Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
As a single mom with very little income there wasn’t much I could afford to buy. However, I wanted my son (less than a year old) to interact with other children for Easter so when I saw the local theater was hosting a holiday party for the little ones for a fiver I thought we … Read more
My mom and I made this Nyan cat costume for Halloween 2011. I was kind of addicted to listening to Nyan Cat so I wanted to dress up like Nyan Cat. The way we did it was we found an old white shirt. We also used some old foam and some tan fabric as well … Read more
I am a college student, so I am broke and didn’t have much money for a costume this year. This Ke$ha costume was so simple and cheap. All I had to buy was glitter. For the outfit, I just wore shorts and “stockings ripped all up the sides” with a black bandeau top that I borrowed … Read more
I was searching for an awesome costume idea. I came across a struck by lightning costume on a website (no picture included). I started thinking how to do it and my idea won my work Halloween costume contest. I took a pair of jeans and a button up shirt and burned holes all over with … Read more
Hi there, I was so made up with how this Marge Simpson Costume turned out and it went down a storm at the fancy dress party I went to. So here’s a little bit about how I put the costume together…. first I purchased a Zentai second skin suit in yellow. Not the most practical … Read more
My son is 9 months old and each piece of this Baby Harry Potter Costume had to be made by hand. I started with the glasses – because of his size, I wire wrapped them by hand. This allowed me to control the measurements and ensure that they fit correctly, as well as make adjustments. The … Read more
This Lobster Dinner family costume was very simple to make and got lots of laughs. We dressed up our 10-month old baby as a lobster. The base of the costume for her is a pair of red pajamas. I used foam paper to make crustacean claws and stripes across her belly – just used tape to … Read more
This Pest Control family costume had many parts to make, but was worth it. First, the central part – the young mouse caught in a trap: The baby is affixed to me using a gray Moby wrap baby carrier that I borrowed from a friend. To make the trap, I took a big rectangle of foam … Read more
I have always loved Nightmare Before Christmas, so I decided to make a Sally Rag doll costume out of scraps of material and a few of my old clothing laying around. The first time I did the makeup I used LOTS of blue liquid eyeshadow and powder eyeshadow. I finally found an awesome makeup at … Read more
We had a sponsored walk at school and the theme was bright colors! What is a better idea than 8 different colored M & M’s! We made the whole M & M costume our selves and it cost around $15 each including the paint! Much cheaper than buying an outfit and much more creative. It … Read more
I wanted to do something different last year so I though of Smurfette costume. It was very easy to make I went and purchased a full body Spandex suit in the color Royal Blue, the dress was just a $3.00 white dress and the shoes $5.00. The hat I bought at a street vender for … Read more
I got the idea of this Mac ‘N Cheese costume from this website. It was all-in-all a pretty easy costume to make. The most time consuming parts were spray painting the toilet paper rolls the orangey color and blowing up/gluing the Mac n Cheese logo onto my ‘cup.’ I also felt this costume was quite inexpensive; … Read more