Halloween is fast approaching and you have no costume. Sound familiar? Some of the most creative people are major procrastinators. Okay, we may have made that up. But we can definitely relate. Maybe a little too well. Lucky for us, this section has over 700 pictures of homemade costumes and how-to’s to create your own fabulous DIY costume.
Best of all, last minute costumes usually mean using materials you have around. This translates into saving money! So you can have cool homemade costumes that are made super quickly and inexpensively.
Looking for something funny? Check out the lost dog and cat costumes here. Feeling nostalgic? Using just a bucket, a bandage and a friend, you can dress up as Jack and Jill. Handy with makeup? Try a Day Of The Dead or a pop art costume. Always aspired to be a Mr. October? Now you can be!
In addition, you will see classic costumes like nerds, vampires, skeletons and movie and television characters. With hundreds of images to inspire you, what are you waiting for?
Making the Words E-Bowl-La Teletubbies Costume: For this E-Bowl-La costume I took plastic bowls and wrote Es on them using a Sharpie marker. I glued lace straps to the bowls so I could wear them. I wrapped wire in lace and bent it into the shape of a bolt like La’s antennae and glued that to … Read more
Halloween is my jam, but this year I was feeling under the weather so I thought I would skip out on Halloween. I was wrong! Halloween is still my jam, and I decided that the night before Halloween. Usually I take a whole month to prepare my costume. I decided to run with an Effie … Read more
We had such fun this year making this e-bowl-la and hazmat costume! Everyone loved this idea. We thought since sad stories were all over the news, why not lighten the mood and give others a laugh at a bad situation, right? Well we did just that! The set of costumes were about $85.00 but you could … Read more
This year we created a grand champion chicken costume for our toddler for Halloween. We have joined the sustainable living bandwagon and living in the heart of Dallas, Texas it was a challenge to introduce our love for chickens. Neighbors would drive-by so slowly and walk down the alley just to get a glance into … Read more
Walking through the local thrift store, I saw this beautiful sequined dress that I decided was calling my name. At the time, I had no idea what it would be, but I knew it needed to come home with me. My friends and I spent a lot of time guessing whether it was a dance … Read more
I saw a picture of Rosie depicted with Veteran’s Day coming up. The red bandanna caught my eye and I thought a Rosie the Riveter costume would be a perfect outfit to put together. All it took to put this costume together was a simple blue work shirt, a red bandanna, and some red lipstick. That’s … Read more
The would-be (if I ever had the time or money) cos-player in me approached this with a sense of… well let’s be honest, I put it off till the last possible second so that I had no choice but to approach with the sense of I gotta get this done!. My boyfriend is a big … Read more
Every year I normally create costumes for my kids. This year, I decided that our toddler would be a prefect granny! She’s short, she repeats herself (a lot), she’s incredibly nosy, and we typically wait around for her to complete any task – especially getting in and out of the car, so, she has the … Read more
Twas the night before Halloween When all through the house Not a creature was stirring Not even a mouse… Well, okay. It really was the night before Halloween, when I thought to myself, “This is my baby’s first Halloween. Must. Have. Baby. in Overload Cuteness Mode.” I was wearing an orange headband at the moment … Read more
This costume was all last minute! I rushed over to the second hand store and found and old baggy nightgown in the women’s department, then sprinted back home to start my masterpiece! First I changed the length! Then fixed the size and altered the bust! Added some elastic inside the waist line so it looked … Read more
This year, I didn’t have the time to start weeks ahead to attempt an elaborate and detailed costume. With only three days until Halloween, I had to think of something that would be easy to pull off, but would still stand out. Something simple yet better than putting a bed sheet over my head and … Read more
Love this movie , went to my local thrift store found a yellow jacket and yellow pants, had to strip the Jacket of its color (mustard yellow) and redye the Jacket to match the pants , then took some black fabric markers/sharpies to make lines about 1-1/2 inchs wide down the jacket/pants , purchased a … Read more