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 just LOVE Kermmy!!!! the entire Miss Piggy costume was handmade and part of Kermit’s was too. Kermmy! Miss Piggy and Kermit were a HUGE hit at the Halloween party we went to! Never have we had SO many pictures taken with us and of us! Kermit was a GREAT sport and got his butt … Read more
I thought it was going to be so much easier than it actually was, lol. I could find an ugly carpet so I just bought some fabric and trimmed it. I glued those to a flattened box with a glue gun and added three rods underneath to keep the box from bending. Then I cut … Read more
I wanted to do this Peacock Costume since last year. I looked at hundreds of photos, and everything I found was just too expensive or just ridiculously unpractical to wear out in public or to dance in. This was when I decided to just make my own costume that embodied the life of a peacock. … Read more
My husband and I decided to go as Alice and The White Rabbit this year. It was a bit of a last minute decision and I put these costumes together in a week. My Alice costume was based off a sewing pattern and tweaked a bit by adding the black and white striped fabric and … Read more
Here is how I made this easy Lego block child’s Halloween costume. Using a large box for the body and a small box for the hat, I cut out head and arm holes for my 5 year old son. Have your child try on the box to make the holes large enough and help your … Read more
This is how I made these Popeye and Olive Oyl couple Halloween costumes The Popeye costume was a combination of: a simple navy v-neck, a cut-out from a red polo, corn cob pipe, sailor hat, yellow bias tape belt, navy heat seal trim on the sailor collar, work boots, light blue dockers, and the tattoos … Read more
Another year, another cool home made costume. Hunger games peacekeepers costumes this time around! In my opinion, this is a cool costume for pre-teens /older kids. I used white pants and white shirts, painted helmets, black boots,cop accessories (glasses, belt with all its accessories) and even a flashlight and…. voila! They were so unique and different and … Read more
Owls are my favorite animals so I thought it would be a good idea to try to make a DIY Owl costume. It took 8 long hours of hot gluing feather by feather onto a plain black skater dress and making the head piece with just a headband and feathers. The makeup used was just … Read more
I made this creative Magic Carpet Ride Optical Illusion Halloween costume for my 3 year old daughter to wear in our hometown contest. She won best overall in her age group this year! I used a large pillow case I found at Goodwill and two pieces of foam board for the “carpet”. I lucked out … Read more
We went and got tulle from Hobby Lobby and fabric. My daughter said she wanted to be Ariel the Little Mermaid for Halloween. We Googled ideas and came up with a few. We make her a tutu like long skirt and then made her a shirt and ruffled the bottom of it. We got a … Read more
My friend Ben wanted a Hippo Halloween costume, so I whipped up the most ridiculous, haggard hippo costume you’ve ever laid eyes on. I don’t have a sewing machine, so I hand sewed this bad boy in between watching Modern Family reruns, checking Facebook, and kind of reviewing for midterms, so needless to say it’s … Read more
“I want to be a Prickly Porcupine Mom!” was my four year old’s response when I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween this year. I have to hand it to him it’s a unique choice. This request gave me a lot to ponder late at night while awake from insomnia. I raided … Read more