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 set out to make this astronaut costume as part of a “what I wanted to be when I grew up” theme for work. I had always wanted to be an astronaut from as far back as I can remember. So, when the theme came up at work this year it was a no-brainer. First … Read more
I love Halloween! I always love to come up with creative and new ideas that will wow people. My girlfriends and I collectively came up with the idea to make cotton candy girls costumes. The instant we figured out what we were going to be, my wheels started turning. I could envision it immediately. First … Read more
My family and I enjoy watching and reading the Hunger Games. As an adult I have never dressed up for Halloween. I was going to attend a Halloween Party for Exchange Students and wanted to make sure it was something International that teenagers would appreciate. I also wanted to theme it with my husband and … Read more
When Maleficent came out in theaters this year, I promptly went to see it. Having grown up watching Sleeping Beauty, she became the most trancing Disney character I’d had ever watched. Maleficent was so inspiring visually. I was very taken from beginning to end by the graphics in the movie, but Maleficent’s look and wardrobe … Read more
The Terror that Flaps in the Night was my favorite childhood hero ever. I looked at this website as a guide to making my Darkwing Duck costume because there are none of these costumes out there. This is how I put it all together. I took a different approach and cut a hat like a … Read more
The Addams Family black and white TV show came out before I was born. The Addams Family movie and the sequel, Addams Family Values, came out before my daughter was born, who is now 10 years old. However, once she saw the movies on TV she became a fan of the dark, morbid daughter of … Read more
Classic zombies are always fun, right? You know not so gory, very little blood, not too scary, lots of ghoulish fun! A few weeks ago my darling Royce and I went to see the James Brown biopic – Get up on It! Of course he instantly started quoting and reciting verbatim lots James Brown shouts and lyrics. … Read more
A couple weeks before Halloween the fiance suggests we make masks and be the the Maitlands from Beetlejuice. She had suggested this a year or two before and I was afraid of the complexity of the masks, especially Barbaras. This year I was feeling optimistic so I began construction by getting a couple sheets of … Read more
As Disney girls through and through we knew that we’d have to do a Disney themed costume at some point. Being that our favorite movie is Aladdin, my actual name is Jazmin and Julie’s favorite animal is a tiger, we knew an Aladdin Halloween costume would be perfect! When we first came up with this … Read more
Let’s just say, this has been my favorite costume we’ve ever done, and we’ve done some pretty fun costumes! I saw the costume idea floating around the internet and thought it would be pretty awesome if we could pull it off. I got my girlfriends together and asked what they thought and they were IN! Step 1: … Read more
My husband does the best impression of David Lo Pan from the movie Big Trouble in Little Chine, that my kids and I absolutely adore so we both decided it would make an awesome Halloween surprise for our friends and family! These costumes were put together 100% with a glue gun (I do not have … Read more
This costume was inspired by my daughter’s love for the crane game with stuffed animals inside. We decided to make the machine as a Halloween costume. We took an ordinary cardboard box and cut out the windows accordingly. We then made a panel for the joystick out of a shoe box and added a backpack … Read more