Scarier than the spookiest ghost costume. Responsible for giving nightmares to small children everywhere. That’s right, we bring to you an awesome collection of clown costumes! Most clowns are adorable and friendly but the other kind are chilling enough to make the most terrifying Halloween costume this year.
For sweet, cheerful clown costumes, take a look at the many examples below. These DIY costumes bring real joy to all those who wear them. Use materials you have at home to create colorful homemade costumes. Get inspired from the joyful DIY costumes. Create your own unique look for the happiest clown costume for Halloween.
In order to really dive into the Halloween costume spirit, go headfirst to a creepy homemade costume. You will see some truly horrifying DIY costumes in this collection. You must check out the amazingly cool make-up art. It truly makes all of these homemade costumes.
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So, whether you like happy clowns or scary ones, check out this vibrant collection of homemade costumes.
Look closely and you’ll see a little “baby balloon” being held by the clown. The Clown costume was made by my Mother in Law for my husband when he was a little boy (early 80’s). I just added the balloons. My son is being held by a snugli underneath an oversized black sweater. I wore … Read more
We waited untill the last minute to come up with my son’s costume last year and since he already had western clothes we decided to make him a rodeo clown costume. The only thing we really had to make was the barrel. All I did was take brown fabric and make a sleeve and put … Read more
I first started with the clothes I would wear for this rodeo clown costume. I made the skirt out of an old pair of my husband’s wranglers. I found the instructions on how to do this online. I then printed off sponsors labels onto sticker paper and sewed them on an old button up shirt. … Read more
The Homemade Clown in the Box Halloween Costume I made is my own version of a Jack-In-The-Box. My name is Gabby, so I renamed it Gab-In-The-Box. I used a giant cardboard box as the “box” part of the costume. I then used an old striped bed sheet for the shirt and hat. I used another … Read more
Every year in London we have a ClownCon and this was to be my first. So I took a day off work and made a clown costume. I got cottons from the charity shop and still had some pink taffeta with stars lying around. I made a skirt out of the pink taffeta and added … Read more
My nine year old daughter couldn’t decide what she wanted to be this year. I gave her choice after choice. It had to be something we could make from things we already had. When I offered a clown she said no, but when I said how about a clown in the box costume her eyes … Read more
Materials needed: Bright-colored fabric ($2) White long-sleeved t-shirt ($3) Fabric spray paint ($7) Clown wig ($3) Yarn pompoms ($1) This year our theme was “Circus.” Our son wanted to be the clown. We found many costumes online but I didn’t want a “store bought” look so we came up with this Homemade Circus Clown Costume. … Read more
This is a headless clown costume I thought up about a couple of months before Halloween 2008. Originally it was to be a large inflated fat suit with the clown mask, but I couldn’t find a fan to keep the costume inflated well enough yet fit in my budget, or a fat costume in my … Read more
This year me and my sister wanted to be something scary for Halloween and had the idea to be clowns for a while now. People are always saying we look alike on a normal basis so we decided we would do a ‘twin-clown’ idea with opposite black and white pieces. Then we decided that one … Read more
We kept the Love Bug Car we made for Sarah’s Hippie Halloween costume the previous year and wanted to recycle it somehow. Trying to come up with an idea of how to use a small car, we thought of a Circus Clown in a Clown Car Wheelchair Costume. The car was already cut out from … Read more
This is a Homemade Krusty the Clown Halloween Costume from The Simpsons. For Krusty, I drew immediate inspiration. The biggest challenge for me was, of course, emulating that zany hair. How I did it(from head down): I cut up a long, wool-like, aqua-green scarf from Walgreens into two pieces. I then filled each end with … Read more
I have always been told this would be the supreme costume for me, and it was so easy to make! I found the dress at a local thrift shop, chopped it off to a mini dress length because it was easier than makin pants. I found the shirt as well then drew the smiley faces … Read more