There’s something about watching advertisements for food that makes them so irresistible. You just want to reach into your screen and grab a bite! This collection is full of homemade food commercial costumes to fill your cravings.
Fast food is a popular DIY costume choice because there is something for everyone. Whether you’re a burger, fries or a refreshing cup of coke, there are fantastic costumes here to get you inspired.
Also, you will see homemade costumes here for the Pillsbury Doughboy, Chef Boyardee and the California raisins.
In addition, these food commercial costumes make awesome couple costumes. Try a bucket of KFC with the Colonel or a regal Mrs. Butterworth with a waffle.
So discover how to become a giant McDonald’s Happy Meal or the Hamburgler. Start your DIY costume journey with the tutorials here! Then share your costume here and inspire others for Halloween.
It started with a white painter’s coverall provided by a friend – also available at hardware stores for about $5. I always like to have an item for the genesis of a costume. Our family brainstormed what it could be for our 10 year old son’s costume. White rabbit? Astronaut? Snowman? Our son finally settled … Read more
This is my Homemade Pillsbury Doughboy Halloween Costume. I always try to do creative fun costumes and everyone seemed to like it. It wasn’t too hard to make and was really soft and comfortable to wear at Halloween parties. To make it I bought a chef’s hat for $13 and cut out a picture of … Read more
I made this Jack in the Box costume for my husband for a Halloween costume contest at work. It took about 3 days to make the head. I used a punching balloon and paper mached it, leaving an opening at the base. You can set the balloon in a large bowl while doing this. It … Read more
My son really wanted to be Mr. Peanut and since I couldn’t find a peanut costume I tried to make my own. I bought gold colored felt and cut two shapes of a peanut out and sewed the two together. I added some black felt for the peanut markings. I bought a hat monocle and … Read more
This year I wanted to be something original for Halloween. I looked around on the internet for ideas and I noticed that this site had illusion costumes. I thought I would try to make a variation on the Alien Abduction costume. Mine was a Jack in the box Halloween costume carrying away Ronald McDonald in … Read more
Inspired by the “I’m thinking Arby’s” commercials, this is a really easy and cheap costume to make, and I got more compliments about it than anyone who had expensive store-bought costumes. I bought plastic party headband at a dollar store. My headband had two springs coming out of the top and some Styrofoam spiders on … Read more
Every Halloween it is difficult to think of an original idea and homemade costumes are better than any costume you can buy in a store. SO this year I decided to make a Homemade Mister Peanut Halloween Costume and didn’t know where to begin. My friend Kristen and I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics and found … Read more
My son wanted to be Chuck E. Cheese. I prefer to make my own costumes so I began searching the internet and didn’t find a single homemade Chuck E. Cheese toddler costume idea ever been made of Chuck E. other than the original Chuck E. Cheese. So I decided to sew a bear costume and … Read more
The idea for this costume came from looking at house hold items such as planter’s peanuts. I started with using garden fencing, wired it up in the correct shape. I paper mached it, painted it applied the face and lettering and I was done. The total time for making this costume was about 15 hours. … Read more
I like to make my own costumes out of bed foam…. and wanted something unique for my boyfriend and myself. So, I made up a “Mrs. Peanut” and of course Mr. Peanut.. Good luck with your own homemade costumes!
This Homemade Tootsie Pop Owl Costume was so fun to be. I had a great time making it, wearing it and handing out tootsie pops all day in it. I used an oversized white hoodie for my body, and covered it in hand cut white felt “feathers”. I used two long wing shaped pieces of … Read more
This Homemade Mister Peanut Halloween Costume was the funnest costume I ever created. In MN its cold during Halloween so I stayed nice and toasty! For the body I used faux wool material cut out in the shape of a peanut and gathered elastic through the bottom for the bubble effect. Next I sponge painted … Read more