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!
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. When I was a kid it was all about the candy, the trick or treating, the school parties and hardly about the costume. When I got older and became more of a class clown I found Halloween as a fun way to get laughs at school by wearing … Read more
This Halloween I created my first couples costumes! When my boyfriend and I first met this year we bonded over our love of video games. Together, we would play the villains and superheroes fighting game “Injustice.” After playing for a while we realized that he looked like the Joker! So, we came up with the … Read more
I play in an adult competitive dodgeball league in West Hollywood where the names of the teams are usually some fun pun (like What Would Jesus Dodge or Game of Throws). This season my team decided to be a costumed mash-up of the English TV show Absolutely Fabulous and Marvel Comic characters calling ourselves Absolutely … Read more
Every year my family dresses up in a group costume for our hometown Halloween parade. Sure it’s fun to win 1st place (We’ve won every year) but it is something we work on as a group and it’s always a good time!! Not to mention everyone looks forward to our costume year after year. !. … Read more
My youngest son and his best friend decided to be Will Turner and Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Carribean this year. It became a group costume when my oldest son wanted to be Ragetti (pirate with wooden eye). My son actually helped design and also sew the costume. We had some of … Read more
1. HOW THE BEAUTIFUL BALLERINA IN A JEWELRY BOX WAS MADE I started out with recycled furniture boxes. Measurements were taken for the height, width and thickness according to what I thought would be a good size for my daughter. Next I cut out the base of jewelry box in one long piece and scored … Read more
This Rainbow Costume was the very first costume I’ve ever made. My 5 year old daughter at the time, piped up she wanted to be a rainbow for Halloween. A RAINBOW?! Sheesh.. where was I going to find a rainbow costume?? Yeah.. just as you were probably thinking.. um.. nowhere! It was time to get … Read more
As always…I start every costume by sketching everything out. Persia wanted to be Babymouse this year (2013). Babymouse is the main character in a kid’s comic book, written by Jennifer L Holm and Matthew Holm. Persia LOVES these books. This was her choice for Halloween this year. DRESS- I made a pattern for the dress … Read more
My husband has not gotten into Doctor Who with me and our 2 boys. Nevertheless, he is such a great hubby that he willingly donned a Doctor Who costume to go along with my version of Amy Pond for our annual grown-ups only costume party. Now that’s true love. It is really type casting because … Read more
So, my boyfriend and I had been racking our brains for what to be this Halloween when two aging superheroes came to mind–Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. We of course wanted to make our costumes and I jumped right into it–running to Target after work, Michaels on the weekend, Goodwill on my breaks, etc. Generally … Read more
My kids LOVE homemade costumes, every year for Halloween we’re on the proul to be unique. I came across alot of Minion costumes but none that stood out to me. So I decided to start creating and I knew I wanted my kids costumes to light up and I wanted to include a fan so that … Read more
I got the idea from different costumes like gladiators, knights, and warriors. Its was inspiration from the Underworld. I really like the metalic armor on knights, so i went with the concept. Finally I came across basket vegetable steamers and figured i could layer them together to achieve the look I wanted. I was trying … Read more