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* 2009 Coolest Homemade Costume Contest *
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Hi Folks, I'm Elad (the Original Pringles Man.. ;-). It's always loads of fun coming up with a cool costume that's fresh and original (and that no one else has...). |
But once the party is over, the costumes usually get stashed away, and all that's left are a few pictures (that often get buried in an album or some never-to-be-found folder on the computer).
The hard part is usually coming up with a unique idea (execution may sometimes take less than an hour - like Mr. Pringles over here...). And there are so many of you creative and talented beings out there who've thought up (and continue to conjure up) some of the coolest and most original costume ideas.
So why let all that creative energy go to waste?!
Your homemade costume deserves
more than just one day of glory!
By sending us your homemade costume photos and tips, you can win a $500 Online Shopping Spree. But more importantly, the energy you invested into making the costume will be shared with others and come back right at you when you're in need of a few great ideas.
Just look at this site - it's built entirely on ideas and photos shared with us by visitors like yourself. And it's here, with hundreds of cool homemade costumes and tips at your fingertips, growing by the day, for free forever, to enjoy and find inspiration from.
All photos and tips submitted will be made available online for everyone to enjoy, making your submission part of a resource that'll be there for lots of people around the world - and yourself - next time you'll need some cool ideas for a costume.
*Costume Submission Guidelines*
2009 COOLEST COSTUME CONTEST TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Only submissions with BOTH IDEAS AND PHOTOS will be eligible to win
- Each homemade costume picture must be of costumes that you or a family member MADE (not purchased). However, if you've come up with a really creative idea to add-on to a purchased costume - send it over. You've got nothing to lose.
- A homemade costume picture and writeup must be original and cannot be copied from another source.
- Submit as many photos of CHILD, ADULT or even PET costumes as you'd like - but make sure you choose the coolest ones.
- Send a series of costume pictures that show how you made the costume stage-by-stage.
- Submit a video of the costume. You can also upload a video of the costume to YouTube or any other video-sharing site and send us the link. Make sure the clip can be embedded so we can feature it on the site alongside the photos.
- Your homemade costumes DON'T need to be perfectly designed costumes. Submissions are judged not only on "looks", but on creativity, your write-ups, photo composition, and whatever else may catch the judges' eye.
- Explain how you created the costume, where the idea came from, a few how-to tips that'll help make it easier for others, or provide any other information you'd like to share. A detailed writeup will increase your chances of winning a prize!
*Preparing Your Images*
Preparing your costume picture for our gallery will help us get it online faster and also make your costume look its best.
Resizing your images: Your costume photo will be automatically resized once you upload it. However, we suggest that you crop and resize your images beforehand so that you ensure your costume photo looks exactly the way you want it. It's best to resize your photo to 400 pixels width. When resizing the width, make sure to keep the 'aspect ratio' of the heigth so that the image isn't distorted.
Cropping your images: To crop your image so that your costume is right in the center and as large as can be, you can use your own photo editor (such as Photoshop) or this easy-to-use online photo editor.
Here is an example of an image before and after being cropped:
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After being cropped...
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Sending more than one photo: The form below enables you to upload only one costume picture. Make sure you send the very best photo with the form. However, if you feel that your costume deserves more than just one picture you can send us up to three more photos to coolestparties[at]gmail.com. Remeber to include your name and any other additional information that'll help us.
By submitting your photos and writeups you grant Coolest-Homemade-Costumes.com permission to republish, alter and create derivatives in any and all media whatsoever.
To give you just a bit more MOTIVATION to submit your homemade costume photos and how-to tips, we're holding this cool costume contest. And what's really great is that it doesn't matter where you live in the world, you can win any of these prizes:
$1000 in Prizes
GRAND PRIZE: $500 Online Shopping Spree!
Two (2) Second Place Prizes:
$150 Gift Certificate
Four (4) Third Place Prizes:
$50 Gift Certificate
Submission Deadline:
The Stroke of Midnight, November 7, 2009
Don't put it off - Submit Today!
IMPORTANT! - We suggest you save your writeup as a Word document so that if there's a technical glitch and it doesn't come through, we'll ask you to send your submission again and you won't have to rewrite it.
Costumes Submitted By Visitors
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Coolest Homemade Lego Mini Figure Costume 22 Made from duct tape, cardboard, foam, more duct tape, more cardboard, some spackling paste, some mesh, more duct tape, styrofoam, batting, regular foam,...
Coolest Homemade Dr. Seuss Costumes 7 Well, we all decided to do something original for halloween. Since the three of us don't like buying costumes, we all made them. While coming up with an ...
