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!
Each year our family chooses a theme for Halloween. This was the year of Hogwarts! We made a bunch of school robes. We used black and burgundy sheets to make them while inserting fleece into the middle of the robes to help them stay warm! We used a pattern for Snapes costume, which was made … Read more
Last Halloween, my family and I got invited to a costume party, which was also having a costume contest. I was very excited because I wanted to go as my favorite animal, a sloth. My mother and I went to every single costume store around town looking for fake fur fabric, which was the hardest … Read more
Me and my boyfriend have been dating for four years! We have won the costume composition at our church for 3 years and we didn’t want to lose this year! So we put all we had in this costume it took us about a week of sewing and cutting and blood to finish this super … Read more
I brought a pattern from my local fabric store along with the fabric needed to make my golden gown. It took about a month to complete my dress all up without breaks. As my mum and I were making the dress, we came across a few problems such as fraying but that was quickly fixed … Read more
We made this raving rabbid costume couple of years ago for Halloween. We used a big salad bowl as a mold for the paper-maché head, 2 small glass pots + 2 small decoration balls (= 2 mad eyes), about 3 meters of white fleece, pink material paint and a bit of cardboard (for the ears … Read more
I have always wanted to be a mermaid for Halloween. I could never find a mermaid costume that I liked. They all looked so cheap and cheesy. So, I decided to make one myself. I began making my costume in July. I started with the shoes (I have a bit of a shoe obsession). I … Read more
Well my name is arielle and ive always love the little mermaid and I came across a little girl costume with this skirt and I said well dang I could recreate that and this is what I came up with and it was a winner I wore it to work on halloween and it was … Read more
I thought of this because I watched it as a kid. Everyone knows Peg and Al Buddy! Hardest part was holding that wig on my head all night, it was heavy. I won the costume contest that night, whoo hoo. I made my husband’s shirt and we had to borrow a football, haha. I was … Read more
My daughter wanted to have an Adventure Time themed party, and with her birthday just ten days before Halloween, I made costumes for all of us. Princess Bubblegum’s dress was handmade and had a separate peter pan color with a snap in front. Her hair was cut felt, and her crown was made from stiffened … Read more
“I’m going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for ten minutes!” So last year me and my husband decided that we wanted to dress up and go to a costume party for the first time together but with costumes being so expensive we almost … Read more
We decided to dress up as Princess Peach and Mario Couple Costume characters because my husband and I always joked that since he loved video games that I would think it would be sexy if he dressed up as Mario as opposed to a fireman. Being Mario he needed to have his lovely lady too!!! For … Read more
This Roman Soldier costume took a little more time to make than some of the others. But I made it a few years ago for a Easter Play at Church. I collect Armor and weapons anyways so some of the things I had, such at the helmet. There are other pieces that I made but didn’t … Read more