Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
I knew that an off the rack pencil costume would be lame so I took it in another direction. I found yellow dress at Goodwill a few sizes too large and sewed ridges into it (which made it the right size). I spray painted some old rain boots pink and used green duct tape to … Read more
Rocky, Colt, and Tum Tum from 3 Little Ninjas. We spray painted white robes and wore white scrubs. We also wore white tshirts under our robes. We bought white masks and paint from the craft store and painted the masks ourselves. Painting the masks was not easy and it took a little time. People went … Read more
I absolutely adore Halloween, which is not as per usual for a young person- nonetheless for a young lady. Every year I try to out do myself from the year before with an outrageous idea or unbelievable makeup. I wanted to make some sort of cat costume one year, because I love cats almost as much as … Read more
The idea for this costume came from the awesome Zumba outfits everyone was wearing at the gym. Sparkles, cut up t shirts and bright socks. The costume is easy and quick to make. All you really need is some scissors to cut the bottoms off bright socks, (I got mine at Target, ) and to … Read more
Our group had come up with this idea weeks before Halloween, and it looked as though we wouldn’t be able to pull it off because we put it off for so long! At the last minute we all pulled our costumes together and it looked great! We each dressed in a way that we thought would … Read more
This has to be the most fun costume that I have ever been a part of! It was so simple. All we did was buy a five pack of men’s shirts, a pack of different colored headbands, and a large sharpie. The hardest part was definitely writing our letters of the shirts. It took forever … Read more
I had wanted to be Carmen Sandiego for a while, because I had the long red pea coat already. Once you have that, the only other thing you really need to worry about is the hat. I had a hard time finding a fedora big enough that it looked like hers. I finally found one … Read more
My friend and I weren’t sure what we wanted to be for Halloween, but we knew we wanted to be a pair. We thought long and hard about it, and decided to just go with what it is that we are. My one friend is very sweet, and is just like sugar, and I am … Read more
Inspired by Día de Muertos my boyfriend and I did our make-up ourselves and went thrift shopping and used clothes already on hand to complete the look. We got a TON of complements and even got a heartfelt thank you from a Mexican woman for representing her country! I did a lot of Googling and … Read more
In 2010 I dressed up as Susan Murphy aka Ginormica from the 2009 film Monsters Vs. Aliens. The shirt part of the costume was prepared ahead of time (August 2009, I think) by painting some details of Susan’s shirt, but the costume wasn’t able to be pulled off because I didn’t have a white wig … Read more
This is my Mario costume very easy to do. I went to Home Depot down the painting isle grabbed pant interns hat and spray painted it red and made the M logo out of white and black paint this only took me two days to do. I bought a red long sleeve shirt some suspenders … Read more
Hello Scuba Steve here… This costume was an easy one to make. I made it out of cardboard and yellow duct tape. If you don’t know who Scuba Steve is he is a little action figure in the movie “Big Daddy” staring Adam Sandler. In the movie you see Adam Sandler dressed as Scuba Sam, … Read more