Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
Our house had recently burned and we were in the process of redoing everything so we didn’t have any extra money. This was a box from our remodeling and a few building materials. My big idea was to make our son an outhouse for Halloween so I gave my idea to my husband and we … Read more
Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? That question may be impossible but these Chicken and Egg costumes are pretty simple to construct. The chicken is just a shirt or leotard with two white boas attached every few inches. Then I had to die some tights yellow. To make the hat I found a white … Read more
More details about this dress is under “coolest homemade candy princess Halloween costume idea 5″! We used it 2 years ago for her Halloween costume. At the end of this past school year they had a red wagon parade (against drugs). And she had to be someone famous, well since we already had this costume … Read more
The theme I chose for my kids this year was 80’s and who is cooler than Mr. T? First I secured a Mr. T talking key chain on Amazon, from there I re used my son’s Spiderman muscle top from our Super hero Halloween. His regular barber hooked him up with a modern Mohawk and … Read more
My eight year old son wanted a home made costume, he was tired of the same old Ninja and Star Wars costumes. He asked if he could be a Bible character and I was so proud. We decided Noah and his amazing Ark would be perfect, and my wheels started turning. I took two boxes … Read more
I started collecting bottle caps for this project about 3 or 4 months before Halloween. I had no idea what I was going to do. By the time I actually started working on the beer can wench costume I had over a thousand beer caps. I bought a dirndle-esque dress and started going to work. … Read more
My daughter who was 7, always wanted to be something scary for Halloween like her 4 brothers. Being the only girl of the bunch, I wanted her to be something cute and pretty. So we compromised! Everything in this entire scary and not-so-sweet Tooth Fairy costume we already had. I did not purchase ONE THING!! … Read more
This Sundrop Girl Who Hit Town with a Cool Halloween Costume was my costume last year and I’m not entirely sure if I can top the excitement in 2012! Sundrop is a newer soda that tastes sort of like Mountain Dew and their adds introduced this amazingly silly girl dancing throughout public activities, her actions induced … Read more
My son wanted to be something fun for Halloween and he always wants something homemade so we came up with a flyswatter costume where his face was the squished fly. I used white foam core board and cut it in the shape of a flyswatter, cut a hole through the middle and used silver tape … Read more
Honestly, it just came to me in an epiphany. I just thought to myself, “Hey, how cool would it be to just glue candy all over a t-shirt and an old hat and go as ‘The Candy Man?’” So, I went to my local Wal-mart, bought a really cheap long sleeved shirt, and two HUGE … Read more
This was my Flo the Progressive girl costume from last year! I had such a fun time being her. I found the white pants and polo at a thrift store, real cheap. Do you know how hard it is to find white pants?! Then I ordered the apron, buttons, and name tag online, mostly on … Read more
I made my mom this bloody pad and tampons costume in 2009. It all came with a random idea, I think I was on my period. lol 1. I got a Styrofoam (I had left from my sweet 15th that summer) 2. I cut it up in the shape of a pad. 3. I cut … Read more