Our Scooby Doo and the Gang costumes are all custom and original. For Fred we used an old white long sleeve t-shirt, blue pants (altered to fit) that I found at a yard sale, and an orange sash. For Daphne we used a larger size t-shirt and cut it to add in the lighter purple. … Read more
After browsing on your site for baby costume ideas I decided on the chicken. With help from previous entrants made one for my baby girl. After I finished I started thinking about what my husband and I would be. At first I thought rooster and hen with a baby chick, but my husband quickly vetoed … Read more
Our Family has been participating and have won first place three years in a row in our city Upland Ca Scare Affair Halloween costume contest. Last year we decided to dress up as The Addams Family. The winner to our costumes was our 5″6 Cousin It with hair to the floor. Mortisha Me dyed my … Read more
My friends and I did a Wizard of Oz theme for Halloween a few years ago. We even have a yellow brick road!!! The Tin Man is the only purchased costume:( All Others were hand made. I myself made the Dorothy and Lion costumes with no patterns….I just winged it! The shoes were a cheap … Read more
We decided to go dressed as a Homemade Wizard of Oz Family Costume this year. You wouldn’t believe how much people loved our costumes and they were very easy to put together. The Scarecrow: A green long-sleeved shirt of mama’s and a pair of black sweatpants. I cut raffia and stuck it to duct tape, … Read more
My friends and I are always looking for a funny Halloween costume. We want to stick out and be something original! I think we did it last year with our Homemade Mario Kart Character Costumes. We started off thinking of our favorite characters in the game and then decided how we would approach making them! … Read more
Here you see my four children, AKA Luigi, Koopa Troopa, Yoshi, and Princess Peach, and my niece and nephew, AKA Mario and Toadette. My oldest, seen here as Luigi, had been teaching himself the Mario theme song on the sax for weeks, so as we gave thought to what the kids might want to be … Read more
We made the girls these homemade crayola crayons and their box costume with felt, black paint metal clothes hangers, and party hats. The box we painted and Velcroed in the back so they could come out of it. These costumes took us a few days to do, especially the paint part!!! We were very proud … Read more
My husband and I along with my brother and sister-in-law went as the Four Seasons Group Costume. We basically bought everything at Kmart and Joann’s. For Spring: I bought the sweatsuit and really cheap hat that I glued a baby bird’s nest (from Joann’s) on the top of. I also hot glued a bird to … Read more
Here’s the story behind our patriotic costume idea. With the recent passing of the 5th year anniversary of 9/11 we decided that our costume ideas for this year should be a “Tribute to America!” Having recently taken a road trip through some of the great national parks, we decided it would be fun to be … Read more
My friends and I were trying to be different or at least make a homemade version of a popular costume and take it up a notch. My friends got a great idea to be peacocks and since I have to be different I decided to be a flamingo. In Pittsburgh the aviary is very popular … Read more
Back in July of 2010, my friends and I were talking about Halloween. We wanted to be something that everyone would remember. One of my friends came up with the idea of being different sodas (there were 5 of us). We looked at different costume sites for soda costumes, but none of them had one, … Read more