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!
When I suggested to my fiance, Jaimi, that she should be Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for Halloween, her eyes lit up and she immediately was pumped about it. We started making it in August (when I say we, I mean I started making and she cheered me on from the couch). The body was the … Read more
We were going to Disneyland for Halloween night and we wanted to make his stroller into something so we decided on the Nightmare Before Christmas and his stroller would soon be transformed into the Mayers car complete with flashing lights, interior exterior lights,”zero” the dog floating along the car, lit up a speaker coming out the … Read more
My son, Dane, has been obsessed with Ninjago Legos since they first came out. He has most of the Lego sets, games, and is one of the only TV shows he watches. This year he asked us if he could be Cole for Halloween. My wife started by cutting up boxes, forming them to rough … Read more
My 7 year old son loves to play the Claw game! He wins a prize every time. He even prefers his allowance to be in quarters so that he can play. So when asked what do you wanna be for Halloween this year, he said inside the Claw Machine! So we decided to make it … Read more
This was my Buzz Lightyear Halloween Costume for 2010. Buzz Lightyear was something I always wanted to do, but didn’t know how I would do it. I was working at a paint store and I grabbed a one piece painters cover-all, and realized it would be perfect for the space suit. Buying more foam core to … Read more
It was Halloween 2007. Living in Lethbridge, AB at the time and going to school. My room mate and myself wanted to create costumes that would win us a weekend worth of contests. We decided the Transforming transformers would be perfect, the movies had just come out and they were very popular. I went as … Read more
Each year for the past 11 years my group has dedicated hundreds of man hours designing, creating, brainstorming, and scouring stores of all kinds; thrift stores, craft stores, hardware stores, online stores, and all stores in between. We search for just the right pieces and ideas to help our characters come alive! Dozens of cans of … Read more
My daughter is a huge fan of Lord of the Rings. She designed this costume and asked me to make it for her. She wanted to look like she belonged in Middle Earth without exactly copying a costume from the movies. She wanted to be a strong female character and she wanted to carry a … Read more
I made this hand made Wilson from Cast Away Costume by paper maching a 4 foot beach ball. I did 5 layers of paper mache, 4 layers with newspaper and the last layer with ripped computer paper to save on paint. During the paper mache process it is important to make sure you let air … Read more
Like most people, I wanted to do something extra special for Halloween and I have always been a fan of making my own costumes for fancy dress events. It was actually through the brilliance of this site that I saw the processes some people went through to create a ‘Mystique’ costume, one of my all … Read more
I was really into playing American McGee’s Alice and feel in love with the main character. I wanted so badly to be this character for Halloween and one of my coworkers mentioned his wife was just getting in to sewing and making my costume would be good practice for her. I went along with the … Read more
I had so much fun putting together the Mrs. Lovett costume. I checked several photos, watched the movie again (3 times for mannerisms) and checked several homemade costumes as well. I noticed that I don’t have to look exactly like Helena Bonham Carter’s (HBC) character, which was encouraging. The best advice I can give, is … Read more