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 created this Ninja Turtle costume for my friend and I last year. It was by far my favorite Halloween costume I’ve ever worn. We were Raphael and Donatello. Coincidentally, we went to a party and found Leonardo and Michelangelo, making the night even better!! The costume is made mostly out of colored t-shirts purchased … Read more
To start off this Ear of Corn Halloween costume, I found an adult sized green sweatshirt along with an adult sized green turtle neck. The bigger size gave the length and extra room my 5 year old needed. I then cut the sleeves off of the sweatshirt and set them aside to use for the hat. … Read more
First off let me just say how hard it was to convince my boyfriend to go along with wearing this Disney’s Donald and Daisy couple Halloween costume. He asked for manly so I bought him a an under armor shirt and white nursing pants and a sailors hat. Everything else I purchased the fabric from … Read more
Yes, my husband and I are dorks. We are well aware! One of our favorite movies is Ghostbusters so we wanted to be characters from that movie. We figured there would be many others who dress up in the typical Ghostbuster suit with proton pack so we wanted to do something different. We loved the … Read more
This was a homemade Davy Jones costume. We bought a pirate hat, but everything else was handmade. We used a black outfit and added lots of cloth scraps to make it look tattered. We added a belt and sword and a big lobster claw made out of cardboard painted orange. The coolest part was the … Read more
We made my son a hot air balloon costume with lights and flames a few years ago. This was one of the simplest costumes I ever tried! We created a frame from PVC pipe, painted it brown and attached it to a basket with the bottom cut out. We put a big beach ball on … Read more
My husband and I went as Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth couple costume last year, not because we LOVE the show, but because it’s hard to find decent, wearable costumes for larger people. My husband went as Dog (obviously). Since he’s a 2XL, we couldn’t use (and didn’t really want to use) the store … Read more
More details about this dress is under “coolest homemade candy princess Halloween costume idea 5″! We used it 2 years ago for her Halloween costume. At the end of this past school year they had a red wagon parade (against drugs). And she had to be someone famous, well since we already had this costume … Read more
The theme I chose for my kids this year was 80’s and who is cooler than Mr. T? First I secured a Mr. T talking key chain on Amazon, from there I re used my son’s Spiderman muscle top from our Super hero Halloween. His regular barber hooked him up with a modern Mohawk and … Read more
My husband and I live in Los Angeles and own a online rock and roll clothing store and we put on a killer costume bash every year. We have been known to always wear black and be some kinda of vampires or anything dark. This year we decided to shock everyone and go GHOSTLY white. … Read more
We had the best time making the Listerine Man and Toothbrush couple costume! It was pretty easy too, it just took some patience when spray painting and painting the boxes. For the toothbrush we just bought a Wall mart yellow fisherman’s suit then spray painted a small box yellow and punctured the box a bunch … Read more
My eight year old son wanted a home made costume, he was tired of the same old Ninja and Star Wars costumes. He asked if he could be a Bible character and I was so proud. We decided Noah and his amazing Ark would be perfect, and my wheels started turning. I took two boxes … Read more