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.
I wanted to find a costume that not only fit my son’s personality but also someone he liked. He fell in love with Pee Wee Herman the first time I showed him Big Adventure. He started reciting the movie lines and loves to do the the dance which I might add he does very well. … Read more
I am a big fan of the TV show Doctor Who. I wanted to make a costume/cosplay that would get a big reaction at comicon, and so I chose a difficult, but fun, subject: a weeping angel. Weeping angels are beings who have a perfect defense system. When you see them, they turn into stone. … Read more
With his ride-on-truck lying around the house, I wanted to put it to good use and so I started brainstorming ideas like carriage, police car, plane, etc. Plane sounded the coolest even though it meant some more work with initial designing, prototyping for robustness and finally constructing. Items used: Yellow thick gift wrapping paper Velcro … Read more
This tooth fairy costume from Rise of the Guardians took a lot of time to create. We first started out by creating a base for the head piece. We measured her head and used wire to shape the cone-like figure to make it comfortable around her head, and lace to easily glue the feathers on … Read more
My husband and I are both huge Simpsons fans. We have over 500 episodes on our DVR to prove it! One day I was researching couple’s costumes and I saw “Homer and Marge Simpson.” There were lots of different options, but none that were really that spectacular. I decided then and there that we were … Read more
This year I decided to create an old-school Alien costume with a UFO, something that I’ve wanted to do ever since I was a kid. Some sci-fi influences include the Tim Burton film Mars Attacks!, Buck Rodgers, the Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man” and the little green men from Roswell’s Area 51 culture. First off, … Read more
So, when I first started this endeavor, my plan was to look for an already made woodsy costume at Party City and just add fur to the collar. I thought it seemed simple enough. Boy, was I wrong. See, for anyone else, they would’ve just taken one of the costumes and made it look as … Read more
My son, Charlie, really isn’t into movies as his attention wanes dramatically about halfway through. Pixar’s WALL-E was the exception. Between the space setting and wonderfully emotive characters, he was captivated the whole way through. Shortly after, he asked me if he could be WALL-E for Halloween. Now I had seen store bought costumes before, … Read more
We collect movies and movie memorabilia, particularly 80’s movies. Our 6 year-old daughter, Livi, loves most of them too. Her favorite character in the Back to the Future movies is Doc Brown. We decided that this would be the year to make a tribute to the Back to the Future movies, and let Livi pretend … Read more
Where to start… ok 106 hours, 38 Days and The Millennium Falcon was born. I wanted to take my 15 month old Daughter to our local Comic Convention and thought that her wagon would be the best way to take her, it’s very very busy and she is getting big/heavy and I can not carry … Read more
My boyfriend Chad and I are huge Spartacus fans! We were both thinking about how cool those outfits are and what it would be like if we had them. Chad is a bodybuilder and I thought it would look really awesome on him. He is being the main gladiator Spartacus and I am being Spartacus’s … Read more
Supplies for the Lego Superhero Group Costume: Cardboard, Foam, Ramboard, Pvc Pipe, Fiberglass Resin. I measured an actual Lego body and tried to get the dimensions right for an actual kid Lego body. Each Lego body had different dimensions according to how big the kids were. I cut out each body and hot glued the … Read more