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?
This Original last-minute costume idea took literally five minutes to make and another five minutes for the makeup application. I worked the entire day before my Halloween party, and also attended my little sister’s middle school musical that night. Of course I had been brainstorming costume ideas but none had had that essential spark until I … Read more
This last-minute Chuckie Finster costume was really easy to make! I bought a plain blue t-shirt from Walmart as well as yellow, red, and lime green felt. I used the felt to create the saturn, sleeve/neck rims, and squiggles on the shorts. The shorts are soffes which I had already, but easily purchasable. I bought … Read more
I was due in December 2010, and our friends have a Halloween party every year. When I was pregnant, I was all belly and I thought if I could somehow make my belly a basketball, I could make the rest of the basketball player costume from items around the house. I cut the belly out … Read more
Collecting the clothes fir this original WWII Comic Book Pop Art couple costume was the hardest part of this endeavor…at least for me. The uniform I am wearing is a 1930s, pre-WWII Army Air Corp officers uniform, which isn’t easy to find because there aren’t a lot of the components left around. The dots on … Read more
Gothic Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland, and Cheshire Cat. We ended up having most of this in our closets between the three of us. Cat ears and cat tutu were bought, everything else was a last minute piece together between us three girls. Hair was ratted and makeup overdone, and fishnets all around. We wanted … Read more
Originally, we didn’t have a Halloween costume for my nephew. We were headed to Trunk Or Treat at our church and had to quickly pull something together. We had this easy, last-minute Toddler costume idea: Hobo. Everyone loved it! People were stopping to take pictures of/with him and we were the talk of the town. … Read more
I decided to dress my baby up for Halloween last minute. We had most of the items to make this baby Scarecrow costume, so it probably cost less than $5. It’s pretty self-explanatory, but to create this costume, you need a flannel shirt, overalls, hat, tape, raffia, red lipstick, and a black eyeliner pencil. I … Read more
I was used to my son who wanted to be Thomas the Train or an army guy every year. So, when I had a daughter, I wanted to be creative and go all out before she could make her own decisions. I wasn’t into the girly girl costumes. When a friend told me that she … Read more
It all started out when I was having the most difficult time deciding what to be for Halloween. I always go for homemade costumes, and I was discussing with a friend last minute about how I was stumped. She told me to go through what I’d already been, so I said, well, I’ve been a … Read more
My friend and I came up with the ingenious idea to make a creative homemade Christmas Tree and Present couple costume. Best part is they were ridiculously cheap. Everything we got was from the thrift store and it was all done in 1 day. Firstly the Xmas tree was a ton of fun to put … Read more
This jelly beans costume is a last minute create your own costume for my teen daughter. She helped me blow up the balloonushered colored two poster boards with markers, then taped each balloon to the poster board and we had two clear rain ponchos that we used for each poster board filled with balloons. I … Read more
The Three Blind Minnie Mice group costume idea was for a work costume contest. We wanted to come up with something different and somehow thought of doing that. I guess we came up with it collaboratively talking back and forth. We are a strange bunch! We didn’t end up winning, but still it was different! … Read more