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 really love vintage clothing. It was exciting for me when they remade The Great Gatsby movie this year. It familiarized people with 1920’s clothing. This was such a glamorous time in history. I really wanted to make a costume for our toddler based of of the Daisy character from the movie. It is incredibly … Read more
Halloween is always a challenge for myself. Every year I want something new, something better, something no one else has. This year one of my outfits included this Middleamerican Sacrifice Priestess. Once I have an idea stuck in my head I roll with it! I love being creative and seeing what I can do with … Read more
My wife and I got tickets to the costume party held at the Hawthorn Hotel in downtown Salem MA. I had one week to come up with a costume. Since the pair of tickets cost us $180 I decided what ever I came up with was going to have to be free. I went down … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday. Yes because of the candy, but mostly because I get to show off my artsy side without outwardly bragging about it. This was my first Halloween post-college and I knew I would have to make an impressive costume to celebrate this milestone! I went nostalgic and decided to be a … Read more
I have two friends at work that are currently pregnant and another trying to get pregnant. Having two middle schoolers, I never want to get pregnant again. So after brainstorming for original costume ideas for the work party, I decided why not be pregnancy tests. Last year our interpretation of the Kardashians took first place, … Read more
Baron Samedi is one of the folkloric spirits (Loa) from Hatiain Voodoo. While Baron Samedi is associated with cemeteries, death, magic, and resurrection. According to Voodoo folklore, Baron Samedi serves as the Grim Reaper – the spirit responsible for accepting a spirit into the dead. He is also known as being extremely charming and witty, … Read more
MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)…Who Want’s to Ride the T? My roommates and I are students at Northeastern University and are in love with the city. To may homage, we went out as the different T-lines (red,blue,orange, and green) for Halloween. We made our costumes out of trash bags and colored duct tape, and taped … Read more
This Bic Lighter was one of those last-minute costumes the day before Halloween. I used an appliance box that I spray painted, a piece of metal that I had laying around my house for the part the flame come out of. You can easily use cardboard and wrap it in aluminum foil. I used ribbon and … Read more
I wanted to do a more creative take on the “naughty girl scout” outfit you can buy off the rack. After securing as large a girl’s uniform as I could from a local thrift store I used online auction sites to order funny patches (skull and cross bones, “candy” moniker and even ordered some blank … Read more
What I went through is I sewed the dress out of a simple pattern by Simplicity, then I had gone through with fabric paint to add the green. Same with the arm warmers but they were made from nylon. The wig I styled myself, I sewed all the wefts into the cap and made the … Read more
My friend Mariah and I have never missed a school dance, like ever! So the annual Halloween dance was quickly approaching. We always went as the same thing, just not identical. We also usually picked the costume a couple weeks before the dance. Well this time, WE FORGOT! So the day before the dance I … Read more
The Sandlot is a childhood favorite of ours both. We haven’t seen many people do this couples costume so we decided to give it a shot! Most people didn’t know who we were or what the point was but those who did really appreciated it. I even ironed “Squints” on the back of his shirt.