Contest-Winning DIY Haunted House Costume

Contest-Winning DIY Haunted House Costume

Lilly wanted to be a Haunted House. We had an awesome time creating it. With the trial and error of boxes, cardboard, chicken wire, paper mache, and many other props we finally had a great finished costume. We put a lot of detail into it. Using the boxes, chicken wire and paper mache’, we created … Read more

Original Homemade Haunted House Costume

Homemade Haunted House Costume

This homemade haunted house costume is by far one of my coolest costumes I have ever made. I made this for my Grandson, everyone loved it! He would also sit down in it and it looked like a normal Halloween Decoration. Then he would stand up and totally scare everyone! To make: Buy two foam … Read more

Coolest Haunted House Homemade Costume

Homemade Haunted House Costume

Check out the Coolest Homemade Haunted House on YouTube: Our 8 year old helped make the ULTIMATE Homemade Haunted House Costume to complete our family’s Haunted theme this Halloween. Completely homemade, this walking house of fright, has strobe; black and other battery operated lights illuminating its’ wicked paper mache tree, various clay-made creatures, and “stained” … Read more

Wearable Haunted House Costume

Wearable Haunted House Costume

One of those costumes that ensures you can’t have fun at a party, but oh so worth it to be the ultimate spooky icon. Made mostly of kappa board and lollipop sticks, plus more hot glue than anyone would consider reasonable. The haunted house features the creepy girls from The Shining, a ghost-baby party, an … Read more

Coolest Kid’s Haunted Castle Costume

Coolest Kid's Haunted Castle Costume

Why do I always ask my son (He’s 8 now) “What do you want to be for Halloween?” You would think that I would have learned that he wants to be something challenging. Well in his defence this year he did say something generic when I first asked him. I don’t even remember what. Ninja? … Read more

Cool Homemade Costume for Kids: Haunted House

Cool Homemade Costume for Kids: Haunted House

Every year so far, we’ve chosen to make costumes for Halloween instead of opting to buy something from the store.  When my daughter was 2 1/2 years old she was encouraged to make her own suggestions and so far she’s gone as a spider, king tut, a monarch butterfly (with wings she could flap using … Read more

Coolest Haunted FEMA House Costume

Haunted FEMA House Costume

After being through 5 Hurricanes in 4 years, I thought I would try to find some humor in the situation. My kids missed about two Halloweens, due to the Hurricanes always occurring in September, and we were finally able to have a proper Halloween last year. FEMA Houses are a common sight around here, so … Read more

Coolest Homemade Haunted House Costume

Homemade Haunted House Costume

This Homemade Haunted House Costume was made by my dad, me, my mom and my brother helped a bit. It took us about a month and a half or so, and we worked on it almost everyday for a few hours. We were trying to find a good creative costume for the local costume contest … Read more

Cool Haunted House Homemade Costume

Homemade Haunted House Costume

My son decided he wanted a Homemade Haunted House Costume. It was a family project to create. We got two cardboard boxes and cut one apart. We used the cut apart one to create the roof. We sewed it on with string. Then we spray painted it black. We added a chimney out of cardboard … Read more

Coolest Haunted House Costume

Homemade Haunted House Costume

My son loves looking at the coolest-homemade-costumes.com website and when he saw the haunted house costumes he decided that is what he wanted to be so this is what we came up with. I started with a plain cardboard box. Hot glued a piece of black foam board in the top opening with a hole … Read more

Coolest Homemade Haunted House Wheelchair Costume

Homemade Haunted House Wheelchair Costume

Years ago we read a suggestion in Exceptional Parent magazine to incorporate the wheelchair into the Halloween costume. We’ve had lots of fun doing just that and making this Haunted House Wheelchair Costume! Christopher was dressed in a black cat costume (black shirt and pants along with a hood, tail and paw coverings for hands … Read more

Cool Homemade Haunted House Costume

Free Halloween Costume Pattern and Lots of Homemade Costume Ideas

Last Halloween my then 7 year-old asked to be a haunted house this year. So when we saw the previews for Monster House we knew we had to use that house as our inspiration! We wanted to get the house before it got too jagged looking and we knew that it could be a free … Read more