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?
Yeah, those are words you should never utter around me. As a kid my mother never “bought” us costumes per say. We always got random items on clearance (ie. My awesome blue glitter wig that I used every year to be an alien, a rock star, one of the Jem’s Holograms etc) . This last Halloween … Read more
This costume cost was less than $40 a person. The first step is to figure out which person is going to be which turtle. The shorts were a quick and cheap find at sports authority. We found multiple green shirt/tank top options at Old Navy (also cheap). Here comes the crafty part! Picked up the … Read more
My two best friends and I decided it would be clever/fun to dress up as the three blind mice! We bought over sized grey t-shirts from the t-shirt factory, cut them, tied the sides, and made them into dresses. We were able to find a “blind as a bat” kit at a Halloween store which included and blind stick … Read more
Halloween 2012! I have always made our family costumes by hand and my husband and I love to dress together for Halloween. This year we decided we really didn’t have anywhere to go to celebrate so we weren’t going to dress. Well then taking my kids to a second hand store to put their costumes … Read more
I made this last-minute Dark Knight Joker costume for my brother a couple years back. Slacks and dress shoes, with a niceish long sleeve button up with the sleeves rolled up. We found a purple tie in dad’s closet. The vest was a bit tricky. We ended up grabbing a bright green tshirt no one ever … Read more
I wanted to do something fun but sexy. I just had a baby a year ago and never really stepped out of my comfort zone. I didn’t have a boyfriend to go as Adam, so I was a single Eve. I guess he was still mad at me for picking the fruit! I liked it … Read more
We found out last minute that we would be going to a Halloween party at a local bar. My boyfriend agreed to dress up but I didnt want to take him too far outside his comfort zone for his first Halloween dress up and so thought who better than DOG! I trimmed a blond wig … Read more
Two Can Keep a Secret if One of Them is Dead If you aren’t familiar with the title, we decided to dress up as the cast from ABC’s hit TV show Pretty Little Liars. We knew we wanted to go as something as a group but we just couldn’t figure out what. Before we knew … Read more
My boyfriend and I do couples costumes every year, this was our first attempt at home-made costumes and well it worked out perfect! We spent about a month deciding what we wanted to do and writing lists of all the stuff we needed, but this Bane and Poison Ivy couple costume was also a last minute project. We … Read more
The hardest part of this last minute Double Bubble Gum costume was the simple-iron on label on the front and back of the shirt (and by the hardest, I mean this outfit was so simple to put together). The rest was very simple. I bought the skirt, shirt, and tank all for under $30. The bracelets … Read more
Possibly the easiest, most laid-back costume I’ve ever done, but I got way too many compliments on it. I walked in to American Apparel looking for an incredible costume or a Naked Troll Doll costume- I ended getting both, but decided to get a back-up. I wore a strapless red leotard and a short blue shirt with … Read more
I wanted to be different from all the superheroes, so I challenged myself and picked Spider man. Nobody ever wears a Spider man costume as a woman because it can never be sexy enough. I thought to myself “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED”. So I went to the mall, had a Spider man logo printed on a guys … Read more