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 year I decided to pay homage to everyone’s favourite Bio-exorcist, Beetlejuice. My goal with any costume I make is to do it differently than anyone else has ever done it before. I decided on the basic idea on the drive home from last year’s Halloween Contest. This costume features a kickable leg, a Sand … Read more
I came up with the idea for this tornado costume after watching the movie “Twister” for the first time with my 6 year old son and he started spinning around pretending he was a tornado. I didn’t have a plan when I started, but the fun part was coming up with different ideas as I … Read more
For the Despicable Me group costume we used contractors cardboard cut into giant toilet paper rolls – exercise ball in the middle with foil over it so we could paper mache domes in the tops – yellow paint, then spackle buckets and country crock containers for the goggles (painted silver). Camping mat for the goggle … Read more
Krank Shaft the Steampunk Engineer with Achimedes the Owl Hello my name is Charles and I’m a Steampunk artist, I have created my own original character. Ever since i was a young boy i loved to make things from model planes to LEGO. Once I heard what Steampunk was, I knew it was me from … Read more
I made this pumpkin patch scarecrow costume for my five year old son Reid Garcia. My husband has a scarecrow costume from a previous year, and he plans to wear it again this year. Reid is so passionate about Halloween that we decided we would all be scarecrows. To create my son’s costume I began … Read more
What goes together better than an old lady and a life alert? Nothing! My boyfriend Parker and I were thinking long and hard about what costume for couples would not be too cliche or predictable. And then we had a brilliant epiphany while watching a life alert commercial, lets be life alert! Watching a life … Read more
Here’s our cool Little Shop of Horrors family costume. The Dentist I started with a barber-style jacket that also mimics old school dentist coats. It’s a white, short sleeve shirt with snaps on the shoulder and neck. It has a mock turtleneck. I topped that with a poly vinyl black barber’s apron. The mask is … Read more
Spiderman has been my inspiration ever since I was a little tyke. I borderline model my morals after him. I exercise to get as close to doing what he can do, and I’ve always wanted an awesome Spiderman costume. Problem is, all the ones I would see online were uber expensive. At the time I … Read more
DIY Costume Inspired by Gal Gadot This Wonder Woman costume is based on the latest Superman vs Batman movie. There is only one picture out showing it so far so I kind of had to make some stuff up! It took me about two months to make this costume! I made the entire top, bracelets and … Read more
The costume that I am submitting is called Wolf Bane. It is a costume that took me 3 months to create. The materials I used to create the costume was cardboard boxes, masking tape, trash bags, glue gun and paint. This is a costume that I basically thought up in my head and decided to … Read more
Out daughter informed us that she wanted to be Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen for Halloween, so naturally I began to browse the options online for costumes. Many of them were poorly crafted and looked nothing like the actual movie’s costumes! I decided that our little ray of sunshine would have nothing less than … Read more
You ever have an idea so good that you don’t have time to write it down you just do it? Well that is what happened to me lol. My daughter originally wanted to be a chess piece then she wanted to be a peacock, and then finally the queen of hearts. Being a stay at … Read more