My best friends and I did a Homemade Yard Art Group Costume for Halloween this year and posed in a yard for pictures at a Halloween party! From left to right we were: a flamingo, a peeing cherub fountain, a garden gnome, and a pinwheel. The flamingo was created from pink cotton fabric, elastic sewn … Read more
Here’s the story behind the Lego Ninjago costumes for kids I created for my four children (ages 10 to 4). If there is one thing they agree on, it’s Lego… specifically Lego Ninjago. The play sets, the movie, the TV series — they love it all. So when they *all* excitedly approached me about making … Read more
I made this Homemade Mario Party Group Costume for our annual visit to Disney’s Halloween time at Californian Adventure. My brother loves to play Super Mario Brothers on Super Nintendo game console (old school I the way to play) and I have wanted to make him a Yoshi costume for a while. So, better than … Read more
I’ve been making my kids’ costumes every year since my older son was born. It has become one of my hobbies now. As we were thinking about the ideas for Halloween this year, I wanted my younger son to dress up as an animal or something cute because I think little toddlers are so cute … Read more
Hi CHMC crew! What a fab site ? My friends and I were invited to a masquerade themed costume party, so we thought why not dress up as the underworld’s most feared masked ninjas from Mortal Kombat 2? So we decided to go all out and relive our childhood memories playing this classic arcade video … Read more
This year my friends and I were determined to win the costume contest with our group of friends in an annual party that grows every year. Since it is the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters we decided that was a WONDERFUL theme! With the help of a dear friend, I designed and made all the Homemade … Read more
We started by trying to think of a family costume idea with things that light up and I came up with lightning bugs. Then we started to figure out what goes with lightning bugs that everyone could be and we came up with a little girl catching lightning bugs in a jar. I was the … Read more
As with any kid who grew up in the 80’s I was a fan of the Smurfs and what better way to pay tribute to the classic cartoon than to be dressed in the Smurfs costume. As you can see we have Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy smurf and Taylor smurf. All of the pants for … Read more
Where do I start? The costumes were a group decision amongst a group of grown men who all thought it was time to shock the local costume party we attend. And if seeing 6 foot tall grown men in bright colored jumpsuits isn’t shock then I am not sure what is. The Carebear costumes were … Read more
This Homemade McDonald’s Group Costume idea took hours to put together, but was worth every second! We won numerous costume contests and had SOOO much fun! My sister and I love to come up with obscure costumes and decided to involve our husbands and friend this year too! The entire idea started with the “bobby” … Read more
This year we decided to dress up at the Flintstones. Fred’s costume was made out of orange, black and blue fleece. It was sewn together and the tie was tied around his neck like a regular neck tie. Fred carried around a bowling ball… it was made out of a styrofoam ball and painted blue. … Read more
Remember the troll dolls you used to own when you were little? Last Halloween, my friends and I had so much fun recreating them. The favorite part of our costume was our hair. We put cups on top of our heads and used ponytail holders to secure them in place. Then, we used lots and … Read more