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?
We got invited to a Halloween party an hour before we needed to be there and as usual did not have costumes prepared! Heather decided to go as a black cat. She converted her lion ears from the previous year’s Cowardly Lioness costume into cat ears. She did so by safety pinning them near the … Read more
I decided to throw a Halloween party for the group of kids my husband and I teach on Sunday mornings. I wanted to dress up for the party and make it as fun as I could for the kids. One night, I was going over my costume ideas with my husband. One of those ideas … Read more
My dad, who is a retired artist, loves to go all out for Halloween and create one-of-a-kind Halloween costumes. I told him I wanted to be an emoji for Halloween (he still has no clue what an emoji is) and build me this heart eyes emoji costume out of cardboard and paper. He used an … Read more
This costume started as a totally different idea, so this is how it ended like it is. It all started with a local contest in which kids participate by age group and there is also a category for dogs (super cute!), for that purpose, we decided to made a homemade costume, which initially was though … Read more
My sister came up with the idea of the Flintstone while flipping through costume ideas because she had two kids to think of. This is a photo of my daughter and my son as Fred and Wilma Flintstone. There is no sewing done with these costumes, just glue safety pin and the fabric. My daughters … Read more
Well, this Halloween, I wasn’t thinking of wearing a costume at all. You see, in my country, we don’t really celebrate Halloween the way other countries do. We just simply have small horror booths and that’s all– a bit of Halloween costume fun for the kids at the mall but nothing much for the teens … Read more
We had been planning the costume for months, but waited until the very last minute to throw it together. So the day of the party we finally went shopping. It took lots of sifting through nightgowns, dresses, wigs, shoes, etc to find exactly what we wanted- but we couldn’t have been happier with the way … Read more
We couldn’t decide on a costume until the week of Halloween for our daughters first costume, with such little time we could either do something generic or make something ourselves. So we decided to make our own. Babies in a lot of ways are like elderly and I couldn’t think of anything cuter, especially since … Read more
I have never been one to buy a costume for Halloween so when it came to dressing up my son for his first Halloween, a store bought costume wasn’t going to cut it either. All I knew is that it needed it to be comfy and warm for my 9 month old to tolerate it. … Read more
I decided to be a wind-up doll this year. I don’t have much inspiration because it was my sister’s idea (kudos). I am so happy with how it turned out! I needed to find a dress that would work, or a long skirt and a top. Then I realized that I had everything I needed … Read more
We had some play glasses that my son Briton, three years old at the time, would wear around the house and every time he put them on, we thought he looked like a mini-Andy Warhol! So I thought “what a cool and funny idea for a costume!” This is How I Created this Mini Toddler … Read more
We wanted to do something fun and different. We also wanted to be comfortable. We were in college so on a budget and found these white painter pants at Home Depot and white undershirts at Target. We got fabric scraps to make the letters. We had so much fun but it was not easy sticking … Read more