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.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) is one of my all time favorite movies. I told my 4 year old if he would be an Oompa Loompa, I’d get him a huge lollipop. After purchasing the lollipop, I got a few yards of white felt, a few yards of a purple paisley pattern, sage … Read more
Last year we went as ‘The Wizard of Oz’, so we went with another fantasy novel this year – ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’. We used graduation gowns from a thrift store for the kids – I duct taped ‘hemmed’ them, and found white collared shirts in our closet. We did dye Harry … Read more
This year we decided to create a homemade Spaceballs group costume. I was Dot Matrix, my brother was Dark Helmet and my husband was Colonel Sanders. The costumes were all homemade from various products including dryer tubing, plastic planters, kids craft foam and of course duct tape! The Dark Helmet costume was started with a … Read more
We were going back to our college town for Halloween and needed an awesome group costume – Double Dare from Nickelodeon. We hadn’t seen the costume done before and we wanted to make our costumes as authentic-looking as possible. We had a red team and a blue team just like in the show – girls … Read more
This year we decided on a Homemade Mario Kart Brothers Group Costume. It took a little work but it was worth it! We had, from left to right, Donkey Kong, Wario, Princess Peach, Luigi, Toad, Mario, Waluigi, Yoshi and the cloud. In order to make the karts we bought plastic bins and than cut out … Read more