We co-parent my husband’s daughter with his ex girlfriend, so we swap Halloween every other year. The years we get her, she decides what she wants to be and we choose our costumes based on her decision. This year she chose Vanellope Von Shweetz from Wreck it Ralph. Her daddy was Wreck it Ralph, her little … Read more
My husband and son are wearing the costumes. My son loves Lego and wanted to be one for Halloween, so we used some cardboard, Styrofoam, paint, and felt to create the costumes. The body was scaled up from measuring a mini figure and then cut out of cardboard, glued together, and then painted to replicate … Read more
Sitting at the the bus stop one morning in early October, I asked the kids of any ideas they wanted to be for Halloween that year and I got the usual responses. My son said “I’ll be an army man or police officer”, to which my reply was “no, you’ve already been that”. My daughter said “I’ll … Read more
My daughter, Grace, who is ten years old, has wanted to be “Dorothy” from the Wizard of Oz for a couple of years now. My husband’s aunt who is a great seamstress graciously volunteered to make her a Dorothy costume. This is where the fun started. Finding a pair of “ruby slippers” ended up being … Read more
Hello we are the Lujan family. I am Cathy the mommy, I work full time and go to school and have been happily married for 12 years. We have 2 beautiful children. Our son is 10 years old and he has high functioning autism. He is super bright, smart and very loving And he is … Read more
Our little baby was born early 2014, and I KNEW I would want a family costume this year! I had seen stroller costumes online, and I decided with her being so little still, that I would incorporate our stroller. Step 1 – Stroller cage: You gotta contain that lion! My father-in-law used to be a … Read more
My family loves Halloween and finding costumes that all relate to one another (Alice in Wonderland, super heroes, policeman and prisoners, etc.) Beetlejuice seemed like a tough one but awesome family costume to try to pull off for 2014. Barbara and Adam (my husband and me): I asked a sculptor friend to help me with … Read more
My husband and I still enjoy dressing up for Halloween. We’ve done family theme costumes since having kids(this is our forth year!) My kids(3 and 4) still haven’t objected to my family theme costume craze ideas. I hope to keep this up until they become “too cool” for it! My kids are obsessed with Legos. … Read more
I saw this mouse trap/wagon idea online a couple years ago and thought I’d like to make one as I thought it was the cutest thing. When our son was born, it was pretty much a given I would go ahead with it for his first Halloween, which was this fall. While in our shed … Read more
Here’s my headless horseman costume. It was on a cold, wet and rainy night in October, specifically Halloween eve when I took a black Outback western duster, and a black cape and decided to make my very own Headless Horseman costume. At first I was having trouble thinking of a way to create this costume, mainly the … Read more
Every year we dress up as a family for Halloween. This year was no different and so it took us a while to figure out what we would dress up as but we knew it had to be good. My 8 year old son was watching old cartoons and singing the Scooby Doo song and … Read more
My son wanted to be Jake for Halloween. So we decided to be his crew. My husband went as Cubby and I went as Izzy. I bought about 1 and 1/4 yards of blue felt, half a yard of brown felt, yellow felt squares, two extra large yellow buttons, pink bandana, blue bandana, a light … Read more