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…
Last year, my boyfriend and I went in a Barbie and Ken in a box couple costume. I wanted to do something unique, and although we saw another Barbie and Ken at a party we went to, they quickly took their boxes off after seeing ours. Ken and I went to a few bars, and … Read more
I wanted to make a traditional monster costume for my 16 month old son, but I didn’t want to do anything scary, so I decided on a cute littlest Wolfman homemade Halloween costume. This costume ended up being a little more difficult to make than I had originally anticipated, but I was happy with how it … Read more
I was heading to “create” a costume for one of the biggest events in Germany: Carnival in Cologne. As a none-fan of bought costumes everyone else could buy/wear, this funny Halloween costume idea was just perfect to create. I started gathering the required parts: Fake teeth: Lucky find, cause they looks exactly like the teeth … Read more
I wanted something completely different for hubby and I, and we love the Austin Powers series, so this was a no brainer! Our Fook Yu and Fook Mi couple costume took a lot of work, but was so worth it. Everything I needed was purchased from Value Village and a dollar store, so the total cost for both … Read more
My son just loves The Scrambled States of America. It is a children’s books by author and illustrator Laurie Keller. When I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween he told me Pennsylvania or Oklahoma. So I said Okay. Not sure how we are going to do this, I did know it had … Read more
For a fun Halloween costume run (race), a group of us decided to be Wizard of Oz. I made my entire Glinda costume and got TONS of compliments, and was asked at least 25 times to stop and take pictures. Unfortunately the picture I have doesn’t do it justice, but I’ll explain and hopefully that … Read more
As a guy in my late 20’s, I grew up on the Ninja Turtles. Now that a new show has started up, my son, who is 2.5 also loves them. When my wife asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween, he said he wanted to be Leo. My heart filled with pride, and … Read more
I was inspired by several headless costumes, but mostly Nicole Magne’s. Halloween is by far my favorite time of year and I try to out-do myself each year. This spooky headless Marie Antoinette halloween costume cost less than $50 to make. I used a plastic dress form from a local mannequin store, a backpack, a … Read more
Of course my son doesn’t want to be anything easy… lol, but I love to sew and this is my one chance to shine. I went to cut octagons for his Dry Bones costume, he (7yrs old) says “no…turtles have hexagon shells not octagons”, silly me. Material was left over from last year’s Angry Bird, … Read more
This great homemade Super Mario costume I handmade. I made the hat from felt and the overalls from blue nylon material. It was not too difficult and it was a Halloween when Mario was not as popular. We put raccoon ears and a tail to be the Mario with flying powers. My boy loves Mario … Read more
Our son wanted to be a scary tree and there are no “tree costumes” that we could buy so we got some material from Joanns and a lot of leaves from Michael’s. We made his body suite to be shaped like the trunk and we made a hat to hold the leaves and branches and … Read more
I wanted to create a Beetlejuice costume with a twist that was clearly Beetlejuice- but also had a little bit of my own twist to it .. plus I wanted it to be a costume for a girl. I began by dying an old dress I had laying around. It was dark green originally, so … Read more