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!
I love Britney Spears and I always wanted to dress up as her! I chose to recreate her outfit from her 2001 VMA performance of “Slave 4 U”. Because my 21st birthday took place on midnight of Halloween, I knew I had to go all out to replicate her! Putting Together the Bottom For the … Read more
I bought a simple tan dress at the Goodwill store for this Pocahontas costume ($7). Cut of one shoulder strap, measured and sewed to fit me. Took an old white men’s undershirt (free) and cut into fringes for the bottom and sewed. Then I cut a belt from a brown shirt from the Thrift shop ($1) and pinned it one. … Read more
I’m not into the Steampunk trend or a follower by any means, but I had a Halloween party to attend and when I have the opportunity or challenge to dress up I love to go all out. I had seen a few pictures and movies that had introduced me to the Steampunk style and I … Read more
I started my scary tooth fairy costume with a Medusa store bought costume, painted and cut it up. I did a bit of layering of the garment and added a corset. I made my own wings out of cellophane and wire. I originally started out with 6″ homemade platform shoes, but lost quickly due to the difficulty I had … Read more
My brother is tall and skinny. His friend is short and bigger. They realized the best costume was clearly the Blues Brothers. They both were in a band in middle school (they were high school freshmen at the time), and luckily, neither had a huge growth spurt over the summer, so they both used their … Read more
Year before last, I decided I wanted a mermaid costume in a giant shell for our church’s trunk or treat Halloween celebration. I’ve always loved making costumes, and this is one of the most handmade, more detailed costumes I’ve put together. There’s still that little girl in me who loves to play dress up, and … Read more
My son decided to tell me this year he’d like to be Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean. He knows I make every costume, why this?? lol, but I took it head on, and worked on it simultaneously with Alice for my daughter. So, I started with his sword. It’s a .99 cents only store … Read more
My daughter Lily loves ANYTHING Disney this year she wanted to be Alice in Wonderland. Easy enough. I started at the end, naturally. I made her a Cheshire cat. Of course after I made it we found the Disney store finally carried one. I like mine better, but i’m partial. I didn’t have a pattern, I just looked at pictures of him … Read more
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! I love getting the chance to create a unique costume (I try to pick something very involved, crafty, and something hopefully no one else will think of). For this nurse costume, I chose the Blink 182 Enema of the State CD Nurse! Blink 182 is one of my … Read more
My husband and I tend to pick a costume from a movie. Last year we did Mickey and Mallory Knox from Natural Born Killers and the year before we were Venkman and Zuul from Ghostbusters. We knew we wanted to do characters from Beetlejuice this year, just wasn’t sure who. We went with the classic … Read more
The BEAST stands 12 feet tall, his head moves up and down and side to side. His eye’s light up from a switch controlled at my head level. Arms are fully functioning. It is pretty light, I walked around the whole neighborhood (with my daughter on low-hanging tree patrol). I saw a giant costume guy … Read more
This Carbon Knight costume was a fun costume to work on. It took a total of five months to complete. I used EVA foam (which can be found at your local LOWS for $20). I started with some templates I made and other simple shapes. Then cut them out on the foam. Then I hot … Read more