Coolest Homemade Beheaded Marie Antoinette Costume 5 This costume was something I found others had done.There were plenty of ideas/photos posted online, but I wanted to take it a few steps further. I watched ...
Coolest Homemade Beetlejuice and Miss Argentina Couple Costume 20
She plays a smaller part in the movie, but.... She is a MUST to be immortalized in the form of a costume...
This year, I Made/Put together the FABULOUS ...
Coolest Homemade Wall-E Halloween Costume 8 My son Josh has been into Wall-e since the movie came out. He started requesting to watch it several times a day and as Halloween approached we asked him ...
Coolest Homemade Deep Sea Diver Costume 4 This guy came up from exploring the depths of the ocean to show everyone how useful and exciting recycled materials can be. We had a blast creating this ...
Coolest Homemade Richard Simmons Halloween Costume 2
My 11 year old son worked this costume and made it super Fab!!
He had an absolute ball playing the part of Richard...
I bought res/white stripe material(...
Coolest Homemade G.I. Joe and Barbie Costumes 15
G.I. Joe & Barbie In a Box
The first challenge was finding boxes. We looked at local appliance stores etc to see if they had any left over appliance ...
Coolest Homemade Peter Pan Family Costume 7 Never Neverland! My son, Elliott, really wanted to be Peter Pan for Halloween so we went along with a theme. I was Wendy, my husband Bill was Captain ...
Coolest Homemade School Bus Costume 2 I am a bus driver & my son rides with me. He just loves schoolbuses. So, the only costume suitable for him was a schoolbus. Since there are no bus costumes ...
Coolest Homemade Showgirl Costumes Breaking free from the ordinary costumes in a plastic bag, we wanted to own the night with a more exciting get up. The story begins with Raquel, Lola, and ...
Coolest Homemade Mystique from X-Men Costume 12 This costume took us about a week to get completed. We went to different dance stores looking for a navy blue leotard but no one had one in the store, so ...
Coolest Homemade Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife Beth Costumes 23 I needed a easy cheap costume for our Halloween party, and thought- ok I have big boobs, what can I do with those?? So Beth popped into my head lol. I ...
Coolest Homemade Hershey's Chocolate Bar Costume The idea came after my sister and I debated about a package that could be made into a costume. We entered to www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com and saw ...
Coolest Homemade Ice Cream Truck Costume My kids always want to have very original costumes, and this year, my daughter decided to be an ice cream truck. I was an ice cream truck in the 6th grade,...
Coolest Homemade Headless Lady Costume 40 Headless Mell was inspired by all the other Headless costumes on this site. It was a challenge to figure out how to create it but with all the tips from ...
Coolest Homemade Dunkin' Donuts Halloween Costume 3 This is a picture of my sister and I. We came up with the idea searching the Internet and thought it was awesome. We got our outfits from Value Village....
Coolest Homemade Snap! Crackle! Pop! Rice Krispies Group Costume 2
Snap! Crackle! Pop!
For Halloween this year my friends and I went out dressed as the silly cartoon characters of the well known cereal Rice Krispies!...
Coolest Homemade Mr. T Halloween Costume 13 I PIDDY THE FOOL.This costume was a BLAST! Everyone stopped and spoke to my son over this costume. A few younger kids didn't know who Mr.T was but the ...
Coolest Homemade Plastic Army Man Costume 3 I put this costume together using ideas from your site. I loved the costume of the plastic army man on and thought I could do it as well or better. It ...
Coolest Homemade Mister Potato Head Child Halloween Costume 19 We decided to make this costume becasue our son loved the toy. It was actually very east to do. I followed the pattern of a bumblebee and made the body ...
Coolest Homemade Wall-E and Eve Couple Costume 10
For this Halloween, we decided to be Wall-E and Eve.
Eve:
For Eve’s costume, I bought a white 22 gallon trash can with a push/swing lid. I cut a hole ...
Coolest Homemade Howie Mandel from Deal or No Deal Costume
Well this is me and my wife!
we love your site cause gives us great ideas, or just fun to enjoy.
we chose to look like the tv hit deal or no deal, because ...
Coolest Homemade Mystique Costume 16 I got my idea for Mystique because she is one of my favorite X-Men characters. I researched online and found a few techniques that I combined to come ...
Coolest Homemade Zombie Wizard of Oz Group Costume 22 The Tin Man decided he was tired of everyones complaining (& since he didn't have a heart in the first place) he took his ax and .... well, lets just say ...
