halloween costumes – Dabbled

More… Halloween Costume ideas & instructions (Part 4?)

Dot — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:37:51 +0000

Have you figured out your costume yet? A couples costume? For you? For your kids? Well, here’s more inspiration and tutorials! (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

The Swell life has a fun take on a Deviled Egg costume.
A great tutorial on making costume armor out of felt! Perfect for your little knight… (via Craftgossip)
Easy/Cute Baby Costumes (via Craftgossip)
Homemade Exoskeleton
A little Elvis! at Geekcrafts.com.
Geekcrafts also brings us the ever popular Yip Yip Aliens from Sesame Street! (I actually like this version, which we saw at last years dragoncon, better — And there is an instructable to make your own, here.
An adorable gnome, found at Craftzine
And how to make your own sushi headdresses, also from Craftzine.
Make quick homemade character costumes for kids (in this example Boba Fett, but good principles for any similar costume)
Pippi Longstocking Braids
Egyptian costume how to at Craftster
Jeff sends us this fun list of 50 Cheap and Easy Halloween Costumes for Adults & Children – I love the idea of the Progressive Insurance girl!

If you missed it yesterday: Halloween Costumes, Star Wars Style!

From my own photo collection, here are some other great (mostly homemade) costumes from parties of years past, for your inspiration! Click to see larger…

Halloween Costumes, part 3 – Homemade Kids Costumes (plus more links)

Dot — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:39:18 +0000

A third flickr Gallery for your inspiration… this time featuring some cool/cute and homemade kids costumes. ( See Part 1 and Part 2)
I’m from the old school that likes to make rather than buy costumes. And I totally remember being “Dracula” with a red towel for a cape!

Some of these are totally doable by amateurs… Others might require some actual sewing skills… but hopefully this gallery (18 photos) will send some inspiration your way.

From animals (adorable bird, silly shark, cute bunny, and more) to pop culture (Darth Vader, Oompa Loompa, Mario, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, etc) to classic (lovely witch and mermaid) to nature (pretty tulle pumpkin, fun flowers), to just plain fun (like the gnome or the garbage pail boy or samarai)… these are all great ideas for your halloween dressup fun!

Other cool homemade costume ideas, not in the gallery above:

A bunch of Instructables to make cool kids costumes, including a jedi lightsaber!
Via Superpunch, Inspector Gadget costume.. and also Twister & Operation
Black Knight
Reese’s Cups
Colonel Sanders Costume
Also from Geek Crafts: Obi-Wan Kenobi Costumes

Photos at Top:

1.Halloween Costume 1, 2. Samurai Suzumi Bachi, 3. Pumpkin Halloween Costume – Dress Tutu, 4. choppers