So I wanted something different for Halloween this year. Every store bought costume I looked at didn’t stand out to me. So after looking at random Halloween pictures online, I got the idea to do a Zombie theme. I told my friend about my idea and she quickly jumped on board with me and the … Read more
The world of the Ninjas of Ninjago is one of valiant struggle, then, ultimately, triumph. So it was with our Halloween costumes this year. My son, age five, loves to build sets, read about, and watch the LEGO Ninjago adventures. Surprisingly enough, very little is available in the realm of ‘store-bought’ costumes. So we … Read more
These are our costumes that I had made 4 yrs ago. It was 100% of pure fun! Look how many arms and feet we’ve got ! how to make To create this costume you will require a foam
My inspiration was Nemo, little curious fish from my our favorite cartoon. I used: foam 1 cm thick, dimensions 1 x 2 m pigment (the one you use to tone wall paint) orange and black spray, newspapers, scissors glue gun I have found Nemo! He was here all along! Tailoring the Foam On newspaper dimension … Read more
This Carnival was held 12 yrs ago. I have to appologise once again for my bad photos. I don’t think they seem so bad alive, I am afraid my scanning made it lose their quality. Anyway, that year we were Pierrots, The Sad Clowns. Our inspiration was the back and white clown, with black hat, … Read more
These are my mermaids, photos were taken some 11 yrs ago. It was raining that day, everything around them was wet, it looks they just came out from the sea :) Little Mermaids How To Make I don’t have a tutorial, but I belive there should be no problem making this costume. I used plastic … Read more
These are my 3 penguins; first costume party for the youngest, some 8 yrs ago. The real inpiration was my little son who couldn’t walk proper then, his walk actually reminded me of a penguin walk. I am so sorry for the lack of photos, expecially for its (un)quality. In my defence, I’ll say that … Read more
This is very simple costume. You will need some patience and a lot of cotton wool. And the result is soft, gentle, wooly, fluffy sheep. Baaa Sheep Family How To Make For the base, you could use a old white shirt with the hood or you can sew something similar from the old bed sheet, … Read more
My friends (all Moms like me) and myself decided to make this fabolous costumes for our kids, and for ourselves, too! Nobody had recognized us ;) Frog Costume How To Make We used 2 cm thick foam, green and red pigment, and this disposable overalls that we bought in paint store, made out of some … Read more
My kids have finally all reached the age where they can watch the Wizard of Oz without me fearing the night ahead. In honor of this (and the fact that it’s celebrating its 75th anniversary) we chose to take on ‘characters’ from this classic. My youngest daughter was DOROTHY, complete with thrift shop ruby … Read more
We make our costumes every year, for 2013 we decided to try Flamingos. This was a really fun costume to make, it was time consuming but fairly inexpensive. We purchased our masks from Hobby Lobby, and then cut glitter foam in pink and black for our beaks, started adding feathers to the mask with hot … Read more
This is one is one of my favorite costumes becouse I got to be a bee with my kids. These photos were taken before I got into digital era ;) LOL little bee How To Make Wings The most famous part of this costume are wings, at least for me. These were very first wings … Read more