Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
Wonder Woman: Started off with a red spangly tube top, with the ‘W’ cut out of gold fabric and hand stitched on. I tried it with duct tape at first, but it had no give and made my body look funny shaped. With the same gold fabric, a thick belt sized for my waist got … Read more
This baby Scarecrow costume was an extremely last minute costume! In total I think it took me about 45 minutes to make. And I made it Halloween morning! I already had a pair of overalls. I cut out some different colored pieces of felt in square and triangle patterns and sewed them onto the overalls … Read more
This is how I made my homemade Dopey the Dwarf costume from Snow White: Shirt: Took my green Snuggie®, flipped it backwards and sewed the front to make Dopey’s over sized shirt/tunic type thing (I used sticky sided yellow felt to make the two large buttons and sticky sided brown felt to make his elbow patches). … Read more
I always thought my son kind of looked like Chucky. SO I watched the original movie to see how I could make a Chucky Good Guys Doll costume. Realized that since my son was so little I wanted him to look more like the less scary version. So went to the Goodwill and Salvation Army … Read more
My four year old son is a big fan of science experiments and discovery, but unfortunately, there aren’t very many “mad scientist” costumes out there for younger kids. SO…I decided to take matters into my own hands. I went to Goodwill (oh how I love that place) and found a boy’s white shirt a few … Read more
My 5 year old son is a train fanatic. He watches a lot of train videos and in one of the videos he saw a Burlington Northern diesel train and kept asking for it for months. The train he wanted was a few hundred dollars so when he said he wanted to be a train … Read more
I’m from Brazil, so here we don’t have halloween. But we have those costumes parties and I was tired of those typical costumes like cop, nurse, and others. One day I was watching the original Alice on Wonderland and I always loved the Cheshire cat and his face and I already had a pink dress, so I … Read more
My husband Arsenio made these awesome Cranky the Crane and Diesel 10 character costumes for himself and our son, Egon, from scratch by sculpting cardboard. Egon’s a huge Thomas fan, so these two grumpy characters were a natural choice for Halloween costumes! We both had an awesome time making them – him shaping the bodies, … Read more
Emilia, age 2 chose Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz as her Halloween costume. Pulling her in a wagon was the perfect set up for her house prop. It’s just as if we were standing in Munchkin Land where the house landed on the witch, getting ready for the great journey to Oz. Dorothy and … Read more
This year I went as Awesom-O from South Park. I went in a group with about 10 other people including the 4 main characters, Towelie, Mr. Hanky, Kyle’s mom, and Mr. Garrison. I work at a Nursing Home and have access to adult incontinence brief boxes. I tore down the boxes and reconstructed the boxes … Read more
I really love and enjoy making my own costume of Halloween for my children. But this Ninjago Minifigure Costume is one of my favorite but the longest and hardest one that I made. First I took a carton box and a little one for the legs and a plastic bowl for the head. After that I … Read more
As with most schools today students can not dress up to celebrate Halloween. My son’s school offers “Dress like a book character day” for the kids to celebrate “Fall Festival day.” The rules are that they can’t be super heroes or princesses and they have to bring the book of their costume to school with … Read more