We used blue body paint to paint our body and face. It took a few hours to paint our bodies. For the hat, we used white felt fabric and traced a template and sewed it. It could take a few tries with the template to get the shape just right. For Smurfette’s hair, we used … Read more
My Mum & Auntie are twin sisters and decided to go in Patty and Selma Twins Costumes from the Simpsons! They bought the wigs and made the rest of the costumes out of clothing and shoes they had themselves! They painted their skin yellow! They both had given up smoking so they passed on the … Read more
This Homemade Ronald McDonald and Hamburgler Costume was a HUGE hit at the office, and trick-or-treating. It was very simple to make, and not very expensive to buy the accessories. I bought white zip-up painters coveralls, spray painted the main body yellow. For the arms, I took regular paper tape, and colored it red with … Read more
We wanted something that was not store bought but always wanted to dress as a couple costume… This Chucky and his Bride was perfect! We found most of the clothes at a discount store and even found an actual wedding dress from the 70s. We chopped it up and added some fake blood. It was … Read more
My boyfriend and I were looking up costumes online and wanted to stay away from the typical “hot guy” and “hot girl” costumes. So, I ran across an Oompa Loompa and it was meant to be. We both decided that he’d be Willy Wonka and I’d be the Oompa Loompa. And that worked really well … Read more
I found a light pink dress at a local thrift store – only $12! First I cut off the lace sleeves. Then I needed to get it red. Here was the real problem. You can’t dye synthetic material. After several different things I tried, I ended up with cheap red spray paint! 5 cans of … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday. However my fiance’ said he would only dress up with me if he liked the costume. So it came down to a homemade Beetlejuice and Lydia costume. I purchased a black negligee from Salvation Army and painted a spider web on the front with fabric paint. I bought 2 pairs … Read more
I really wanted to do a costume that included my newborn son. I always called him a monkey, so when I was looking for monkey suits online, I couldn’t find one that I wanted. I then came up with the idea as him being King Kong! I thought, if he was King Kong, then I … Read more
My kids are both HUGE Star Wars fans and wanted to be these cool bounty hunters for Halloween. I started pricing out costumes and was shocked! I did find however some pretty cool tutorials online for helmet making, and I tweaked them to things I had around the house. The actual suit part of the … Read more
This is my two year old daughter Leila Jayde and her cousin Christian in their Homemade Little I Love Lucy and Ricky Homemade Costumes last Halloween. Me and my mother made the Lucy costume. Everything is homemade except for a few parts of the dress and the jewelry. I like to incorporate her naturally curly … Read more
My two sons wanted to have a costume theme together but couldn’t agree on anything. They love video games of course and I suggested a Mario and Luigi costume, but we didn’t like the ideas we had seen. We came up with Bobble Head Mario and Luigi. Using the kitchen table for a month was … Read more
My boys are obsessed with Mario and Luigi but there were not ready made costumes so we had to make our own Fire Mario and Fire Luigi Halloween Costumes. This particular year they wanted to be Fire Mario and Fire Luigi from New Super Mario Bros.