Coolest Homemade Cupcake Adult Costume 26 This costume took me a little over a week to make. I sewed it with my sewing machine and a lot of it was by hand. I bought this thick silver material that ...
Coolest Homemade Flapper Gal Style Peacock Costume 27 I first started by buying lots of feathers from Michael's. For the tail, I got about 20 long eye feathers and glued them on to a half circle of cardboard ...
Coolest Homemade Choo Choo Train Child Costume 3 My two year old wanted to be a choo choo train, and I wanted it to be something I could sew up since I have been trying to learn. So instead of doing the ...
Coolest Homemade Mad Hatter Baby Costume 21 Over the years I have loved Alice in Wonderland, from collecting tea cups and creating my own Wonderland area in my home to different copies of the movie ...
Coolest Homemade Optimus Party (the Transformer) Costume 41 I made this costume after being inspired by the movie, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. I would have been in the movie, but I was passed out when ...
Coolest Homemade Dr Jonathan Crane AKA The Scarecrow Costume 39
Almost completely handmade costume takes several different versions of the popular Batman villain Scarecrow and combines them into one.
The straightjacket ...
Coolest Homemade Wolverine, Sabretooth and Mystique from X-Men Costumes 15 My girlfriend and I were watching X-men origins and thought since people always tell me I look like Liev Schreiber, what the heck? I'll be Sabretooth! So,...
Coolest Homemade Robot Costume 39 This is a Robot costume I made for my son for his Halloween Parade at school. I used boxes for the body and painted them silver. I also used reflectors ...
Coolest Homemade Pebbles and Bam Bam Costumes 27 MY BEST FRIEND RECENTLY WAS AWARDED CUSTODY OF THESE CHILDREN, JUST A COUPLE MONTHS BEFORE HALLOWEEN. THE CHILDREN LOOK LIKE TWINS HOWEVER; THE BOY IS ...
Coolest Homemade Wonder Woman Halloween Costume 20 I was wonderwoman this year for Halloween and loved it! I was going to make a bustier, but then I found this one at forever 21 and it worked perfectly....
Coolest Homemade Darkness from Legend Costume The costume came from the character Darkness from the movie Legend. The character was a demon with animal legs and hooves. I started with a base latex ...
Coolest Homemade Robot Halloween Costume 38 Being a college student money is hard to come by. So when I found a large cardboard box, at work, around august I knew I had to turn it into a costume ...
Coolest Homemade R2D2 Stroller Costume 26 So we are Star Wars nuts in our family and ever since I purchase the complete Storm Trooper Armor for my husband, we have tried to incorporate the entire ...
Coolest Homemade Budweiser Warrior Halloween Costume 7 I'm a university student, so that means I don't have a lot of money. So for halloween, I didn't wanna spend a obscene amount of money on some generic costume....
Coolest Homemade Little Bo Peep and Her Lost Sheep Costume 5 For Halloween this year, my daughters dressed as Little Bo Peep and her lost sheep. To make the sheep costume I purchased an inexpensive, plain, long-...
Coolest Homemade Mini Cooper Transformer Halloween Costume 40 Hello, My name is Jordan Dennis and this year for Halloween I made a TRANSFORMABLE! Transformer costume. Let me tell you why, last year I made the coolest ...
Coolest Homemade Dead Receptionist from Beetlejuice Costume 21 For the past 2 years my Halloween costumes have been a little lame, so I decided this year I was going to go all out. Having watched Beetle Juice earlier ...
Coolest Homemade He Man and She Ra Couple Costume 9 Me and my boyfriend love Halloween, and I refuse to ever buy a store bought costume. We both love 80's TV, and we both happened to love He-Man and She-...
Coolest Homemade Wolverine Halloween Costume 3 well my son told me that he wanted to wolverine for halloween. But he said that he wanted to be the one off the movies were he wears a mucsle shirt and ...
Coolest Homemade Zoltar Costume 7 The movie Big has always been a favorite of mine. As I was pondering what to be this year, that would go with my new beard I've been fostering, it came ...
Coolest Homemade Carmen Miranda Halloween Costume 4
This was a fun costume to make. Most people today do not even know who Carmen Miranda was.
First I went shopping for all kinds of fruit and bright ...
Coolest Homemade Popcorn Box Halloween Costume 14 This is a popcorn box that I (Rebecca, Brandons Mother) made for my 3 year old boy Brandon White. I started out not knowing what to do and absolutely ...
