Stand out in a crowd with a truly original costume. Forget the store bought costumes or the traditional Halloween costume ideas. Access the most creative part of your brain to come up with fabulously unique costumes, like the ones below.
Searching for costume ideas and looking for motivation? Or feeling like the most uninspired person on the planet? Don’t fret. Take a look at the one-of-a-kind costumes here and they will get your imagination flowing. For instance, check out the violin spider fairy costume and the toddler Liberace behind his candelabra. Also, the slow cooking turtle burger. Another super cool idea is a connect the dots costume.
When it comes to original homemade costumes ideas, the stranger the better. So, open your mind to the weird and wonderful DIY costumes here. Get inspired to make your own and share it with us here!
I decided to make a creepy creature on stilts to win my second costume contest in a row at a local pub in Charlotte. It’s a tradition for my girlfriend and I to create costumes together, have fun and win BIG. First, I had to make several trips to the fabric and hardware store. I … Read more
For the past two years my son has won our local costume parade making this year exceptionally hard to outdo the previous two. I spent hours searching online for an original idea coming across a “mousetrap” costume that involved a wagon, some plywood and a toddler sitting in a hole cut in the plywood. I … Read more
Back (Left to Right): Ariel, Cinderella, Tinkerbelle & Rapunzel Front (Left to Right): Belle, Snow White, Megara & Pocahontas Not wanting to buy costumes we as a group of friends decided to go the cheaper route & buy all of our clothes from thrift stores! We each picked our characters who we thought each girl … Read more
Hello…my name is Margaret and I love to create the most unique costumes that my mind can handle! I got the ideal when I was going to sell Mia’s Castle house (that folds up and down) *picture 1. Then it was on, I bought all my stuff from the dollar store, Goodwill or Salvation Army.(not … Read more
3 week project. 1. Blow up a big balloon 2. Paper mache layers at a time letting it dry inbetween 3. saw a hole through the top and bottom it will be thick so make sure your top hole is just big enough to fit over your hips so after your finished the bomb can … Read more
My daughter’s name is Molly, and she’s in 6th grade. She loves science! We came up with an idea to make her a molecule costume as a play on her name, so she’d be a Molly-ecule for Halloween. We thought it was creative since her name is Molly. The molecule was a hexagon made of … Read more
I’m a huge fan of the Ender series by Orson Scott Card, so when I found out they were making a movie, I was really excited. As soon as I heard that it was to enter theaters the day after Halloween, I immediately decided what I wanted to go as this year. I set to … Read more
It was September, and just as has been the case for many years now, I asked my 10 year old son Chance what he wanted to be for Halloween. “Something headless”, he replied. Gone are the days of cute Halloween costumes, replaced in recent years by zombies and the like. “Okay”, I said, all the … Read more
Our costumes were relatively easy to make.It all started with going to my 40th high school reunion this past September..my husband and I were boyfriend and girlfriend throughout high school but as life goes we went our own way.We each married other people and had kids…30 years later we met again and fell in love.. … Read more
I come from an era when we just didn’t go to the store and buy a Halloween costume. Or maybe it’s that I lived too far out in the country to go to town (30 miles or more) to buy a costume? But, my mother always said, “if you want to dress up for Halloween, you … Read more
We were starting to feel a litte “bugged out” after the birth of our 2nd child, and we were getting cabin fever. So it’s only natural to become bugs for halloween. Also, with 2 kids, we didn’t want to pay anything, so we just got a few shirts from the thrift store. mama and daughter’s … Read more
I always check sales after the holidays for next years ideas. Last year I bought 2 skeleton tuxedo t-shirts for a couple bucks! Had a couple skeleton masks in my supply box, had a yard sale wedding veil that I added spider earrings and also pinned on a few plastic ones! I had 3 black … Read more