Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
I knew I wanted to make my 8 month old baby boy Harry Potter this year. I didn’t want to buy the costume-I wanted to make it more personal. It started when I found gold and maroon fabric remnants on clearance at the craft store. I cut up some strips and sewed them in an … Read more
Intro: This Halloween, I wanted to be Pebbles! I was Pebbles when I was 4 years old but this Halloween I was like “I want to be grown-up Pebbles!” Oh, and the fact I finally found my Bamm-Bamm. So this is how I went about in making our coolest Pebbles and Bamm Bamm homemade Halloween … Read more
When I finally decided to make my son Gene Simmons around the beginning of October I thought I better get started! My brother in law helped me with the shoes for this costume we made them out of styrofoam. He got two cubes of styrofoam to glue together to be big enough to be able … Read more
After finding out we were pregnant with our third, and most likely last child, I begged my husband to let me make a big announcement. Since Halloween was 2 1/2 weeks away we decided to wait to tell everyone with an awesome couples costume! I got started right away with the focus piece…the oven! I’ve … Read more
This Ant at Picnic costume was a fun and very easy costume to make. My daughter was a lady bug and I needed something to go with it so an ant at a picnic was perfect. First, you purchase all of your materials – foam board, red and white table cloth, black pipe cleaners, black … Read more
I just went to the mall, bought different pieces of clothing and jewelry from Forever21, and some stuff I already had. I put it together, and taaadaaa, you’ve got an 80’s Madonna. The funnest part was getting all dressed up, and doing my hair and makeup like her. Then of course going to a Halloween … Read more
I knew I’d undoubtedly be a fire hazard and the idea of having to frequently inflate myself throughout the night wasn’t overly appealing, but I was going to just go ahead and fulfill my lifelong dream of being one of those fat sumo wrestlers already. However, that didn’t happen. What happened instead required 20 balloons, … Read more
Coming up with my costume each year is mentally taxing due to my ideal of having the perfect reaction at parties. I’m going for the “aaaah, yesss” or “Simply Awesome!” comments. Thus I had a very simple DIY Costume this year based on one of my favorite commercials – Mayhem, the guy who represents accidents … Read more
I started this homemade Fish Aquarium Halloween costume with a box the size to fit my son’s head and be able to carry on shoulders for ease. I cut out one side completely and two sides for side view. I left one side solid and covered with tank backing from Pet Smart. My son helped … Read more
I am a huge Looney Tunes fan and have been since I was a kid. I love to think of offbeat characters to be for Halloween, especially ones that are easily recognizable and that you can’t easily buy a costume for. So Marvin the Martian popped into my head the week of Halloween. I got … Read more
For Halloween we wanted to be something as a group, something easy, and also something that we would not freeze in when we were outside! We decided to go as Family Guy! Everyone we encountered loved our outfits. Meg and Lois got the most attention for their outfits. It was great to dress up with … Read more
As a dedicated iced coffee drinker and student with a huge test coming up on the day before Halloween, I decided I might as well be an iced coffee. I figured I might even turn into one with the amount I was drinking in order to prepare for my test, so it seemed to be … Read more