Rejoice in this fun collection of sleek car costumes! Youngsters especially will love the chance to get behind the wheel.
You don’t need your license for these awesome homemade designs. You will see unique ideas like race cars, transformers that actually transform and even a Model T. From simple and easy to extremely complex, these car costumes have something for everyone this Halloween.
Discover the cool DIY costume secrets behind these amazing looks. For example, to construct headlights, one crafty person used a Pringle can. Another used pool noodles. Read on and get inspired for your own DIY costume creation.
In addition, making an eco-friendly car costume has never been easier. One homemade costume here was made with only recycled cardboard, spray paint, a pair of suspenders and duct tape. And it looks amazing!
So buckle up and enjoy the ride to your greatest DIY costume this Halloween.
One year I went to Home Depot in Santa Ana, Ca and I was looking for items to create my son’s halloween costume. I went to a Home Depot employee to ask where I could get these cardboard inserts that came in boxes of tile. So she took me to where they sell the tiles … Read more
I’m an artist living in Austin, TX who spends every September and October working on my kids Halloween costumes. Transformers is the theme this year – again! My daughter wanted a Transformer costume and the only girl-friendly character I could think of is the ice cream truck Transformer from the second movie. The Homemade Ice … Read more
I’m an artist living in Austin, TX who spends every September and October making my kids Halloween costumes. My son wanted to be a Transformer again. As an experiment, I wanted to see if I could motorize his wheels this time and make the costume functional as a car. His body serves as the frame. … Read more
This is a family costume which started with a 21/2 year olds dream of being an orange race car (he also wanted me to be a red race car and his daddy to be a blue one… through our costumes I fulfilled one of his three requests. In decided what we as a family were … Read more
I was so tensed for my son ‘s fancy dress. It was his first time, he is just 2 years old. I really wanted to do something very interesting and which took an effort to do. I even had searched it on internet. Finally I found this site and got an idea to do. So I … Read more
This year for Halloween I made a TRANSFORMABLE Homemade Mini Cooper Transformer Halloween Costume. Let me tell you why. Last year I made the coolest Iron man costume, for a school contest, entirely out of flat cardboard boxes and with absolutely no help from anyone. After winning the contest, I thought: “what will I do … Read more
We came up with the idea for this costume because of our love for old cars and hot rods. We also wanted to give the cardboard box costumes a run for their money ! I started by using a fiberglass stroller body to mold paper mache over the top, for my 3D body. Once it … Read more
Started out as a pull up box, a pack of stickers and some taplights. I used makeup wedges to put behind the lights to wedge them pointing down at an angle so that when he was trick or treating he wouldn’t blind fellow trick or treaters. The wheels on the Car Halloween costume are made … Read more
Our son won his age division and the overall costume contest in this costume. The Greaser ’57 Chevy costume was primarily made from a cardboard box that we already had. We already had all of the paint (latex house paint) and used only black, white, yellow and red. The colors can be easily mixed to … Read more
My son wanted to be a Mini Cooper just like his Gramps’ car. He wore it to school, and “parked” it in the classroom. He was beeping and honking and having a great time.The costume was a huge hit on Halloween night! My husband and I, made the costume from found items at home: cardboard … Read more
We decided to make our son a homemade car costume for his schools fancy dress competition as he loves cars and wouldn’t really want to be anything else, he won first prize so we were really pleased. We started off using an old vacuum cleaner box, we opened it up and drew a car shape … Read more
Our four year old son Matthew loves old cars. His Papa owns two antique cars, and Matthew loves working on them and riding in them… so for Halloween, there was no talking him out of his idea to go as Papa’s Model T. The homemade Model T Car Halloween costume is made from cardboard boxes, … Read more