I deliver mail and my 3 year old son thinks it’s pretty cool, so I decided to go to home depot and got a big cardboard box. I made it fit around his power wheels truck (3×5). I cut it out to look like my mail truck. I painted it white and put some postal … Read more
My two year old wanted to be a Choo Choo train, and I wanted the costume to be something that involved sewing, which I am in the process of learning. So instead of creating the typical cardboard train costume, my mother-in-law and I brainstormed and made our own pattern out of news-paper. We came up … Read more
My wife and I came up with a vision of a “Trucker Girl on a Mud Flap” (you know the little hot silver seductive women on the back of mud flaps). I don’t know how it started or came about… but It came out pretty incredible. I am an extremest, I take things over the … Read more
I got this costume idea from another Coolest-Homemade-Costume submitter. They made the original version of this and I wanted to share my version of it… and prove that with a little elbow grease it’s possible to recreate these great costumes on this site! My son is obsessed (to say the least) with Hot Wheels cars. … Read more
My son wanted to be a traffic light for Halloween, so I went to work. Considering I do not sew, I put the entire homemade traffic light kids Halloween costume idea together with a hot glue gun. My son’s reaction when he first saw the finished costume made all the effort worthwhile … he said … Read more
We had some homemade Halloween costume ideas but this costume we made two days before Halloween. All told it took about 8hrs, most of that spent engineering the cuts in the foam and holding the cut pieces together in order to fabric glue them. It wasn’t overly difficult just took a lot of time. I … Read more
I built this pilot and airplane costume at my company. Used sauna tube, foam insulation and paint. I was the pilot manning the airplane. I work at a travel company and I thought that this costume would be fitting.
This Homemade Fighter Pilot and his Airplane Costume is made with cardboard and duct tape, spray paint and a lot passion. It is a fighter pilot fling off to war. His costume is made from camouflage plastic material cut to size sewn to get together. Helmet it a motorcycle helmet painted camouflage green. He is … Read more
I am a huge fan of box costumes. They are easy to make and don’t require any swift adjustments; you simply take off the box and get in the car/go to the bathroom. Having discovered how easy they are to make and what a hit they are at parties/bar/work, I decided to make another box … Read more
Here’s one of the coolest child costumes. My 5-year-old boy loves everything trains, and asked if he could be a railroad crossing sign for Halloween. I was up to the challenge! I made the headpiece out of white 1/4″ foam board, and letters from an office supply store. The “crossing” was then glued to a … Read more
I was motivated in to making costumes for my family so my daughter picked this hot air balloon costume from this site. We used a round laundry basket, some basket weave from a craft store, four dowel rods, flame fabric, a piece of duct work from the hardware store and an inflatable ball from a … Read more
My two year old daughter wanted to be a pilot. So I thought about it, hum what could I do? Then it came to me but how would I make the Homemade Fly Girl Halloween Costume. I ran to Michaels and started to talk with people there. The next thing I know I’m buying foam, … Read more