Family Halloween Costumes Your Kids Will Love

The Williamson and Spencer family of Phinney Ridge

From Dominic Williamson: “2016 was the 30th anniversary of Jim Henson’s ‘Labyrinth,’ a movie I absolutely loved as a kid. I loved the character Ludo and was so excited to see if I could pull off such a massive undertaking in time for Halloween. It was a very time-consuming process, which started at the beginning of September.

"I did tons of YouTube research on how to construct big monsters out of EVA foam and fur and used movie photos and footage to get a good likeness. The body shape was started by creating a pattern. I used a stuffed animal with extra padding to create the shape, wrapped that in duct tape and drew on a numbered pattern, took detailed photographs, carefully cut the pattern out and blew it up with a projector, tracing the enlarged pattern onto brown paper, then transferred that to the foam. I cut it out and stuck it together. Amazingly, I suddenly had this huge lightweight 3-D monster shape. From there I dressed it with fur. The head was a combination of papier-mâché, upholstery foam and liquid latex. I learned so much from YouTube, I made my own tutorial on how I made Ludo. The David Bowie character, Jareth, was pretty easy to put together and Sam, my wife, did Isabel's makeup. Lucy was a Firey, a fire demon from the film. The head was made with a similar technique to Ludo's. With all of that work, I unfortunately ran out of time to make a costume for Sam!”