Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
I’m a big fan of ROYGBIV so I knew I wanted to make my son’s costume colorful, so that’s when I choose to make him an awesome gumball machine costume. Now he’s only 2 so I knew there would be certain limitations and things I couldn’t be too creative with, like having his head in … Read more
It was 8 pm the night before Halloween and I sat crying in a heap of pink tulle and no closer to getting my initial Glinda costume idea done. When, knowing I would never finish the costume in time for the next day, I decided I would use the tulle and make myself a bag … Read more
The goal was to be a scary Fembot from Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man. The mask is from a dollar store, I painted it green, added eyes with white duct tape, cut holes in the nose so I could breathe easier then added plaster and painted that in a flesh tone. I glued gadgets and … Read more
Max is my 16 month old baby boy! We went to North Carolina to visit family. I wanted to make Max a super hero this Halloween but I really wanted it to be homemade Somi, decided to make him Clark Kent! I bought him some pants, a white button-up shirt, a super man undershirt and … Read more
We loved how this Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum couple Halloween costume came out! We made our own bow out of sparkly blue wired ribbon and a plain yellow t-shirt for the top with white suspenders. We decided to put a girly twist to Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum by making a no sew tutu in red … Read more
My four roommates and I decided to be the 101 Dalmatians accompanied with Cruella de Vil. We went to the fabric store and found the Dalmatian print fabric. We made our dresses by cutting slits that line up with each other and tying knots up the entire back (make sure to leave extra length because … Read more
This year we decided to dress up as Wall E and Eve after one of our favorite animated movies, Wall E. We made our costumes out of recycled materials such as card board boxes, newspaper, blank CD’s, 2 blue battery operated led lights, plastic plates and plastic cups. See below for brief instructions on how we … Read more
I had this idea in my head for years, but didn’t have the ambition to put it together until this year. I had a plan in my head and just envisioned a bag of balloons, a red skirt and hat and viola-a bubble gum machine. I got the skirt at a second hand store and pinned it … Read more
It wasn’t horribly difficult for my stepdaughter and I to make this walking tree costume. The hardest part was finding the box that was big enough. We found a thin piece of metal that was sturdy enough to keep the round shape and used that at the top and stapled it to the box. Then took a … Read more
We needed costumes for a party thrown by my husband’s coworker. I enjoy science fiction and have been wanting to do steam punk outfits for a while. We had to keep the cost down so here is what we came up with. I found a masquerade mask online that my husband liked and then borrowed some elements … Read more
For several months we had friends telling us our daughter looks just like Boo from Monsters Inc. Then, I decided she would be Boo this Halloween and me and my husband would be her friends Sully and Mike. The first time she saw the costume she was terrified and she couldn’t even try it. Suddenly … Read more
As a kid I had a Barbie makeup head that I loved to play with and my daughter just loves Barbie’s so I thought it would be fun to bring the Barbie makeup head to life. To make the tray for the makeup I took a large cardboard box and cut it to the size … Read more