Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
In high school, my close friends and I loved making group costumes for all six of us. Our senior year we decided to be unique and be the important roles in the movie Up. We had Kevin, Carl Fredricksen (me), Ellie, the house with balloons, Russell and Dug the talking dog. These Up Cast costumes were … Read more
For Halloween 2010, my husband and I constructed what can only be described as a “contraption”, so it appeared that I was giving birth and he was the baby! We started with a rolling cart used to hold folding chairs and an old funeral home gurney. We put a base across the bottom of the … Read more
The idea for this Flintstones group Halloween costume all started with just Wilma and Betty as us girls had to bar tend the night of the Halloween party at our local bar ~ and it GREW into the whole Flintstones gang including “The Great Gazoo”. I found a sewing pattern for the Flintstones costumes. Not that … Read more
I came up with the idea for a Day of the Dead costume last year when my friend who lives in México and is a photographer did a photo shoot with the Day of the Dead theme. This last-minute Dia de los Muertos couples costume is one of the cheapest costumes I have ever made, … Read more
This home made Wicked Queen from Snow White Halloween costume was a costume that garnered many compliments through out the night, from dinner at The Outback (yes my husband and his friends who did NOT dress up insisted we join them) to the club where someone yanked on my chin while on the dance floor … Read more
This is Ms. Audrey Lee. Her “bunch -o -grapes” costume was created simply (and afford -ably) with green balloons, a bit of artificial/plastic greenery, and safety pins! It was a last-minute easy grapes Halloween costume. I dressed her in a black leotard, and dark brown/black denim jeans. Myself and my two sons inflated appx. 40 … Read more
I have been wanting to be Beetlejuice for years now but could never find a suit that was similar enough to his! So this year,I decided to make my own Beetlejuice Halloween Costume! It was a lot easier than I thought, I found a black blazer from the thrift store for $1.99 and used duck … Read more
Road: I bought a cute black skirt and shirt and stuck reflecting tape down the middle for the street lines. I bought led lights from the dollar store for the headlights that already had sticky tape on the back (bring double sided tape for back-up) and for the sign I just printed up a deer … Read more
I had a blast this Halloween, rocking the light up Jeopardy board on Friday night and this awesome boat Halloween costume on Saturday! I originally started with just the hat and jacket, and wanted to make it more awesome. I thought of the boat idea, which turned into light up boat, and finally adding Andy … Read more
This is the first Halloween that my boyfriend and I spent together. A few days before the Halloween event, I was freaking out that we didn’t have a definite costume idea and I thought we would not end up with one. We went to Michael’s the night before of the event and my boyfriend was … Read more
We always go all out for our Trunk or Treat Halloween party at church. This year we decided on doing the trunk as Cinderella’s Pumpkin Coach. I thought of doing this half and half Cinderella (before and after the Godmother) homemade costume 3 days before the party!! I was very lucky in my thrift finds on … Read more
We had a great time making this Price Is Right Costume. We got corrugated board and spray painted them green. Then we vinyled all the letter designs. Tied a string through it to hang. We also made the shirts. The fronts says “I $ Plinko” and the backs say “Spay and Neuter your Pets”. We … Read more