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?
For the past 3 years I’ve been trying to be Princess Peach for Halloween and this year I finally have blonde in my hair (that you cant really see in the picture that well and I’m dying it again before next weekend ) so it was able to work! I thought it would be really … Read more
First off my boyfriend and I weren’t sure what we wanted to dress as, I was at Party Sty and a costume for Chong caught my eye, it had the wig, bandanna, sideburns, mustache, beard, goatee and glasses in it already and only cost $14.99. Went to the local thrift store and purchased a jean … Read more
My sister and I are big Seahawks fans. So after the recent win and 49er complaints about the noise level, we decided to be 40 whiners fans. I made a Tshirt in 49ers colors that said “forty whiners fan.” It was super cheap. Got it at Wet Seal, 5 shirts for $20. I used Tshirt … Read more
For this costume it defiantly took an imagination and several trips to Walmart! To start it off we purchased fuzzy blankets because Walmart didn’t have any fuzzy material. We then purchased some huge t-shirts and some leggings and tons of super glue. Once we got home we had our work cut out for us. For … Read more
My son wanted to be a ghost for Halloween. My husband was excited since he thought, hey, super easy-just take a sheet and cut two eye holes. But I did not want to go old-school and risk our son not being able to see clearly while trick or treating, and I knew that he would … Read more
In 2012 I was desperate for a unique and fun costume. I was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest (of course) and let my creative juices flow. At the craft store I purchased a narrow yet long piece of foam board. I then picked up some contact paper in a wood pattern to make it … Read more
We decided to dress him up like Chucky because we thought it would be something simple we could do at home. We went to Wild Adventures Theme Park, they had a special event called Kidoween, thought it would be perfect to dress him up for that. I used a pair of overalls he already had … Read more
We made it really simple and easy. We got gloves shirts hats tights shorts sea shells and elastic. We used make up for the face and it was for school so we were restricted on some things but overall we got plenty of compliments. We had so much fun with it. If we were allowed … Read more
I put my costume on and headed out to the parties. After getting a few confused and dirty smirks, I realized I needed to have people start guessing what my costume was. “Clearly you’re choking the chicken” many people would say and I would laugh and just call them dirty minded individuals. The best of … Read more
Materials used for this Tom Sawyer costume: dress shirt old shorts with white paint metal tin paint bucket and paint brush straw hat wood slats to make a small fence string Directions wear your hat, shirt, shorts make a mini fence and paint it white to look like a mini fence. add string to it … Read more
Lots of fabric, feathers and glitter ! I made the tail using peacocks feather, I used real acrylic paint for my head and face and hot glued a cut up rubber chicken beak onto my face. I went all out and enjoyed every second of it., until it was night time and got cold. I … Read more
LMFAO costumes – so easy! We got the clothes from our local RUE21, the glasses too. A black fro wig. We found an empty box and mounted a hard hat on the inside with a light that wraps around your head. We added cups that we cut holes in so they would light up from … Read more