600+ Awesome Animal Costume Ideas for DIY Costumers

Coolest Elephant Costume

I made this elephant costume with soft grey velour I found at a garage sale. The tusks and toenails are made of white felt. It was a McCall’s pattern. The feet have stuffing in them too.

Coolest Homemade Peacock Bird Costume

My wife and I where looking for the most original costume for our daughter and we bumped into the peacock bird. Since that moment we decided to look for feathers and a fabric that matched the color of the bird. Finally we found everything we neede and the hard and complicated part was to put … Read more

Cool DIY Peacock Halloween Costume Idea

For this homemade Peacock Halloween costume idea I bought over 500 peacock feathers online, hot glued them to ostrich feathers and then sewed and hot glued them to cardboard and then glued them to a fan. I covered my old corset in feathers and and old petticoat as well (for the skirt & shirt). I … Read more

DIY Peacock Costume

I live by the motto “it’s better to DIY.” So, naturally, I wanted to be something somewhat original this Halloween. The whole process of making this Homemade Peacock Costume (from planning and shopping, to actually constructing the costume) took about two weeks. My first mission was to find a royal blue dress, and not to … Read more

Coolest Homemade Raven Costume

I made this Homemade Raven Costume out of felt, taffeta, polyester batting, a black feather boa, and hot glue. It comes in 3 parts: the mask, the wings and torso, and the body. First I cut the shapes for the pieces out of felt and hot-glued them together. The puffiness of the body is achieved … Read more

Cool Homemade Duck Costume Idea

This is a super easy costume that I assembled 1 hour before we went Trick-or-Treating! I bought two inexpensive baseball hats and cut the brim of one. This I attached to the bottom of the other hat’s brim (forming the beak). I used yellow felt to cover the front of the hat and glued two … Read more

Dog Costumes

After enjoying a year of extended-by-me maternity leave, funds were low and my husband begged me not to go overboard for my baby’s first Halloween. Realistically, it wasn’t really going to show anyways since he’d be riding in his stroller and I had to put a blanket over him (a cool windy night had been … Read more

Monkey Costumes

We always teased that my son was a little monkey. So, for Halloween my mother made him a little monkey with a long curly tail and all. She went to the fabric store and got some brown corduroy and batting. And with the help of a $2.00 pattern we had the perfect costume. She even … Read more

Chicken Costume

Cool Peacock Halloween DIY Costume

I love doing homemade and original Halloween costumes. I thought of peacock, and discovered that this was not an original costume this year. (I didn’t personally run into any other peacocks, but heard about many others.) It was still a lot of fun, though, and everyone who saw the Homemade Peacock Costume was hugely impressed. … Read more

Cool Peacock DIY Halloween Costume

I started this October out with numerous different ideas…GaGa, Katy Perry, Queen of Hearts. I just couldn’t decide what I wanted to be. My goal was to win my work Halloween costume contest (which I did!). I first went with Queen of Hearts and while searching for accessories I came across Peacock Wings (which seems … Read more

Coolest Homemade Black Cat Costume

This homemade black cat costume I made for my granddaughter, and it was a huge hit! It was so easy and inexpensive to make. I sewed MANY black boas on a black turtle neck shirt and also on black leggings (doing this by hand was a lot easier than with a sewing machine). She wore … Read more