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 thought it would be fun this year to let my 7 yr old son design his own costume. So he was excited to draw up his idea and came up with this crazy spikey haired clown guy with a tie. It was very fun to make his vision come to life. I decided to … Read more
This costume was inspired from the Lego movie. She absolutely loved the Lego movie and her favorite character from it was Unikitty. She decided that that was what she wanted to be for Halloween. It was very different and she was the only one around who had the idea. We put a lot of time … Read more
My son, Dominic LoCascio (four years old) wanted to be a pilot. I’ve always been very interested in the subject of the Second World War and that time period so I decided to dress him in military gear from that era and we constructed a plane modeled after the F4U Corsair, one of the most … Read more
I have been a fan of the TV show Dinosaurs since I was a child. I especially loved Charlene Sinclair (the daughter on the show) because Sally Struthers, who is from my hometown of Portland, Oregon, voiced her. So this year I went about trying to make a Charlene Sinclair costume that fully captured her … Read more
We originally wanted to have a family costume theme in which all four of us would be a Lego-themed family. As it turned out, only two participated in the Lego family which was probably a good thing because we completed the execution of the project within three days. The collection of the items on our … Read more
It was a Jolly Holiday With Mary! My wife and I knew this year would be the Halloween of Frozen. That being said, we were thoroughly disappointed when our 3 year old daughter Shaylee told us in August that she wanted to be Anna or Elsa for Halloween. We asked Shaylee if there was anything else … Read more
For this Halloween, I chose to be Mary Poppins. It seemed easy, but I searched several stores to piece the costume together. I first found the hat at Value Village, a local thrift store. It already had a black flower on top, so I ripped that off and glued on my own flowers that I … Read more
We came up with the idea when we were searching Disney Original movies. The costume was actually really cheap and easy to make and it recieved LOTS of compliments! We got both the leggings and top off of Forever21.com for $6 total. The super shiny skirt was found on Ebay for $10. The vest was … Read more
He’s off to see the wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz! While following the yellow brick road, he passes by an evil wicked witch, a beautiful good witch, a cowardly lion, a scarecrow without a brain, a heartless tin man, and a girl with glittery shoes. And then it happens, another twister! They all get … Read more
The scariest movie of recent times, The Conjuring, based on a true story, features a creepy doll, a sinister monkey, and a bone-chilling music box. Then comes the prequel- highlighting the demonic doll, Annabelle. She writes on walls, turns on the sewing machine and plays records. Annabelle is portrayed as a beautiful porcelain doll turned … Read more
I’m a huge Twilight Zone nerd and so this year, after having chopped off all my hair a month prior, I decided it was due time I gave a Halloween nod to the show’s host, Rod Serling. I always make my own costumes, but this year definitely took the cake in terms of how elaborate … Read more
Inspiration: My husband and I grew up in the 80’s, and as kids, our favorite cartoon characters were He-man and She-ra. Every year, I like to do a group family costume, so when discussing what we wanted to be this year, Masters of the Universe won! Deciding who everyone was going to be took a … Read more