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 daughter decided she wanted to be Mary Poppins this year after watching the movie so I made the sweetest homemade daughter and father Mary Poppins costume by doing a lot of scavenging. I visited a bunch of local thrift shops and what I couldn’t buy I borrowed from kind neighbors. We also made the chimney brush … Read more
To make this original duct tape Duck Halloween costume get many roles of yellow duct tape and begin forming about 3-4ft in length rows, and double siding it (make sure to it very carefully because duck tape is very hard to pull off when stuck). Then cut out two oval shapes (this will be the … Read more
This Human Pinata costume was fairly easy to make, just time consuming, I used scrubs with pockets in pants and on shirt to hold candy and with the shake of a leg it will fall out. I used the glue gun to attach the cut up strips of material that I fringed. The head is made out … Read more
I decided to make a family of Jack-in-the-Box heads with a group of five friends. You need to buy big bouncy balls from Toys-R-Us. I paper mached the bouncy balls with napkins and paper towels. Let it harden for a few days. Once it was hard and dry, I cut a small hole at the … Read more
It started off as an idea last month after I went to see KISS live at the Comcast Center in Massachusetts with my good friend. I thought, you know, I’d love to dress up as him this year. So after conducting a Facebook poll with my friends, I decided I would make a Paul Stanley … Read more
Here was the process involved in creating this awesome looking amazing Hollywood quality Sci-Fi Armor -all homemade costume. 1. Concept Art 2. Sculpting in WED Clay 3. Mold-Making with silicone rubber 4. Casting with liquid plastic 5. Trimming up, sanding and preparing for paint 6. Mixture of spray base paints and airbrushed custom detail 7. … Read more
This year we decided to make the Happy Holidays Girls group costume! All of the Holidays are hand made which makes them awesome! These ones were a little harder to make, but the finished product was worth the time and effort! The holidays consisted of a Easter Bunny, a Leprachaun, Santa, Cupid, and the Turkey! … Read more
Our son was 2 and had no idea who we were dressing him up as , so before he would take control of Halloweens to come we had to have this Chucky costume. We made his costume, colored (temp) his hair and he won 1st prize at Universal City walk , it was an awesome … Read more
I have been wanting to make an Oogie Boogie costume since I one, fell in love with the Nightmare Before Christmas, and two, realized that the only commercially available costume was hideous! I finally set my mind to doing a glowing Oogie Boogie costume this year and I think it came out alright. I used … Read more
I made this Silent Hill nurse costume a couple years ago entirely by hand! Every aspect, aside from perhaps the shoes and tights, was made by yours truly. And even the shoes and tights were, as you can clearly see, heavily modified by a decent spattering of real — Er, I mean … Fake … … Read more
Pinocchio’s and his friends Jiminy Cricket, Figaro, and Cleo. I improved on my naughty Pinocchio cage Optical Illusion costume by adding a paper mache Pinocchio head and tree nose with a bird nest, leaves and flowers. I painted the face with acrylic paints and sealed the mask with clear spray paint. I added some twinkle … Read more
Every year the company that I work with has a Halloween Event in which people bring their children to “Trick or Treat” around the cubicles. Because two of my friends at work commented that I sounded like Pikachu when I sneezed (they can hear my high pitched sneezes over their cubicles), I decided that it … Read more