Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
Our Scott and Kourtney costume was the simplest and cheapest costume we have ever done. For Scott we used already on hand clothes (yes, the red pants we already part of his wardrobe). We threw a ridiculously, hideous wig on him (5 bucks), some aviators and of course…an over the top cheesy grin. For Kourtney, … Read more
These double header Halloween costumes were not too hard to make. We made a T frame out of PVC pipe. Wrapped the frame in newspaper to make the clothes fuller. This was then taped into a backpack that we put on. For the one costume we went to the thrift store for 4X shirt, found a … Read more
My hubby and I were invited to a Halloween party and we wanted to go as a couple, without spending much money, and we wanted something that would be comfortable to wear for an evening….so after hours of perusing websites, we decided upon a perfect couple Halloween costume: Mary Poppins and Bert. Mary Poppins was … Read more
After several years of spending $100’s of dollars on one-time use Halloween costumes, I decided to get more original and make my own this year. The idea of being a Redbull energy drink came to me after consuming quite a few this past month to stay awake! Haha. First I purchased a sexy silver dress. … Read more
My friend Ben wanted a Hippo Halloween costume, so I whipped up the most ridiculous, haggard hippo costume you’ve ever laid eyes on. I don’t have a sewing machine, so I hand sewed this bad boy in between watching Modern Family reruns, checking Facebook, and kind of reviewing for midterms, so needless to say it’s … Read more
This sexy Sheriff costume started as a sheriff costume for a walking dead party. I decided to turn it into a sexy version for a club party. I bought the shirt and shorts from the thrift store. The shirt fortunately was a men old military shirt. I bought brown ribbon and gold ribbon from Walmart … Read more
This is my Chef Boyardee costume, it was pretty easy to make. I already had the chefs and just printed the logo and stapled it to the hat. I bought 4 large piece of red poster board and used staples and red tape to make the can and printed a large logo and taped it … Read more
This Human Pinata costume was fairly easy to make, just time consuming, I used scrubs with pockets in pants and on shirt to hold candy and with the shake of a leg it will fall out. I used the glue gun to attach the cut up strips of material that I fringed. The head is made out … Read more
I really wanted to be some sort of character from my childhood favorite movies, video games, etc. I decided on a sexy Buzz Lightyear Halloween Costume, even though I didn’t have a Woody (though it didn’t even matter). There was no way I was going to buy a $60+ costume and I knew I could … Read more
This was the best homemade Jager Bomb couple Halloween costume ever. I used a blue dress and hot glued silver fabric and the Red Bull letters, moon, and bulls out of felt. Pop tab hat with cardboard and tin foil that was hot glued on a headband. My boyfriend printed the Jagermeister logo on iron … Read more
This is my Butterfly Catcher in disguise costume. I bought the top and bottom. The big butterfly was already on there so I created it from there. Everything else was painted on. For details I added ladybugs and used string cord for cocoons. My daughter made butterfly clothespin with tissue paper, pipe cleaners, markers and paint. … Read more
Every time I am in need of a costume, I try my best to pick something out of the norm, something that makes people say, “Wow! What a great idea!” When I decided to go to the final Harry Potter Premiere, I figured that the majority of the people dressing up would most likely be the main trio, … Read more