My video-game loving kids wanted to be Zelda and Link for Halloween, what a challenge! Zelda’s dress was an actual dress pattern, and by far the easiest part of all of this (although the pattern itself was rather complicated!). For Link, I found the instructions online, but had to make all my own patterns (I … Read more
My name is Emma and I handmade all of the costumes shown here. It’s been like a tradition to be resourceful and make nothing into something for our Halloween costumes every year in my family since I was a kid myself and now I get to do this with my kiddos. Mario(the star of the … Read more
I work in retail so any costume I came up with had to be family friendly. The initial plan was to be one of the Guinea Pigs from G-Force and up until about a month ago that was what I was going to be. Randomly one night while looking on line the idea to be … Read more
My son, who is six years old, loves Mario. Last year he was Mario, so this year he had to be Bowser. I made this Bowser costume myself. I was so happy to see that people knew who he was when trick or treating. He enjoyed it also and would give them a big roar … Read more
I have been playing the Zelda games since I was a kid, so when my little blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy was born, I knew exactly what he would be for Halloween! For the underclothes, I used an Osh Kosh B’Gosh white turtleneck onesie over white baby tights from Target. For the tunic and hat, I bought … Read more
My boyfriend and I adore these little mushroom characters from the “Super Mario Bros.” movie so much that we decided to be them for Halloween this year. Our couple costume was a Homemade Toad and Toadette From Mario Brothers Couple Costume! I was so excited to start on the costume but then had a really … Read more
Everybody does a Mario and Luigi costume, but I thought how can I make it even better? First off…I made them female. Easy as taking a pair of shorts overalls and cutting out the inside part to make it skirts. (I would say that’s optional though) Then I thought, in the games the brothers are … Read more
To make the dress for my Princess Peach costume, I looked over many pictures of her online and noticed that her dress resembled a standard princess dress . So I bought a pattern for a Disney princess dress and then modified it into a likeness of Peach’s dress. I started with the pattern and bought … Read more
This Homemade Link Costume was made for my son for Halloween 2008. Link is by far his favorite character, and it suited him perfectly. Since this was made so long ago, I will just give you a quick run down of how I did this. The entire costume (vest, pants, shirt and shoe covers were … Read more
This Mario Costume was fairly easy to make, super cute and fairly cost effective! I found the hat pattern online, went to the fabric store and bought 1/2 yard of red fleece (that’s enough to make 2 hats, cost me $8.99 on sale) then went to the Dollar store and bought fun foam in red … Read more
We are all in college and on a budget. We found boxes at the local hardware store and spray painted them and added foam wheels, numbers, and string to attach to our body. For Mario and Luigi we bought mens suspenders, colored tee shirt and base ball hats, we super glued foam letters on the … Read more
Every year at Halloween, we see tons of Marios and Luigis, dressed mostly in store-bought costumes. This year my best friend and I decided to go as Homemade Female Mario and Luigi Costumes, the female versions of these game characters. We tried to be as creative as we could with the costumes. The white shirts … Read more