My son always enjoys dressing up in homemade costumes every year. As we trick or treat through a sea of store bought costumes, he loves hearing over and over again how original his costume is or how it is the best costume of the night. The problem is, every year it gets harder and harder … Read more
This was an original Homemade Mutated Cannibal Unique Halloween Costume Idea . The face took 7 hours to make and the dress took about an hour. The dress was cut up, made to look dirty and liquid latex on it. I also added fake blood to the dress to make it look like I had … Read more
My 5yr old has quite the imagination. She wanted to be a headless skeleton but also wanted to be sure everyone would know she’s a girl, so we added a tutu. Her head is also her candy bucket. This Homemade Headless Girl Skeleton Costume was so much fun to make and not too much work. … Read more
The “frozen head” costume was created using an old water heater box made into a refrigerator with an upper freezer. I used a styrofoam “shelf” to stick my head through and added “rails” on each side of the interior of the freezer compartment for the shelf to rest on. I then covered the interior with … Read more
Materials used for this Voodoo Witch Doctor Costume: * 2 Hula skirts * Pirate wig * Cave man necklaces and bracelets * Character teeth * White contacts * Beads * Hemp string * Skull * Bag of feathers * Hot glue gun and glue sticks * Skull necklaces * Make-up * Small elastic * Skull … Read more
I’m a beauty school drop out and I love to do special effects makeup. You may have seen my other costumes on here; Exorcist and Tippy from the Birds. We attended the Zombie Crawl this year and decided to use them as our Halloween Costumes too. Zombie Mom: GoodWill dress and shoes Contacts. Girl Zombie: … Read more
My 11 year old daughter wanted something scary for a Halloween costume. I started this Head in Freezer Costume with a hot water heater box and cut 3 sides of the top front to make the door of the freezer. I put a handle on the door and a handle on the box slightly lower … Read more
CHEF NIEDA BANDAID was the name of our headless costume and was fun to make as much as it was to wear! Items needed: Rolling knapsack- we had an old one and the handle was stuck in the extended position so that helped. men’s suit coat hanger chef jacket- bought it at a thrift store … Read more
Get a group of great people together, then have fun chasing your damsel and terrorizing your town with these homemade classic movie Monsters Group Halloween costumes! THE MUMMY COSTUME – Materials: Long johns, gray material, shoes, black/white/gray make-up, tissue paper, spirit gum, bald cap and glue gun. Cut strips of gray material long enough to … Read more
I was asked to come help out with the Halloween Festival at my daughter’s elementary school shortly after we moved to Texas. I wanted to do something special for the occasion and decided to dress as part of the school staff so to speak. I took a pair of my husband’s old work coveralls and … Read more
I created this Homemade Swamp Monster Costume from recycled clothes (my favorite material being old jeans!). I used old Pj’s as the base for the costume, then cut LOTs and LOTs of individual scales from jeans and glued them on the Pj’s. I then painted each scale with green paint and a touch of black … Read more
It all started with a dress. My mother wore this bright purple dress to a wedding as a bride’s maid in the 80’s. She needed a costume and turned it into a queen’s dress by adding a cape. Since then it’s sat in our basement until this year when my girl friend and I were … Read more