Take a look at these cool homemade Grateful Dead costumes shared with us by costume enthusiasts from around the world. Along with the costumes here, you’ll also find loads of homemade costume ideas and DIY Halloween costume inspiration for your next costume project. Enjoy!
Started with spray painting cardboard boxes and taping them together to form a VW bus. Added some of my own touches and painted it up to look as original as possible. Found a grey beard wig and trimmed it to look like Jerry. Also spray painted my hair grey and found matching hippie glasses. Found … Read more
I was tired of the same old costumes, so i decided to make mine, I had a costume party coming up and it happend to fall on Día de Muertos, The band that was going to be playing was a classic rock / grateful dead tribute band! I figured everyone would be a sugar skull or … Read more
This Homemade Grateful Dead Bear Costume was such a hit! and so easy to make! If you’re crafty you can make your own custom fur costume, but if you’re not as crafty you can buy one. You can easily turn a costume base from another costume to make your dead bear (ex: Elmo, Cookie Monster, … Read more
My 11 month old son is in a Grateful Dead Costume dancing bear for his first Halloween. I transformed my old radio flyer into a Volkswagen bus by recycling diaper boxes and then using paper mache and spray paint. I finished it off with some eBay finds and the bus was driven by Jerry Garcia. … Read more