Homemade Zombie Costumes

I lucked out on costume buying this last Halloween as my older 3 all decided they would go as zombies. We used old worn out clothes or if they didn't have any, I bought a couple cheap things at Goodwill.

Here is my son sporting the finished product :) I decided to use this picture because after trick or treating for awhile in the rain, he started using his jacket to cover his head. After seeing him like this I thought, what a perfect zombie pose!!

Now let's start from the beginning. First, here are the supplies I used:

1 long sleeve shirt

1 pair of pants

1 package of zombie tattoos (I used 2 packs for 3 kids)

1 can bright white temp hair color

1 can zombie grey temp hair color

1 tube white cream makeup

sidewalk chalk

good ole outdoor grass & dirt

I bought these items at Walmart. However, I am sure you can buy them at multiple places (Amazon, Party City, etc.). I also still have at least half a can of each color & most of the white cream makeup left over. So if you happen to have a stash from a previous Halloween, even better :) The zombie blood spray I did use, however, I don't suggest investing in it. It just faded into their clothes.

Step 1: Begin cutting & ripping strips in the clothes.

Step 2: Make holes by cutting & ripping.

 Tear & rip until you feel satisfied by how the clothing looks.

Step 3: Get them dirty!! (Whoever hear of a clean zombie??)

Here are two of my kids crawling through the grass. I had them crawl & roll around creating grass stains on their clothes. We also wet some dirt & they trudged through that as well. And to finish off the 'dirty' look, we rubbed chalk on their clothes.

Front & back

Step 4: Apply tattoos, make up & hair color.

I started out applying tattoos to their faces & hands. I used the white face make up around the tattoos on their faces to give them that pale zombie look. I then put the fake blood that came with the tattoos on so some of their 'wounds' looked as though they were dripping blood. When it came to their hair, I stuck mostly to the zombie grey. The hair color not only put color in their hair but it acted as a hair spray as well allowing me to be able to give them that nice zombie messed up hair.

I present to you, 3 zombies & a butterfly :)

**Any products shown or places linked to are my own opinion & example of things I bought & used. I placed the links only to make it easier for viewers to go to.

Oh My How Time Flies!

Whether you know it or not, or maybe I said it once before, I originally made this blog to go along with the online store I was running. Well needless to say, I didn't do so well at blogging lol. I also ended up closing the store due to multiple reasons, mostly because it just became to hard to juggle with life at that time. I will say I miss some of my awesome customers I used to have :( I also really miss putting together kits to sell. I sold them at quite a good discount too. Probably why I didn't exactly profit from the business. But I really loved doing it anyway :)

So now here this blog sits. I made one when my husband was deployed to Iraq so he could keep up with our growing children. Again I didn't so well at keeping up at blogging :/ Oh well. So why am I blogging now? Because I want to. Because I can. I'm thinking I'm going to use this one in somewhat a way it was used before or meant to be for. Crafts! I love the site Pinterest thanks to a great friend of mine for introducing it to me awhile back. I've pinned & repinned many things & have even made a few things. Well now I want to 'show' how somethings are made & 'pin' them. If you are following me on Pinterest & I post something myself, it will likely link back to this blog to show a step by step on how to. I can't promise it will be that way all the time. Heck I can't even promise I'll blog constant either. But hey, I'm going to give it a try.

I already have some projects lined up so stayed tuned :)