The love we have for Disney Princess costumes is a tale as old as time. No longer just waiting for their Prince to come, recent Disney Princesses have a much tougher core. Being a princess means people might underestimate you under that sparkly dress costume, but they’ll learn their lesson. We’re looking at you, Hans.
Take your love of Disney Princesses to the next level by creating their outfits as homemade costumes. Store-bought costumes cannot compete with the magic captured in the DIY costumes below. Even if you can’t sew, don’t be discouraged. Learn the tips and tricks for creating a true showstopper for your Halloween costume.
Tailor-made just for you, once you create a DIY costume, you will never go back to buying one. In addition, creating homemade costumes with your family is a true bonding experience – even more than watching Moana of Motusi together.
So, if you think there’s more than this provincial costume life, get inspired here and create your best homemade Halloween costume this year!
I suppose every little girl desires to become a princess once, so.. Snow White it is! I decided to keep this costume very simple; a blouse and a skirt. Mirror, mirror on the wall… inspiration Making the blouse I tailored the blouse without using a pattern (out of my head) using my girl’s measurements, handstitched it, … Read more
Here is one very simple costume. I made this for children’s play at school, but it could be used for Halloween, too. All you need to make are baggy pants, vest and a bel For baggy pants, you should tailor the fabric as shown on photo bellow, twice. Easy. For belt, use one wide piece … Read more
Well being a new mom for the second time, it was harder to get the resources but even harder to feel comfortable going shopping for a costume. Everything on you can find a your local Jo-Ann’s fabric and craft stores. I used green performance fabric for the skirt and tulle for the bottom as well … Read more
Hi my name is Trinity and I am 5 years old. I love the movie Tangled and since I saw it I refuse to cut my hair I want it as long as her hair is. I wanted to be Rapunzel for Halloween this year so we found a cute dance leotard that looked like … Read more
This is how I made my Rapunzel costume for Halloween 2013! This took me a lot of time and effort to make this costume. In April I was so bored because I hadn’t been in a show for a long time and I needed a creative outlet. I decided to buy a sewing machine and … Read more
I was eight years-old when the Little Mermaid was first released in 1998, and ever since, I have always wanted to be Ariel. This year, as a 31 year-old woman, I decided was time! In the beginning of October, I spent about 5 hours looking up costumes, but all of the pre-made Ariel costumes looked … Read more
Every year me and my 2 year old daughter dress up togather as a theme Snow White and the evil queen alice / queen of hearts u get the pic… Well this year we was ariel the lil mermaid and ursula my costume was however store bought but my daughters costome homemade yep now I … Read more
My sexy Cinderella!! This costume was time consuming. Took me over a week to do, but it came out great! First, the leotard! I stenciled out an old bathing suit onto blue stretch velvet and then sewed it together. It wasnt covering the boobs (oops!) so I had to cut it across the waistline and … Read more
This costume is 100% made by me. It took me about a week or so to do. The skirt I used a metallic spandex. Then with tulle I did the no-sew tutu method on 2 elastic bands. I then hand sewed those to the bottom of the skirt. After that I draped the green organza … Read more
This Halloween I searched for the perfect costume, but due to my body type just nothing seemed to fit me right or look very flattering. I was really discouraged and did not know what I was going to wear on Halloween. On Tuesday I was at home looking through some old pictures I found one … Read more
I have always wanted to do an elegant costume for Beauty and the Beast. I wanted them to look a little more historical, however, so I did some research on French court fashion from around 1800 and based the designs off of that. For the baby, we wanted to do Chip originally, but couldn’t agree … Read more
Beauty and the Beast has to be one of my ultimate favorite childhood cartoons. I have wanted to be Belle for many years and this year I finally accomplish it! This costume was very easy to make and it got A LOT of attention throughout the night. Firstly, I have to say I had a yellow satin … Read more