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 boyfriend and I worked really hard on my costume this year. We are huge Walking Dead fans, so I just knew I had to be Michonne and come up with a cool way to make her Zombie Pets, and through some trial and error, we succeeded! We made the zombies out of Styrofoam shaping it to look like … Read more
I did not see any Black Swan costumes last Halloween which really surprised me due to the popularity of the movie. I love Halloween and I especially love to get creative and matchy-matchy with my best friend, so I was intrigued by the originality and challenge this Black Swan and White Swan costume presented. I knew … Read more
Dalaine Nolan as a Vending Machine. This Vending Machine costume is definitely one of a kind. Our family had a lot of fun making the costume but we also had a lot of trouble with the costume. The box was a refrigerator box. It was cut down to the height of Dalaine. Brian, Dalaine, and … Read more
This Kraft Macaroni and Cheese costume idea came from the grocery store. I’ve eaten Kraft Macaroni and Cheese since I was a kid, and I figured being the box for Halloween would be so cool. The costume itself is made out of felt with felt lettering and fun foam noodles. The silver spoon is made from plastic … Read more
This year we decided to dress up as Wall E and Eve after one of our favorite animated movies, Wall E. We made our costumes out of recycled materials such as card board boxes, newspaper, blank CD’s, 2 blue battery operated led lights, plastic plates and plastic cups. See below for brief instructions on how we … Read more
This glowing daft punk couple costume with Tron EL wire suit was hand sewed to clothing with fishing line. The jacket is leather. I even outlined my Nike shoes with the El wire. The helmet was made from clay and then mold was made. Then pour with smooth cast plastic. Total of around 100ft of EL wire was used. A … Read more
Meet the Flintstones. This family costume was created by using fleece for Dino and making it into footed pants and a sweatshirt. Also, there are mitts for his hands. Dino’s color came from t-shirt and was dyed. Dino’s tag was crocheted. Black spots were all hand cut and hand sewn from felt. Pebbles was made by dying a … Read more
In mid September I was in the van with the kids and brought up the fact that we need to do another family costume. In 2009 we did the Incredibles and 2010 we did Tetris. Several ideas came about, but we finally agreed on a Pacman family Halloween costume. We discussed ideas and began searching Google … Read more
In 2010 our family was one larger than normal and I wanted to do something for Halloween that would involve all of us. This is when I came up with the idea for a life-size Tetris family Halloween costume. To start I began researching the shapes and colors and drawing them out, trying to figure … Read more
Halloween is my son’s favorite “Holiday”. At some point I should probably worry about his obsession with skeletons and graveyards, but for now we look forward with much anticipation, to the time of year in which these eerie things are a little more common place. It was no surprise that when my son first saw … Read more
My fiance and I recently got engaged and wanted to do our first couples Halloween costume. Saving for a wedding has been our first priority so we wanted something that wouldn’t cost a fortune but still look great! I found a 1980’s wedding dress and a suit jack at a second hand store. I tore my dress to bits … Read more
This was a joint project between my four year old and me. He crawls around all day transforming between a tank and a boy, so I decided to design him a costume. We reviewed Google images of tanks so that I could get a feel for the shape, as well as decide what parts needed … Read more