This was a homemade Flesh of the Zombie costume, using some prosthetics and lots of latex and blood. It took about four days to assemble and paint, and then about four hours to apply or get into. All the zombie parts on my legs and arms were connected to an underlayer, so that they would … Read more
Using some of the ideas from the ‘Coolest Homemade Costumes’ website, I created this homemade headless bride Halloween costume. The body is made from half of a plastic mannequin with holes drilled for the arms. I used support stockings for the arms, which I half-stuffed. I took two dowels and affixed them to the body … Read more
I made this Homemade Grim Reaper on Stilts Costume for Halloween 2010. Purchased drywall stilts from local pawn shop and took a couple of days to learn how to walk on them lol! The mask is actually a Halloween decoration meant for hanging, I attached it to a construction worker’s helmet to wear on my … Read more
This homemade headless woman costume is the easiest & coolest costume I’ve made yet! People on the street even stopped me to take pictures. Everything came from a second hand clothing store & my garage. Total cost to make about $5.00!! I used an old piece of Styrofoam & cut to shape body, butter dish … Read more
My daughter wanted to a Stitch Doll Girls Costume. We bought a toot-toot, leggings, a turtle neck and some felt squares at the local craft store. Also purchased some puff paint. I then cut squares out of felt and hot glued them to the turtle neck. when they were glued we added puff paint to … Read more
This Homemade Mummy Halloween Costume was made from gaze and strips off cotton. I bought 2 meters of cotton (on sale) from Fabricland and tore it into strips. Next I found a white shirt and white stretchy pants and glue guned all the strips on to the clothes…adding a ribcage and back bone from the … Read more
The refrigerator is my nicest creation!! As you can see I am in the refrigerator but you can see only my head in a platter with blood like if someone had just killed me and put me on the fridge. There is a mouse hanging there , there are some eyes with blood in a … Read more
The idea for this Head on Turkey Dinner Platter Halloween Costume came as a result of the early product marketing in most stores for upcoming Holiday items. We couldn’t believe that Christmas items were being sold in the middle of September, even before Halloween! We began to think of Holidays we could represent early on … Read more
Found this homemade headless boy costume idea from this site! Everyone loved it! Used parts we had at home and cost only 5$ for the fake blood and make-up! Used an old Star Wars kite and stockings filled with plastic bags… an old foam head minus the head – pretty cool and very scary!
2009 was an awesome year because our son agreed to be part of the group and so we created homemade goth family costumes. We were all City Goth and our daughter was a Vampire Goth! I looked up all kinds of goth images on the web to get a feel for what to look for. … Read more
My kids and I, along with some of their friends, are planning to make our own zombie movie, so I decided to use Halloween as a chance to zombify myself as practice. The first part of the Homemade Zombie Dad Costume that I actually created was the suit jacket. I completely tore the left sleeve … Read more
I got the outfits for this Homemade Zombie Princess and Corpse Bride Costumes from local thriftshops. I pieced them together one item at a time. For the corpse bride I got an old prom dress, grey turtle neck and veil. I added the flowers and purple ribbon. For the zombie princess I used a Renaissance … Read more