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’m a Lady… I do Ladies Things…” It took a while to create this rubbish Transvestites from Little Britain: Emily Howard and Florence Couple Costume for a TV Show fancy dress party. We thought long and hard about how to create it and make it as funny as possible. Obviously, we had a little help from the Little … Read more
I made this Mr. Stay Puft costume for a yearly Queen Fan Club convention fancy dress night back in 2008. The theme was Halloween, so thought this would be something unlikely for anyone else to do. Starting about 3 months before it was needed and with no plans, all I had was a screenshot of Mr … Read more
I like to be creative with my costumes and thought it would be cool to make a costume that I could change throughout the night. So I thought of being a paper doll, you know, the ones that come with different clothes. You fold the tabs over the doll to hold the clothes on. My … Read more
My brother and sister-in-law were married October 2011 and it was a Halloween wedding with everyone in costume. I had to represent! My best friend and I saw the original Hairspray movie at the theater together back in the late 80’s so we decided to be Tracy Turnblad and Penny Pingleton for the wedding. I … Read more
I was trying to decide what would be a unique costume for my 2 pugs to enter in our annual Halloween dog parade/costume contest. I always make my own costumes and I wanted them to be something no one has ever seen. I decided to make cupcake costumes, since cupcakes are so popular. I changed … Read more
It was our first Halloween together and as a couple, our first costume pick was essential. My boyfriend and I were on our way to the Halloween store and we were throwing out ideas of what we might want to pick out. Suddenly, a song by Katy Perry came on the radio and it dawned on me, what better … Read more
1st off…let me tell you I had NO clue what this scarecrow was. With lots of searching, well I got pics, but no real help. So I got my creative mind going! Off to the hospital, Goodwill, Menards, Meijers…..you name it I was there looking around thinking, probably looking like a crazy woman. But I … Read more
My roommate and I were trying to think of something creative that we could do together. After endless searching we gave up until one day we were in the kitchen and we were discussing how much peanut butter and jam are made to be together when it hit us! We got SOOOOOO many compliments on … Read more
First of all I used real mirror tiles, tons of them! I combed the internet for the best deal on the tiles and bought about 2000. Which ended up not being enough, so I went to multiple Hobby Lobby’s and Michael’s to buy what they had left. I started about about two weeks before Halloween paper macheing … Read more
I have always LOVED Halloween. I especially love making my costumes, and coming up with complex ideas that will really wow the people I run into. As I was brainstorming for what to be for Halloween, I decided I wanted to be a puppet. I thought the clothing and makeup would be so much fun … Read more
We went all out to create the most authentic Wayne and Garth Couple Costume from Wayne’s World. We bought reverse-fit jeans from Walmart (tighter around the ankle, loose and relaxed fit through the hip and thigh). Wayne’s hat is HAND made with white-out. Garth’s sporting a killer Aerosmith t shirt that we scored after the … Read more
This Pee Wee’s Playhouse group Halloween costume was such fun! We had Pee Wee, Ms. Yvonne, the Geenie, Terri the Terridactyl, Captain, Carl, and the Cowboy- complete with CHAIRY!! Everyone was pretty easy. The two most difficult were Chairy and Terri. Chairy was adapted from an old wheel chair from a second hand store. I used … Read more