There’s a more than a week to go until Halloween and you need costume ideas! Rest assured, you have come to the right place. The costumes in this section will amaze you. Even more so when you realize they are all homemade and constructed in less than a month.
Perhaps you are looking for a family group costume. Check out the Beetlejuice family or the Flinstones family (you won’t believe the car they created).
Maybe you’re going for a stand-alone homemade costume? Check out the peacocks, LEGO people and superheros. In addition you will find Cleopatra, Jack Skellington and ET. The best part is, there are instructions on how to design and put together these incredibly realistic costumes.
If you are really stuck for DIY costume ideas, you should probably turn to your favorite food! Learn how to make slurpees, burgers, funnel cakes and churros.
Have fun browsing through this section. Let your creativity wander over the pages and please share your homemade creation with us here!
Holy schnikes, Batman, it’s Halloween! I LOVE BATMAN! And I love Halloween! So on one Halloween decided that for next Halloween there would be no better costume than to represent my favorite of the femme fatal of Gotham City, Pamela Isley, otherwise known as the seductive villain, Poison Ivy: a lover, not a fighter. Many … Read more
After celebrating their 5th B-day with a Minion themed movie night party, it seemed only natural that my twin boys should be Minions for Halloween. After combing through Pinterest to get ideas, I came up with my own version of the Despicable Me 2 Minions. The fireman or “Bee-do Minion ” and the “two-in-one half … Read more
This year my son picked “Hicup” and “Toothless” from the dreamworks movie “How to Train your Dragon”. This one was a doozie. We worked the body again with foam board, sanding and sculpting the lines We made a large square block of foam board from glueing sheets together and forming a square. We sculpted the … Read more
When my girlfriend and I decided to dress up for Halloween this year, we definitely wanted to make our costumes ourselves. We figured we wanted to do something cute and simple but we wanted to make sure we looked good. Adam and Eve was one of our first choices and we stuck with it. Little … Read more
I pretty much did this last minute. I begged my son to pick a costume but he was adamant about NOT participating in trick or treating this year, or dressing up (he is 6 years old!). So when he finally said he wanted to be Lord Garmadon from Ninjago (Lego), I just knew i had … Read more
For Marge- I stumbled upon the perfect color green dress, which was unfortunately about 4 sizes too small. I bought it anyway and opened up the seams and added strips of green fabric down both sides of the dress, creating a perfect fit! Next I found a red pearl (fake obviously!) necklace and yellow tights. … Read more
Codex, a character from the web series The Guild was initially purchased as a licensed “bagged ” costume but was of such low quality that I couldn’t bear to wear it. So I deconstructed the entire thing, threw away virtually every piece of decoration and notions, and rebuilt it using the white material from the … Read more
My husband and I are into karaoke. He was singing the song Fever, and one line of the song was “chicks were born to give you fever,” so I thought of making a chick costume. I made him a chick magnet costume out of styrofoam, and I glued feathers to to ends. His song was … Read more
My kids and I stumbled upon a picture of thing one and thing two Halloween costumes when I was pregnant and decided to be a thing family for Halloween with the kids being thing 1, 2 & 3. We used blue temporary hair spray to make our hair blue, I made matching tutus for my … Read more
This was a fun costume to make , although I couldn’t find a wedding dress to ffit the bride so I had to make it myself. i started off with buying a blowup doll, and making a wedding dress, bridal bouquet , vail and all. I had to make the bottom of the dress to … Read more
I’ve always loved Marvin the Martian from Loony Toons and wanted to give it a try. For the base outfit I wore white shoes, red tight pants, red corset, red long gloves with cartoon white gloves on top. The skirt is a yellow tutu with green felt cutout sewn on top. The head is made … Read more
This was a CHALLENGING costume! Ruby Rhod from the movie The Fifth Element. This costume was a doozy! The jumpsuit I made with lepoard printed spandex. I had no pattern so I made the pieces up off the top of my head. It has snap closures which were hand sewn on. The color is made … Read more