Grab your joystick and get ready to eat your way through yellow dots this Halloween. This collection of homemade Pacman costumes will have you running for your craft scissors. And also possibly to the arcade.
Nothing screams 80s nostalgia costumes quite like these video game inspired DIY costumes. Take a look at the best tutorials here for a Pacman homemade costume. Another idea is to dress as the Ms. Pacman for a subtle DIY costume difference. Feel like playing the bad guy? Choose a ghost costume to chase away the protagonist.
Also, check out the clever parents who turned strollers into arcade games. It’s a great way to get a non-walker into the DIY costume fun.
In addition, get your squad together for an epic group costume.
So, set your costume mouth to open for a fun trip down memory lane. Get inspired to make an awesome homemade costume from the Pacman costumes here.
My brother and I made this Pac Man Group Costume from cardboard boxes and spray paint. First we drew a grid of pixels on the cardboard and then traced the actual dimensions pixel by pixel of the ghosts and Pac Man onto the cardboard. We then cut out 2 pieces per costume and spray painted … Read more
This Homemade Pac Man Halloween Costume was easy to make although was a bit time consuming. I gathered all the cardboard I could find and cut out 2 large 3/4 circles. Then I joined the Pacman shaped sides to a long strip of cardboard using string,zipties and duct tape, which made it 3 dimensional. I … Read more
Our first Halloween party in our new house had to be memorable… So we came up with the perfect costumes! Mr. and Mrs. Pacman! Becoming the duo wasn’t too hard. We used hula hoops, covered them in yellow felt, and added the facial features using felt cutouts. Yellow sweatshirts and black sweat-pants under the costumes … Read more
I’ve been working on this Homemade Working Pacman Costume for over a month and a half at this point. Both costumes stand five feet tall. Three years ago I made a giant Pacman costume, but did it kind of by the seat of my pants. The final product was pretty decent, but lacked fit and … Read more
This Ms Pacman Costume consists of cardboard, yellow material, black see through material, and a lot of fun creating it. It only took 6 hours to make and it was fun. Hope you like it.
This Homemade Ms Pac Man and Ghost Halloween Couple Costume was created for a “80’s icons” theme party that we were invited to. My fiance suggested PacMan, but since, technically, that was the 70s, we did Ms PacMan. I was the “blue” ghost that she’s about to gobble up. Seeing just the ghost, people didn’t … Read more
My friends and I decided to dress in a Homemade Ms. Pacman and Ghosts Group Costume. I was Ms. Pac man & my 3 friends were ghosts. As long as you have 1-4 friends, you will have enough “ghosts”. ALL I used was 2 regular sized poster board for each costume. So, 2 yellow and … Read more
It has always been my boyfriend, Chad’s dream to dress up as Pac-Man for Halloween. So last Halloween I made his dream come true! Being a couple we wanted to have a couple costume and being a gamer couple we wanted to have a video game couple costume. So Pac Man and Ms.Pac Man Costumes … Read more
My friends and I had no clue what we wanted to be for Halloween, until one day the Pacman group costume idea popped into our minds. We made our costumes out of felt, and we made them dress length so we wore black tights and black shoes. The felt colors that we used were red, … Read more
We were invited to an 80’s themed Halloween party and wanted to come up with something different. My boyfriend (the ghost) came up with the idea of a Homemade Ms. Pac Man and Blinky the Ghost Couple Costume. I wasn’t exactly sure how to execute it. We went to a craft supply store and found … Read more
This Homemade Mr. and Mrs. Pacman Costume idea was one of my favorites and didn’t actually take too long to make. It was an assembly of a lot of cardboard and duct tape really. Although, really not busy nightclub friendly! On a good note, we never paid cover anywhere because who is really going to … Read more
It was four days before the big day and Tim and I were still struggling to fit half a hula-hoop into an elbow joint of PVC that was oozing with bathroom caulk and epoxy. How were we going to make four identical Ms. Pac-man ghosts to win the group costume contest? Our vision was to … Read more