11/4/14
Cruella DeVille was super easy. Mostly just compiling items together.
Costume needs:
Black long sleeved shirt
Black sequins dress/skirt
Boa
Dalmatian puppy
White tights & black spray paint
Cigarette made from red straw & tape.
1) insert swimming noodle into tights (or wrapping paper tube for smaller sizes)
Spray spots all over tights for the Dalmatian look.
Assemble costume & add white spray paint & BOOM...Cruella DeVILLE!
Cost Breakdown
black shirt - had
boa - borrowed
white dalmatian - $.25 @ D.I.
Black Sequins skirt - $3 @ D.I.
Tights - had
Spray paint - had
TOTAL COST = $3.25
Queen of Hearts Costume
This costume we actually had, I found it at a yard sale months ago for $1!
Cup, gold spray paint & red fabric over heart cardboard.
Cost breakdown
costume - $1
crown - Free
TOTAL COST = $1
Evil Queen Costume
Costume needs:
Black cape
Purple dress
red sash
white collar
Gold Crown
Cape made from an old bathrobe bought at a yard sale.
I made the big white collar from poster board and an old pillow case,
sewn onto the collar of the cape.
Gold crown made from poster board & spray painted gold.
Cost Breakdown:
Black cape - $1
Dress was borrowed from a neighbor - FREE
White collar - FREE
Total Cost = $1
Captain Hook
All ITEMS were borrowed from our awesome neighbor.
Costume needs:
Foam Hat - Hot glue a Boa to get feather effect
Black curly wig
Dark Shirt
White lacy material for shirt & sleeves
Red jacket from D.I. - pinned up to fit my 7 yr old boy.
Hook from dollar store (already had)
Belt - had
Total Cost - FREE
The evilness is even more AWESOME when its done CHEAP!!
I did Jafar right after doing my Maleficent costume. I thought this one would be the most time consuming and maybe difficult. It wasn't too bad. Time consuming YES!
Gown & Cape DIY
Materials needed:
Black material / I used an Adult Black ghoul costume
Red material
Cardboard
Hot glue & glue gun
1) I cut old costume into two big piece. I cut the collar in.
2) Sew the top of dress together, leaving collar open (sew collar under if needed). Sew sides of dress together, leaving arm holes. Sew arm holes in for easy hem. Surge bottom for hem.
3) Cut red material & sew sides for a sash.
4) Cut triangular shaped cardboard pieces. Cover with extra black material & hot glue.
5) Use extra black material to make cape. Line cape with Red material (I used old t-shirts)
Gown & Cape DONE!
Headpiece DIY
Materials needed:
Cardboard
extra black material
red material
cording OR extra gold/white material
gold spray paint
Hot Glue & Glue Gun
1) Cut cardboard 7" wide & long. Curve cardboard to make a cylinder shape.
Secure shape with stapler or hot glue. Cut another cardboard into triangle shape. Secure to front of headpiece with glue or staples.
2) Cut Black fabric to make a cone like shape. glue inside top of material to secure the cone shape.
Slip fabric over the cardboard headpiece & glue around.
3) Cut cording or extra material into strips. Paint Gold. Hot glue onto headpiece.
4) Cut red material into a feather like shape. OR Use a feather.
Cut more red material to cover a circular shaped cardboard. Secure with HOt glue.
Glue Red "Jewel" shape into center, add Feather/Feather shape material. Secure with Hot Glue.
5) Cut red material into a long rectangle: 6" x 18" to be the neck cover. Secure to the inside of the headpiece with hot glue.
Snake Staff DIY
Materials:
wrapping paper tube
newspaper
tape
Hot glue & gun
1) scrunch newspaper into circular shape. Add tape to help mold into a snout for the snake.
Add more newspaper & tape to create the head.
Secure head to staff with tape.
2) spray paint staff gold
3) Hot glue 2 drops for eyes on the staff. I did this 3 times to get desired size.
4) Paint eyes red with nail polish.
BOOM! Evil snake staff!
COSTUME COMPLETE
Cost Breakdown
Ghoul Costume - $5 @ D.I.
Extra red material - Free from stash
Hot Glue - free
Snake Staff - Free
TOTAL COST = $5
Probably my easiest costume EVER!
Togas are so fun.
Materials needed:
black sheet
cardboard
black & white paint
Grey fabric
Greyish-Greenish old shirt
B&W face paint ($1/each = $2)
Blue hair paint ($2/can = $4)
1) Cut cardboard to skull shape
Paint skull face on. I painted white first, then black accents.
2) cut grey fabric (I have many scraps in my stash, this was leather)
2 shoulder to bottom of sleeves
2 collar pieces
Paint Greek design with Black paint
3) Cut collar of old shirt out, pin faux collar & sleeve pieces on.
Quick stitch to secure.
4) Wrap black sheet around, secure with safety pins
Secure Skull cardboard to Right shoulder of Toga.
5) Paint face with black & white face paint.
Paint hair shades of blue to white ends.
BONUS: Use creepy green or yellow contacts for FULL evil affect!
