I crafted this costume out of dryer vent hosing, dixie cups, cardboard, hot glue, and silver paint. I put hinges at the elbow and knee joints. The rubber light bulb was from a computer convention for people to squeeze to avoid carpel tunnel. It was very uncomfortable for him to wear. Eventually, he pealed the … Read more
I was so confused on to what I wanted to be for Halloween. After weeks of searching, I finally decided that I wasn’t going to go out of my way and spend a great load of money, so off to the thrift store I went! I ended up finding a costume that was a gypsy … Read more
So my son was dead set on being a ghost…boring…. Since we like to do a family theme, what better way to complement him than Ghosbusters?? All three of our costumes were made from materials we had around the house or dug up at the local Goodwill stores. I really enjoyed putting together the outfit … Read more
This costume was very easy to make but time alittle bit of dedication. We got a big sturdy box and cut the top of it to make it the top of the balloon. I then taped the flaps together to make my box bigger. My daughter and I covered the box with brown construction paper … Read more
For my homemade Poison Ivy Costume, I used a green leotard, solid black leggings, green fish nets, two red clip in hair, boots, then rap a vine around your complete and easy poison ivy costume. I got a white leotard because I couldnt find a green one and dyed it with Rit Hunter Green for … Read more
Ever since my daughter started walking, she got a million comments on how she looked and sounded just like Boo from Monsters Inc. I knew she HAD to be Boo for Halloween. I started searching for the costume, but it doesn’t exist. Ebay has a few from when the movie first came out, but they … Read more
I have always made my own costumes. When I was growing up we never bought costumes we always made them. I was inspired when walking through a craft store looking at Halloween decorations. I was immediately struck by this cute boy and girl set of Scarecrows. This was the first year that I was with … Read more
My 9 year old daughter is as twisted as her mama. I couldn’t be more proud. She loves anything scary. Loves zombies and so when she asked if she could be a zombie for Halloween I was ecstatic. Most girls wanted to be cheerleaders or princesses, ewww. So we hit the stores. We got our … Read more
My boyfriend and I love Halloween so we decided to dressed up as Frankensteins monster and the Bride of Frankenstein. We went to Value Village and got our clothing. I got an old wedding dress, which I cut up, and shredded. By boyfriend bought a used suit, and an extended forehead wig which we had … Read more
This week we studied Community Helpers and dressed up like our favorite one. My son chose to be a policeman! I took a large, empty box of paper towels from our kitchen and made it into a police car! It was a HIT at school! simple design that didn’t cost me a dime!
Back in early elementary school a song circulated around that thoroughly freaked out my daughter, “China Doll, in the hall, gonna chop your head off.” This year we saw a costume for just that in a catalog, but it did not REALLY look like an old doll. So, being the crafty folks we are we … Read more
We went through a Vampires are sexy term. So I bought a beautiful velvet dress that had red flowers and silver sparkle lines on it with a hood from Goodwill. Christian bought a felt top hat from Hot topic. Then we went crazy! White contacts made our eyes seem pale baby blue with black specks … Read more