We’ve got some big Harry Potter fans in the house. We also a wild little house elf…. hence the creation of a DIY Dobby costume this year! We ordered the big kids their Hermione and Harry Potter costumes from Chasing Fireflies. Then for our little elf, I made an easy DIY Dobby costume in minutes… Easy DIY Dobby Costume… Read More
By: Courtney Byrne We love a good DIY costume. One of my favorite things about quick, easy DIY costumes is you can almost always re-use the clothes after Halloween. I made a DIY super hero costume with Primary.com pajamas a couple years ago and after we were done with it, minus the cape, mask and superhero sign (added with sticky… Read More
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… 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
Next up in our DIY sibling costumes …. a DIY Lion Tamer and Lion costume! I love creating costumes for siblings and families. My crew doesn’t end up going along with it all the time but these are my favorite costumes to create. I’ve always wanted to do a whole circus theme and this year I am getting closer with… Read More
My kids tend to change their minds a couple hundred times before Halloween. That or they “just can’t decide” what to be. That’s where we were at hen Alex came up with the idea to be The Tooth Fairy for Halloween. Last year, we were kind of getting down to the wire: we had visited the Halloween store a few… Read More