Can’t get enough tinsel in your life? Does the thought of waiting 2 more months until your favorite holiday seem like agony? Then start your celebration early with these sparkly Christmas season costumes.
An easy and fun DIY costume idea is to dress up in a Christmas tree costume. Why should the tree get all the fun? Adorn yourself with beautiful ornaments and a gleaming star on top of your head. Another awesome idea is an angel on top of a tree costume. Check out the photo below for fantastic homemade costume inspiration.
In addition, you will see DIY costumes from the many Christmas movies and television shows. Take a look at the Ghost of Christmas past costume and the adorable Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer costumes.
So if your love of Christmas cannot wait until December, try one of the homemade costumes from the awesome collection below.
While in college, a group of my sorority sisters and I were all broke and trying to figure out what to be for a Halloween party. My friend Eliza, and I went to the store to look at the costumes in hopes to find some inspiration of something we could mimic. However, most of the … Read more
My daughter, Sierra, does not do gory, gross or scary. In fact, she won’t even stay in the same room if someone is talking about blood, guts or gore. Halloween is obviously not her favorite holiday since it involves all of the above. This year she decided to skip the Halloween horrors and move on … Read more
Last year our boys decided that they wanted to be a marionette and a Christmas stocking. It is our tradition to allow them to choose what they want to be and we will try to make it. The Homemade Christmas Stocking Costume: Cut out material so that child can fit in in the shape of … Read more
This homemade Green Elf costume can be used for any costume parties for children. It can be worn even if it’s not a Christmas Holiday. Material used is silk and cotton and it’s child friendly. My grandson wore it the whole time without any sign of irritation. It’s cute. It’s cool and easy to wash … Read more
My twins love the book Gingerbread Baby. So when it was time to pick Halloween costumes Alison wanted to be a gingerbread. I was quite scared to attempt this costume since I don’t sew, but much to my surprise it turned out better than I expected and no stitching required. I got brown felt from … Read more
About two months ago I was hanging out with my friends at lunch and I jokingly put o water bottle on the top of my head and put all of my hair around it to make it stand straight up in a cone. I then wondered how I could incorporate this into my Halloween costume, … Read more
I was watching a movie and seen a preview for the new cartoon movie “A Chrismas Carol”, and it gave me the idea of a Homemade Ghost of Christmas Past Costume. My idea was to have a ghost outfit, with ornaments representing the different Christmas’s throughout the years, and somehow show each different year. I … Read more
My boyfriend was skeptical about my homemade Christmas tree Halloween costume, but when I showed it to him, and then lit it up, he was thrilled. Although sewing fake pine garland to sweatshirt material is no walk in the park (and quite a job for the vacuum cleaner), I knew that the costumes would be … Read more
I put Ebeneezer Scrooge together for SantaCon 2009 in New Haven. I figured that with dozens of red suited Santa Clauses running around, I would try and ruin everyone’s Christmas. Bah, humbug! I thought nobody would know what the character was, but everyone figured it out right away. This Homemade Ebeneezer Scrooge Costume is quite … Read more
I wore a homemade Christmas tree costume. I bought a tutu on and sewed on ornaments throughout the skirt. I then strung battery operated lighters that actually lit up throughout the night. There was also garland along the waist band. The head band was just a basic head band that I then used wire to … Read more
Based on the 1964 Rankin and Bass holiday classic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Homemade Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Character Costumes were created to capture the true fun of the characters Rudolph, Yukon Cornelius and Bumble, the Abominable Snow Monster of The North. Rudolph and Yukon costumes were hand-stitched, using very simple patterns. And … Read more
Having always been a fan of making my own Halloween costume I decided I would “branch” out last year on this idea. I have seen many Christmas tree costumes online before but none of them had been very realistic. I spent many hours thinking of the best way to coordinate everything into making the best … Read more