So for Homer we were going to use a swim cap cause he has a lot of hair but it broke so we ended up getting a snowman hat from Michaels arts and crafts taking it apart and spray painting it yellow. For the hair we used pipe cleaners, both on the back of his … Read more
My parents were invited to my cousin’s wedding which was on Halloween and there was to be a costume contest involved. My mom was trying to figure out what they would be. She got the brilliant idea to do Colonel Sanders and a chicken since it was right about the time people were claiming that … Read more
Our costumes came from the idea that little red riding hood was attacked by the wolf after she got to grandma’s house & saw him in grandma’s clothes. We think this is how things would have looked…the dress was bought & then modified to suit our look more. The bottom of the dress is shredded … Read more
My husband and I were invited to a Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Theme Party. The hosts sent out brilliant invitations which were chocolate bars which had been decorated with printed “Wonka Bar” wrappers and each contained a golden ticket under the wrapper. We decided to attend as “Homemade No Sew Oompa Loompa Costumes”. Our … Read more
Every year I would buy my kids costumes. Last year with the economic crisis I decided that I was going to make their costumes. I used stuff that I had around the house. Chucky: I used a striped shirt and a blue pair of old overalls. I used foam letters to glue on the words … Read more
It took us about 3 hours to get our costumes on the second time around. We painted ourselves with body paint, mixing teal and dark blue for the base and painting our stripes on with just dark blue. I made my loin cloth and top with a fake leather material and he bought khaki pants … Read more
I got the idea for this Homemade Stay Puft Marshamallow Man Costume from this site, but I am someone who needs perfection so I decided to elaborate on it. I bought 2 pairs of sweat suits (1 med., 1 XXL) and I sewed them inside of the other. Then stuffed each section with stuffing from … Read more
My husband (boyfriend) at the time went as Wayne and Garth from Wayne’s world! I was Wayne and he was Garth! This Homemade Wayne’s World Costume was super easy! We got ripped jeans, a blond wig and made it into a mullet, an Aerosmith shirt, flannel shirt and black framed glasses. The only thing we … Read more
My 5 year old absolutely loves the Magic School Bus and was insistent that he would be the Magic School Bus for Halloween this year. Our aim was to make this costume on a tight budget and we did well! We started with a box, ironically from an order of Scholastic books that included a … Read more
This was probably going to be the last Halloween that my cousin/best friend and I were going to be able to hang out on Halloween and I wanted us to be the Mario Brothers for Halloween since we are like brothers. I started working on the Mario and Luigi Halloween costumes three months prior to … Read more
My boyfriend and his son were Mario and Luigi for Halloween. I bought the Luigi clothes from Wall-mart. I bought the Mario clothes from a childrens thrift store. I bought the hats from Wall-mart. They already owned the shoes, and the gloves were free from Albertson’s photo department. The hats were also from Wall-Mart. Luigi’s … Read more
We wanted to be something different but yet as a group. It ended up being the two of us. This Crayola crayons Halloween costume was something decent, cute and very unique. We definitely got everyone’s attention. We started with the homemade dress, and then snowballed into the wig, make-up, boots etc.