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!
Every year we create our own group costume for 4 girls that go out for Halloween. Each year we put a lot of thought into our costumes and try to come up with something original. We veer strongly against the typical “sexy” girl halloween costume. We had a brilliant idea of bringing a childhood love to life, … Read more
I wasn’t surprised my son wanted a Sorcerer Mickey Mouse costume as his Halloween costume after a trip to Magic Kingdom. He was obsessed with Sorcerer Mickey. But try finding that in a store or online. Not easy and not cheap! Fortunately, he had the sorcerer’s hat from our trip, so the rest of the costume was pretty … Read more
Last October, my sisters and I decided we wanted to go to Salem, Massachusetts to celebrate Halloween. It was a few weeks early, but we were told that everyone in Salem was dressed up, all the time – so why not? We were looking for costumes that were easy, warm, unique, and that worked together … Read more
This Sally costume was originally a thrown together, not quite last minute Halloween costume. I loved it so much though, that the next year I put more work into it. I reworked parts of the dress, which literally was pieces of clothing and scrap fabric haphazardly sewn together. I used a comfortable Tee that was beginning … Read more
This Morticia and Gomez Addams couple costume started off as a couple and grew the day before Halloween into a fantastic group costume. We had a wonderful time walking through Salem MA showing off our hard work. We barley made it a few feet t a time before being asked to take a photo. We were honored … Read more
Last year I wanted to wear a Samba / Carnival Dancer costume. I looked online and everything I liked was way too expensive or cheesy looking… so I decided to make a costume of my own. Carnival Dancer Costume Headpiece I started with the headpiece. I purchased ostrich and rooster tail feathers from eBay and a … Read more
This is me (Elliot) in my DIY Jason Voorhees costume. I made it with my mom in about a week. We drilled holes in a Wal-mart Glow in the dark Hockey mask to make it look more like Jason, then we painted a layer of of mixed paint (Brown and Peach). Then we added touch ups of … Read more
Here’s our very own Deathstroke costume. The mask was made from an Iron Man mask. I just used bondo on the part in the middle then sanded it down and painted it. I used a piece of red clear plastic for the eye piece and a sunglass lens to make it look like the other side … Read more
My wife always used to make fun of me because I didn’t know who Beetlejuice was. So one day I bought the movie and watched for the first time. Beetlejuice was my next costume so asked my wife to be Miss Argentina. The costumes came out great, but it was alot of work. For Beetlejuice I bought black … Read more
I’ve been a Sonic fan since the genesis era and have wanted to do a Sonic cosplay for a while but wanted to do something a little unique so settled on a Shadow Gijinka-inspired cosplay with a type of hoodie. I made the hood by creating a half sphere out of wire and electrical tape, … Read more
Link and Zelda have been an icon of my childhood. It wasn’t until recently I decided that I would finally make my own Link and Zelda couples costume. My brother accompanied me as Link, and, in January 2015, we stepped out onto the convention floor as Link and Zelda, granted, we could’ve done better, but … Read more
Hi! My name is Sarah and I am a college student, studying musical theater. I have acquired a passion for photography and wanted to turn people into Disney characters, particularly their personal favorites. However, I had no costume and no one to make them. Thus, I began my quest to create the iconic character costumes. … Read more