My Grandsons love Nintendo video games and this year they asked me to make them Bowser and Mario. I have been using plumbing pipe insulation (will refer to it as foam) for several years to form a variety of costumes. I originally found it when wandering around the hardware store looking for something that I … Read more
I made this Homemade Mario Party Group Costume for our annual visit to Disney’s Halloween time at Californian Adventure. My brother loves to play Super Mario Brothers on Super Nintendo game console (old school I the way to play) and I have wanted to make him a Yoshi costume for a while. So, better than … Read more
The Homemade Piranha Plant from Mario Bros Costume is a great costume for anyone! It’s an unexpected yet beloved Mario Bros character that’s guaranteed to be the hit of any Halloween the party. The piranha plant head was constructed from old FedEx envelopes, 1/8 of an inch thick foam and duct tape. The piranha plant’s … Read more
My 7 year old loves to watch YouTube videos of all sorts of video games. This year he has been watching walk through videos on YouTube of an old Nintendo 64 game called “The Legend of Zelda – Majora’s Mask”. He asked me to make him a Skull Kid wearing Majora’s Mask costume for Halloween … Read more
I wanted to create a challenging costume despite going through a pandemic in 2020. I actually rushed on my costume because I initially wanted to participate in my school’s virtual Zumba costume contest, but I missed it. I thought it began at 6:45 pm and it actually started at 6:15pm last Thursday. Despite this, I … Read more
In order to take a little pressure off of Halloween this year with the pandemic roaring on, my pod and I decided to pick a theme for our costumes, so that we could be inspired to impress one another without wasting one of our top tier costume ideas. The theme was villains, and for some … Read more
Our 5 year old twin boys adore Mario (it is their favorite game to play with their Dad). So we decided in late August that with our new addition (baby girl born in May) a Mario family costume would be super fun and memorable. As we scoured the internet for inspiration I came across some … Read more
This Lord Ghirahim costume is one of my my favorites because I didn’t think it would turn out as good as it did. Ghirahim Costume Base The white body suit is a plain white zentai suit that had a full head and hands, it was $20 on eBay. I cut the body suit to match … Read more
I did not make the Zentai costume, this is commercially made, and I found it on eBay. I made the Midna helmet costume, hair and ears. Midna Helmet Costume Instructions The helmet is made from a camping sleep pad from WalMart. They cost about $10. Its blue foam in a roll about 6 feet long and 3 … Read more
Hi, I started making a blue toad from Super Mario for my son to attend a family and friends Xmas costume party, but in the process he changed his mind and wanted to be ‘Steve’ from Minecraft so toad was passed to hubby. I wanted us to be a couple, so made myself a Toadette … Read more
my husband and i started near two months before halloween. fisrt off, i have always wanted to do a mario kart theme for halloween, the game is a favorite. we started with four characters and grew to nine mario karters. the building process was long, the spray foam we found easiest to shape then applied … Read more
My son is a huge Zelda video game fan, so when he wanted to go as Link from the game I couldn’t say no! I am not a seamstress so we got some help from his Aunt to make some of the items for this mini Link from Zelda DIY costume. We started off by … Read more