Coolest Homemade Ultimate AXE Effect Costume 2
Hi,
I just wanted to share with you my past real life AXE EXPERIENCE this Halloween.
I am finishing my 3rd year as a Civil Engineering student at the ...
Coolest Homemade Wall E Child Costume 9 My almost 3 year old son loves the Disney movie Wall E and wanted to be him for Halloween this year so my husband and I embarked on the task of making ...
Coolest Homemade Jellyfish Halloween Costume 6 To make this costume, we bought a foam hat from JoAnns, cut a ring of poster board out and attached it to the brim of the hat to extend its width. We then ...
Coolest Homemade Guitar Costume
I always try to come up with an original costume idea, but i think this one tops it off!!
I actually look on the internet for ideas, especially this site,...
Coolest Homemade Michael Jackson's Off The Wall Album Cover Costume 8 The idea came from being invited to a Michael Jackson themed Halloween Party. I thought about how cool it would be to make an album, or CD, cover come ...
Coolest Homemade Monsters, Inc. Family Costume 15
I was Mike, Hubby was Sully and our little girl was Boo.
Mike was paper mache (9 layers) over an exercise ball (don't cover the plug, that was you can ...
Coolest Homemade Where the Wild Things are Costumes 15 Well we loved the characters so much and my twin daughters really wanted to be them. I went to work on it with cardboard, old fur coats, fur remnants ...
Coolest Homemade Hammer Head Shark Costume 4 My 3.5 year old son insisted on being a Hammer Head Shark. Not a regular shark. Had to be a Hammer Head. Naturally, we searched for examples but found ...
Coolest Homemade Flight of the Conchords Costume The Flight of the Conchords; ie., Mel's dream. Based on the characters from the HBO TV series!
Coolest Homemade Thomas The Train Costume 28 This started out as a little project because I couldn't find a Thomas The Train costume for my little man. He is obsessed with Thomas and all the costumes ...
Coolest Homemade Transforming Batmobile Tumbler Costume 38 This is my vision of the Batmobile Tumbler as a Transformer. The costume allows me to walk and move with only slightly limited mobility. It transforms ...
Coolest Homemade Optimus Prime Costume 39
hi
Here is one of my favorite hero. The supreme transformer optimus prime.
I want it to be at the extreme low cost, made of recuperated cardboard,...
Coolest Homemade Jessica amd Roger Rabbit Couple Costume 5 I have always loved the movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and always thought Jessica Rabbit was the cats pajamas haha. I bought a sequined tube dress on ...
Coolest Homemade Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Costumes 20 I love the story Alice In Wonderland, and so for work, me and a friend dressed as the quirky Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. We went to a used bargain store ...
Coolest Homemade Vegas Showgirl Costume 2 Needed a last minute costume, so I went to Hobby Lobby to dig around. I saw a lot of their Christmas stuff was on sale, so I headed there for ideas. Found ...
Coolest Homemade American Gothic Costume 4 I chose to do American Gothic because this has been one of my favorite paintings since I was a child and this was my first try at being two characters ...
Coolest Homemade Sally and Jack Skellington Costumes 32 My husband and I decided to be Sally and Jack Skellington. Jack's mask was the most intricate part of the costume. He blew up a punching bag and applied ...
Coolest Homemade Tin Man Costume 21 Hello, this costume was made for my office halloween party. My group decided to do the theme of The Wizard of Oz. I wanted to be the Tin Man since he ...
Coolest Homemade Moulin Rouge Burlesque Dancer Costume 4 I've always had a fascination with burlesque and decided to try glam it up one year with a friend! I don't like the idea of women dressing up every costume ...
Coolest Homemade My Little Pony Adult Costume My Little Pony was a very popular childhood toy in the early 90's that seems to have a cult-like following. Although I am not in that cult, I do enjoy ...
Coolest Homemade Astronaut Costumes 6 me and my four friends were astronauts this year... not sexy, slutty astronauts... but AWESOME astronauts. we made our helmets out of trash can lids and ...
Coolest Homemade Dinosaur Costume 10 Ok, so I was on the way home from Walmart, Monday Oct. 26 (5 days before Halloween). I wanted to have my kids dress as Sully and Boo from Monsters Inc....
Coolest Homemade Stewie Griffin Costume 2 My costume is Stewie Griffin, the baby from family guy. It was made using two laundry baskets, which I cut the rim off of and then taped together. I then ...
Coolest Homemade Where the Wild Things Are Costume 14 I made a Where the Wild Things Are costume for my boyfriend to wear. He went as a wild thing and I was Max. It was based on the Spike Jonzs movie version ...
