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!
Ok, so a friend once told me that the day you decide to stop dressing up for Halloween is the day you officially accept that you are old lol. I almost through in the towel until I was watching an old episode of MASH and immediately got the idea of becoming Mr T.! I Googled … Read more
My toddler had his heart set on being Spiderman this year, so I began searching for inspiration in the homemade superhero costume arena. This was challenging because the store-bought costumes are pretty good these days, but I still wanted to create something special. I came across a great tutorial and found the perfect fabric at … Read more
For this year’s Halloween costume, I wanted to do something inside a box, but wanted a costume idea that was “outside the box.” After scouring the internet for ideas, I discovered a few decent concepts for a porta-potty construction, but thought I could do a little improving as well as add an original twist to … Read more
I kept asking my 5 year old what he wanted to be for Halloween. I started asking him in August. He kept saying “I don’t know”. I had no idea what I was in for. Mid-September he finally told me he wanted to be Emmet from the Lego Movie. Lo and behold, there are not … Read more
My friend Lisa broke her pelvis and two vertebrae in early 2012 and she needed a neck brace/C-collar to keep her spine in line. She remained in good spirits, though, and towards the end of her recovery time I saw her out at a bar after our mutual friend’s thesis reading. I love the movie … Read more
If you asked most people what they consider to be the most hectic and stressful time of year, the majority of them would undoubtedly say the Christmas holiday season. It is the only holiday that requires the full fifty-five days of unrelenting planning and shopping if the store displays erected the day after Halloween are … Read more
Happy Halloween! My favourite time of year! I always struggle with a MILLION ideas, I want to dress up every day of October, (but I don’t think work would like that). Sometimes I really struggle to come up with a great costume, so I come to Coolest Homemade Costumes for inspiration. My costume is not … Read more
We always enjoy Halloween. This year we decided that we would do Nightmare Before Christmas and our son would be Sam from Trick r Treat I did Oogie Boogie (my Husband, Troy) first, he is really just a large stuffed pillow from burlap. I sewed the arms on and put foot holes in the bottom. … Read more
This costume is part of a couples costume I made for my BF & I (and our dog who was Stinkerbell!). I’d wanted to be Rufio for 2 years now and actually started both of these costumes in July and worked on them simultaneously! It actually took a decent amount of work and lots of … Read more
Aladdin was one of my faaavorite movies growing up. I’ve watched it countless times and know all of the songs. Very much like Genie made me feel as a child – my son warms my heart and makes me laugh with his high energy and silly crazy ways. So in honor of the late great … Read more
I dreamed up the idea to do a huge group costume one night while my roommate ”Big Greg” and myself were watching the Reno 911 movie. It was probably September of 2009, and I had an idea of each friend who would play the best character roll. So I sent out a group text to … Read more
We always dress-up at my job. I work as a cook in a school cafeteria where we serve kids from kindergarten to high school. I enjoy seeing the smiles on the kids faces when they come to lunch to see the unexpected,such as a bunch of cafeteria ladies dressed in cool costumes. Since I always … Read more