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 really love and enjoy making my own costume of Halloween for my children. But this Ninjago Minifigure Costume is one of my favorite but the longest and hardest one that I made. First I took a carton box and a little one for the legs and a plastic bowl for the head. After that I … Read more
This is my daughter Alaina. Her absolute favorite recording artist is Katy Perry and so it was a “duh” moment when I knew she would want to dress as Miss Perry for Halloween. But… she wanted to be Katy Perry in her cupcake dress, specifically. So I made that happen. The skirt is styrofoam rings, … Read more
My 5 year old son Brayden was dying to be the coolest Iron Man this year. My husband and I brainstormed over it while looking at pictures online to get an idea of what materials we could use (inexpensively) to pull off a very cool costume for our son. Looking at some photos I thought … Read more
Erik, my ten-year-old son, wanted to be Zane the white LEGO NinjaGO character for Halloween. There was an awesome handmade costume on eBay that I was dying to buy but it was waaaay expensive ($150 for the head alone and $280 for the whole thing, plus shipping). The eBay seller had made Lloyd, the green NinjaGO character costume–but was … Read more
When I decided that I wanted to do a Batman costume for a comic convention I went to with friends this past September, I went in with the thought that it would be easier to do a costume that was kind of funny rather than trying to make some epic looking Dark Knight get up. … Read more
This is how I put together the Scorpion and Sub-Zero Halloween costumes. The face mask was created by Hidden Assassins with a glossy bright paint job by G-Force Auto Body Shop in Port Charlotte, FL. The baklava hood was purchased on Ebay and the skull mask is mine from about five years ago. The background … Read more
I always like to go all out for my costumes and get creative as possible. I was having trouble thinking of one. I was in Austin, TX visiting my brother when he took me to a Halloween store that he worked at, “Lucy is Disguise with Diamonds”. Nothing was coming to mind. Then, I saw … Read more
This year I decided to make a LEGO kids group costume. I used cardboard for the bodies, which I covered in joint compound. I sanded them, primed them, and spray painted them with a gloss finish. Then I painted each design by hand. For the heads, I cut circular poster board, and wrapped it around with … Read more
I got the idea to make this working Slot Machine costume while on a bus-trip to a nearby casino. The costume is made, excluding lighting and electronics, of mostly thick cardboard and hot-glue (glue sticks). The wheels, the important part of the “Working” slot machine are styrofoam discs with CD’s glued to the side, mounted … Read more
Every year I strive to create a cooler, more complex (time consuming) costume than the year previous. This year I knew I wanted to create stilts! I made my stilts by using the guide on gGryphern’s youtube page for Digigrade werewolf stilts/legs. They are made from plywood, plastic leg braces, bungee cords and screws and … Read more
This female Wizard costume was rather easy. But may be a little harder for someone who is new to sewing. I used a pattern for a man’s wizard robe and took it in where it needed to be. I then attached wire to the collar to make it stand up. From my measurements I made … Read more
Even though, Halloween is in fact today, my 2012 Halloween get together has been and gone, I’m still recovering. Even though Halloween is full of scary, bloody covered costumes, I decided that wasn’t me and decided that wasn’t for me. After recently watching the popular and comical Pixar film ‘Wall-E’, I had to give it … Read more