Coolest Homemade Cat in the Hat Costume 6 My twins are 15 months old. I’ve planning on dressing them as Thing 1 & Thing 2 since last year! Their wigs were gray & I sprayed them blue with blue ...
Coolest Homemade Pretty Peacock Costume 26 Well to start, I have to thank my friend Kieu who decided to have this Animal themed party. If it wasn’t for her I would have never attempted to make a ...
Coolest Homemade Holiday Barbie Costume 17 My daughter is 6 years old and this year we kept asking her what she wanted to be for Halloween, and she was undecided. After about 2 weeks we were thinking ...
Coolest Homemade Animal from the Muppets Costume 17
My nickname is Animal so this year I decided to go as Animal from the Muppets.
For the head I used 1/2 inch upholsrty foam which i cut and layered on ...
Coolest Homemade Mad Hatter Costume 19 Alice in Wonderland characters are always a good go-to for a Halloween costume. But you just can't go with a run-of-the-mill, Wonderland costume, if you ...
Coolest Homemade Mr. T Costume 16 Went to Goodwill, bought the army pants and shirt. shaved the full Mr T Mohawk and beard. used black body color and added a bunch of gold chains, rings ...
Coolest Homemade Boy Fairy Costume 19 I made this costume (bought the wings) when I couldn’t find anything I liked. I modeled it after “Terrance” from Tinkerbell. So he is a Sparrow Man which ...
Coolest Homemade Little Boo from Monster's Inc Costume 14 Every time we had our daughter in piggy tails, people mentioned she looked just like Boo from Monster's Inc, so this year was the perfect opportunity for ...
Coolest Homemade Ghostbusters Costumes 19 This year my friends and I were determined to win the costume contest with our group of friends in an annual party that grows every year. Since it is the ...
Coolest Homemade Gumball Machine Costume 8 My daughter, Madelyn, REALLY wanted to be a gumball machine this year after seeing some of the ideas on this website. Last year, she was a robot, which ...
Coolest Handmade Cupcake and Jimmies Costume 25 I made this cupcake costume based on the Pottery Barn Kids costume that sold for $60!? I didn’t want to spend such an amount on a costume that probably ...
Coolest Homemade Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Costume 18 This year my friends and I were determined to win the costume contest with our group of friends in an annual party that grows every year. Since it is the ...
Coolest Homemade Mad Hatter and Queen of Hearts Costumes 18 The idea for the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts for Halloween 2009 came from Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, starring Johnny Depp which comes out ...
Coolest Homemade Frosted Mini Wheat Costume I sprayed fabric that was light-brown in color to two pieces of foam that were the front and back pieces. I then took some raffia (I ended up buying 6 ...
Coolest Homemade Miss Argentina Receptionist from Beetlejuice Costume 19
The receptionist is a homemade costume.
I used an old bridesmaid dress and then I made cape out of wires and glitterly mesh fabric. I then attahced it ...
Coolest Homemade Eris Greek Goddess Costume Eris is the Greek goddess of chaos, conflict, and strife. She is a natural-born troublemaker. When all the other gods and goddesses were invited to ...
Coolest Homemade Paul Stanley KISS Costume 37
We decided to do Kiss this year because they are on tour and we are going to see them in concert! Now we can wear our costumes to the concert as well.
I ...
Coolest Homemade Mister T Costume 15 This year I decided to show my sense of humour and go as MR T. I am actually a girl. I bought a bald cap with mohawk attached and painted it brown, i also ...
Coolest Homemade Energizer Bunny Costume 6 Since we have a costume contest at work every year I wanted to do something unique that would bring home a win.....What else could do that but the Energizer ...
Coolest Homemade Gene Simmons KISS Costume 36
We decided to do Kiss this year because they are on tour and we are going to see them in concert! Now we can wear our costumes to the concert as well.
I ...
Coolest Homemade Mummy Boy Halloween Costume 16
I am a mother of two wonderful children, my son is 5 and my daughter is 3.
I am the daughter of a very artsy, creative mother whom shared her secrets ...
Coolest Homemade Angler Fish Halloween Costume 5 To make this party pleaser, I used some foam from a couch cushion and carved it out to make the body of the Angler, then made the additional pieces like ...
Coolest Homemade Statue of Liberty Costume 3 My daughter had decided to be Statue of Liberty. My mom found some shiny, silky, teal green material and bought a few yards. She then sewed it togehter ...
