When our son Chase was born, my husband would constantly tease that his wayward ‘old man’ hair made him look like Doc Brown from ‘Back to the Future.’ As he got older, it got worse and others (complete strangers even) made the same observation – definitely the Doc. The inspiration – Doc hair! Construction … Read more
The frame for the tail of this Spaceballs Barf costume was a thick plastic hose, the end split for about two inches to allow for fixing it to the “butt patch” that pins on the back of the cargo pants. Covering that is a shaped piece of long shaggy fur, shaded with Halloween hair spray. … Read more
We followed directions provided on this website to create our son’s very cool robot costume. His costume was such a hit that he led the elementary school Halloween parade, which was a big thrill for him. The costume is made using a Sterilite storage bin that we drilled holes in with a dremel tool, spray-painted … Read more
Myself and my son Richard from Venice Italy tried to build the Jango Fett costume from Star Wars and this is the result. The materials were cardboard, spray paint, polystyrene, and a visor gardening. We also used parts of a old printer.
I created this Homemade Character 9 Halloween Costume for my son. This costume is based off the main Character “9”, from the movie “9”. Me and my wife worked on this costume for over a month. We molded the head from a balloon with paper mache, and then finished it off with Fiber glass. We … Read more
It took us about 3 hours to get our costumes on the second time around. We painted ourselves with body paint, mixing teal and dark blue for the base and painting our stripes on with just dark blue. I made my loin cloth and top with a fake leather material and he bought khaki pants … Read more
This homemade Stay Puft from Ghostbusters Halloween costume started with a pre-made inflatable costume from Kmart. We spray-painted all of it white. The head was made by using 1/2″ soft green foam hot-glued together to create a cylinder. It was then covered with white fabric. The face was drawn on with marker and the eyes … Read more
3 weeks to Halloween 2009 and I have no costume! Searching for inspiration on the web resulted in the following options: Sexy witch Vampiress Slutty devil Ugghh! Where are all the cool original costumes?! The only option was to make my own, just what…. Well after a week of a lack of ideas via facebook … Read more
My son dressed up as Star Wars’ Cad Bane this Halloween and it was such a cool costume. I started with a brown jacket and a tan shirt, bought at the thrift store. I made sure the jacket was big so I would have extra fabric. I pulled in the back of the jacket to … Read more
I created the Jedi Master YODA from STAR WARS. The trainer Master of the Jedi Knights. I constructed Yoda’s head from starch and newspaper with an inflatable balloon for shape. I viewed photos of the head to get details of his face shape. I finished the head with green paints and a clear gloss spray … Read more
This is a homemade Jawa costume that my wife and I made for a whopping $7.60. It consists of burlap, sheer black material, battery operated tea light candles (for eyes) and black gloves. Everything else we had – including the belts, holster, pouches, and black sock (to cover arms). The whole costume was put together … Read more
This Homemade Star Wars R2D2 Costume was built for my 6 year old son Bobby ( A diehard Star Wars Fan!) The bottom is a garbage can, the dome is a fiber glassed punch balloon and the legs are fiber glassed cardboard forms. A lot of Bondo, Krylon, Craft Foam and Hot Glue was involved! … Read more