It’s that time of year again, time to celebrate Read Across America and Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Today was dress up as your favorite Dr. Seuss character at school. I love dress-up day school! 🙂 Even though we already had a Lorax costume on hand, Elliot opted to wear a Cat in the Hat costume instead. It read more »
No-Sew Inflatable Tube Man Costume
My kids love seeing silly things anywhere and one of their favorite things is the inflatable tube man (also known as air dancers) that seem to dance by themselves on the side of the road. I couldn’t help make one more costume before Halloween, an inflatable tube-man costume. This inflatable tube-man is my silliest costume read more »
DIY Beast Costume
With Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast headed to theaters in the spring, I couldn’t help making a DIY Beast costume. Emma Watson will be an amazing Belle and I can’t wait to see it! Hopefully, Belle would approve of our own little Beast. This costume is another easy Disney Prince costume that can be read more »
The Lord of the Hat Costume
Typically when one boy wants something, the other follows suit. So after Quinn requested a Potterwookiee costume from The Creature From My Closet series, Elliot wanted his own Creature From My Closet costume. He hasn’t read the series yet, so he didn’t have a strong opinion on which character he wanted to be, so I chose read more »
Potterwookiee Costume
I love to make costumes, sometimes I make fun ones that I love and the boys just indulge me in wearing. I really love when they ask for a specific costume, though, one I know they will definitely appreciate. So I was pretty excited when Quinn asked for a Potterwookiee costume. The Creature from My read more »
Easy Cat Burglar Costume
I’m partnering with Snazaroo today to share an adorable Halloween costume that is easy to put together and features Snazaroo face paint. I don’t wear a lot of makeup, so I wasn’t sure how well it would turn out. It was my first experience with using face paint and I’m happy to report that it read more »
BFG Costume
Who’s ready for another fun costume? As soon as we started watching The BFG in the theater last month, I knew I wanted to make a Big Friendly Giant costume. The BFG costume is my favorite kind of costume because that can be pulled together inexpensively depending upon what you have on hand or can read more »
Finding Dory Costume: Hank the Octopus
Everyone loves Nemo and Dory but I am super excited to meet some of their new friends in Finding Dory. Hank, their octopus friend caught my eye in the previews. I couldn’t wait to create a Finding Dory costume, a Hank the octopus costume. Note Hank is actually a septopus because lots one of his read more »
Easy DIY Snow White Prince Costume
After the success of our DIY Prince Charming costume last year, I was itching to try another royal creation. I almost recreated my Prince Charming costume in blue and silver, like the prince in the new Cinderella movie. Instead, I opted to make a totally different prince costume, an Easy DIY Snow White prince costume read more »
Printable BB-8 Costume For Your Elf
This post should come as no surprise to my regular readers, we love BB-8 and costumes. It just makes sense to combine the two and make our elf his own BB-8 costume. I thought about making it similar to E’s BB-8 Halloween costume but wasn’t sure I wanted to commit a lot of time to read more »
DIY Star Wars Costume Ideas
We’ve done the Star Wars Halloween theme before but we couldn’t help repeating it this year with the much-anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens arriving in theaters next month. Everything Star Wars has been in Hyperdrive for months and fun Halloween ideas is no exception. The highlight of our party is always the costumes, this read more »
Charlie Brown Costume
I’m sharing a super easy costume today, perfect for any Peanuts gang fan. A Charlie Brown costume made from a sweatshirt would make an easy Halloween costume or fun hoodie to wear when the new Peanuts Movie opens in theaters next month! All you need is a yellow hoodie and black felt. I printed out read more »
DIY Star Wars BB-8 Costume
I’ve been brainstorming for months on how to create a Star Wars BB-8 Costume. Don’t know who he is? He’s the adorable new droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s ok if you don’t know who he is yet, the movie doesn’t open in theaters until December. BB-8 is a droid that rolls, so read more »
Inside Out Bing Bong Costume
Don’t laugh. Promise you won’t laugh…Bing Bong is heartwarming ridiculous as Riley’s imaginary friend. My Inside Out Bing Bong costume is just as ridiculous. 😉 How To Make a Bing Bong Costume That’s ok because Halloween is supposed to be silly and fun, right? Check out how I pieced my Bing Bong costume together. Most read more »
Bing Bong Costume Flower Pin
I’m on an Inside Out roll after creating homemade Anger and Fear costumes. The boys next request is for Bing Bong. Riley’s imaginary friend, Bing Bong is definitely my favorite character from the movie. I MIGHT be creating a Bing Bong Costume but his crazy colorful attire scares me a little, what if I can’t pull read more »
DIY Fear from Inside Out Costume
You knew it was coming. I couldn’t make Quinn a new costume and not make one for Elliot. Quinn’s Anger Inside Out costume turned out awesome but I think I might like the Fear Inside Out costume a tiny bit more. And don’t miss my crazy Bing Bong costume. I love that both costumes only read more »
DIY Anger from Inside Out Costume
I had fun this week creating a DIY Anger from Inside Out costume. The boys and I watched a screening of the movie on Tuesday and one of their favorite characters from Inside Out is Anger. They also loved Sadness, Fear and Bing Bong too! Don’t miss Elliot’s DIY FEAR costume or my DIY Bing Bong read more »
DIY Han Solo Run Disney Star Wars Costume
Running may not be fun but running in fun costumes can be! If you’re a regular reader than you know I love making DIY costumes, usually for my boys but sometimes for me too. I was super excited to hear a fun run would be happening at the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration again this read more »
DIY Han Solo Belt and Gun
I decided to detail out my DIY Han Solo Belt and Gun Holster for anyone that wants to make their own. Don’t miss my other post detailing out the rest of the Han Solo Costume. I started off using this tutorial and modified it to simplify the design and keep the belt lightweight since I was read more »
Big Hero 6 Costume: DIY Hiro Sweatshirt
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine as is my love of making easy DIY costumes. 😉 #BigHero6Release #CollectiveBias Making Elliot a Big Hero 6 costume has been on my to-do list ever since I made Quinn a DIY Baymax costume last year. Hiro is Baymax’s read more »