Coolest Homemade Alex Delarge from Clockwork Orange Costume 5 I really like getting into character for Halloween. Rather than going to a costume shop and picking something off the shelf, I like to think about movie ...
Coolest Homemade Deviled Egg and Angel Food Cake Couple Costume After many hours of exploring the coolest-homemade-costumes.com, we came across an adorable kid costume - a "devil"ed egg. My husband laid claim to this ...
Coolest Homemade Cruella DeVille Halloween Costume 10 I wanted my daughter to be something different this year so after thinking about it my sister and I came up with Cruella De Vil. My sister made the tutu ...
Coolest Homemade Star Wars Jawa Costume 25 For the robe started out with monks cloth and dyed it with brown ritedye.( that took forever)We had issues with the monks cloth and went with a cotton ...
Coolest Homemade Scooby Doo Family Costume 11 We did a family theme this year “ The Scooby Doo Crew”, I was the only one who made my costume at home. It was very simple. I had a orange shirt, red skirt ...
Coolest Homemade Tapatio vs Cholula Hot Sauce Costumes 2 Me and the lady love dressing up for halloween, but we did not want to spend alot of money for a costume and did not have a clue what to be. While eating ...
Coolest Homemade Mystique from X-men Halloween Costume 14 This costume was a lot of fun! I had the idea last year but I just couldn't figure out the paint. This year, I was adamant. My friend had just come ...
Coolest Homemade Wonder Woman Costume 19
Wonder Woman is my absolute favorite! But when I decided to dress like her for Halloween, I knew those packaged store costumes just wouldn't cut it.
I ...
Coolest Homemade Leeloo from the 5th Element Halloween Costume 2 I spent $30 on this costume - the wig was the most expensive part ($25). I then bought a roll of white duct tape and use a white bikini bottom I already ...
Coolest Homemade John and Lorena Bobbitt Couple Costume 6
My husband and I had the best time with this virtually free to make costume....
We used Pj's that we already had in our closets and purchased the fake ...
Coolest Homemade R2D2 Halloween Costume 24 Started with a rubbermaid trash can. The exterior details are foam carved to different shapes and sizes. The legs have a PVC base with foam exterior. The ...
Coolest Homemade Peacock Halloween Costume 25 I wasn’t really thinking about what I was going to be for Halloween this year until about two weeks before… so when a fellow co-worker told me about a ...
Coolest Homemade Geico Money Halloween Costume 8
The Geico Money is all hand made.
While walking around Trick or Treating he even had his own theme music.
Its made from two sectioons of foam which ...
Coolest Homemade Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head Costumes 18 The potato is made out of felt with stiff batting inside and Velcro at the shoulders. We added elastic at the bottom to give it more of a potato look....
Coolest Homemade Expecting (Pregnant) Barbie Costume 16 I decided to make my Halloween Costume this year, being 7 months pregnant there wasn't much out there in stores to buy. A natural brunette I also thought ...
Coolest Homemade Erupting Volcano Costume 2 My nephew loves volcanoes. When he asked me to help him make a costume this year, I knew exactly what to make him. He was so excited. I took his measurements ...
Coolest Homemade Magician and Rabbit in Hat Costume 2 My sons like to dress as a theme for Halloween. This year they went as the magician and rabbit. I purchased the vest, pants and the white shirt at thrift ...
Coolest Homemade Deviled Egg Halloween Costume 5 I got the idea for this costume by looking at the store bought deviled egg costume online. My mom and I ended up making it with a thick felt material ...
Coolest Homemade Troll Dolls Group Costume 6
Trolls
Secret to having the best halloween costume is to simply be a Troll Doll.
You need a nude leotard, tight, hair spray paint color, and a water ...
Coolest Homemade Leg Lamp and Ralphie from A Christmas Story Costumes 2 My idea comes from the Coolest Christmas movie ever...A Christmas Story. I actually have made the Major Award Lamp and it sits in my window every holiday ...
Coolest Homemade Parrot Halloween Costume 13
This was my wife idea to make our daughter a Parrot Bird.
We started looking for the feather boa in a bright red color and a red blouse to create the ...
Coolest Homemade Tim Burton Inspired Scarecrow Costume 24 For my Halloween costume I decided to be a scarecrow. I was inspired by Tim Burton movies mostly. I did not want it to be cute! I bought a plain dress ...
Coolest Homemade Mystique Costume 13 This year I went as Mystique from X-Men. I started off by purchasing a blue unitard from an online discount dance supply store. After making sure it fits ...
