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 tend to brainstorm ideas for Halloween costumes or possibly a potential costume I could wear to a convention (if one ever came to my neck of the woods) during the summertime (possibly in June or July, mostly after my birthday). I make a list on my computer, since due to my hand tremor, I … Read more
I had to do many trips to stores to collect items and all last minute. Scoured goodwill and Lowe’s. Went to dollar tree and Michael’s. My son and I went to the new movie and that’s what sparked this love for Cousin It. He wanted to be the cool SnoopDoggyDog version so finding the items … Read more
I got to wear my costume twice (once to work and once to a parade) therefore I have two different dresses on. My wolf started out as a mask and wolf gloves. I painted fake blood on both and added “muscles” and grandmas eyeball inside his mask. Wolfie’s mask was put on a styrofoam head … Read more
This Five Nights at Freddys costume was a real labor of love. I’ll start off by mentioning my 6yr old son Cory, is obsessed with Five Nights at Freddy’s. I, however, cringe at the thought of those creepy animatronics! Nonetheless, when he requested a Rock Star Freddy costume for Halloween I jumped at the opportunity … Read more
This Gnome couple costume was really fun! Man’s Gnome costume: Hat was custom made from thick felt and sewn to give bend in the top. I cut the face out of an old scary man mask that had a beard leaving just the top of the head (covered by hat) and the beard. I also … Read more
When my four year old son, Jet decided he wanted to Sackboy this year my husband was all sort of excited to make his costume. The cool thing about this was once the Sackboy was made he could then dress that up in any costume he wanted as in the video game you go around … Read more
Here’s our Grinch wheelchair costume. We try to create very special handmade costumes that are built around our son’s wheelchair. Each year we try to outdo the previous year’s costume. Our neighbors are always anxious for our son’s arrival to see what his costume will look like. We usually spend a few weeks preparing his … Read more
I usually start thinking about costume ideas mid-June regardless of whether there will even be a reason to wear it. I’m not sure how I landed on Art the Clown, but I decided a month before Halloween and enlisted the help of my lovely neighbor to re-teach me how to use the sewing machine. I … Read more
Both of these Epic Anubis and Bastet costumes are completely hand made costumes for Halloween of 2012; I created the masks and my wife, Bastet in the pictures, created the costumes. The masks where sketched out on thick paper stock, then transferred to a matte board stock for the main structural part (head and main … Read more
Creating the Jetsons costume for our family was a great adventure! I said our Flintstones family costume last year would be it as we are running out of room (other previous costumes include our ‘Chips & Buds Spud Wagon’ as well as a ‘Pest Control mouse trap’), but I couldn’t resist taking a crack at … Read more
We had so much fun with our Scooby Doo family costume! I said our Jetsons family costume last year would be it as we are running out of room (other previous costumes include our ‘Flintstones Family’, ‘Chips & Buds Spud Wagon’ as well as a ‘Pest Control mouse trap’, all of which included a mobile … Read more
What great fun we had with our Flintstones family Halloween costume. Having kids seems to have rejuvenated my inner-child and rather than buy our Halloween costumes, I’ve gotten the bug to create them the last few years, and hopefully provide the kids with lasting memories along the way. A couple of years ago we did … Read more