Comments on: Crafty Costumes

By: Franny Egan

Franny Egan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:38:06 +0000

Like many people we use the trunk of our car to store clothing for the dry cleaner. In a plastic bag from your favorite cleaner stow soiled shirts, sweaters, suits, written instructions for repairs, etc. When your arrive at the dry cleaning store you have all the soiled clothes in a re-used clear plastic bag. No rush & no forgetting. When you return home with the clean clothes, take off the metal hangers and put on wooden ones in your closet. Pile up these metal hangers along with the claim check for what you dropped off in a clean clear bag supplied by the cleaners and repeat the process. Waste is minimized, no missed items & your hard working dry cleaner gets to re-use the clean metal hangars.

By: Elise Ray

Elise Ray — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:29:33 +0000

My mom used to make the greatest costumes….

I was a eastern Indian lady….a length of material fashioned into a sari & a red lipstick dot on my farhead…..

a hobo was another…an old sport coat with patches sewn on, large pants held up with a piece of rope & the handle from the plunger with a bandana attached….then Mom burnt a cork to make my face look dirty….I won 3rd place with this one!

By: Elise Ray

Elise Ray — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:29:32 +0000

My mom used to make the greatest costumes….

I was a eastern Indian lady….a length of material fashioned into a sari & a red lipstick dot on my farhead…..

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:37:17 +0000

2 years ago, I found a bright red, sparkly Christmas tree skirt at a yard sale. We don’t have a Christmas tree (we’re Jewish), but I thought it would make a great Halloween costume. My daughter threw it over her shoulders, tied a red piece of cloth around her waist, used a basket and a bandana that we already had at home, and became the most wonderful Little Red Riding Hood ever. And I did not have to buy anything new in a store!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:44:53 +0000

My son will be using his DASH pajama for his costume this year. I will be making a mask for him cut-out from a black art paper and and make two small holes on each end and tie the two rubber bands on each side. And her sister will borrow her God mother’s scrub for her outfit. So just dig into your cabinet, garage and hidden chest box. Enjoy and be safe.

By: vanessa

vanessa — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:23:41 +0000

One great idea is taking the plastic tops from yogurt and place them slightly over each other like fish scales, glue them onto a large black garbage bag, which then become fitted to your body, and voila, you are now a mermaid!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:11:11 +0000

go as a scarecrow. get some old clothes in a couple sizes too large (a plaid shirt might do well–holes nor stains matter, in fact it’s better that way), wear them over your own clothes, stuff them with newspaper to fill them up, with some straw coming out the cuffs and various places (any old easter basket or gift basket grass might work too). use twine as a belt, some make-up on your face to look like stitches, and voila. it’s seasonal, too. if you’re real daring, put a detached broom handle through your sleeves (that should get tiring after a while).

although, if you want SCARY, get your nicest professional clothes on, suit or suit skirt outfit, mostly black, and borrow a black briefcase. if anyone asks you “what are you supposed to be” say you’re an IRS agent. everyone will say “that is the scariest costume i’ve ever seen!” Guaranteed.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:43:34 +0000

Last year, my seven year old wanted to be a genie. This was accomplished without buying a thing. A very colorful tablecloth was folded (too hard too explain how) and tied at the waist to become billowy genie pants. He wore a blue, long-sleeved tee shirt, and we wrapped a very long, purple scarf around his waist like a cummerbund. I cut a short vest out of a light yellow pillow case (no longer using the pillow case because of a rip in it) and sewed shiny green satin ribbon around the edge of it. The ribbon was recycled from a gift. Finally, we made a turban out of a strip of old white sheet, and put a great big costume jewelry pin in it as the “jewel” in the center. My son looked great, and it felt really good to have created something special with only the materials we had on hand.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:42:49 +0000

My favorite costume requires only scraps of aluminum foil–either tape the scraps you’ve collected together or wrap a roll around you (to be recycled or used later), and you’re the TIN MAN!

By: Glory Simon

Glory Simon — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:49:03 +0000

Crafty Costumes

I had an early Halloween Party and I bought a super old dress at a Thrift store for $2.00. It had poofy sleeves and shoulder pads so I cut them out and turned it into an off the shoulder dress. I also cut up the ruffles on the bottom as my character was dead.
If you don’t want to buy new makeup if you have sunscreen at home with zinc oxide that stuff’s pretty thick and if you don’t rub it in too much you can use that for the dead look. I also took old white stockings and wore old fishnets over them and put holes in the fishnets. Finish with a necklace you don’t care about, high heels and grey or dark eyeshadow under the eyes and on lips with a hint of red over it and you are an undead prom girl.

I love going to thrift stores for Halloween cause you are in essence recycling plus I got to turn a kind of conservative frumpy dress into something sexy with only a pair of scissors. The trick was finding a good color something kind of bright to contrast with your skin.