Can’t get enough tinsel in your life? Does the thought of waiting 2 more months until your favorite holiday seem like agony? Then start your celebration early with these sparkly Christmas season costumes.
An easy and fun DIY costume idea is to dress up in a Christmas tree costume. Why should the tree get all the fun? Adorn yourself with beautiful ornaments and a gleaming star on top of your head. Another awesome idea is an angel on top of a tree costume. Check out the photo below for fantastic homemade costume inspiration.
In addition, you will see DIY costumes from the many Christmas movies and television shows. Take a look at the Ghost of Christmas past costume and the adorable Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer costumes.
So if your love of Christmas cannot wait until December, try one of the homemade costumes from the awesome collection below.
My friend and I came up with the ingenious idea to make a creative homemade Christmas Tree and Present couple costume. Best part is they were ridiculously cheap. Everything we got was from the thrift store and it was all done in 1 day. Firstly the Xmas tree was a ton of fun to put … Read more
This was actually not a Halloween costume when we first did it (although later would be one) but an idea for a Christmas Card. It was two days before Christmas and we realized we did not take a Christmas Family Photo and didn’t send anything out. We usually take standard Holiday photos, red dresses and … Read more
The night before our friends’ Halloween party in Cincinnati, we were faced with the expectation of surpassing our previous year’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein costumes. I’d always wanted to use another holiday (particularly Christmas) as inspiration, and this was my favorite TV special. It’s pretty clear from the photo that I spent more time … Read more
This Christmas Tree costume is a 13 foot tall fully lit Christmas tree with 280 ornaments. The construction is PVC pipes, garlands, duct tape and two laundry baskets. The costume is supported on my head through out the night. One of the pictures shows a friend of mine wearing a Capt Crunch costume I created a … Read more
When my son was younger he enjoyed dressing up as animals. This year (2007) he wanted a Homemade Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Costume. I used a child-sized sewing pattern for a bunny for the main body of the costume. I cut freehand the ears, antlers, nose and hoofs. The eyes are made out of … Read more
This costume was actually made in 4 pieces. The first was the skirt which had a crinoline. The next two were like shawls and the hat. The costume was made out of felt fabric. Then garland (light-weight) decorations and lights were sewn onto to the main costume. The hat was made out of some old … Read more
My idea for this Halloween came a week before last Halloween. I am a costume NUT! I already have some ideas for next year. I am into family themes as you can see. I have two girls and a boy. Luckily, my oldest 4 year old is pretty much game for anything as long as … Read more
Found under the tree Xmas morning. Not! This Christmas Elf costume took me weeks to fabricate. I used curtain material for the body, satin for the cuffs and trim , felt for the ears. (add some bells and whala!) I was due to go out for a Christmas eve drink with my girlfriends I finished … Read more
I used an old satin sheet, cut it into a Christmas tree pattern and sewed it together. For trunk of the tree I just used a piece of brown scrap material and pined it to the bottom of the tree. The decoration on the Christmas tree costume was made out of red and white pieces … Read more
My daughter wanted to be something homemade, so I tried this Homemade Christmas Tree Costume. I got 6 yards of thick green felt and one yard of yellow from Walmart, cost $18.00. Cut the 6 yards in half, giving you two 3 yard pieces of green felt. I laid out one of the 3 yards … Read more
While in college, a group of my sorority sisters and I were all broke and trying to figure out what to be for a Halloween party. My friend Eliza, and I went to the store to look at the costumes in hopes to find some inspiration of something we could mimic. However, most of the … Read more
My daughter, Sierra, does not do gory, gross or scary. In fact, she won’t even stay in the same room if someone is talking about blood, guts or gore. Halloween is obviously not her favorite holiday since it involves all of the above. This year she decided to skip the Halloween horrors and move on … Read more