Coolest Homemade Edward Scissorhands Halloween Costume 9 Halloween is my favorite holiday!!!!! Every year I try my best to come up with a creative homemade costume. There is nothing better than the feeling ...
Coolest Homemade Little Bo Peep and Her Sheep Couple Costume 4 We got so many great responses to this costume. My Bo Peep costume was a couple different store bought costumes that I mixed and matched to create my ...
Coolest Homemade Doodlebops Costumes These costumes are based on the Disney Channel show The Doodlebops. My husband used to watch it in the mornings with our daughter and suggested it at ...
Coolest Homemade Loofah Halloween Costume 15 I got my idea for the loofah from this site. I took a black tank, 30 yards of netting, and tons of safety pins to complete the costume. I cut the netting ...
Coolest Homemade Flintstone Family Costume 24 My 8 month old daughter was our inspiration for our costumes this year! Ever since she was born we have been told how she looks like pebbles! So I decided ...
Coolest Homemade M.A.S.K Agents Gloria Baker and Matt Trakker Costumes Back in the mid 80's a cartoon came out called M.A.S.K. It captivated me and has made me a life long fan. So, this year for Halloween I thought it would ...
Coolest Homemade Zombie Boy Scout Costume 24 I came up with this idea from working at a Boy Scout camp the past two summers. I had to make the pristine uniform look ragged and old. So I decided to ...
Coolest Homemade Mini Mad Scientist and Assistant Optical Illusion Costume 4 How to be a not so typical Mad Scientist... I had been in awe of the backpack monster costumes with Aliens and other sorts on different websites, so I ...
Coolest Homemade Miss Argentina from Beetlejuice Halloween Costume 18 Took me about a week and several trips to the fabric store but i LOVE how it came out, even though i have never really sewn before. I used a pattern for ...
Coolest Homemade Mister T Halloween Costume 14
i bought this black furry material and brown skin tone
gold beaded lines and
after 3 attempts to make a beard and mohawk i came up with this
Coolest Homemade UPS Delivery Man Costume 2 Ryan Schultz, our 3 year old son, was determined to be a UPS Man for Halloween this year. When looking at Halloween costume catalogs various times, we ...
Coolest Homemade Gene Simmons and Kiss Group Costumes 35 I've been a long time KISS fan and have created many Gene Simmons costumes over the years. My little brother and I, along with a couple of friends,used ...
Coolest Homemade Venus Flytrap Halloween Costume 6 My daughter want to be a Venus Flytrap for Halloween this year. Those can be hard to find in costume stores. We made her costume out of crafting foam ...
Coolest Homemade Stormtrooper Costume 23 My husband makes it a tradition every Halloween to make our daughter (she is 5) a homemade costume. This year, since they both love Star Wars (she probably ...
Coolest Homemade Green Mike Wazowski Halloween Costume 13 With all this talk about going green, we decided to take it literally. Not only is Maria..I mean "Mike" green, so is the costume. It is made out of newspapers,...
Coolest Homemade Gene Simmons Halloween Costume 34 Well I made everything with in a one week, First thing I did was decided what Gene Costume I wanted to make, I chose the 1974-75 KISS Alive. I visited ...
Coolest Homemade Garden Gnome Costume 9 This is my daughter dressed as a garden gnome sitting on a mushroom. It was about $30 dollars to make. I started with a hula hoop as the base of the mushroom,...
Coolest Homemade Where the Wild things Are Max and Carol Costumes 13 I've always been a fan of WTWTA, but when I saw the trailer with one of my favorite Arcade Fire song's playing I was enchanted! So months ago I started ...
Coolest Homemde Bag of Groceries Costume 3 My four year old daughter NEVER does anything like the other kids. This year I thought she would like to be a princess or a witch but no, she wanted to ...
Coolest Homemade Zombie Dad Costume 23 My kids and I, along with some of their friends, are planning to make our own zombie movie, so I decided to use Halloween as a chance to zombify myself ...
Coolest Homemade Hush and Calico Living Dead Dolls Costume 2 WE STUMBLED UPON THESE COSTUME IDEAS 2 DAYS BEFORE HALLOWEEN. WE WERE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FUN, SCARY AND COOL. JUST BROWSING ONLINE LOOKING FOR ZOMBIE ...
Coolest Homemade Garden Fairy Costume 18 This year, my daughter wanted to be a fairy because a friend of hers was, so (only less than a month in advance- bleh) I got out all my fabric for the ...
Coolest Homemade She-Ra and He-Man Couple Costume 8 I grew up watching these classic Saturday morning cartoons while I played with my He-man and She-Ra action figures! When I discovered that these costumes ...
