I was a big hit at the party in my Homemade Oompa Loompa Costume. I got the idea from this website and thought I could pull it off. I don’t sew but I thought I could manage straight stitches on my machine. I started with a very large pair of women’s white cotton capris that … Read more
I took inspiration from the Giant Homemade Oompah Loompah Adult Halloween Costume submitted on this website. I’m 6’6″ so I thought it would ironic. Ok, starting from the top. Blond wig spray painted green. I had to style and cut wig to look similar to Oompah Loompah. Orange facepaint, searched everywhere in Montreal, but luckily … Read more
These Homemade Ompa Loompa Costumes were the best homemade costumes ever! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I knew I wanted to be something good, but didn’t know what! A friend had suggested an Ompa Loompa and I LOVED the idea. I searched everywhere for the costume, but couldn’t find one that I liked and … Read more
This Edward Scissorhands Homemade Costume was my costume for Halloween 2005. Unfortunately this appears to be the only picture I have readily available. It looks like I’m one of the very few to ever do Edward dressed in his shirt and slacks. I’ll admit it had a lot to do with the fact that it … Read more
My Mrs. Lovett costume is from the movie Sweeney Todd. Mrs. Lovett is the Baker who makes meat pies out of humans that Sweeney Todd has killed. I made the skirt, used an old shirt I had and bought a corset to put over it. Then I bought a rolling pin and put blood all … Read more
We decided to do a family theme for Halloween. My daughter’s favorite movie right now is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so what better theme than that!!!! My husband was Willy Wonka, costume made with many thrift shot items, and my daughter and myself were his factory helpers, the Oompa Loompa’s.
While searching for some other ideas I ended up in this website with an Oompa Loompa picture, and I started looking through all the pictures. I ended up with these Homemade Oompa Loompa Couple Costume Ideas for this 2010 Halloween. It was a success. The bad thing is that I could only find one of … Read more
My 3 year old and 6 year old are huge fan of the Original Willy Wonka so we decided to make my oldest son Willy Wonka and my youngest son an Oompa Loompa. For the Willy Wonka costume we pieced together one of my floral button up shirts, a purplish colored blazer we found at … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday! Every year I try my best to come up with a creative homemade costume. There is nothing better than the feeling that you did it yourself! This year my inspiration came from my favorite movie “Edward Scissorhands”. I thought I knew how I would bring his outfit together until I … Read more
Well I just saw the movie this year after my sister rented it one weekend and I fell in love with it. The music was amazing and I was so excited when Halloween came around because I knew that is what I wanted to be, and because I am a girl it would be that … Read more
I wanted to do a family theme this year for our friends Halloween party! So I came up with the idea of a “Homemade Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Family Costume!” My children’s costumes were very in-expensive (all I had to purchase was a $1 hat for my son and a purple wig for my … Read more
With the help of this site, our band decided on making our own Willy Wonka and Oompa Loompa costumes. We bought the green Oompa Loompa wigs, orange and white face paint, brown turtle necks, white scrub pants, striped socks. For the neck we cut white medical tape into strips. For the buttons on the pants, … Read more