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?
I made this Cabbage Patch baby costume with a box, wrapping paper, stickers, and brown yarn. I cut the box out and wrapped it with green and yellow wrapping paper with stickers on it. Took brown yarn and crocheted a brown hat then took the yarn and made two pigtails on the hat and made … Read more
She’s fierce, an original songwriter artist. a Rockstar! Feisty feline but nice. Sweet but you must think twice. She has a heart of literate gold. A passion for puzzles. Riddles, fill in the blanks and the puzzle game “Double Trouble. May I formally introduce. Cynthia The Rock-Star Puzzle Cat Goddess! Cynthia originated from Cairo Egypt. … Read more
We went as oompa loompas because we are so short. We work at a community college that hosted a trick or treat night for the community grade school kids. Our trick or treat night was hosted by both college staff and students. Kids got to walk through an insane asylum and go through a haunted … Read more
As a bartender you never really have a set schedule, so when my boss called me two days before Halloween and asked me to dress in a Ninja Turtle costume to match the theme of the bar, I threw what I had together! I put a green bra on top of a yellow bra. I … Read more
This Katy Perry costume was one my daughter and I made for the Katy Perry Prismatic concert. It was a recreation of one of Katy’s performance outfits. My daughter felt like a little celebrity with all the ooh’s and ahhh’s and attention she was getting. First we took a trip to our local Hobby Lobby … Read more
These Sugar Skulls costumes were a super last minute costume choice for my friend and I. We were actually going to a costume party that night, and the costumes we ordered online never came in the mail. To make the costumes… We went to the costume store and bought face makeup. Black, pink, and white … Read more
I had been out scuba diving all day and had two hours to put together a costume. Got inspiration from a hair band sitting on my dresser, realized it looked like the star trek visor that Geordi La Forge wore. Also had a set of blue led glasses bought from a street fair about a … Read more
I couldn’t decide what to be for Halloween last year. I didn’t feel like buying a costume, but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money making one either. Just as I was thinking about that, I noticed my roommate was munching on grapes. That’s when the light bulb when off… a Fruit of … Read more
This bubble bath family costume was such an easy group outfit to make! I got some sharpies and wrote “SOAP” on one of my husbands white t-shirts. The most challenging part of all this was finding white balloons, I safety pinned each balloon to the outfit I was wearing. We went to Michael’s and got … Read more
I love Halloween and getting creative with my kids costumes. This year we had lots of fun creating Cruella Deville and her dalmations costumes. I found the cape at Goodwill for $4 and once I saw it I knew we had to do a Cruella Deville theme! Cruella Deville Costume My daughter was Cruella Deville, so … Read more
This teacher with her desk costume was a last minute one (made the night before the big day). My daughter and I had been going around and around since August about what she would be. The neighbor girl stole her previous idea and I insisted on something clever and not purchased. She had said she … Read more
We decided to make my 9 year old daughter an Old Lady for Halloween this year. First we went to the local Thrift Store and got her an ugly sweater, slacks, and fanny pack all for .93 cents . Then we went to my grandma’s house to borrow a few things such as her Velcro … Read more