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…
Being I am a hairdresser, I often get inspired by hair for my Halloween costumes. This particular year was no different! My inspiration was my red hair (yes that’s my hair… of course I color it but it was not a wig). I thought wow my hair could look like Peg Bundy. And BAM my costume was born! … Read more
We got an over sized button up shirt from Goodwill, flower foam for the neck piece, silicone putty for the meat look, corrugated tubing for the blood veins and arteries, empty pretzel jar with the back cut out, and breathing holes drill in front of his mouth, and fake blood. This head in a jar … Read more
Got this idea for a frosted Mini-Wheat costume for child from this very site, but did my own spin on a few touches. I used foam for the costume, covered it in brown felt, then painstakingly hot glued oodles of raffia on the front and back of the foam/felt. I then used white spray paint … Read more
This women’s Raven costume was SOMEWHAT easy to assemble. The hardest part about it was deciding how I wanted it to look and how it was all going to come together. My friends all wanted to be birds, but I wanted a costume that also kept the true spooky spirit of Halloween. The Edgar Allen … Read more
I made this Marge Simpson costume for my son. We were trying to decide which Simpson character to make, when we both decided it would be funnier if he was Marge, since he’s a boy. I started with a couple of sheets of colored material; green for the dress, which was simple enough to make, … Read more
I was a big fan of Gilligan’s Island as a child so I decided that when we went to Disney World for Halloween that I was going to make a Gilligan costume to wear. So I started checking out the local Thrift Stores for something to work with. I really hit the jackpot when I … Read more
Ch,ch,ch,ah,ah,ah!!! Here’s a cool look for any Jason fan. This Friday the 13th costume was customized from a store bought zombie costume. Depending on how you want your Jason to look, I strongly recommend purchasing one that comes with a chest piece and exposed wounds on the legs and arms. Zombie gloves are a good … Read more
So each year my Fire Dept holds a charity 80’s party to benefit a different organization. I could think of no better 80’s costume than good ol’ Teen Wolf in Basketball Uniform Costume. I have done this costume in the past, but never with the basketball uniform and full body hair. It was a very … Read more
My youngest daughter loves dinosaurs, especially the brontosaurus variety. So I wasn’t terribly surprised when she said she wanted to be one for Halloween. I was, however, challenged. Sauropods have long necks and I didn’t want to arm a 4 year old with a huge prop of a neck. So I figured rather than make … Read more
I was looking for an easy to wear but elaborate costume and thought it would be fun to make it active. So I thought of a puppet. It was a lot of fun to make sculpting the head out of flower foam. This is the foam they use in the bottom of flower arrangements. It … Read more
I made this Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon Costume for my 4 year old son. The shirt and pants are just black sweats. The dragon Toothless, the main dragon, from the movie How to Train a Dragon has a large flat head more like a catfish so I used cardboard and foam to … Read more
Book Week dress up day is a big event at my school. The staff and children dress up as their favorite book character and have a chance to win prizes on the day. I always make a new costume each year and my inspiration was some material with the characters from Wizard of Oz printed … Read more