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!
This year we decided to make a mermaid and pirate costume… however everyone dresses like pirates so we thought it would be cool to be a mermaid and deep sea diver. The only problem I found is that every deep sea diver costume is really lame. The best helmets I found were home made. But … Read more
When I start thinking Halloween costume the first question I always ask myself is “Who can I be that has an awesome weapon?” I don’t know why it is, but I never feel like a costume is ‘right’ without a good weapon. I’ve been a zombie-killer with a machete and pistol, and a WoW Blood … Read more
Every year my boyfriend and I think of a couple costume, this year we were drawing blanks, I knew I wanted to make mine as I do every year. I was looking online at costumes and saw the mermaid. I thought that would be a fun one to make, plus I personally haven’t seen a … Read more
This year my 4 year old son Julian said he wanted to be Bowser (King Koopa) for Halloween. I looked for it everywhere online… but, couldn’t seem to find this costume anywhere. So I decided that it was up to me to make it. The costume is made up of a lot of felt, batting, … Read more
Candy Land Halloween 2012 My friends and I were looking for a great group costume idea. We came across a childhood favorite game, Candy Land! The characters of Candy Land and their creative personas intrigued us and we were excited to create the costumes. We quickly began assigning roles to group members, we did have … Read more
I absolutely love my costume for this year, and Halloween in general!! I was Kali, the six-armed Hindu Blue Goddess. A friend of mine, Josh, and I put this together. I found a picture over a year ago and had to make this into a costume. It took us almost two full months to complete the … Read more
My friend and I thought it would be cool to be LMFAO Redfoo and SkyBlue. It took us about two weeks to get our costumes. We got the wigs and my tights from a costume shop and the rest we got at hot topic and our shoe laces were from Tilly’s. When we put on … Read more
We have both huge X-Men fans and wanted to embody our favorite characters which happens to also be a couple, hence the Gambit and Rogue Couple Costume! Here’s how we made Gambit: Gambit’s chest piece was made by creating a plaster body cast then a rubber mold. The final piece was made of rubber, we … Read more
Daddy as Muno, Mommy as Plex, and Ansley as Foofa. It was a great Yo Gabba Gabba family Halloween costume. All the kids wanted to take pictures with us. Plex took the most amount of time to make. Used a hamper for the body, and bucket for the head, soda cans for the ears, Styrofoam … Read more
Bandit and his Trans Am AND the Snowman and his Semi Truck So what do you do when your sons come to you in May and say “Mom we just thought of what we want to be for Halloween! The Snowman and Bandit! We can use our go kart and the lawn mower to make … Read more
Welcome to the 74th Annual Hunger Games! May the odds be ever in your favor! We hope the odds are in our favor this Halloween! This Hunger Games costume was for my 13 year old daughter. Friends told her that it looked like she had walked off the set of the Hunger Games. I started … Read more
We wanted to come up with a unique and funny, tongue-in-cheek costume idea for Halloween. We decided on Girls Gone Wild (hoping that people would still remember what that was!) After a trip to Goodwill, and the fabric store, Walmart, etc. we were set to go. The censored signs were felt with felt letters, which … Read more