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 4 yr old girls wanted to be bugs, and I wanted them to be somewhat realistic – so I did an online search and found this site and saw the awesome things previous posters had done! I wanted their wings to be as appropriately sized as possible, and I can’t sew – but luckily we had … Read more
Darling son number 1 spotted a triceratops dress up in a store the other week, but our challenge is quite simply his size; at three and a half, he is wearing clothes for five year olds. The costume in the store was for age 3-5 and an all in one which definitely wouldn’t work for … Read more
I originally saw this Rooster/Chicken costume on a famous craft women’s “Living” website. It was a child’s homemade costume and I figured I could follow the same directions only larger. I purchased a white long sleeved leotard, and a short sleeve white leotard, yellow tights, white Boa feathers ( from an online discount store) and … Read more
The best part of this Publisher’s Clearinghouse Prize Patrol couple costume was making the GIANT check! It was also the most time consuming part. We toyed with names for the check for a couple weeks and then finally found Dixie Normous! In the opening scene of Austin Powers, Gweneth Paltrow pulled her helmet off and … Read more
My wife and I are pictured here last Halloween. I’m the one on the left, wearing the oven and thrusting forth my five-month pregnant belly to make the turkey stick out just a little bit more. My wife is on the right, turkey baster in hand with her chef hat reaching toward the sky. She’s … Read more
We started working on this awesome family of Vikings group costume in August. We had a great time doing them but they were very time consuming. I would go to the fabric store once a week to look for discounted material. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, the one night of the year where … Read more
The internet has everything you will ever need to create a costume…the hard part is coming up with an idea! This SNAP, CRACKLE and POP woman’s group costume was created with a mix of: eBay (plain shirts and tights) Amazon (hats) Dollar store (felt for buttons, letters on hats, and Pop’s shoulder pads (structure: cardboard), and … Read more
We wanted something we’ve never seen before but was the essence of Halloween! The Seven Deadly Sins! We put together what we thought each deadly sin represented. Greed was all about the showing of MONEY she wore gold and a money boa! Lust we went for a sexy school girl outfit complete with glasses and … Read more
My family and I had just finished the X Men series and were OBSESSED with it to say the least! It was a given what we were going to be for Halloween! The Cast: Magnito – Dad Storm – Mom (me) Wolverine – my son Mystique – my daughter For Magnito, I recycled my husband’s … Read more
Have you ever dreamed of marrying your best friend? Well, I did and he is fabulous. Each year he subjects himself to these ridiculous creations that I imaginatively concoct for couples. We have a friend from church that always throws these fabulous Halloween parties and it has become quite a tradition. Most recently it has … Read more
I started this Perry the Platypus Costume with the feet. I watched a few AWESOME tutorials from Canine Hybrid on YouTube on how to make feet, definitely worth the time to watch those first. It was very satisfying to get the feet done and fun to watch my son run around in! It was all the … Read more
All of my friends call me “red” for Red Fraggle, so for Halloween a few years ago I decided to surprise them and show up. I didn’t like the store bought costume, so I set on a mission to match the costume myself. It was a challenge but ultimately accomplished. I found the orange shorts … Read more