using fabric paint and … Read more