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?
Materials: Red tube dress, or buy red fabric and sew a dress using another dress as a template brown fabric tissues needle & thread cream colored yarn Using a soda can as a stencil, cut 2 circles of brown fabric for every 1 meatball, and sew around the border leaving a small opening for stuffing Crumble … Read more
Creating this Alvin from the Chipmunks outfit took very little effort and it was extremely cheap! The only items I had to purchase were the oversized plain red shirt and the yellow gems. Us girls, one night sat down in front of the TV and got to work. I cut the top off outlining the neck … Read more
Inspiration comes in many forms, but for this costume, it came from a t-shirt. My daughter saw the t-shirt at a local store and decided to be a “vegetarian zombie” for Halloween. The t-shirt reads “Vegetarian zombies eat graaaiinnnss.” In making this costume, a person could take a plain t-shirt and write the simple phrase” … Read more
I planned to make a Rubik’s cube costume way before Halloween, just never got around to it until the day before Halloween hit! I love getting artsy fartsy so whipping up a costume in one day was no problem. I bought different colored construction paper at the dollar store and black duct tape at OSH. … Read more
My 9-year son has been obsessed with ice cream for the past few years now. So of course when I asked him what he wants to be for Halloween he said “ICE CREAM MAN”. He loves ice cream (not that he gets to eat a lot of it) but since making an Ice Cream Truck would be way … Read more
I made this super easy homemade Amy Winehouse Halloween costume for a birthday party. I used clothes I already had and bought the wig at a wig shop. I added an extra wig underneath for height and used like 20 Bobbie pins to make the Buffon around the other piece of hair. I bought fake … Read more
I needed something simple for Halloween (last minute). I didn’t realize I never got a full picture untill the next day. I just wore a long black skirt, lace black top and lace shrug. I painted my entire face white (tube of regular Halloween face paint), then started on my eyes. I used matte blue … Read more
Magic Rabbit in a Hat Costume– a great costume for a last minute theme or Halloween party! What you will need: Black skirt White top Bunny ears What you will make: Magic hat rim: cardboard, black fabric, string or yarn cut a u-shaped rim (in relation to your waist size) then staple two strings of yarn … Read more
I am 11 years old and the reason I chose to be a Gypsy costume for Halloween was because I love all of the jewelry that they wear and when my grandma was over she thought that it was a cute idea. The first thing that we did was go to Goodwill to find a … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday so I usually have my costume idea at least a month in advance. Last year however with work, and life etc.. I found myself two days before Halloween without a work costume for the contest. I decided to go through my closet and garage for some ideas and items I … Read more
The hunters we just got a lot of the pieces at Walmart or borrowed camo clothing from friends. We wore a lot of orange, camo and anything bright you would wear in the woods . We carried little toy guns and plastic knifes. One girl just wore black shorts then cut up a camo tshit and … Read more
This was actually not a Halloween costume when we first did it (although later would be one) but an idea for a Christmas Card. It was two days before Christmas and we realized we did not take a Christmas Family Photo and didn’t send anything out. We usually take standard Holiday photos, red dresses and … Read more