Cost Breakdown
All fabric items I had on hand.
Paint I had on hand also, as well as the extra shirt.
I bought the face paint & the hair paint.
TOTAL COST = $6
10/31/14
This year has been my most favorite year yet! The costumes were so fun to make, the kids loved watching "their" evil roles in their movies, and they loved pretending to be the evil villains.
QUESTION: How do you get your kids to go with the family theme?
ANSWER: So far I haven't had anyone ask to be something different. We also have been doing this since before they were born, so they don't know any different. We also let them discuss what ideas would be cool to do. If a child does want to do something different, I think I'll still do a family theme for our party or maybe for our ward trunk-or-treat. I'll help them with their individual costumes for trick-or-treating.
This has been a fun year, and some of us will have 4 chances to wear our costumes.
So here we are: DISNEY VILLAINS
Maleficent....The villain movie of the year!
This was super fun to make. You can check out my DIY HERE for WHOLE outfit. In this picture I'm not wearing the neck piece...DARNIT!
I like this picture of Jase & I, we both have on our FULL costume.
Hades
We had a few options for Jase, he was going to be Jafar or Gaston at first. But I gave the hard Jafar costume to Wyatt & went with the easiest costume I could fine...Hades. It was very easy.
Now, the Evil Children!
These kids are the best, they were quite ready to go with any idea we had.
I love this picture, almost everyone is portraying their character just right....Cora is totally into her Evil laugh right here!
Evil Queen (Queen Grimhilde)
Klai is in the Peter Pan play and I wasn't sure she was going to be able to wear the costume at all. But thank goodness for Trunk-or-Treats, she got to wear it once. And thank goodness her costume was quite easy also, DIY HERE!
Cruella DeVille
This has always been a favorite character of mine. She is also my favorite character to talk to at Disneyland, she's Hilarious!
Rykel loves animals, I thought it would be delightfully ironic for Rykel to be Cruella. She does the faces the best also.
Check out the little DIYs HERE
Check out the little DIYs HERE
Hook
Another fabulous Character. Shae met him at Disneyland when he was 3....Shae was so intimidated by Hook, that he didn't want to meet him....but he was brave! Most of his costume was borrowed, I've got great friends. Costume assembly here.
Jafar
A truly evil villain. I always despised him watching the movies he was in. Wyatt embraced this awesome evilness. His costume was more time consuming than the other kids costumes, but very fun to make. DIY here.
Queen of Hearts
Evee is a sweetheart, so finding a character for her was actually difficult. Luckily she actually had this costume, I found it at a yard sale & she played dress-up in it many times. The only thing I made for her was her crown...so simple. We even watched Alice in Wonderland (which is the craziest movie ever) and she enjoyed how crazy the Queen of Hearts was. She loved giving stinkeye to everyone. Crown DIY here
Ursula
My lovely sweet Cora is the evil Ursula. Check out her DIY Here. Cora thought the bubble wrap for her tentacles was just so fun to pop & she loved laughing all evil like!
Have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the Evilest Family around!
2014 what a great year!
BLOG UPDATE:
Costume Cost Breakdown. Each DIY has a breakdown for THAT costume.
For this whole family theme TOTAL COST = $24.75
10/29/14
Disney Villains have been super fun planning & creating.
Ursula is one of the classic villains.
Items Needed:
Purple shirt (a size bigger is ok)
extra purple material
Black fabric (I used an old dress from my older child & extra fabric from a cap/gown)
Big Bubble wrap
Purple & Gold spray paint
hot glue & glue gun
Black ribbon (or extra black material)
STEP #1 Sewing:
I cut the black fabric (from the cap/gown I bought at DI) to shape the bustier & pinned onto purple shirt. I then pinned the other black fabric (I took the skirt portion to a dress my bigger girls grew out of) to the bottom of the bustier part, pinning all around the purple shirt.
STEP #2: Cut & Sew again
Cut bottom of black skirt to form 8 tentacles.
Cut purple material (old shirt) to be a bit bigger than black tentacles.
Sew Purple material to Black.
(You could stop here)
What makes the tentacles EPIC is the bubble wrap!
STEP #3: Cut & Spray Paint
Cut bubble wrap (use BIG bubbles) to be fit the tentalces already sewn.
Spray paint cut bubble wrap purple (paint may flake off)
Step #4: Hot Glue Bubbles On
Glue on the sewn line & attach bubbles.
Step #5: Accessories
Shape Shell from Play-Doh
Cover shaped shell in Mod-Podge to keep shape
Spray Paint Shell Gold.
Let Dry & with needle string a string through.
Attach Ribbon/material through string to use as necklace.
A little hair paint & BOOM...my little Ursula.
This shot she's not wearing any makeup...I will update when we take her REAL Halloween pics.
She's a cute Ursula!
This costume was essentially FREE.
All clothes were given to me, or I had on hand.
Bubble wrap I got from my awesome neighbor.
Spray paint I had on hand also.
The bustier was from Maleficents gown.
TOTAL COST = FREE
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