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!
My 4 year old son and I saw TURBO this summer and loved it!! It was then he decided he wanted to BE Turbo for Halloween. I thought that would be great….-original and cute! I had never made a costume before and didn’t think it would be too dificult. HAHA!! It really wasn’t too bad. … Read more
Keeping with the pop star theme each year for Halloween I had to come up with another idea. What better way than to bring it back to the very beginning, Madonna from her VMA performance “like a virgin”. I went to Ardenes and loaded up on pearls, crosses and all the costume jewelry I wore. … Read more
Okay, so we (oh, by ‘we’ i mean 3 best friends from the North East of England) we found out about a really cool Halloween party which would be held in one of Newcastle’s art galleries. After not a lot of persuasion at all we bought tickets and began to get our brains ticking to … Read more
I spent couple of Halloweens in the Stated before but I never bothered to dress up. This year I decided to put my creative side to use and make a Halloween costume from scratch! My inspiration was Little Mermaid! I bought the fabric for the mermaid tail at International Silk & Woolens, located at 8347 Beverly … Read more
My Son Matthew isn’t like the other kids. His classmates were all going as “store bought zombie _____ (fill in the blank, ex: zombie babseball, zombie army man, etc)” for Halloween, but not my boy. He enjoys Halloween and enjoys creating costumes that no one else has seen. This season- ‘Aircraft Carrier’. We have made … Read more
My daughter were brainstorming on what Grandpa Bemo could make this year for McKenley for Halloween. We came up with the pirate ship. When shown to Grandpa he stated *Mary that is way to big* *What are you thinking?* I said I thought that is would be awesome. Please build it!!!! The next morning he … Read more
From an early age, I was a fan of Generation 1 Transformers and was fascinated by them. Therefore, when I had the opportunity and the know-how, I decided to create my own life-sized transformer costume. I chose to model my costume after Optimus Prime, as the most recognizable character and to stick to the Gen … Read more
At my house we have 11 peacocks. I have been extremely fascinated with them FOREVER! I didn’t think of using the feathers for anything until graduation came around and we could decorate our caps. I decided to use the peacocks feathers. After that was finished I thought it would be quite sweet if I could … Read more
This year I decided to be a Minion. My inspiration was Dave Minion. I love the cute, silly, funny guys, and their warm kindheartedness. Emulating them was a joy for me as well as the trick or treaters that came on by. Making this was a challenge. It took me some time to find the … Read more
My boyfriend and I were trying to think of an idea to do for a couples costume this year. He wasn’t helping out at all, so I called him The Grinch of Halloween. And that is how we came up with being The Grinch and Cindy Lou Who. We bought green fuzzy fabric at JoAnn’s, … Read more
This year, I wanted to be Wonder Woman but with Wonder woman being so popular I wanted to be original. The annual Halloween party I go to actually had a Wonder Woman last year so of course I had to be original. I started searching for ideas and took everyone’s ideas they did and combined … Read more
Hi just wanted to say I have always wanted to be a living statue. Wasn’t sure which one or what decade but I thought it would be a super cool costume. My first step was the internet. I looked up living statues and watched a few videos and decided that I wanted to be a … Read more