Mum wins Halloween by making amazing home-made costumes for her daughter

A mum has revealed her amazing costume making skills after sharing images of her little girl in the home-made dress-up she’s made for Halloween.

Siobhan Smith, 25, first created a DIY costume for her daughter Caoimhe Flynn, now aged five, when she was a baby and every year has got more adventurous with her designs.

From a granny, which was the costume that kicked things off, to a Starbucks paper-style coffee cup, the Statue of Liberty and a Transformer, the thrifty mum aims to upcycle all the materials used and has never spent more than £25 on her inventive designs.

Commenting on the costumes, the childcare student, from Govan, Glasgow, said: “Every Halloween I try and hand make all her costumes.

“I just try and think of the most random stuff.

“It was a wee granny first but she was one and just walking.

“Then the second one was Starbucks then the Statue of Liberty, then the Transformer.

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For Caoimhe’s first costume, the granny, the mum explained that she had all the materials so it cost nothing, and the Starbucks one was about £10 for the material and £5 for the paint.

The Statue of Liberty costume also set the mum back around £10 for the material.

Explaining that she enjoys arts and crafts, Siobhan says she enjoys the challenge of making the outfits for her daughter.

“She [Caoimhe] never really asks to be these, she’s quite laid back," she adds.

After making a Transformer costume last year, the mum was flooded with compliments from others.

To create it she used cardboard boxes she got while she worked at McDonald's and fairy lights she bought for £5 from eBay and spent half an hour every night over five weeks to make it.

“The Transformer was tricky and something completely different,” she said.

For her latest work, Siobhan was inspired to replicate the Duke of Wellington after a light-bulb moment when she was about to throw away Caoimhe’s old rocking horse.

Costing £25, it is the most expensive costume the mum has made so far.

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Though Caoimhe already had a black top and black boots, Siobhan bought a secondhand black leather jacket and a sports cone from eBay, and black leggings from Amazon.

“I was going to throw out the horse then I thought there was something I could do with it,” she says.

“I sawed the rocking bits off it and attached the wheels.”

Proud of her handiwork, Siobhan posted a picture of Caoimhe dressed up on social media which quickly went viral - attracting more than 6K likes and 5K shares.

But Siobhan now believes she’ll find it difficult to better the Glasgow landmark for next year’s costume.

“Most people didn’t think I could top last year’s but now they’re saying the Duke of Wellington is better,” she adds.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do next year now.”