One of my daughters loves princess dresses. She has for years. She would wear a princess dress everywhere and as she grows she still loves to dress up. One thing she has never liked about dressing up: if the costumes aren’t “soft”. Even when we do to Disney World, she loves all the gowns but has to wear soft clothes… Read More
Disclosure: We partnered with Primary.com for this post. All ideas, costume designs and opinions are my own. Up on the shore they work all day Out in the sun they slave away While we devotin’ Full time to floatin’ Under the sea Here’s a fun group costume for friends or a family: the cast of The Little Mermaid! These DIY… Read More
We love making costumes in our house. This year my oldest was really into helping me with all the costumes and had a lot of her own ideas. We started talking about making some Halloween classics: ghost, vampire, Frankenstein, etc. She had a lot of good ideas and we thought it would be really fun to let her and her… Read More
Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning….. Today we are sharing one of our favorite DIY group costumes yet: Peter Peter Pan, Wendy, Michael and John. Peter Pan is one of our all time favorite stories, so the kids had a wonderful time helping me make these costumes and then playing Peter Pan in them all afternoon…. Read More
Disclosure: We partnered with Primary.com for this post. All ideas, costume designs and opinions are my own. They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky, The Addams Family! Today i’m sharing our DIY Addams Family costumes for kids. I think this might be my favorite group costume yet. A couple years ago we did Mickey &… Read More
I think this is the most fun yet we’ve had working together to make a DIY Halloween costume. The girls are getting old enough to help with ideas and love working on these with me. The best part of these 2 costumes: you probably have a lot of the supplies already. We made this DIY Alice in Wonderland costume and… Read More
Here’s a fun costume for a set of sisters or friends: DIY Parent Trap Costume! My girls watched The Parent Trap for the first time this summer and loved it. After watching it a few times, I over heard them “playing” that they were Hallie and Annie. It got me thinking: this would be a cute Halloween costume! This turned… Read More
We are having so much fun creating DIY costumes right now! We have many new ones to share this year. You can follow along with the new ones and past costumes with #chirpingdiycostumes on Instagram and by clicking on the DIY Costumes tab above under the “Holiday” tab. Today we’re sharing a DIY Clark Kent costume for kids. This wasn’t… Read More
I’ve had so much fun making costumes this fall! The DIY costumes I’ve shared this year (and all below) are easy and require no sewing. Plus, so many of the supplies can be re-used all year long. So many of them are made out of pajamas – comfy for Halloween and can be used after! I love making costumes but… Read More
Madeline has always been one of my favorite books. I was so excited to read it to my girls for the first time when they were tiny. Since then, we’ve read them non stop over the years and last year made a special visit to Bemelman’s Bar in New York City for the Madeline Tea. This Halloween, Alex chose to… Read More