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How to: Make a Flo from the Progressive Commercials Costume

October 20, 2010 by FaveCrafts

This year I’m going as Flo from the Progressive commercials for Halloween. No, I am not affiliated with the insurance company, and no, I don’t really “<3 insurance.” But it’s always a good idea to be something relevant for Halloween. This year’s relevant costumes include the cast of Jersey Shore, Antoine Dodson (the “hide yo kids, hide yo wife” guy of YouTube infamy), the ever popular Lady Gaga, and the characters from Mad Men.

Flo, the cheery, overly helpful retro-esque insurance saleswoman from the Progressive commercials seemed like the perfect costume because she’s easily recognizable, culturally relevant, a little unexpected, and easy to DIY. Here’s how I did it:

  1. The clothes: Wear a pair of white pants and a white polo shirt. I’m not sure what shoes she wears or if it even matters, so have fun with it!
  2. The hair and makeup: Invest in a Bump-It. I am only a little ashamed to admit that I already have a set in my beauty arsenal, and I didn’t even buy them for Halloween, sadly. Also slip a stretchy headband over your bangs, curl the ends of your hair out, slick on some bright red lipstick, and give yourself winged eyeliner.
  3. The apron: Buy a plain white apron from the store. I got mine at Hobby Lobby, but you’re bound to find one anywhere aprons are sold. Or you can make your own. Print out the Progressive logo, use an X-acto knife to cut out the letters, and use what’s left as a stencil. Fill in the letters with a blue marker or paint, right across the front of your apron.
  4. The pins: Flo wears two pins–one that says “I <3 insurance,” and one that says “Flo.” You can buy these online, but this article is about how to make your costume, not how to buy it. I looked up the pins on a website that was selling them, printed out the pictures, and cut them out myself. You can fill in the colors with markers if you want, or just print in color. Attach the cut-outs to cardboard or card stock, and attach that to a safety pin. Pin your badges to the apron, and you’re set. Make sure you spend Halloween night yelling “Discount!”

What are you going to be for Halloween?

Filed Under: Halloween Tagged With: costumes, diy halloween, DIY halloween crafts, how to

How to Make a Halloween Mask

October 20, 2009 by FaveCrafts

You only have 11 days until the spooky ghosts and goblins fly throughout the night. This still leaves you with plenty of time to prepare as long as you work fast. You can make your own decorations and costumes to look the way you want it. I just wrote a great article on how to make a Halloween mask. There are so many varieties of masks to choose from. It can be an accessory to your costume or it can be the whole costume itself.

My favorite part about making a mask or even a costume is that it’s all you and it’s all yours. Your creativity goes into it, your thoughts go into it and it’s made by you with pride. A few neat masks you can make are:

Gold Devil Mask– Embellish a wooden mask with gold accents to create a dazzling mask for a Halloween costume.

Cat mask– Using acrylics, rhinestones and a boa. You can be the cat’s meow all night long. This is a cute little mask your kids might be able to wear if they’re cat lovers.

Learn more about how to make a Halloween mask!

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: costumes, halloween crafts, how to make a halloween mask

How to Make Your Own Halloween Costume

October 1, 2009 by FaveCrafts

Now that we are in the month of October and pumpkins are just starting to appear on doorsteps in your neighborhood, I thought I would talk today about how to make your own Halloween costume. Free craft projects can provide a great variety of ideas on how to make a Halloween costume. After all, store-bought costumes are neither creative nor inexpensive. With materials such as yarn, plain sweatshirts or cardboard boxes, you can learn how to make Halloween costumes for yourself or for the kids. Have kids help created their own Halloween costumes for a fun family activity.

Also, we just recently had a great craft project on How to Make Your Own Costume Horns from clay, so definitely check that out.

Sweatshirts

The basis of so many homemade Halloween costumes is a plain sweatshirt.

  1. Turn an orange sweatshirt into a Jack-o-Lantern costume with black fabric paint. You can also secure the sweatshirt at the waist and stuff with crumbled up newspaper to create a round-pumpkin shape.
  2. Cut off the neck band and cut out triangles from the bottom and sleeve edges of a plain sweatshirt to create a jagged edge for a Pirate Costume. Add a skull and cross bones with black or white fabric paint.
  3. Blow up purple balloons and affix to a purple sweatshirt for a Bunch of Grapes costume. You can affix the tie end of the balloon to the sweatshirt with safety pins. Try making a little stem hat with aluminum foil and green or brown felt.
  4. Sew stripes of yellow felt to a black sweatshirt or black stripes on a yellow sweatshirt for a Bumblebee Costume. Wear over plain black leggings and make antennae with black pipe-cleaners, a black headband and black pom-poms for the ends of the antennae (either store-bought or homemade with yarn).
  5. Add big black dots to a plain red sweatshirt for a Ladybug Costume. Use the small technique to create antennae as above.
  6. Though not technically a sweatshirt, this is a simple idea using the same basic concept: Add white stripes to a red turtleneck for a Waldo costume, by sewing white fabric stripes or you can even use white duct tape. Add a white stocking hat with red stripe at the brim and red pom-pom to complete the look. You can create the pom-pom with red yard or paint a thrift-store white knit hat.


Cardboard Box

A plain cardboard box can provide so many opportunities for how to make your own Halloween costume. Wear the box over the head and cut out holes at the front to see. Or, cut off the top and bottom tabs and wear the box around the body with the help of suspenders. You can create simple suspenders with strips of black felt or fabric stapled or glued to the cardboard box.

  1. Add black dots cut from craft foam to create Dice. This costume would be great for two friends to go as a pair!
  2. Turn the box into a Lego piece by gluing fruit or applesauce cups to the box sides in lines and painting the whole box a solid color.
  3. Cut out a rectangular slit in the front of the box and paint silver or cover with aluminum foil to make a Robot.


Yarn

Whether or not you knit or crochet, you can still use yarn to make Halloween costumes. Use yarn to make an inexpensive “wig,” such as for a Raggedy Ann wig with bright red yarn or create curling pigtails with yellow yarn and a bit of floral wire for a Pippy Longstocking costume. Use yellow yarn and wire to create a Princess Crown and Scepter for a Halloween princess costume. (For something a bit fancier, create a Gold Lace Crown by painting lace gold and covering with several coats of Modge Podge.)

If you do crochet, check out the Free Patterns from Red Heart or the 8 Halloween Crochet Patterns.

Filed Under: Halloween Tagged With: costumes, halloween

Book Review and Giveaway: Homemade Halloween

September 29, 2009 by FaveCrafts

This is a great 96-page book from Fox Chapel Publishing. It’s chock full of creative step-by-step craft projects. This new fun-for-the-whole-family guide to all things Halloween provides everything you need to trick-or-treat in style, throw a spooktacular party and decorate your home with frightfully fun yard ornaments, door decorations, tombstone markers, carved pumpkins and more. Learn more about the book and enter to win here!

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Contest ends October 13, 2009. You can enter once daily, so return often to improve your chances of winning! Happy Halloween!

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: costumes, halloween, halloween book, halloween decor

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