Our 5 year old daughter wanted to be a robot for Halloween, so we went to work on her robot costume. Salvaged some left over foam-core board and cut it to a size to fit her. Purchased some dryer venting, battery operated flashing lights at the local thrift store ($20, yeah I could not resist), … Read more
This Homemade Child Robot Costume is made for my son Louis for his 7th birthday and inspired by “the iron giant”. It needed to have this “knight-out-of-space” impression. Two different types of silver material are used (tungsten and alloy). The material is glued to 20mm foam used for upholstery. The silver material is see-through and … Read more
This Homemade Robot Halloween Costume is an original design whose form was largely suggested by the materials we worked with. It was inspired in a general way by classic B-movie robots and George Eisner’s gorgeous illustrations for the Gang of Five tin toy repro packaging. My six-year-old son, Declan, also helped guide the design with … Read more
We made these Homemade Robot Costumes out of cardboard and duct tape. The body is just cardboard cut, molded and covered with duct tape, then decorated with colored tape on top. The heads are construction hard hats with cardboard and duct tape with a few LED flashlights for the eyes and for backlighting. The final … Read more
This Robot Costume was fun to make. I took two boxes and spray paint, dryer vents and some red duct tape. It was so easy to do. I added some reflectors and some flashing lights to the control panel. It was a little more than I was expecting to spend but it turned out great!
After seeing Avatar my daughter decided she MUST be a Na’vi Princess for Halloween. This homemade childs Avatar Na’vi costume was fun to make. I hand-painted tights and a leotard with two shades of blue fabric paint for the stripes. I made the tail from floral wire and wrapped it with the sheet style stuffing … Read more
This is my homemade one-of-a-kind latex costume of an Alien vs Predator for the popular movie Alien vs Predator. Instructions: Airbrush painting on the skin: fishing net used over skin; armor made of fiberglass and wood; left arm computer with LED blinking lights as does the disc blade Frisbee weapon on right hip; custom bio … Read more
I got this idea for a Homemade Ghostbuster Kidnapped by Ghost Costume from this great website but put my own twist on it. Graham, 6, wanted to be something scary. Mom and Dad are not fond of scary 6 year old’s so here was our idea. We saw an alien kidnapping a little guy on … Read more
This Homemade Ghost Buster Costume was my daughter Christy’s idea. We used a large cardboard box and painted it red. Used another piece of the box to cut out the face. After cutting out the face we smeared glue on top of the box and placed the fabric over it to make the white ghost … Read more
My 5 year old son Chase is a huge Ghostbusters Fan. After Halloween last year we purchased a stock Ghostbuster costume online with the blow up backpack. After a year of catching ghost, the backpack had a blow out and would not hold air. So, we decided to make our own Ghostbusters Homemade Halloween Costume. … Read more
This group Spaceballs Costume was put together by myself and friends. It consists of six characters from the Spaceballs movie created by Mel Brooks that is a spoof of Star Wars and a few other movies. From right to left the characters include Yogurt, Dot Matrix, Barf, Princes Vespa, a Spaceball (aka-Major Asshole), and Lord … Read more
My 5 year old son wanted to be Darth Maul for Halloween this year. We found a Darth Maul costume reference from the 501st Legion. I took a karate pattern and modified it to make the Sith Robe. Then sewed the tabards, the pants, and the loin cloth. I modified some gauntlet style gloves to … Read more