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!
We were Treasure Trolls. We got full body suits from a dance studio in the nude color. We hot glued gems on to the belly. Sprayed our hair (that had cups in them). We also made tutus. For our make up we had rosy cheese and eye shadow lining the whole eye. We went to … Read more
I’m a big fan of the mortalkombat franchise and my favorite is subzero. I’m in Sri Lanka where Halloween is not very well celebrated but we have small Halloween parties. I wanted to go to the party and I picked subzero as my costume. I went through eBay to find a costume but it was soo expensive. I … Read more
At JAFAX’s anime convention, I had a large audience and lots of applause, usually people circled around me with their cameras to take some more photos. I made this Lugia Pokemon Kigurumi costume from fleece, thread, printable fabric for the eye, foam, interfacing, a zipper, gloves, campfire sticks, duct tape and plastic curtain parts. I … Read more
I made all 3 Jem and the Holograms Girls Group Costume and used 1 red vinyl trench coat, a few yards of thin silver material, some silver trim string and a hot glue gun. We ordered the wigs, shoes, and a set of blow up band instruments. I also scored a really cheap set battery less portable speakers … Read more
I used this Buzz Lightyear Costume 2 years ago in Brazil. This costume was made with several rubber parts. We had the job of separating the armor parts, cut and paste the pieces. The concept was pretty simple, but to execute parts so stay equal to the Buzz was more laborious, almost dramatic. When we finished this first … Read more
Halloween 2012 on Pex Project Battleship! Sailor Moon: Green Sailor Scout costume. Green skirt and white top, attached into a dress with a green collar and a big pink bow added to the front and the back. White knee high boots with matching green knee high socks underneath. White gloves with matching green around the … Read more
There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter… Which luckily I am! He is a crazy, wacky hatter who meets Alice when she shows up in Wonderland. He loves having tea parties … Read more
My best friend and I have been friends for almost 18 years and we had never celebrated Halloween together in our adult lives!! So after buying my first house in April the first thing we did was grab the wine and computer and searched for sexy ideas. There were so many good ideas it was hard to choose from, Ninja turtles, Thing One … Read more
This elephant costume was the first costume I ever made. I dived in and started, having no idea what I was doing! I love elephants, and I had the box idea from primary school when we made cars out of a box, and a helmet out of paper mache. So I paper mached half of … Read more
On occasion I get a creative burst, and without planning just dive into my project! I am a fan of trial and error, I don’t really like following a guide or recipe. I started this crocodile costume with the head, using cardboard as a base with a hot glue gun, then paper mâchéing to get the right shape. For … Read more
This He-Man and She-Ra couple costume took us a couple months to compile. My girlfriend dressed as She Ra and made her dress from scratch along with a modified Cleopatra mask that we had to take apart and put back together as well as attach a hair band to for the head dress. Her hair is a wig. … Read more
I made this adult Batman costume for Halloween 2012. I picked Batman, let’s face it, what grown man does not want a bat suit, lol? It took 3 weeks to make the bottom, half are black jeans with pads I made from a old black jacket plus PVC for the boots from another old coat. The chest piece and shoulder armor are … Read more