Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
Every other little girl wanted to be Elsa last Halloween but my daughter was Elsa’s snow storm. 1. I took a beach hat and cut off the brim. I hot glued lots of light grey, dark grey and white tulle to it and glued then glued different sized snowflakes al over it. I used some fishing line to … Read more
Here’s how I made my Christmas costume – A Tree Angel on a tree! I started with an old flower girl dress that was floor length. Then, turned up the bottom so the skirt was half the length and hand stitched a few spots. I took some thin rope light and hand sewed it to … Read more
My Grand Daughter wanted a Poodle Skirt for Decades Day during Spirit week at school, so the race began! I scoured every hand made poodle skirt video I could find and decided to make it without a pattern (which would have cost me $14.95). At the fabric store I borrowed a pattern to see how much … Read more
Here’s the story behind the Wii Remote cardboard box costume I made for my son. When I was growing up I always imagined how cool it would be to make my children’s Halloween costumes. My Mom made some fantastic costumes for me (although the beautifully painted cardboard butterfly wings did not fare so well in … Read more
This was a last minute costume. While watching TV, a State Farm commercial played. I had no idea what my costume would be, but the clouds did part as soon as I saw Jimmys Mom yell, “Six callers ahead of us, Jimmy!” Boom. Done. I ventured out to Goodwill where I found an ugly old … Read more
My son wanted an illusion costume, so we went with the jet pack! We were so excited to make this, that it is done already for this Halloween! I had seen a picture of something similar, but there were NO instructions. It actually wasn’t too difficult to make once you had the general idea. My son … Read more
My son wanted a classic box robot costume. We had a lot of fun putting this together. After attaching the cardboard boxes, we painted, taped, and glued away. We added bottle caps, print-outs, reflectors, etc. We also added battery operated lights. We used string lights to poke through from the inside. We also used push … Read more
My son proclaimed that he wanted a Willy Wonka costume (the new version) after being on a Wonka movie-watching kick. I gathered bits and pieces for his costume, and put together a close replica. I managed to find a ladies coat at a thrift store that fit the look. We did order the hat, glasses, and … Read more
Here’s my son’s cute baby costume: Raoul Duke from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I put a bucket hat on Wes this past summer and observed that he looked like Hunter S. Thompson (or more accurately, Raoul Duke, I suppose). We were able to piece the costume together fairly easily -khakis, loafers, Hawaiian-print … Read more
Here’s three-year-old Elsa’s Ronda Rousey costume. She loves boxing and took a liking to UFC as well. She loves to watch ‘Wonda Wousey’ fights, and is pretty disappointed that they aren’t typically very long. I used a black leotard and black shorts with an iron-on UFC logo that I had to draw, cut, place and … Read more
I made my clown costume from tying random lengths of tulle to a piece of elastic and tied together for the skirt. The top is a white tank top and paired with suspenders. I found high striped socks for reasonablenams pulled out an old pair of black heels to go with it .
This was a last minute costume I did that cost under $10. I used face paint, eyeliner and a Q-Tip. I first dipped the Q-Tip in the white face paint and put dots all over my face starting from my forehead working downward. I used black face paint and colored in my eyebrows, exaggerating the shape … Read more