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!
Our 8 year old son decided he wanted to go as a Lego man for Halloween this year and thankfully with enough time for us to make it. This is the first and hopefully (not likely) last costume we’ve ever made. It took us from the beginning of October right up until the day before … Read more
Our radio station crew dresses up every year and volunteers to give out candy at our annual Trunk or Treat on Mainstreet Event in Levelland, TX. We bring our sound system, dress up with a theme and hand out candy and do photo ops with the community kids (and adults)! :-) This year our theme … Read more
I had seen several pictures of people dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the East but a lot of them just were not big enough for my imagination. I found a huge box and used that at the base of the house. I used the flaps from one side of the box to build … Read more
The walking dead skeleton king, THE DEAD All hand painted makeup – no air brushing. The head piece/wig is teased and sprayed with spray glue and then covered in decoration spiderweb and then sprayed again with the spray glue to give the old and worn look with spiders hot glued to it. The robe/ cloak … Read more
My friends and I do a group theme every year and this year we settled on going as an arcade. These costumes took about 20-30 hours apiece and were well worth the time and effort! We won two costume contests and had a lot of fun. All the costumes are made from dollar store foam … Read more
So on a long flight home after enjoying ten days of fun in the sun on my honeymoon I had the opportunity to watch Disney’s Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie. It was all the inspiration I needed for this years Halloween costume. I have always enjoyed Halloween and enjoy even more challenging myself to make the best, most realistic costume … Read more
I feel like an 8-year old trapped in the body of a 42-year old. I LOVE Halloween and I LOVE Legos! Every time I see Lord Business, I crack up over his unbelievably large coffee cup helmet. After seeing “The Lego Movie”, I knew exactly what I wanted to be for Halloween, even though I … Read more
Nunni and Papi are surrounded by little girls, and this year or Halloween, Mommy had a very hard time coming up with a theme (as of course the girls have to theme and flow). Mommy, back in August, was researching ideas. Brianna (8 year old) really wanted to be a queen with a big flowing … Read more
These two costumes were a labor of love as tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time. The Wicked Witch of the West costume was created from a black Civil War era dress to which I added feathers to the shoulders to depict the new Wicked Witch of the West version in the “Great and Powerful Oz” … Read more
It all started with the tornado. On a sunny day in August my darling 9 year old son came to me with his Halloween requests. He had decided on a costume, and much to my surprise it had absolutely nothing to do with a super hero or a video game! He wanted to be a … Read more
The story of this costume actually starts with my 2013 Halloween costume, which included a large homemade pumpkin head I’d made out of an old piece of upholstery foam. The costume-making mess left me with a large garbage bag full of foam scraps that I really didn’t want to toss in the landfill, so I … Read more
Introducing Timmy O’Connell, the Party Pooper! The idea came to me when we saw someone dressed as a plain toilet two Halloween’s ago. Then last year I suggested it to my son, age 7 at the time, and he was way too embarrassed to even consider a costume like that, so we dropped it. This … Read more