I created the costume with a quilting ring foam board, brown material, felt squares, a sheet and hot glue. For the top of the cup I used a quilting ring and that made it easy since all I had to do was cut the foam board and glue to the “inside” ring. I cut the … Read more
This costume turned out adorable. We were searching for cheap Halloween costumes when we came across this idea. So, we took a small laundry basket and cut it down so my daughter could walk. We then hot glued the top and bottom to shape it into a cup. I then paper-mached the outside of the … Read more
For this Swiss miss costume I got the idea right here! There are so many creative people here giving us ideas for cheap Halloween costumes. Although this is already on here I added a few things and it varies. The items you will need for this are one laundry basket, a round one, can of … Read more
The cup part is actually a garbage can wrapped in Bristol board and we had to blow up the logo so it came out a little fuzzy. We put some touch-ups with green and black markers and white-out. The top is the top of the garbage can with a paper border to look like the … Read more
I used a small round laundry basket for this and covered it in poster board. I glued real marshmallows on it and added a spoon. My daughter won 1st prize! Total Spent: $15
Not only does this costume fall into the cheap Halloween costumes category it also took about an hour to make! Material needed: Interfacing (light weight, inexpensive but with a little bit of stiffness), fall leaves, thread, heavy cotton string, a piece of poster board or construction paper, and markers (to color a tag). Directions: (NOTE: … Read more
My son loves Mac and cheese so he wanted to be it for Halloween. I got a laundry basket size small from the dollar tree near me. Next, I covered the basket with blue felt. then I cut out the words Mac-N-Cheeze in yellow felt and hot glued them to the basket. Then I took … Read more
For my socially distanced popcorn costume I use foam board, stripped fabric, pillow filler, acrylic paint, and popcorn. I’m a healthcare worker who lost many residents to Covid-19. My goal was to bring joy to my remaining coworkers and residents.
Since my balloon installation business, Bean and Boosh, soared to new heights this year, our Halloween costumes were all based on BALLOONS! I swore this year would be simple, but it took more work than I thought. We’ve been doing family costumes for over 12 years, so even throughout the pandemic, we were able to … Read more
We are the Dickerson family and we’re dressed as carnival food and a vendor. My daughter, her first Halloween, is cotton candy. I am popcorn. My husband is a food vendor. I made the cotton candy by spraying poly-fil with pink silk flower spray and hot gluing it to a pink onesie and pink shoes … Read more
“Put Another Shrimp on the Barbie!” I always love going as a pun or some clever phrase for Halloween and wasn’t sure what couple costume idea to do for this year. I had seen people wearing a Shrimp hat with a barbie tee shirt before and I thought that was funny, but when my husband … Read more
Me and 5 of my close friends wanted to be a 6-pack of beer cans for Halloween, but we couldn’t agree on which beer to be, so we ended up deciding to be a “variety 6-pack”. We were Coors Light, Budweiser, Guinness, Fosters, Bud Light Lime, and Killian’s Irish Red. We sewed tube top dresses … Read more