Check out the seriously impressive ensembles worn here by men, women and children of all ages. The appeal of these crime-fighting teenage, green turtles is enormous. So strap on a eye mask and check out the coolest homemade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costumes in this collection.
Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael are named after Italian Renaissance artists. These pizza loving turtles stand up to evil from their home in New York City’s sewers. Most importantly, they are in disguise.
The level of DIY costume making here is exceptional. In addition, you will see some fun and girly costume ideas using tutus. Another clever group paid homage to the artists with their paintings on the back of their shells. You will even find fabulous Shredder costumes here.
So get your grimace on as you browse through this section for your DIY costume inspiration this Halloween!
This year, I made my husband an animatronic homemade Krang costume for Halloween. In case you’re interested in the how of things: 1. Bought a super-cheap and crappy sumo wrestler suit on eBay. 2. Restuffed it with polyfill so it didn’t look so crappy. 3. Sewed and stuffed a Krang doll 4. Ripped apart two … Read more
My mom and I took the Ninja Turtle pattern 5143 Butterwick which is hard to find and we modified it to make our Ninja Turtles costumes. We chose not to make a big ninja turtle head, we used masks only and we made the turtle shell three dimensional by stuffing section of shell with fiberfill … Read more
This is a picture of my college roommates and I each dressed up in a homemade Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles costume, with Master Splinter, April O’Neil, Casey Jones, and the Professor from TMNT Secret of the Ooze. We made our entire costumes. The undershell is made out of dyed tanks tops and underwear. We wore … Read more
My son and his friends wanted to be ninja turtles… For this homemade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles group costume – we took paper disposable overalls from a nearby factory and painted them green. The shell is made of old couch cushions (sponge foam) that we found on the curb – good thing the neighbors threw … Read more
Last year, my son wanted to be a Ninja Turtle for Halloween so I bought him a costume. But since we always do a family theme, I had to figure out how to make something for my husband and me, for cheap, and relatively easy! After looking at pictures online (especially this site), I saw … Read more
This was our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costumes for a Uni cruise. We came up with the idea about 2 days before it and went shopping the next day. We brought a green pair of socks each and 8 pairs of green leggings, one pair for our legs and one pair we partially tore in … Read more
My housemates and I go to the University of Winchester (UK) and on nights out there is usually a theme at our student union. One week the theme was 90’s and so we all discussed things we loved when we were little that would be great to go as (we always make a big effort … Read more
I made these Homemade Ninja Turtles Halloween Costumes the day before Halloween, but they were easy to make, fun, and was under $10. First I made the shells: I went to a local grocery store (Safeway) and went dumpster diving for cardboard they were throwing out. You need to make sure that you have a … Read more
We prepared this funky Ninja Turtles Costume for the carnival of Arrecife (Canary Islands Spain). We were so good ninjas and trained hard (unfortunately without Leonardo and Miguel angel). We took a plain green tshirt, and sewed the abs with another piece of fabric. Inside the muscles we put some cotton to do like real … Read more
The Homemade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Group Costume was in full effect Halloween 2009. They were accompanied by April the reporter and a member of the Foot Clan. As you can see, no detail was spared as we even had the accessories to go along with the costumes. We even had a girl Ninja Turtle … Read more
Materials for this Homemade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Group Costume: *t-shirts over sized green *yellow, brown and black fabric *fabric glue *face paint We decided to make our green shirts off the shoulder. Cut out oval sized yellow for turtle tummies. With thin strips of black fabric we made the line of the stomach. For … Read more
This was our Halloween costume for 2009 for a ‘Heroes and Villains’ theme event. We wanted to make our own homemade girl ninja turtle costume because we knew there would be tons of people that would have the same costume (because it was such a huge event). Here’s how we made it- For the main … Read more