Tag Archives: Halloween Costumes

10/27/11

Easy DIY Halloween Costume: Potato Heads

 

While my family dressed up this Halloween as the Lego Family and also The Wizard of Oz, my sister made these adorable Mr and Ms Potato Head costumes for her kiddos.  Also a no-sew, easy, DIY family costume idea.  Very few materials, and you can get as detailed or creative as you’d like!

 

Here’s how to do it yourself:

 

1.  Make the body:  For this, she simply doubled-over some felt fabric in a tan shade, and cut circles for their heads and arms.  She rounded the edges at the bottom to give it an oval-like ”potato” shape.

 

2.  Make the faces:  She again used felt in various colors, and cut it to make the eyes, noses, and mouths.  You can use a hot glue gun to attach these pieces, or if you have little ones helping, try felt or fabric glue.

 

3.  Accessorize:  That’s the idea behind the real Potato Heads, right?  Add hats, leggings, or fun undershirts to finish off the look!

 

These kids are the cutest (although I am the very biased auntie!)  Thanks for sharing your DIY Halloween Costume idea, sissy!!

10/23/11

Easy DIY Family Halloween Costume

For our friend’s Halloween party Saturday, we wanted to do a family costume all together.  We debated for about a week on which costume idea we’d use.  We ended up making these very easy and cute DIY Lego Halloween Costumes. 

 

Here’s how to make these very easy costumes yourself:

 

1.  Find cardboard boxes in appropriate sizes.  For my son’s lego, we used the smallest box we had and we still had to cut it to make adjustments.  For the adults, we used a big cardboard box we had in our garage from the delivery of his crib (yes, from a year ago…thank goodness we’ve been too lazy to ever get around to throwing that out before!)

 

2.  Attach the pegs to the box, using wood glue or a hot glue gun.  I used both, since we ran out of hot glue half way through.  The wood glue worked much better, but takes longer to dry.  For the pegs, we used paper soup bowls, but you can use anything that’s round and easily attachable.  Craft stores sell paper round boxes which are perfect for this project.  We inititally set out to use those, until we realized they were about $2 a piece.

 

3.  Paint!  We used spray paint in primary colors.  The boxes took a few coats, so start a few days early on the paint.  The large lego required a whole can of paint.  The smallest one, the yellow one, required the most coats since it was the lightest color.

 

4.  Cut holes:  You can also do this before you paint them, which is probably easier.  For the baby’s costume, we ended up also cutting open the back to make it easier to get the costume on him.  He did not enjoy us trying to put a card board box over his head.

 

That’s all there is to it!  This costume is easy to make, a fun family costume, original, and inexpensive to make!

 

For another Family Halloween costume idea, check out what my very talented sister did:  Mr and Mrs. Potato Head or our Wizard of Oz family!  Also no-sew costumes!