This DIY Day of the Dead couple Halloween costume were put together in one day! We had a few items but most were picked up here and there. I think the hats really made the costumes. The top hat for Mark was left over from last year and the hat I have on was bought … Read more
We go to a Halloween party every year and I am always at the last minute trying to find something since he hates to wear any costume whatsoever. He came home from a hunting weekend right before party and I had this idea of a Homemade Hunter and his “Dear” Costume. These are real deer … Read more
I got this Bobbit Couple Costume off your website last year but I thought you’d like to see my spin on it.
I saw the Nerds costume featured on this website but I did another design of a nerd’s box that I found. I bought 2 large moving boxes at Wal-Mart $1.72 each and craft paint, .77 cents each bottle (electric pink, white, electric teal, lime, black and lavender )at Hobby Lobby. I drew everything on the … Read more
After watching GI Joe, my friend and I wanted to be the 2 ninjas in that movie so we made a Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes couple costume. Only the masks (of both characters) and weapons were purchased, everything else was homemade. The costumes were mostly made from fabric and felt paper. The sword was … Read more
My daughter wanted to be a Zombie but she also wanted to be a Barbie too. I thought I would put the two together and see what happened. This Homemade 2009 Halloween Edition Barbie “Zombie” turned out great! I made her a Barbie box out of a huge Dixie cup box and lined it with … Read more
For my son’s 2nd Halloween we went as the Homemade Rubble Family Costume from the Flintstones. All 3 costumes were homemade, Barney, Betty and Bambam. I unfortunately cant find the photo of Barney but here are the other 2. Betty: I found a light blue dress at Value Village. I cut off the sleves and … Read more
This Simpson Halloween costumes was the product of unemployment. Weeks before Halloween I began strategizing and paper mache-ing the head pieces. Marge’s head piece was a bristol board tube, and then shaped with bulges of newspaper, and then papier mached, and then painted. Homer’s head was made from combining the skull part of a Pirate … Read more
ARE YOU INTO TO BLUE? Papa Smurf and Smurfette is a great homemade costume. My husband and I had a blast and got cutest couple at a local Halloween party in town for our Papa Smurf and Smurfette Costume. So much fun to dress up. The blue paint had to be the “right blue”. It … Read more
This Marge and Homer Simpson Couples Costume was my boyfriend and my couples costume in 2009. He decided that we would be Marge and Homer Simpson, but it was up to me to actually make the costumes! How I did it… Marge Simpson Costume: Hair: An old foam egg-crate mattress topper (the kind with the … Read more
These Homemade Wendy and Ronald McDonald Costumes really played to my infatuation with fast food. All in all, it took a bit of digging and the help of my girlfriend’s sewing ability to create these fun costumes. We got plenty of laughs, plus we raised awareness of Ronald and Wendy’s secret tryst. Since we could … Read more
Little Red Riding Hood walked through the woods to her Grandmother’s house and came across The big Bad Wolf in her Grandmother’s Bed. What big ears you have Grandma! (The mask was made from a paper plate formed into a nose, ears and forehead and was attached to a stocking cap covered in fake fur … Read more