This costume was made for my son this year (08) so we could enter him into the local Halloween costume contest. Turns out he won 1st place in the scariest category. I had kids and adults asking me who else was in the costume. Little kids were tugging onto his hands and trying to see … Read more
My friend and I both are big fans of amusement parks and, on our trip to Cedar Point in August, we decided that, for Halloween, we wanted to recreate a roller coaster cart and have ourselves being the passengers riding it! For this Roller Coaster costume we used: – a large box – Bungee cords … Read more
Many years ago I saw this homemade alien abduction Halloween costume in a Newsday article. A woman made it for her son and won a few contests with it. I always thought that if I had a son, I’d make it for him. My son is 10 and we made it together this year. The … Read more
I got this homemade butcher optical illusion Halloween costume idea from a couple of costumes off this website. I used chicken wire to make a torso, then arms, then shoulders, then the neck. I bought a scary mask and molded some chicken wire and paper towels to fill out his face. I also bought a … Read more
Here is my son as a Siamese twin. He has 2 arms 3 legs and 2 heads, but one body. Home made and looks awesome, very cheap to make! The costume took a couple of days to complete. I picked up two pairs of pants and two button up shirts at the thrift shop. I … Read more
This is a horse costume I made for a birthday party we had in a house. It’s a knight or a king riding a horse. The funny part is that you will look like a little person riding a horse! You will need a cardboard box as wide as you are and approximately four feet … Read more
Man oh man. I put a lot of work into this Homemade Outhouse Costume!. I think it looks great. Everywhere we went, people were taking pictures of my son. This is how I constructed this cool Outhouse costume for my son: I got a big cardboard box from my job, and cut it up. The … Read more
I created this Headless Halloween costume based off a combination of ideas from this website! There were a bunch of headless figures shown, but I’ve always had fun with the medical profession during Halloween and came up with a scary story to go along with my costume. My character was a world-class neurosurgeon that successfully … Read more
We created my son’s Homemade Headless Costume with help from submissions to this website. We used an old rolling backpack we had around the house, a pool noodle for the arms, Styrofoam from my husbands work, lots and lots of duck tape, a wire coat hanger, an empty bread crumb container with cotton balls glued … Read more
This Headless Girl persona overtakes me every year on Halloween. I feel it coming on, kind of like a sneeze, and to deny its full expression would be every bit as dissatisfying and frustrating as not to sneeze. My homemade Headless Girl Halloween costume looks a little different every year, as she finds newer and … Read more
This homemade server and human platter couple costume was really fun and easy to make. As the table we used a large card-board box, with a hole cut out of the middle for the head. We then took off the two sides, which were at each side of the hips, so the arms could be … Read more
