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!
The crowd cheered for the Smurfs and Gargamel group Halloween costumes to be called up for the costume contest, though sadly we were not. Papa Smurf – red sweat pants, hat and boots were cut and sewed from the matching sweatshirt. Long-sleeved white T-shirt dyed blue with koolaid (I recommend real fabric dye as I thought … Read more
I made this great Ghostbuster costume from things around the house for my son. It took about a week. starting with a large cardboard box, attaching things from garage and house..such as a tissue box, water bottles, nuts, bolts, plastic rings. I spray painted the entire box black and then embellished with stickers, Christmas lights, added … Read more
I had seen this scary Cereal Killer costume done before on a much smaller scale so I decided to take it to a new level! I started by using corn flakes, bran flakes, rice krispie and country store muesli. Each piece of cereal was painstakingly and individually glued on all around the whole white background. … Read more
Pretty much just wanted to have the best costume at the party so I built the reverse bear trap and Venus fly trap from the Saw movies. Won first place. Both made out of steel. it took about a month to build them both. The fly trap was last minut but came out awesome. I … Read more
I really wanted to create a unique and interesting costume. A friend of mine worked at Longs at the time, and somehow I discovered that they do not sell crown royal bags with the bottles, they just throw them away. So I started collecting the bags for months, unsure of what I was going to … Read more
I started collecting bottle caps for this project about 3 or 4 months before Halloween. I had no idea what I was going to do. By the time I actually started working on the beer can wench costume I had over a thousand beer caps. I bought a dirndle-esque dress and started going to work. … Read more
I found a couple of packs of playing cards at the thrift store about a month and a half before Halloween. I decided to go for a queen of hearts theme. I found about 20-30 more decks of playing cards at the Dollar store and picked out all of the heart cards. Then I carefully … Read more
I am a huge Mets fan, I know I know. So I decided to be Mr. Met. It was a pretty easy costume to make, but if I were to do it again i would take more time and try to get the head more round. In the description I didn’t mention any cost but … Read more
Every year, we decide as a family what our Halloween costume will be. Always homemade. Last year, we went with Disney’s Jake and the Neverland Pirates Family Costume since this is our 5-yr old’s favorite show. Each costume was pieced together, using the actual cartoons as a guideline. It took weeks of hunting down items….one-by-one … Read more
This Christmas Tree costume is a 13 foot tall fully lit Christmas tree with 280 ornaments. The construction is PVC pipes, garlands, duct tape and two laundry baskets. The costume is supported on my head through out the night. One of the pictures shows a friend of mine wearing a Capt Crunch costume I created a … Read more
This SIMON (the Game) costume was lit in four colors with a hand controller inside the costume. The structure was made of bent PVC pipe covered in fabric and lights on the exterior. This was probably my most successful costume. Literally hundreds of pictures were taken of it at the Dallas street party. Total cost for … Read more
I have been obsessed with the movie “A Christmas Story” since I was a kid. It is a family tradition to watch it while opening presents on Christmas. I particularly love the scenes with The Leg Lamp. “Honey it says fra-GEE-lay, it must be Italian!” So I was inspired to be The Leg Lamp. I got … Read more