My boyfriend and I wanted to wear matching Halloween costumes this year. I wanted something that wasn’t a common couples costume. We decided the go with his and hers Ghostbusters Halloween costume. I made both of them since we live in different states, but were going to be together for Halloween weekend. They were actually … Read more
I am Toby and I made the homemade C3P0 costume you see in the pictures. I started with a used 2-piece navy dress suit, and tried a few different types of spray paint. Fabric paint/silk screen spray did not cover very much area, and tended to spatter. The hobby ‘webbing’ texture paints were nice, but … Read more
My sister-in-law likes her parties to have themes, and the theme of this particular party was “lost in space”. I had a Darth Maul mask from a previous Halloween, and I’d always wanted my wife to dress up like Princess Leia in Jabba the Hut’s palace, so?. I bought some material, a metal hoop belt, … Read more
This Duct Tape RoboCop Costume was a last minute costume. All I had was duct tape and cardboard and this is what I can up with. The hardest part was making the helmet with a visor. I ended up cutting apart an old pair of sun glasses. The best part of the costume was yelling … Read more
DARK HELMET (AKA my mother!) Its a cat litter box! No joke. There were some really good ideas for Spaceballs costumes on this site, but we only had 1 day to do this one, it was a last minute idea. We tried to figure ways to make the mask move up and down, but everything … Read more
This was my homemade Terminator T-650 costume for 2009. It was made out of cardboard tubes, poster board and Styrofoam. It was connected to my back by a metal rod in the pelvis, and rods on its toes, connected to my feet, gave the illusion that it was walking behind me in the guise of … Read more
My son has CP and when he got his dynamic stander in preparation for kindergarten – I immediately thought a life size R2D2 would make him the coolest kid in the school. Made with foam board, paper mache, pencil, marker, a lot of patience =). I made the cylinder to go around the stander. Though … Read more
One day while at work I saw two boxes sitting on the floor, so I brought them home then decided to make them in to a robot costume since we can not afford to buy costumes this year, and I did not want my children to miss out on Halloween. I took stuff that I … Read more
This is the best Homemade Voice Modulated Robot Halloween Costume ever! My husband made this costume for my 6 year old son. He took apart my son’s Tranformer’s voice-changer toy helmet, so that he can talk like a real robot. The very top of the robot (the “antenna”) was a baby food bowl and bubble … Read more
Hi All… This year I took on the mammoth task of creating my own walking talking ED-209 robot from the Robocop movies. I constructed the whole thing off a scale drawing I drew up, making the framework from wood and covering in card. Although not identical to the movie version, it is a dead give … Read more
My son wanted a space ship so after looking at several pictures I decided I could make one and made this Alien in His Flying Spaceship Costume. Spaceship: Materials: medium hola hoop, old round laundry basket, foam fabric padding from walmart, black spray paint, green poster board, silver tape, and battery powered light string, hot … Read more
We used a toilet paper box for the body of the robot costume, a smaller box for his head and spray painted them with silver paint. We hot glued gears and circuit board’s, belts and whatever else that my company was throwing out to both the front and back of the boxes after they were … Read more