We came up with this idea for a devil’s food cake costume after looking at your website for quite some time. We liked the cupcake ideas, but my daughter wanted to be “scarier,” so somehow we came up with devil’s food cake! We took a laundry basket and cut out the bottom for her legs. … Read more
I always try to make costumes that play on words, so I made I made this “Deviled Egg” costume for my three year old son, complete with hood and cape out of bright red, shiny metallic fabric. I used a devil costume pattern purchased from the fabric store. The egg part of the costume is … Read more
I spent months thinking of what to dress up as for Halloween last year and not until the the day before did I figure out what I was going to do. Finally I typed in ‘Creative Halloween Costumes’ in Google, closed my eyes, scrolled down and up the page and clicked. It took me to … Read more
After many hours of exploring the coolest-homemade-costumes.com, we came across an adorable kid costume – a “devil”ed egg. My husband laid claim to this costume and I began brainstorming about a good companion costume. I came up with “angel” food cake. Most everyone got it and thought they were a quite clever Homemade Deviled Egg … Read more
My boyfriend and I wanted to be something unique and funny this year for Halloween. Neither of us wanted to be the average couples costume so we started brainstorming ideas of things that go together or things that are opposites. When I came up with the idea of the birds and the bees he loved … Read more
My sister came up with the idea of the Battling Beauty Queens and we all loved it. First we went to thrift stores and found gowns that we would not mind ripping or cutting up. I found temporary tattoos of scrapes and cuts at the costume shop and we used plenty of those and makeup … Read more
Here’s an FBI Agent costume, a great last minute idea for a child’s costume. I used a long sleeve black shirt, black pants, black sun glasses, black baseball hat and black jacket, lanyard and photo ID using Printmaster etc, for FBI BADGE. I used white tape to add FBI to front of shirt back of … Read more
For Halloween I wanted to dress my Daschund, Penny up as a hotdog but then I felt that that was too commonplace. Therefore I decided upon a corndog costume instead. I hand sewed the entire costume right down to the brown felt body. I used yellow crushed velvet and polyfil to create the kernels and … Read more
“What do you want to be for Halloween?” I asked my barely 4 year old. I’m imagining something that’s not too hard to make, like last year’s Astronaut or the “Boy Fairy” from the year before. He thought about it for a little while and told me “I want to be a tree house.” … Read more
The theme for Halloween was WWE Wrestlers and I love to paint my face. So who better then Sting!! The Homemade Sting from WWE Costume was very simple. I got the black and white face paint, a wig, cut the wig down to size, and the rest I made myself. I borrowed my uncles long … Read more
This homemade coach Mike Ditka Halloween costume is extremely easy to make and fun to pull off once you get the materials. All that is needed for this awesome superfan replica of “Da Coach” is a mustache (I got mine at a local costume store for $8, but any mustache will do), spirit gum to … Read more
Beer belly or pregnant belly? Well I was two weeks away from giving birth to my Son. I’m the one wearing the hat, in case you didn’t notice. This is my first time being pregnant so I wanted this pregnant womens costume to be really unique! Where else would you be able to pull this … Read more