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…
I decided to go as Sonic The Hedgehog this year, but knew I’d run into problems. The only way to get the costume was to to make it, couldn’t find it anywhere. Every year I have made my costume, so I was up for the challenge. First thing I bought was a blue morphsuit (full … Read more
The idea for this Flintstones group Halloween costume all started with just Wilma and Betty as us girls had to bar tend the night of the Halloween party at our local bar ~ and it GREW into the whole Flintstones gang including “The Great Gazoo”. I found a sewing pattern for the Flintstones costumes. Not that … Read more
So for once I wanted to make a totally different costume. I usually get into creepy costumes with contacts. BUT unfortunately my contacts ripped *and they are prescribed*. I had to come up with some new. Well I got this idea for a Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween costume one day searching online for make … Read more
This home made Wicked Queen from Snow White Halloween costume was a costume that garnered many compliments through out the night, from dinner at The Outback (yes my husband and his friends who did NOT dress up insisted we join them) to the club where someone yanked on my chin while on the dance floor … Read more
This year I wanted to pick a costume for my family of four. One of our favorite movies is The Addams Family, and it was a perfect fit for us, and very easy and inexpensive. This is how I made our Addams Family Halloween costume. Morticia- that’s me. I bought a cheap, long black witch’s … Read more
I have been wanting to be Beetlejuice for years now but could never find a suit that was similar enough to his! So this year,I decided to make my own Beetlejuice Halloween Costume! It was a lot easier than I thought, I found a black blazer from the thrift store for $1.99 and used duck … Read more
Each year there is a zombie walk done in Columbia, SC in October. This year I wanted to punch things up a bit with a spooky Zombie Bride Halloween costume. So I bought a plain white dress from a thrift store. The dress almost reached the ground and was very bridal. But to add a … Read more
I had a blast this Halloween, rocking the light up Jeopardy board on Friday night and this awesome boat Halloween costume on Saturday! I originally started with just the hat and jacket, and wanted to make it more awesome. I thought of the boat idea, which turned into light up boat, and finally adding Andy … Read more
I decided this year that I would be Lilith, the Bride of Dracula and my boyfriend would be Dr. Acula. I started out with just a simple black dress that I bought from an online store on clearance. I then went to a fabric store and bought a pattern in taffeta that would match the 18th … Read more
I had been on a long streak of rock ‘n roll inspired costumes. ZZ Top has such an iconic look and they’re practically wearing costumes in real life. So it was a perfect match for me this year. Got a cheap suit with tails from the Goodwill store. I wore a simple white dress shirt … Read more
First I used a clothes basket I found at Goodwill and decorated it with yellow feathers by hand sewing the yellow boas that I found online to the basket for my Big Bird costume. This basket made the first part of the head piece by turning it upside down and making it into a hat. … Read more
This three headed ZZ top homemade Halloween costume was quite easy to make. Just took some thin plywood and put a spike thru it and thru the shoulder on my jacket. From there just stuck the heads on each shoulder and that was it. If I had to do it again tough I would use … Read more