For you, making a homemade Halloween costume is not an option, it’s a necessity. You are not afraid of a challenge and you are ready to dig in and do the hard work. Committing to this level of crafting is not hard for you, but you want to make sure that the finished product will be worth it. In that case, we invite you to browse through this unparalleled gallery of photos and Halloween costume how-to’s.
Here you will find people who have googled, YouTubed and scoured the depths of the internet so that you don’t have to! Whether constructed by a sewing machine or a hot glue gun, the resulting Halloween costumes here will astound you!
You will see a movie quality Spiderman suit, a Prince jacket with unbelievable details and Transformers costumes that actually transform!
Get inspired and then get started. Don’t forget to take pictures along the way so that you can share your creativity with us! We look forward to seeing them.
This is my witch costume! I love witches, and have wanted to do a fun spin on it for a while. So I put together an outfit with a very fluffy white skirt (plus two petticoats! There’s almost ten layers of ruffles!) and a black vest. (Originally this was a custom corset with coat tails, … Read more
My granddaughter and I wanted to be something cool for Halloween and I wanted to spend some time with her. She was born with out a leg and she thinks she’s different but I explain to her that she can do anything she wants as long as see puts her mind to it heck she … Read more
In 2019, I saw a viral Oogie Boogie gown and completely fell in love with the idea as Oogie Boogie is my favorite Nightmare Before Christmas character! I decided that for my 2020 costume, I would do the dress with my own design and spin on it. Towards the end of August, I gathered all … Read more
Inspired by the Kit-Cat Klocks of the 1940s and 1950s, this year we wanted to create a costume that would be iconic but not necessarily pop-culture related. So my idea was to create a costume based on an Americana figure, the Kit-Cat Klock. I especially liked the moving eyes and tail and wanted that to … Read more
Honestly, this homemade costume was pretty difficult to make. My mind is creative, but my body and skills just can’t keep up. I had no pattern, but there are plenty of helpful sites out there that gave me some ideas. So I got started on my Ursula costume. It was definitely trial and error. It was … Read more
Ursula is my favorite Disney villain of all time and I wanted to embody her spirit in my own way this Halloween. Ursula and I have similar figures and (sometimes) personalities so it was only right to dress up as her. Until recently, I never knew how to sew and eventually taught myself enough to … Read more
This is a 10 foot bumblebee transformer costume that took me about one and a half years to finish. I was inspired by the movie ” Transformers The Last Knight”. I wanted to make sure it looked movie like and not just a regular size costume. I first had to download images of the actual … Read more
Our son Noah is 3 ½ and has Acute Flaccid Myelitis and this was his first Halloween using his wheelchair. Noah very much wants to be a firefighter when he grows up and my wife and I fully support him in that goal. Noah does intensive physical therapy 3 times a week to regain his … Read more
Years ago, I saw the film Pan’s Labyrinth for the first time. Haunted and inspired by the ageless, withered, beautiful faun on the screen, I soon developed the desire to create my own glassy-eyed, cloven-hooved forest spirit. Dozens and dozens of the designs in my head gave themselves to my sketchbooks. Months, a year, close … Read more
For my homemade Groot costume, I used pipe insulation tubs for the body and gym mat flooring that I carved with a hot knife for the chest pieces. I used over 140 full size glue sticks to attach the pipe insulation tubes. I soaked tissue paper in white glue and applied to the tubes for … Read more
So every year I love that 1 day! World book day!!! As a T.A I love to encourage and inspire children always. This year for world book day I decided on Jadis the White Witch from Narnia costume.Not an easy look but nothings impossible!!! So I get planning probably a year before as I want … Read more
Movie monsters of the 1980’s and 90’s have been a huge influence on my personal artwork, and I wanted to make something BIG that I could use for both Halloween and Comic Con. The Alien Queen, from “Aliens 2,” is savage and frightening, but also had a lot of potential to be elegant. When I … Read more