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!
While brainstorming my Halloween costume this year I took inspiration from my greatest childhood fear….the dentist. As a child my father would let me watch horror movies I wasn’t supposed to watch while my mother was working. Freddie, Jason and Michael never even fazed me and then came the 1996 movie the dentist. I was … Read more
So we decided hat this year we would have m and my kids all participant in a family costume. We wanted to be original nothing scary so we went for fast food. My oldest son’s costume was the most difficult to make the head for jack in the box. We used news paper which nowadays … Read more
The inspiration for my scary Mickey and Minnie Mouse couple costume came when I was brainstorming what to be for halloween. I like to take a well-known, usually cute, character and make them scary. While I was trying to think of a character, I saw a snippet of Ratatouille, which made me think of mice, … Read more
It’s been my dream to create the weeping angel costume. And finally decided to do it here. I started off hand stitching the dress and spraying it gray and black. I added streaks of black and white acrylic to push the highlights and aging. I then went into making the wig. I used fabric tape … Read more
Well my first issue with the hand-crocheted angel cat costume was finding yarn that my cat would immediately try to murder. He’s worn costumes of mine before and absolutely despises a small thin yarn because it gets tangled so easily. So this year I went with a thick chunky white yarn that he actually doesn’t … Read more
Inspired by my favorite Batman Villain “Scarecrow”, When season 5 of Gotham came out they blew me away with Scarecrow’s costume so I decided to recreate my own version. To make the Texas Scarecrow costume I used 3 yards of burlap, 1 yard of brown leather, string, sticks, leather rope, and complete with a custom … Read more
As a kid, my husband and I both grew up with families that loved to celebrate Halloween. His family appreciated the art of designing costumes and my family, well we just liked candy! Jason warned me the day would come when Halloween would become a full blown art competition in our household as our boys … Read more
The year 2020 has been such a hot mess, a meme of a dumpster fire with the year 2020 on it has been circulating the internet. Halloween is my favorite holiday and I go all out creating my costumes, but they are with a twist. I seek out the most unconventional ideas and then make … Read more
Here’s our cool homemade Alien couple costume – we are aliens from Venus visiting from Venus. We couldn’t go on a cruise through the galaxy so we came to Florida instead. We used cardboard for the female aliens spaceship, lights that were controlled by hand, a wreath ring that was able to make the skirt … Read more
I am wearing a costume that I built from scratch for about $50-70. It’s a Star Wars character called The Mandalorian. The idea came to me when I saw season 2 was coming out right before Halloween. I decided this was what I wanted to build and I began looking at how to do it. … Read more
The primary concern with 2020 as a whole has been the COVID-19 outbreak. Each state has its own requirements but my state in particular, Alabama, requires a mask while out in public. So, how does one incorporate a mask with their Halloween costume for public appearances? Research and imagination! I was hoping to make a … Read more
This Alien costume was inspired by the Tim Burton film, Mars Attacks! I Hand made this costume from the ground up using predominantly paper mache. I also work with reused, repurposed, and found materials, so anything that isn’t paper mache, is a whole lot of scrapping and dumpster diving. The only items that I bought … Read more