Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
Finn from Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time is an easy costume! We already had a blue t-shirt, dark blue shorts, white socks, and black shoes. The hat is handmade, but I bought it off Ebay. If I were going to make the hat, I would simply have found a white beanie and added white fabric stuffed little horns to it. … Read more
Ever since the Spice Girls came out, I’ve been called Scary Spice (probably because I was obsessed with them!). I knew ALL of their songs, birthdays, and every other detail that was published about them (I know what you’re thinking, Ridiculous! . . . I am with you on that haha!). I didn’t even make an attempt at looking … Read more
We all love Shaun the Sheep, the British claymation character and it makes for a super easy costume! I just got a black long-sleeved onesie and black pants and socks and hand-tacked (with needle and thread) some white felt to the front and back of the shirt at the shoulders. I attached a tail of white … Read more
Hey! Look, it’s Frankenstein! This DIY costume was fun to make and will keep you to a small budget! While watching the news one night for one of my University courses, I was really hit with a “wave” of creativity. As the weather reporter spoke about the drastic events occuring in New York it hit … Read more
Meet the Flintstones. This family costume was created by using fleece for Dino and making it into footed pants and a sweatshirt. Also, there are mitts for his hands. Dino’s color came from t-shirt and was dyed. Dino’s tag was crocheted. Black spots were all hand cut and hand sewn from felt. Pebbles was made by dying a … Read more
To make this Rubik’s cube costume it took me a lot of time and patience. In this project you need a square box, construction paper, clear packaging tape, and black electrical tape. First you need your box for your base. After you find a box you need to cut out three holes in it, two for the … Read more
This is the first Halloween my husband and I decided to have a couple’s costume. Both of these Flo and Mayhem couple Halloween costumes were really easy! For Flo, all I needed was white pants (I found some at Kohl’s for $10), a white shirt (Flo wears a button-up but I just wore a t-shirt) … Read more
This is a Wheelchair Batmobile Costume I put together for my 10 year old Autistic son. He loves Batman and the villains. He’s in the wheel chair as a result of contracting Transverse Myelitis when he was 6 months old. It’s an incredibly rare disease and at the time he was believed the youngest in North … Read more
San Antonio hosts a zombie walk every year and this year my boyfriend and I decided to go as the star crossed lovers from the movie Braveheart. Just as zombies. For my boyfriend’s William Wallace costume, I took an old kilt my great grandmother had made my grandfather but could no longer fit any of … Read more
To start the 1980’s television and toy version of My Little Pony Wind Whistler, I found a cute blue knee length dress at Good Will. I then used puffy paint to paint on her symbol of three pink whistles and two blue whistles after reviewing some images online. I found some pieces of heavy felt from … Read more
These LEGO Minifigures homemade Halloween costumes were our boys costumes last year. They love the Lego Minifigures so they both wanted to be their favorite one for Halloween We started searching for a perfect Lego head and finally found a large cheese puff container that was the perfect size we then covered it with a stretchy fabric and cut … Read more
First I started with the tail of the mermaid costume since that was all sewing. I literally fixed the skirt so it fit tight against my butt and sewed it so the raw edges faced outward as my “tail”. Then I started on the top. I used a bathing suit top I didn’t wear anymore. I got netting from Micheal’s and … Read more