My son and I are wearing our homemade baby and mom costume – spider and web. I was searching for costume ideas that would allow me to wear my 6 month old son in an Ergo carrier as he was not walking yet at the time. I found several images online of mothers wearing a … Read more
My kids decided on our family costume theme, and we went with it. My daughter’s costume “tooth fairy” was the most difficult. We spent days finding just the right feathers for her head piece. We made a mold of her head with fabric and duct tape and then paper mached it. We added several layers of … Read more
With the help of a glue gun, thrift store and a little from Amazon, we were able to create fun and not so common Halloween family costumes. I bought the wigs and plastic hand from Amazon. I found the dresses at goodwill for 1.xx. I cut and hot glued a cut up white shirt for … Read more
Ever since we saw the movie Despicable Me 2, I wanted to dress up as the characters as a family. Not only because it’s a great movie but my kids are, seriously, minions. And my youngest daughter, Keren, is totally the evil minion. For a few months she started growling- it was so funny – … Read more
Well, it all started when my son who has aspergers and OCD decided he wanted to be a minion for Halloween, when he did, my other two did as well, so I looked at a lot of ideas, and didn’t find any easy way of making them. This is how I Built the Minion Costumes: … Read more
Every Halloween I try to top the costume my husband and I did the year before. I’m finding it’s getting more and more difficult! This year, however, we had to come up with something with three since we added a baby to the mix. :) In the past we’ve done Venkman and Zuul from Ghostbusters, … Read more
Before he adopted a more casual look, Elton John had an affinity for jeweled jumpsuits, flamboyant feathered frocks and outrageous costumes. My 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Lena, likes to watch the Muppet Show on DVD. Her favorite episode features Elton John as the Muppets special guest (1978). She sings along with the songs he performs on the … Read more
After hearing about stories from 9/11, our sons learned what heroes were. They were truly inspired to be heroes and to save lives. They love visiting firehouse open houses, watching shows like Chicago Fire, and learning the events of true firefighters coming to the rescue on the daily news. It was no surprise when they … Read more
Inspired by a sock monkey costume I saw in a catalog a couple of years ago, I thought of our family’s costume theme this year: “Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkeys!” We selected the sock monkey, clapping monkey, barrel of monkeys, and Boots the monkey (from Dora the Explorer) for my kids and husband. After much … Read more
Our family decided to pay tribute to those that have gone before us, and celebrate the day of the dead holiday. We dressed up and painted our faces as sugar skulls, to honor those we have loved and lost, and to celebrate life! We sewed bowties and trim for the hats, painted flowers and glued … Read more
My two boys (four and two year olds) love the UPS and FedEx trucks! It’s a game for them to see who spots one first when riding in the car. And of course they’re always excited when we get packages delivered to our home (which is all the time!) At first I did a quick search to … Read more
We value time spent with family and we wanted a costume theme that would reflect quality time with our family. Not only do the Lego characters have a close relationship to each other, but the process of making the costumes involved a lot of collaboration between the people wearing the costumes and other family members … Read more