I googled unique costume ideas and after seeing images of paper doll costumes that were made with poster board and then painted. I really liked the idea but felt it was a bit bland. I was determined it could be some much more wonderful if the details were expanded and tweaked. My initial vision was … Read more
My husband and I attend an adults-only outdoor costume party each year, and we usually like to do some sort of a couples costume. I came up with the idea of doing Forrest Gump and Lieutenant Dan, with the thought that I would be Dan and my husband would be Forrest. This reasoning was based … Read more
This idea came about because one of my graduate school student associations was having a candy apple sale and I needed a gimmick to draw attention and make sells. Just so happens that this candy apple sale was the week before Halloween so the costume could be worn then as well. I had to think … Read more
Our 9 year old son chose to be a vending machine this year for Halloween. It turned out awesome! We used a cardboard box with the 4 flaps extended out on the bottom. The outside box was painted with a black spray paint and we used leftover corner pieces from another box to create supports … Read more
Don’t just be any police officer, be Officer Jenny! The picture pretty much shows it all. I just took a simple blue dress and short sleeve button up over it. I got both from a thrift store for under $6. The only “crafty” thing I had to do was cut two rectangles of red felt … Read more
I was at a loss this year for a costume idea. One day while walking through the grocery store in their little Halloween area, I saw a “Grave Popper” (skeleton that looks like it’s coming out of a grave and it came to me that I should be a walking cemetery! The next day I … Read more
This year my grandson decided, he wanted us to make our costumes for his school’s annual costume parade. He loves to play with Legos, and spends his free time reading the Lego City books. For his costume, he picked Kai, the red Ninja Ninjago. I was sure that was a tall order for a lego … Read more
This costume was made in 2 hours. Using cardboard, wooden sticks an old mask, dollar store hands, a back pack, duct tape, pillow stuffing, a little bit of makeup and some mens xxxL clothing. At first I had no idea ghow I was going to complete this, finding a way to attach his head was … Read more
My furnace died a week before Halloween and all my costume fund $ had to be diverted into “fix the furnace so you don’t freeze fund.” So I found stuff I had around home, stole a box from work, bought a $2 light fixture from the Habitat for Humanity Resale store , and grabbed a couple rolls … Read more
I was at a Hallowen costume shop, looking for something that I didn’t think many others would be wearing, when I noticed the creepy yet simple, doll mask. I grabbed one up and starting gather other items throughout the store that I thought would look appropriate with the mask. I then found the bouncy, curly … Read more
My original idea for a costume was “People of Walmart” but was I unable to find a flesh colored body suit to give the appearance of showing way to much skin without actually showing skin. (Hey, it’s cold here in Michigan.) So, it was on to plan B. I grabbed some boxes from the recycle pile at … Read more
I Found a red rubgy shirt online, and a white bucket hat for Gilligan. Had my friend who’s a stylist trim up a red wig for Ginger! Found a sparkly vintage 1960s dress on eBay, and two vintage hair flower clips. Add some sparkly jewelery and fake eyelashes… Ginger! …..our friend showed up as the … Read more