Homemade Costume Ideas

My new favorite kids halloween costume is in Womans Day magazine... its sushi made with white pillow, black garbage bag, packing peanuts, and orange balloons. It is fun and easy looking, go get a copy today!  

My sister and I made halloween costumes a few years back.  One of those moments when I wished we took pictures.  Her oldest daughter we made in to a bunch of grapes by using purple balloons and safety pining them to I think green sweats.  Her son was a box of popcorn; I punched holes in the side of a box,

painted it white with thin red lines and the words "popcorn", then popped a bag of microwave popcorn and glued it to the top.  My daughter and her, then youngest daughter, was jelly bellys; we bought water balloons and filled them with air, got small office garbage bags, cut leg holes in them and tied the large opening over their shoulders, but first filled the bag with balloons and a piece of paper in the front that said Jelly belly's on them. 

All of these items we got at the dollar store.  It was alot of fun.  With the internet, homemade costumes are a snap really.  Find out what they want to be and search it on the net.   This year my daughter wants to be Princess Tiana from the Princess and the frog.  So I think I will get the dress from  a thrift store, and tint parts of it green, and buy a little frog for it.  At least under $10 for sure, I will update later.