If you have a few days, you can make a killer homemade costume! Spare a few moments and browse through this section of over 1000 DIY costume ideas. None of these took longer than a few days, which means your costume is well on it’s way!
Send someone out to buy the candy so you can focus on a homemade costume idea. Will you go with movie characters like Forrest Gump and the Queen of Zamunda? Or will you transform yourself into a popcorn or crayon box? Your options are not limited, even if you only have a few days to prepare.
You can create a killer whale with a trainer costume, use a pregnant belly as a crystal ball for a fortune teller costume or build some really awesome optical illusion costumes. All this in just a few days!
In conclusion, don’t discount your dreams of becoming a windy weatherman or a pumpkin spice latte. Your homemade costume idea is waiting for you on these pages below…
This DIY Jessie costume was a super-quick turnaround costume, but I had a lot of fun making it! First, I made the hat out of some red stiff felt. I had to combine the pieces a bit to make the brim wide to match Jessie’s. I used white cording to glue between two pieces of … Read more
For a Halloween party we made a Bob Ross and his “Happy Tree” couple costume. For Bob Ross we used a wig, attachable beard, and a paint palette from the Dollar Store. The tree was created from a dress that was hot glued with over 150 fall leaves. A nest with birds was put in … Read more
I’m always on the lookout for an original DIY costume ideas and I love doing something fun and creative for Halloween. This year I really wanted to mix things up a bit. 2021 produced a fair amount of pop culture references like Squid Game, Bridgerton and the Suez Canal ship (which are all decent material) … Read more
Here’s the story behind our Guns N’ Roses family Halloween costume. The kids are old enough now that I try to give them free reign to decide what we do for Halloween – whether we carry on our family group costume tradition, or they venture off to their own individual costumes. They both wanted to … Read more
My mother in law actually made this Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head couple Halloween costume. She started with the egg crate type foam you use on top of a mattress. She cut it into a generic potato shape. One side was hot glued shut and the other had Velcro hot glued on each side so … Read more
This homemade Dalmatian costume was a lot of fun but more work than it seems! It took a whole day to color black dots on the plain white pants. We also used white gloves and colored dots on it as well. For the feet he just wore black slippers. We used a white swim cap … Read more
The Old Woman who lived in a shoe costume was super fun to make! I wanted it to be on a stroller so it would be easy to get my little one around. I started with a stroller, then bungeed a seat to the top. Used PVC pipe, chicken wire, and a ton of zip … Read more
I love making my costumes and always try to do something original, and this year my boyfriend and I looked back to our childhood for this one. I came across the board game Guess Who and remembered all the characters and how I used to play it for hours…”does your person have a hat”, does … Read more
If you don’t remember, Benny here is the cab driver from Halloweentown. One of the movies most of my generation would watch every year around Halloween as kids. I decided to make a mask of Benny for my Halloween costume by using liquid latex mixed with flour to mold the mask onto a mannequin head. … Read more
My son wanted a homemade Fishstick costume – his favorite character on Fortnite this year. I started looking for inspiration on Pinterest and other websites but soon discovered that there were not a lot of Fishstick costume ideas out there for how to make this costume. DIY costumes are a fun tradition that all three … Read more
Originally I wanted to do a couple’s costume with my boyfriend and be the Maitlands from Beetlejuice (which I found a sweet how-to on this site.) He got foam insulation to start the masks, but realized there was no way he’d get them done in time for Halloween parties. I had a week to come … Read more
For a whole year I had planned to create my own version of Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire Cat costume for Halloween 2012. After two days of creation, my vision CAME TO LIFE, and turned out even better than I expected. My goal was to create the human-like version of the Cheshire Cat. Here are the … Read more