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!
My boys (2 and 4 at the time) are the ultimate Spongebob fans, especially my oldest – Austin. He desperately wanted to be Spongebob for Halloween, so like any working mom, I took to the internet. A million searches later I couldn’t find any pre-made Spongebob costumes for sale (ugh!) so I decided to try … Read more
For this homemade chocolate candy head costume I used a large balloon (the kind that has the elastic band attached that kids like to bop around, works well) for the mold – just make sure it is a very big one. I bought wallpaper paste from the store and employ a lot of daily-journal paper. I cut … Read more
It was the evening of October 12th. As usual, my three buddies and I were discussing potential costume ideas for upcoming area parties and contests. See, we love Halloween. We take this holiday very serious. It is the one time of year when you can be anything you want. However, whatever we do, we want to make sure we’re the … Read more
This Halloween 2013 my boyfriend and I were invited to a white trash themed Halloween party. We knew everyone there would be dressed up alike, overalls, pregnant women with numerous babies, cigarettes, rotten teeth. For the last four years we have dressed up like pirates, think Pirates of the Caribbean. We rent our costumes from … Read more
After having made boy costumes for the past 10 years, I was more than excited to make one for my 7 month old daughter! In trying to think up a costume, I flashed back to memories of things that I loved as a child. After days of pondering, I finally figured it out! A Cabbage … Read more
My husband and I attend a halloween party every year where most of the adults dress up, and usually we try to come up with a cool idea to dress up as a couple. This year we had a really rough time coming up with something awesome, we have done bride and groom zombies (which … Read more
I was brainstorming with friends, and my wife said you should be a port-a-potty, because that is where you spend most of your time anyways. After that, I began constructing the costume! I started with a large refrigerator box, which I painted and used mailbox letters and numbers to add the wording on the sides. … Read more
While watching Iron Man 2 with my wife a few months back. I started thinking how cool it would be to have the Iron Man armor for myself. I mentally slapped myself back to reality not by realizing the suit is scientifically impossible but by thinking “I’m not a Billionaire so it will never happen”. … Read more
My 4 year old daughter decided that she wanted me to be Wonder Woman for Halloween. I decided to make my own costume of Wonder Woman after seeing that the version they had at the Halloween stores were not as exact as the real Wonder Woman. I wanted to look exactly like her. So I … Read more
I made the dress myself for Fiona and Shrek’s vest was specially made for him. Shrek’s vest is made out of fake alligator skin leather. Fiona’s ears are made from crayola clay and glued to the wig that I wore. We love dressing up and make kids days. We travel around to different Halloween parties … Read more
I got the idea to make a freaky bug-like costume out of nowhere. I imagined something of a mix between a queen bee, praying mantis, and humanoid type thing. Basically, I wanted to make something that would freak people out! And of course it had to be huge, ridiculously tall, how would I be a … Read more
Tonight, Kimberly is wearing a beautiful Totum Pole which was hand crafted in her home town of Tacoma, WA. She said earlier that it took her about a week and a half to complete and that she had a blast creating it. She got a 12 inch cardboard tube as the body and 2 inch … Read more