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…
My son Joey is five years old and he LOVES dinosaurs. He wanted to be a Trex this Halloween because that is his favorite dinosaur of them all. He is such a fan of them that a silly cartoonish costume would not do. He needed something realistic so I decided to make make the coolest homemade … Read more
My son really wanted to be a Ninja Turtle for Halloween so we checked out costumes online and they all looked so cheesy so I decided to create my own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Costume but modernizing the color. First I went to a store that sold ninja turtle shell t-shirts (Spencer’s or Hot Topic) and … Read more
This sexy Little Red Riding Hood Halloween costume is a very simple costume! If you have seen true blood I got the idea from Jessica in her Halloween scene! I found a really cute maroon cape and then got a corset to match it. For the bottoms I found fishnet stockings and frilly bloomers and … Read more
This sexy Eve Halloween costume was a very simple costume and was a hit and yes everyone, I was wearing underwear. Ladies please you don’t need to be showing your stuff! Just find the string bikini kind!! I took a strapless bra with clear straps for the top and glued fake leaves all over it. Then for … Read more
I have a four year old little boy, and and one year old little girl (I’m also a HUGE fan of leopard) so when Halloween came around this year the first thing that came to mind for costumes was Pebbles and Bam Bam. My son had his mind set on being Batman, which he has … Read more
The bed was made of a fridge cardboard box. I added a sheet on the top of it while the bottom has a bed skirt. There is a rope that was tied around my body with a cut out so my body would fit in. To move this I had to use my hands. The … Read more
Being 7 best friends it was very hard to find a big group costume. We narrowed it down to the 7 dwarfs and matched each character with our personalities. We are from the city Hoboken in New Jersey, so for fun we called ourselves the 7 sexy Dwarfs from the City (a play on words from … Read more
Buy all the supplies, garbage bags, Dollar store old shirt, pants and boots fatigues if you can find them. Cut trash bags same shape as shirt and pants, spray, adhesive them to clothing. PVC pipe is most expensive piece, cut to what size you want. Buy green spray paint in the same green face paint … Read more
Every once in awhile my husband and I refer to my little destructive infant son Henry as H-Bomb, so it was quite fitting for us to choose a Bob-Omb from Mario as his first costume. I sewed the entire costume myself (except for the long sleeve top underneath) out of fleece and felt with a … Read more
We love Monty Python. Everyone did their own Monty Python group costume and we did not see any of them until we all came together. We all did it very inexpensive. Lots of looking around at Goodwill stores and fabric depot. We all watched the movie and picked which character we wanted to be. Also a … Read more
For a costume contest at work, we decided to make a “marry scary costume”. We found an old suit at the thrift store, complete with matching hat, a lace 3/4th sleeve top and the liner cut out from an old prom dress made do for the skirt of the bridal dress. By the way, most … Read more
Last year, I wanted to be a clown, and I was going to make my boyfriend Krusty, but he wanted to be Kermit the Frog! I was still in love with being a clown, and thought “why not do both?” Then the idea of “Kermit the Clown”, and “Miss Piggy the Diva Clown” couple costume … Read more