This Spaceball costume is a homemade costume put together after scouring thrift stores, shopping online, and crafting stuff ourselves. Dark Helmet’s Helmet (though it’s hard to see in pics) was made from a planter and hand-painted, Barf’s name tag actually has Barf embroidered on it, and Dot has a light-up LED”Virgin Alert” and is on … Read more
We decided to do an easy group costume with Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi. We found men’s tshirts, gym short and white leggings in the colors we needed. The we found matching tan hats and dyed them ourselves. We took color duck tape to create fake suspenders (Waluigi’s is backwards). We cut float paper for … Read more
My roommates and I decided that we did not want to be a store bought regular costume. We bought black felt fabric and the specific colors we wanted from the local fabric store and picked up the felt and Velcro. We also printed out the name CRAYOLA from a website and used it as a … Read more
These Homemade Crayola Crayons Costumes were very inexpensive but fun, cute and easy costumes to create! We went to a local fabric store and bought about a yard each of whichever color we wanted to be and about two yards of black felt just to be safe. We then took each color felt and sewed … Read more
We made this homemade beerglass group costume (16x) from wire netting and newspapers glued on to it. First we made a die to put the wire netting around so it would create the shape of a scaled beerglass. Because the shape is conical the wire netting was easy to remove from the die, so we … Read more
My three kids just love this camp site treat! So I thought, why not be what they eat and make them a Homemade S’more Family Costume! I used cardboard and wire hangers as the frames. The graham cracker is felt, the Hershey bar is fabric with individually stuffed rectangles, and my toasty marshmallow is batting … Read more
Two of my friends and I do a local Halloween contest on a dinner / party cruise boat every year. Each year we make our own costumes. So far we have one first place award (for these Homemade Lego Men Halloween Costumes) and two second place awards. We decided on the Legos because we wanted … Read more
My costume is specifically the light blue square Tetris, out of all five of us. My friends and I decided to be the Tetris pieces after seeing a picture of another group of Tetris people online. For the homemade Tetris costume we used cardboard boxes for the base of the shapes, solid color wrapping paper … Read more
This Homemade Flintstones Group Costume idea started one warm spring evening while with friends we started talking about the Flintstones. Everyone said how much my husband Fred looks like Fred Flintstone. SOOOOOOOOOOOO we made plans for the following October. I began searching for costumes and after looking at prices for 5 costumes I decide I … Read more
Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, and Susie hit high school! And who do they meet there? Only their favorite reptile, Reptar! REPTAR – The Reptar costume started out with a white sweat suit which we dyed green. We also dyed an additional long sleeve shirt green so we could use the sleeve as a tail later. The … Read more
This is this our Homemade Simpsons Family Costume. We all work on the development and we didn’t spent much money. We used sponge for Bart’s hair, fabric and some old socks for Lisa’s, we bought a wig and painted it with blue hair spray for Marge’s hair, and used some swimsuit headdress for homer baldness. … Read more
This is our Homemade Smurf Family Costume. Shannon is Papa Smurf, Alicia is Smurfette, Brandon is Brainy Smurf complete with glasses, Brady is Handy Smurf, complete with overalls and his handy dandy pencil, and Stewie is none other than the puppy Smurf.