Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
For my daughters first Halloween, she was to little to walk. She was about 8 months old. I figured… I needed an idea that I could build around her stroller. A few boxes later, a lot of hot glue, and borrowed stuffed animals… I had a claw machine. I used the boxes to build it, … Read more
My Jolly Green Giant costume has leaves that are actually glued to my hair and I’m painted green with green food coloring. So far people seem to really love this costume. It’s fun to do and it’s easy to do and I like doing it . Literally all I did was take apart a fake … Read more
My friends and I decided to do a Johnny Depp theme for a comic con we all attended. We ended up with Cry Baby, Sweeney Todd, Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands and the Mad Hatter. For Sweeney Todd we found a shirt, vest and pants at Goodwill. For the apron I sewed together an apron and used some … Read more
I absolutely LOVE Halloween and enjoy making my own costumes every year! This year was no exception and I won first place at a costume contest! I don’t know if it was my costume, tongue, or karaoke performance (I sang “Beth”) that won the crowd over, but it was so much fun and truly an … Read more
We love to cook and bake so the idea came to make a “bloody” dinner. In the picture is my 3 kids and I. We try to recycle things we had at home: old utility cart, blanket, red paint and chef jacket from uncle Mike. It took us 2 weekends to paint the fabrics, glue the … Read more
Our 4th daughter left for college this year, so our “empty nest” was the inspiration behind our Halloween costume. We decided to dress up as chickens whose chicks “flew the coop”. All of our daughters are in college right now so in the cracked eggs (paper mached balloons using flour, water and salt and scrap … Read more
My name is Kyle and I have a special little gift of being able to grow out my own Bob Ross inspired Fro! I’ve been growing out my hair for exactly 12 months – that’s right folks measures 9 inches tall and all natural! I found out I had this gift only 6 years ago … Read more
Here’s A costume you can wear in public spaces that require a face covering. Ouija wear a mask! This idea came from wanting to change a face mask into a full costume. The hand itself was purchased but secured to a headband via a spring for movement. The ouija piece was a white plastic in … Read more
I am wearing a suit tarnished with fire (appropriately), clay, and paint. The face was done with prosthetics, glue, and face paint. I did it for a small local party and it was truly remarkable to be taking pictures with people, being sure they got my bad side. I’ve always had an affinity for special … Read more
So, I’m a Halloween baby. In 2014, I went to the party at Disneyland on Halloween night. I wore my birthday pin and my Evil Queen costume – the first costume I made almost completely by hand and had so many people telling me “happy birthday!” The best part was meeting the characters, especially since … Read more
This trophy costume is one of the easiest costumes we have done. We already had everything since my son has played sport’s. We went with baseball trophy. We used an old uniform, spray painted it gold. For his hands and face we purchased some gold face paint Amazon for less than $10 bucks. The base … Read more
These are our twin boys. Rowdy, active, typical boys. They are always wrestling with each out and since my husband and I are children of the 80s and 90s, what better costume for our boys. We watched some old school WWF WrestleManias with them and they picked to be Hulk and Macho Man for Halloween … Read more