Swim your way to an amazingly unique homemade costume with this collection of jellyfish costumes. Learn how to create these iridescent, shimmery and wavy DIY costumes from the many tutorials here.
Glowing and gorgeous, these homemade costumes will stun this Halloween. As an added bonus, they will also light your path as you trick or treat! Also, children and adults of all ages are inspired to dress up in these aquatic costumes.
Get the flowing tentacles of this mysterious creature. Take a look at the tutorials here and learn the construction secrets for creating these DIY costumes.
In addition, making the proper costume shape is key. Get great ideas to make the bell of the jellyfish. You will see people here who cleverly used umbrellas and even sombreros for their homemade costume.
So whip out your bubble wrap and glow sticks for an epic DIY costume this Halloween.
My daughter wanted an original and fun Jellyfish costume for Halloween. We used an old bike helmet to keep the jellyfish on her head. The top was a pink plastic snow sled turned upside down. We drilled holes into the top and used zip-ties to connect the helmet to the sled. We covered the bike … Read more
I found this homemade Jelly Fish costume idea online. I thought it would be fun to be something homemade and different for Halloween. I took a clear plastic umbrella that I got from the Dollar store, and used streamers, pearls, bubble wrap, ribbon and iridescent garland to embellish the umbrella to look like a Jelly … Read more
I wanted a unique and fun costume to impress our friends at our 8th annual Halloween Party, and this amazing jelly fish costume certainly did just that – and it was relatively simple and inexpensive to make. For the main Jelly fish body I started with a clear umbrella (I purchased mine at Target). Because … Read more
This is our Homemade Jellyfish Halloween Costume for our daughter. We bought a foam hat from JoAnns, cut a ring of poster board out and attached it to the brim of the hat to extend its width. We then used a glue gun to attach, firstly, a layer of iridescent basket wrap, then secondly, a … Read more
I created this awesome homemade glowing jellyfish costume after seeing an inspiration on this site last year. Me and my husband had so much fun making this costume that we decided this year we are going to perfect it a little more. First we had to find a “bubble” umbrella, they sell them at golf … Read more
MATERIALS NEEDED for this homemade jellyfish costume: * Oversized (golf style) umbrella * Pink iridescent fabric (1.5 yard square) ($3) * White iridescent fabric (1.5 yard square) ($3) * 2 white feather boas ($2 each) * 2 pink feather boas ($2 each) * White string * Pink satin fabric for “dress” ($3) * Pink scarf … Read more
My Homemade Jellyfish Costume was made with metallic fabrics, pearls, jewels, and feathers. It also included LED lights that lit up on the inside of the Umbrella. Matched with a silver, sparkly outfit and elaborate, shimmering makeup. This costume has been my best yet!
This homemade jellyfish Halloween costume idea is my favorite costume that I’ve made. It wasn’t too bad to put together and transporting it was easy. It all started with my sister wanting to be a goldfish for Halloween, I was short on ideas so I bummed off her theme and decided to be a jellyfish. … Read more
My three-year-old daughter Waverly (Wavy for short) loves the ocean and all its critters. After a visit to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in California this summer, she decided that she wanted to be a jellyfish for Halloween, in particular, the beautiful orange “chrysaora achlyos,” or black sea nettle jellyfish. This homemade jellyfish Halloween costume was … Read more
I won an award at the Castro Street Halloween festival in San Francisco with this Jellyfish Costume Design! I started with some soft Styrofoam packing pieces, an umbrella and a hula hoop. CONSTRUCTION: I made a shoulder pad/costume stand out of two pieces of Styrofoam packing pieces large enough to put my head through (from … Read more
I wanted to be something from the sea, so I looked at many pictures online and landed on some beautiful pix of orange jellyfish. I’m a stickler for detail, so I studied every main part of this creature. To make the top piece of the Homemade Jellyfish Halloween Costume, I bought 1” thick green foam … Read more
This homemade Jellyfish costume is a hat! Corrugated plastic as the base, cut a hole in the middle for old straw hat, used 6 led AA battery sets, sheer silver and tulle to cover and sheer wired ribbons for tentacles. Black clothing.