My son Taylor is so creative and he wanted to make his own costume this year. He wanted make a Homemade Head on a Platter Costume. He usually likes to be something scary on Halloween. I found this spider platter and a blood-dripping table cloth so we started from that. We had a box from … Read more
I found an old dress at a vintage thrift shop in my Brooklyn neighborhood for this Homemade Headless Ghost Lady Halloween Costume. I built the body from a piece of packing Styrofoam taped to the handle of a rolling backpack. It was almost the right size already, just had to sculpt the waist. For the … Read more
Our homemade killer hair stylist and victim couple Halloween costume idea was made up of mostly items around my house (I’m a hair stylist) however u don’t have to be one for these items to be just around your house! You just need a pair of scissors, any kind will work, a headband, putty, t-shirts … Read more
I bought a fishnet body stocking, hair from features costumes, a mask with gloves, and makeup for this Warewolf DIY Halloween Costume. I cut and bobby pined the hair to the body stocking and hairsprayed it too. I cut the original hair off the mask then painted it with acrylic paint to make darker. I … Read more
For this homemade brain freeze Halloween costume I basically went with the head in the freezer costume but I added a light in order to enhance my face. People at my work absolutely loved it.
For this female Zombie costume I bought a floor length cream pleated skirt from the thrift store along with a brown spaghetti strap tank top and a thicker strap cream tank top. I cut the bottom of the skirt so that it fell jaggedly just below my knees and took old dull scissors to it … Read more
My son wanted to finally win a prize in school. So we came up with this idea of him being a freezer box. We intended to make him a dead head in the freezer but his school would not allow evil things (private school…). So we began by putting two boxes taped together with masking … Read more
The Homemade Voodoo Doll Costume: This year we stumbled on the idea of turning our entry way into a voodoo lair. It came about naturally as we started to decorate for the coming trick or treaters. My husband wanted to be the voodoo priest and my daughter decided to be a voodoo doll. Preparation: We … Read more
My wife loves the life-size, animated Halloween decoration she calls “Grady” that she bought years ago so we set out to replicate it this year for our homemade dead groom and bride couple Halloween costume. The coat and top hat were bought in a store in the Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. The vintage ruffled shirt … Read more
I got the idea of a Homemade Headless Chef Costume thanks to this great web page, it was real cheap to build it. The neck was made from unicel material and we put play-dough at the top to give it a different effect. On the arms we placed bubble wrap paper to fill them up … Read more
I made this Mummy Spider Webbed Costume for my nephew, but he didn’t want to be a regular mummy so I made him a webbed mummy being eaten by spiders. First I had him wear a white turtle neck and some long thermal pants. I cut a sheet into long strips. I started to wrap … Read more
This Homemade Classic Warewolf Costume was made for my 2 yr old son Dillon, it was a last minute idea which seemed to work perfect for my lil’guy. Just put together some homemade denim pants, frayed the bottoms a little, added a couple of jagged holes on the legs paired up with a flannel checkered … Read more