Get lifted out of your everyday routine with this collection homemade costumes. Inspired by the film, these Up Costumes are a beautiful tribute to the touching movie. So, check out the awesome DIY costumes as beloved as the film itself.
Looking to get your last merit badge? Learn to create these DIY costumes for the Wilderness Explorer inside of you.
For the coolest Carl Fredricksen costumes, take a look below. Dress up as Carl alone or as part of his house. The DIY costumes here creatively combine the man with his aerodynamic home. Design your own after seeing what other people have done.
In addition, you will see many group costume ideas. Don’t miss the fun homemade costumes here for your group of friends or family.
So, grab some helium balloons and cast your eyes to the sky for the best DIY costume adventure!
My sorority has a Halloween Date dance every year and instead of dressing as something generic I wanted to go all out with creativity, so I decided to be Russell from Up and my boyfriend, Josh was Carl Fredricksen. We ended up finding most of our costume at Salvation Army or by using stuff we … Read more
Before I get started on this, let me just say that I cannot sew for the life of me. I have tried several times – astoundingly awful, but I have a real liking for costumes, so I improvised a lot in this, to say the very least. My friend here in the pictures is not … Read more
My little boy absolutely loves Pixar’s movie Up! So, when Halloween rolled around I couldn’t think of a better costume for him. This was probably the easiest and cheapest costume I have ever made because we used mostly things that were lying around my house. When it came to his outfit we used a simple … Read more
In our homemade costumes, my Wife is wearing the House (Ellie) Costume. I (Rhett) is wearing the Carl costume. We love the Disney movie up so we wanted to be the loving characters. My wife hand painted the shirt to look like the house from Up and held balloons so she could better portray herself … Read more
I made this Carf Fredricksen costume from a few boxes. Carl was a family affair for bookweek. A clay molded face was created on top of a box to make the head and lots of hot glue. Carl’s face slowly came together. The box was heavy but it sat nicely on my daughters shoulders and … Read more
As I get older, it seems the days get shorter, and it reminds me of how fast time flies and life passes by. My toddler is Growing “UP” at rapid speed, and every day as I watch him grow I think to myself, “If I could only have him as a baby for a little … Read more
For our high school’s annual spirit day dress up, one of my best friends and I decided to put together a couple costume but had a hard time thinking of something that could be prepared within three days. We then decided to dress up as characters in UP, since most parts of the costume can … Read more
Halloween is a big deal for us :) Each year we have a few parties to attend and we like to have a different costume for each one and no repeats! This year we were the Exorcist, Pixar/Disney’s UP and the Day of the Dead. This is our version of the movie UP characters. Russell … Read more
My boyfriend and I decided that we wanted to be the characters from “Up”. Initially, I was going to be Russell and he was going to be Mr. Fredricksen, but I changed my mind and decided to make a last minute Kevin costume two days before Halloween! A lot of the materials that we used … Read more
My 15 month old’s favorite movie is the Disney movie, Up, so we knew we had to dress him as old man Mr. Carl Frederickson! He has the perfect comb-over hair style that matches Mr. Frederickson’s so well! This was a great DIY costume because we had some of the pieces on hand. He had … Read more
This year we got the family involved in the costume making fun. Creating Russell’s costume was a bit more painstakingly tiresome than rummaging through my grandfather’s closet to find brown slacks, but hand painting each badge was worth it in the end. The sash was cut and sewn out of brown fabric found at a … Read more
Here are our Pixar Up costumes: For Kevin we cut out individual feathers (about 300 of them) out of felt and glued them to a structure that we carved out of floral cones. We then fit the cone through the hood of a sweatshirt allowing it to stand straight up. Then we covered the sweatshirt … Read more