Thinking of going green for your Halloween costume? Take a look at the fairy tale inspired collection of homemade costumes below. These awesome Shrek costumes will have you releasing your inner Ogre DIY costume like Fiona after sunset.
Check out the different ways people here transformed their skin for their homemade costumes. Green yourself with the best DIY costume tips and tricks found below.
Also, homemade costume accessories are key. Discover how to craft your best green horns for the grumpiest Ogre costume. Learn how people have made the best long red braid for their Fiona costumes.
In addition to the main characters’ costumes, you will see Gingerbread Man costumes. They look so good, you may be tempted to take a bite of DIY costumes! But you shouldn’t. They are costumes, after all.
So, browse through the coolest Shrek costumes below and get inspired to create your own DIY costume for Halloween!
We won a costume contest this weekend dressed as Shrek and Fiona. It also gave us a wonderful excuse to eat non-stop at the banquet table and to carry around drumsticks for additional chomping. We used a tavern wench costume and something similar for Shrek, and added the red wig for Fiona, green face/body paint, … Read more
This is our Homemade Shrek Family Costume. We have Puss-in-boots, Donkey, and of course Shrek and Fiona. We widened our nose with noses we made out of clay, then we pained everything exposed green. It was a great family affair!
We are always on the look out for a great couples costume, and because we are of the “fuller figure” population – great costumes are few and far between. We have had Shrek and Princess Fiona as plan B for a few years. 2011 was the year we had to do it, I am happy … Read more
I am from Germany. Here I want to show you my Homemade Shrek Costume. It`s really easy to create! I took a long white fleece shirt. You cut the endings of the arms and collar! the waistcoat is made of a potatoes sack. I also put a potatoe sack over my shoes! My ears are … Read more
My husband and I always try to do coordinating costumes. For a friend’s party we decided to go as Shrek and Princess Fiona. I bought my husband an oversized cream Henley shirt which he wore with his own plaid pajama pants, hiking boots and belt (I also made him a little vest out of a … Read more
For the Shrek costume I used brown pajama pants with a beige thermal for the shirt. For Shrek’s vest I used a regular brown t-shirt then cut off the sleeves, cut the shirt half way to where it barely touches the belly, I then cut it from top to bottom for it to look like … Read more
I made the clothes of the Shrek and Fiona costumes myself. The red hair is a wig and the ears, with and without, the crown is bought from a costume shop named Butterick’s. We also bought the green skincolor that was waterbased. It came right off in the shower with a little scrubbing.
I just cam across your site and I love it! I have been making our Halloween costumes for years now and thought I’d share a few of them. First up is my Homemade Shrek and Fiona Costumes. When my son was 3 years old I decided to dress him as Shrek and my 8 month … Read more
Princess Fiona and Shrek are our favorite cartoon characters, so this year we decided to dress like them. Everyone loved our homemade Shrek and Princess Fiona couple costume and we received so many compliments. We had to do a lot of searching around to find material for our costumes. Most pieces are from second-hand stores … Read more
For this easy Homemade Shrek Costume and His Donkey my husband wore flannel pajama bottoms, a off-white Henley, and a vest I made from a yard of cheap brown fabric from a craft store. We found green gloves for $1. Add work boots and a belt and a mask, and you have Shrek. My husband … Read more
This Gingerbread Man Costume was for world book day for my 12 year old son. He wanted something different and found a picture of a small child wearing something similar and we worked from that. As he was going to be wearing the costume all day we did not want an ‘all in one’ costume. … Read more
This homemade Shrek and Fiona couple costume was totally my wife’s idea. She had an old bridesmaid dress and was trying to think of something to do with it. She finally stumbled on a picture of Fiona with a similar color dress on. She spent the last week or so trying to convince me. The … Read more