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…
Here are Abu and Aladdin on a Flying Carpet kids Halloween costumes from the Disney movie. The Abu outfit was made up of faux fur, I used wire in the tail to give it shape. His hat was made up of stiff felt and a glue gun, and a elastic to keep it on her … Read more
After a long thought process and years of wanting to do a couple’s costume I finally picked a sexy Adam and Eve couples Halloween costume. We used old biker shorts (for Adam) and an old bra and pair of shorts for myself. We purchased lots of leaves from Michael’s and Walmart. With a hot glue … Read more
My son, Chason is 3 1/2 years. He is absolutely obsessed with garbage trucks. He will sit for hours at the computer and watch You Tube videos of garbage trucks driving around neighborhoods and picking up garbage but he especially likes the videos where there is an actual garbage man physically throwing the garbage into … Read more
I moved into a house with my best friend and 5 strangers in our last year in College. We all were so different but became the best of friends. For the Halloween party that year I came up with the idea of dressing up as Tetris. It sounds cheesy but it resembled the way our … Read more
My boyfriend and I loved Back to the Future, so we decided we wanted a Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker couple costume, but we did not own anything that worked. We set off to thrift stores and found 100% of our clothes in the three stores we went to. The vest was essential and was … Read more
I made Yoda the Jedi Master costume from a simple picture I took from the movie. His head was made of starch and news paper with a large punching balloon for the shape. The funniest part was as I was adding the starch and paper the balloon kept it flatting. I didn’t know the balloon … Read more
In keeping with the nature theme, our daughter dressed as a flower the year, our son dressed as an apple tree! To put together the flower costume, my mom made a tutu out of green tulle. She basically gathered the tulle and sewed it to some elastic (there are lots of tutorials online with various … Read more
My son has been very creative at coming up with costumes. One year he really wanted to be an apple tree, so we did our best to oblige and this is our Apple Tree child costume i.dea We took a large piece of cardboard and cut out the shape of a tree, wrapping the trunk … Read more
One of my best friends and I decided that we needed to do something really cool for Halloween last year, so we poured over several different ideas for group costumes, and finally decided on Mortal Kombat, Scorpion VS. Subzero Costumes. We went to the fabric store and picked up some blue, yellow and black Halloween … Read more
Last Halloween my boyfriend and I decided to go as cops and robbers for Halloween, but with a twist! Instead of normal cops and robbers, we were Transformers! I went as the robber and a black four door and he went as the SWAT member with a SWAT van. We started by getting a ton … Read more
As with all of my Halloween costumes, I came up with the Where the Wild Things Are idea less than a week before and was working on it up until we walked out of the door. We just purchased the Max onesie for my husband, but I (of course) had to make Carol by hand. … Read more
I am in love with everything peacock, so this sexy Peacock costume was a must for me to conquer. I ordered a plain black corset off of eBay for $15 and completely covered it in purple, green, turquoise and peacock colored feathers, that I also purchased from eBay. MUCH CHEAPER THAN FEATHERS IN ANY CRAFT … Read more