Take a look at these cool homemade Garbage Pail Kids costumes shared with us by costume enthusiasts from around the world. Along with the costumes here, you’ll also find loads of homemade costume ideas and DIY Halloween costume inspiration for your next costume project. Enjoy!
I’ve always wanted to be a Garbage Pail Kid for Halloween. It’s a iconic symbol from my childhood and hey, they’re disgusting! When else do you get to be totally gross and really disturbing to look at? Also, I wanted people to be totally grossed out by the process. I got EXACTLY those results with … Read more
I had the idea one night to be a Garbage Pail Kid for Halloween. I called my best friend to ask her if she wanted in on the idea and the next thing I know there were six of us that were going as GPK’s. Each person was responsible for finding their costume clothing and … Read more
I came up with the idea to do the Garbage Pail Kids costume as a throw-back to my childhood. I started building it, then spread the word among my friends until we had a group. I made all the wigs by sowing thick yarn onto matching beanies. The rest is pretty simple costume making. Basically, … Read more
As a throwback to our 1980s childhood, we dressed up as some of our favorite Garbage Pail Kids — Adam Bomb, Mixed-Up Mitch and Leakey Lindsey. The clothing was all sewn by hand using materials found at thrift stores & fabric. The props were made from scratch from items picked up at Home Depot. The … Read more