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Halloween Costume Ideas and Patterns
To start out, you should browse through all of the costume photos I have collected. You can also send in photos of your home-made costume. To have your costumes featured in one of these collections, just follow these simple directions!
You can find directions to make hundreds of different costumes. Some are extremely simple home-made costumes while others take a little bit of work. Some follow along with more of a traditional Halloween costume them while others are quite unique. You can explore all of my costume ideas and patterns by theme:
- Animal and Creature Costumes
This collection of costumes features farm yard animals, pets, bugs, and so much more. You can even find a mythical creature or two. - Edible Items Costumes
Check out all of these unique costumes made to look like edible items! Find costumes that look like everything from a box of popcorn to a hot dog. - Inanimate Objects Costumes
This is a collection of unique costumes made to look like a variety of inanimate objects. Find costumes that look like everything from monster trucks and popcorn to video games and eye balls. - People Costumes
Check out all of these fabulous costumes designed to look like people of all shapes and sizes, although not all of them are what you would consider to be real people. - Popular Characters Costumes
Check out all of these creative costumes made to look like popular characters from television, movies, books, and more. - Scary Characters Costumes
Take a look at the creative and scary Halloween costumes in this collection. All are home-made, and most from visitors just like you.
You can easily make Halloween costumes out of items you already have at home or items you can find for cheap at a thrift store:
- Cardboard Box Costumes
This collection of costumes will amaze you. Check out the unique costumes you can create when you start with a simple cardboard box. - Sweatsuit Costumes
Explore all of these creative costumes made from sweatsuits. I am willing to bet you will be impressed in what you see here. - Thrift Store or Closet Costumes
Check out all of these creative costumes made from items that can be bought at a thrift store or found in your own closet.
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- Mask Crafts
- Books About Making Costumes
- Make Your Own Trick-or-Treat Bag
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Halloween Costume Ideas and Patterns originally appeared on About.com Family Crafts on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 09:00:19.
How to Pick a Type of Art or Craft
It's been sort of a harrowing week for me trying to get a large craft order out to one of my customers. Still not done, but as I was taking a break trolling through the internet I ran across a blog posting discussing the value of doing arts and crafts for relaxation.
Of course, I had a chuckle about this. But the blog posting did make one good point: if you want to pursue arts or crafts as a business (or pleasure) and are not sure which you are most interested in, it's a good idea to start by exploring what classes in arts and crafts are offered in your local area and just pick one to take. Not happy - try out another.
That saves a new business owner the wear and tear of thinking a craft discipline is a good one, only to start the business and find out they hate doing that particular art or craft.
For more information, check out these articles I've written on the subject:
How to Pick a Type of Art or Craft originally appeared on About.com Arts / Crafts Business on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 05:58:15.
Make-It-Over Monday
- Fairy House Craft submitted by Brenda
- Pine Cone Pony Craft submitted by Tonya
- Sticks as Building Toys submitted by TJ from Montana
- Tree Branch Menorah Craft submitted by Maureen Morrissey
- More Stick or Twig Crafts
Now, onto this week's Make-It-Over Monday Craft Challenge Item! This week, I thought maybe we would try something a little different. This week, I want to challenge everyone to make a specific craft. For some reason, the first thing that came to mind was puppets. So, my challenge to you this week is to make and submit your own puppet designs:
Your puppet can be made using any supplies you like. You can experiment with socks, gloves, household packages, and just about anything else.
You can share your simple ideas and tips using the comments feature on this blog post, but to get your project possibly featured in the next Make-It-Over Monday blog post, please submit it using this simple form. If you make the project you are submitting, take a picture of it and submit the photo. Some of the submitted ideas will be shared in the next Make-It-Over Monday blog post. Preference will be given to those projects that are submitted with photos. You can look through projects submitted for past challenges if you want some inspiration.
If you have questions or comments about this craft challenge, use the comment feature below. Suggestions regarding this feature? Again, use the comments feature to post your suggestions; and, thanks for playing along. If you want a reminder when Make-It-Over challenges are posted, sign up for the Family Crafts newsletter.
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- How to Submit a Project
- How to Submit a Photo
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Make-It-Over Monday originally appeared on About.com Family Crafts on Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 09:00:16.