Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
My husband was in a beard contest nearing Halloween, so we came up with this Tom Hanks on Castaway and his best friend Wilson the volleyball. Tom Hanks as Castaway costume is really easy, raggy clothes, long beard and hair (he used a wig for the hair, but the beard, all natural). Cut the toes … Read more
Last Halloween my boyfriend and I decided to go as cops and robbers for Halloween, but with a twist! Instead of normal cops and robbers, we were Transformers! I went as the robber and a black four door and he went as the SWAT member with a SWAT van. We started by getting a ton … Read more
I was used to my son who wanted to be Thomas the Train or an army guy every year. So, when I had a daughter, I wanted to be creative and go all out before she could make her own decisions. I wasn’t into the girly girl costumes. When a friend told me that she … Read more
It all started out when I was having the most difficult time deciding what to be for Halloween. I always go for homemade costumes, and I was discussing with a friend last minute about how I was stumped. She told me to go through what I’d already been, so I said, well, I’ve been a … Read more
Every year the company that I work with has a Halloween Event in which people bring their children to “Trick or Treat” around the cubicles. Because two of my friends at work commented that I sounded like Pikachu when I sneezed (they can hear my high pitched sneezes over their cubicles), I decided that it … Read more
I started this Spooky Dia de los Muertos couple costume with a men’s plain brown jacket and added gold spider material to the lapel and pockets and the jacket and the entire front of the vest underneath. The black hat has a brown and gold spider ribbon on it and brown flowers added to the side. … Read more
We went as cast members from Saturday night live. The Mary Catherine Gallagher and Chippendale Dancer costumes are homemade. Shopping thrift stores for the Mary costume, craft store to get the patch for the vest. Chippendale dancer shirts were purchased at Hobby Lobby as “tuxedo shirts”, cutting the sleeves off but leaving the cuffs is … Read more
My friend and I came up with the ingenious idea to make a creative homemade Christmas Tree and Present couple costume. Best part is they were ridiculously cheap. Everything we got was from the thrift store and it was all done in 1 day. Firstly the Xmas tree was a ton of fun to put … Read more
I got the idea for this easy homemade Frida Kahlo Halloween costume visiting a museum, and it actually turned out to be quite easy to put together. I already had a Mexican/Sante Fe print skirt that I had purchased from Urban Outfitters and a peasant blouse. The beads came from travels to Brazil, but I’m … Read more
I started this great homemade costume idea by taking an old white dress shirt that I had and took a box cutter to it. I also cut out bullet size holes to make it look like I had been shot. To make it more authentic I burned the “bullet holes”. I added tones of fake … Read more
To come up with an original costume is becoming more and more challenging every year. I have been everything from Peggy Bundy to a lady bug. I have always been very sexy, but this year I decided, let’s step out of the box and go for gold. I chose to be “Lady Gaga’s alter ego … Read more
This jelly beans costume is a last minute create your own costume for my teen daughter. She helped me blow up the balloonushered colored two poster boards with markers, then taped each balloon to the poster board and we had two clear rain ponchos that we used for each poster board filled with balloons. I … Read more