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 started out with foam sheets and glued together with a glue gun. Cutting edges and rounding it out. I used foam squares and glued on top. Added green felt all over and used green, yellow, red and black spray paint to give it a scarier look. Added black mesh to the front and then the … Read more
My costume is my interpretation of Cleopatra, the epitome of Egyptian royalty! I’ve always wanted to be Cleopatra for Halloween since I was a kid and when I finally got old enough to properly wear the costume, everthing I saw in the costume shops were a bit “cheesy”. Therefore, I decided to create something that … Read more
Remember those ‘somebody’s watching me’ commercials from a few years ago. Well, the customer has that money on his shoulder, which was really easy to create and perfect for someone who doesn’t particularly like to dress up on Halloween. I tapped some ones together, attached googly eyes to a paper clip and instant costume! As … Read more
Spongebob was so easy to make. It started the a poster of spongebob’s face that I found at a toy store. I glued that to a large cardboard box. I cut out the eyes and then cut up some black panty hose. I glued them on the inside of the box so that I could … Read more
Meet Glory my little sunshine and her loving dog Karma. We knew they wanted to dress up together so that is where the brainstorming began. I’m not really sure who said “Rainbow and Pot of Gold” first but it stuck. The pot of gold wasn’t too hard to make. I made hot glued a bung … Read more
One of those costumes that ensures you can’t have fun at a party, but oh so worth it to be the ultimate spooky icon. Made mostly of kappa board and lollipop sticks, plus more hot glue than anyone would consider reasonable. The haunted house features the creepy girls from The Shining, a ghost-baby party, an … Read more
I have always loved the Chucky movies they made and I always said that when I had a kid I was going to dress them up as my little Chucky doll and finally this year I did it! I went and got older style of overalls and a striped velour sweater and got him some … Read more
Last year our 5 year-old daughter Riley wanted to be Maleficent! Knowing that there would be 100’s of little Maleficent’s running around, due to the recent release starring Angelina Jolie, I asked Riley if there was another thing she wanted to be that would make her feel special and stand out. Immediately she said Ursula! … Read more
This project started as our costumes always do: what would best fit our body types? My husband is tall and skinny whereas I am neither. Given my fondness for churros and the inherent hilarity of food costumes, we chose a state fair theme. A funnel cake was chosen as a good shape and fun costume … Read more
Every year starting in September I’ll start asking my boys what they’d like to be for Halloween. The standard answer is usually something like Mario or a Ninja. But this year’s answer was the one I’d been waiting for…”Dad I want to be Springtrap”. Awesome let’s get to work! The costume was made using 1” … Read more
Every Halloween I make a homemade costume for myself and any of my boys that request one. I’ve done it since I was a little kid. Last year, my boy asked me to make him a costume that required stilts. I wanted to utilize the stilts again for this year’s costume and waited for an … Read more
This is my interpretation of Angelina Jolie’s character in Maleficent. This revamp of the classic Sleeping Beauty moved me so much I just could not help but to channel my inner Maleficent. I absolutely love that this film changes the way women are interpreted in movies so often to feel we must be ‘saved’ by … Read more