In this Homemade Gorilla Carrying Girl in Cage Costume, I am the girl in the cage and yes I am really a man. The cage is made from PVC that is painted silver. The top is just cardboard painted silver. There is also a light at the top so the girl can be seen clearly. … Read more
For this Damsel In Distress Costume I used a large piece of foam core and made an opening just large enough for my head to fit through near the top on one end of it. I painted the foam core to look like rocks/pebbles. Using other cut pieces of foam core painted brown, I made … Read more
My 7 year old son decided that instead of getting the same old packaged costume this year – he wanted to be something scary. The body of the child head hunter costume is made of a curtain rod and the spine, chair cushion as the body and fun noodles as the arms. I then wedged … Read more
First of all thank you to all those who submit to this site. I have modified and made many of the costumes. 1. This Homemade Hamster on a Wheel Costume was the result of brainstorming ideas over dinner one night. Before the end of the meal we had pretty much the whole costume thought out. … Read more
I took the idea for this headless costume from the site obviously. I thought it was a very easy yet awesome idea so I decided to do my own version of the costume. I used the roller backpack method, which I had to destroy and just keep the structure of the handle and the straps … Read more
This is my 11-year-old son in his homemade Headless Boy Halloween costume. The only things I actually had to purchase for the costume were the giant gray shirt(thrift store), poly-fil to stuff the arms, shoulders and gloves, and the make-up. I used a backpack baby carrier to give the costume height and then used a … Read more
I made this homemade decapitated woman costume all out of paper mache, I formed the upper body and arms out of wire and tape then paper mache’d it and painted it, for the cut neck to look more realistic I used the expandable foam in a can. The dress is a long formal from a … Read more
My son’s school has a Halloween Dance/Costume contest every year and this was our last submission. He was a “Victim in a Serial Killer’s Fridge”. He won first place! I found a water heater box and transformed it into a fridge with freezer. The details were fun, MURDER spelled on the front in Magnets, a … Read more
I decided to on a Homemade Headless Vampire Costume. We began my costume by buying a soft foam block at the local craft store. It was rectangular in shape and very squishy foam- such as what would be used for chair padding. Using a knife I cut the basic shape of shoulders/neck and then used … Read more
This Headless Bride Halloween costume is my wife Deb. We wanted to create something cool but a bit spooky. We purchased a wedding dress at the local Goodwill store then went on to basically destroying it. I took one of her old turtle neck shirts, put a roll of nylon covered paper towels in the … Read more
