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!
Materials used for this Queen of Hearts Costume from Alice in Wonderland: gold and red curtains, gold/white corset, black button-up, short-sleeve dress, black thigh-highs with lace, red ribbon, elastic, crinoline under skirt, white button-up shirt (collar), purchased “Queen of Hearts” wig, costume makeup. Our group wanted to do characters from “Alice in Wonderland” which had … Read more
Everything except the wig was bought from a thrift store or from home. I made the robe using a bath robe from our Salvation army to which I added ribbons to the pockets and lace to the sleeves. The thread sash was made using old wooden spools to which I added threads of various colors … Read more
The Dorothy, Scarecrow, and Glenda were rented costumes. For the tinman I used a metallic fabric and used my son’s shirt and pants as a pattern to sew the costume. I then used silver spray paint for plastic for his ax which I purchased at our local dollar tree from a fireman set. The cowards … Read more
This owl costume for a little boy started with one thought in mind “I will not buy a costume this year because they are WAY too expensive!!” It took about 2 months to decide that he should be an owl. I think deciding what he should be was the hardest part. Once we landed on … Read more
Golden retrievers Phoenix and Aladdin are dressed as Mary Puppins and Bert, the chimney sweep. They are “practically perfect in every way”! They have gone to the roof-top to “step in time”, where Bert, covered with soot, is perched on a chimney with his sweeper over his shoulder. Mary is holding on to her parrot … Read more
After seeing the Avatar movie and absolutely loving it, my friend and I decided we HAD to dress up in real life Avatars halloween couple costumes for Halloween. There were a lot of full costumes that you could just buy, but we wanted to make ours original. We started by looking through our closets for … Read more
This Thunder Cats Panthro costume was a costume I made for Halloween 2010. The body suit is a regular bodybuilder suit that I bought on eBay, and then tried all kinds of fabric dyes, but none of them worked. I ultimately decided on a spray can of primer from the auto parts store, since the … Read more
My dad and I are a team when it comes to Halloween. Since I was a young girl, I would tell him what I wanted to be and he would paint, cut, hot glue, and/or build whatever I needed to create the most authentic costume possible. For this female Zoltar costume from the movie BIG … Read more
I decided that my husband and I were going to be Katy Perry and Russell Brand for Halloween. His costume was fairly easy, we threw together some rocker clothes, a wig and some eyeliner, but mine was a little more involved! First I made the tutu. I Googled the directions and they seemed pretty easy. … Read more
This coolest Royal Wedding group costume is probably the coolest group costume I have ever done. It involved ten people, a limousine with a red carpet, and a real herald trumpet. Participants included Prince William and Kate Middleton, Pippa, Prince Harry, two royal guards, two female cousins with crazy hats, a trumpeter, and the Queen … Read more
Half Good witch half Bad witch costume from The Wizard of Oz, or some people also referred to me as the Broadway Show Wicked. It was easier than I had thought. I had purchased a witch costume and also Glinda, the good witch costume on an after Halloween clearance sale for about $10.00 each. I cut the bad witch … Read more
The TV show Toddlers and Tiara’s was my inspiration for this Halloween Pageant princess costume. To achieve this look I took an old floor length bridesmaid dress, took it to a local tailor shop and had them pin up the under the corset and sew it to stay. I glued over 300 gemstones on with … Read more