Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
My son has had the nickname Bamm Bamm since he was born. Both my husband and I are not very big so when my son was born almost nine pounds and remained in the 95% of his age it didn’t take long for him to acquire his nickname. With his adventurous attitude and blond hair … Read more
I am a fan of really original and fun Halloween costumes. This year I had a pretty strict budget and I really had to get the creative juices flowing. I came up with the homemade Mail Order Bride costume idea from a political cartoon I saw of a bride jumping out of a mailbox. I … Read more
This costume has 648 beer caps on it. It includes the hat, earrings, a necklace, an anklet, a purse, a bracelet and of course the shoes shirt and shorts. It took me one month to save all the caps and a lot of parties. I used mostly fabric glue and a hot glue gun to … Read more
I got this idea for the Homemade Cabbage Patch Costume from this web site. I loved Cabbage Patch kids when I was little and still love them. My son was so cute people said he looked like a doll, so I decided to have some fun with him and Halloween. My husband and I made … Read more
I chose to be LeeLoo, the perfect being from the movie Fifth Element. In order to make this Homemade LeeLoo from Fifth Element Costume, I bought a short orange wig with bangs and sprayed some black strips in it because that is how it looked in the movie. Then I cut a regular white tee … Read more
When my friend decided she was going to have a Halloween party about a week before Halloween, I really didn’t want to go out and spend money on a costume. When I came across this site, I saw the other Girls Gone Wild ideas and thought they were cool, especially the red and white CENSORED … Read more
We did this Homemade Cabbage Patch Doll Baby Costume for our first baby and wanted to make one for our second baby too. Our previous entry is the Coolest Cabbage Patch Kid Costume 2. We built it out of wood and painted it by hand, it is 1.75 scale of an original Cabbage Patch Kid … Read more
We are HUGE Simpsons fans and here’s our homemade Maggie Simpson costume. We started off with a basic bunting pattern that was easy to sew and we found the perfect shade of Maggie blue. In the same pattern sheet was a beanie that took a few more attempts but I finally got it, be careful … Read more
I actually got this idea to Make Your Own Girls Gone Wild Costume from this very same site! I saw some pictures of a few girls who had tried the whole girls gone wild idea and I was sold! This was probably the easiest and cheapest costume I’ve ever had and it was a hit … Read more
This homemade bunch of grapes Halloween costume is the easiest and the cheapest costume I have ever made! The best part is it only took about half an hour to put it all together. The shopping list is one purple long sleeve shirt, 50 purple balloons, one pack of safety pins, 2 sheets of green … Read more
After looking through my old childhood dress-up box for Halloween costume inspirations, I found a long black sparkly dress that belonged to my great grandma. I have always been a fan of Barbie, and I thought, “this looks like Barbie’s black dress” and got to work on transforming it into my favorite Barbie. I took … Read more
We did a family theme this year: “The Scooby Doo Crew”. I was the only one with a costume made mostly from home. It was very simple. I had an orange shirt, a red skirt and a pair of brown shoes that I used from my closet. I bought the wig for around $9 and … Read more