Coolest Homemade Clockwork Orange Group Costume 4 The 4 of us (Me as Alex in the middle) decided to do a group costume for this years halloween, and what cooler group is there than Alex and his Droogs!...
Coolest Homemade Transformer Costume 37 I began constructing this costume in June of 2009. The technical challenge of creating a working transformer greatly appealed to me, although it did turn ...
Coolest Homemade Special Delivery Optical Illusion Costume 2 My daughter and I made this out of duct tape, cardboard, and wire hangers. The mask is an old Freddy Kruger mask we had lying around, and the jumpsuit ...
Coolest Homemade Jack Skellington Costume 31 this year my girlfriend decided she wanted to match for Halloween. So we went shopping at our local Halloween store. when she came across a sally costume ...
Coolest Homemade Captain Jack Sparrow Halloween Costume 6 The costume idea itself was not new, but we were trying it to be as close as possible to the original. Checked a lot of staff online and decided to create ...
Coolest Homemade Napoleon Dynamite Costume 2 I wanted to dress up with my roommate so I kept looking for ideas that two guys could do and we decided on the classic Napolean Dynamite duo of Napolean ...
Coolest Homemade Character 9 Costume
I created this costume for my son based on the character "9" from the movie "9"
we worked on this from scratch.
We created the head from paper-mache-...
Coolest Homemade Garden Gnome Boy Costume 8 I thought up & created my 20 month old son's gnome costume this year. I wanted to be creative, but keep it simple and didn't have money to be spending ...
Coolest Homemade Walter Sobchak Costume from The Big Lebowski Hello everyone!!! This one was a lot of fun!!! So this time I decided to go as Walter Sobchak from the Big Lebowski. I thought of it several months ...
Coolest Homemade KISS Group Costume 33
Everything was made from scratch besides the leggings and two tee-shirts
Paul – the vest was made from faux-leather and the sewn-on sleeves were shiny ...
Coolest Homemade Hamburglar Halloween Costume 4 Hello everyone! So this time I decided to dress as the Hamburglar. This was a fun costume. My buddy Shawn went as Mr. T, another very good costume as ...
Coolest Homemade Zombie Costume 22 Well since I was young I have loved zombie movies, zombie games, just about everything that had the walking undead. So this year I decided to dress up ...
Coolest Homemade Hindu Goddess Kali Costume 3 Hello, im a Halloween junkie from a small town in northern Canada, i was sick of seeing the same costumes year after year, so i tryed to think of something ...
Coolest Homemade Super Mario Brothers Office Costume 31 Hi There!!! So my company holds a costume and area decorating contest every Halloween so my buddy Shawn and I decided to take this opportunity very seriously....
Coolest Homemade Jedi Bat Chicken Costume 17
Marco, age 6, didn't want to be an ordinary chicken... He wanted to be the most respected superhero chicken.... he wanted to be The Jedi BatChicken!
Costume ...
Coolest Homemade Batgirl Costume 5 The costume I made this year for halloween was 'The Amazing BatGirl.' I hand stitched my Batgirl costume by hand to make my costume look as amazing as ...
Coolest Homemade Pillsbury Dough Boy Costume 4 I thought of making my one year old baby into the Pillsbury Dough Boy because of the cute “woo-who” sound that everyone would remember upon seen the costume....
Coolest Homemade Alvin and the Chipmunks Group Costume 4 My friends and I saw a poster for the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie coming out, and saw it as inspiration for our Halloween costumes. We went to Value ...
Coolest Homemade Oompa Loompa Halloween Costume 36
Oompa Loompa
1. Wig,(Joanne's Fabric), blonde little school girl wig, spray painted with both flourecent green hair paint and plastic based forrest ...
Coolest Homemade T Pain Costume Grammy Award winning Hip Hop artist T-Pain created some buzz with his "Big A$$ Chain" jewelry so i decided to go one step further. Took me 2 weeks to complete....
Coolest Homemade Birthday Cupcakes Costumes 24 ~ My daughter Cate, is 15 months old and is STILL at that lovely age, where you can dictate WHAT they will be for All Hallow's Eve...unlike her older 4 ...
Coolest Homemade Mr. Potato Head Halloween Costume 17 I have always done my kids costumes myself, I got the idea from his favorite movie Toy Story and decided to make him into Mr. Potato Head!! It was a fun ...
Coolest Homemade Lego Batman, Robin, Joker and Penguin Costumes 8 There have been many people who have gone as Lego people, but we wanted to do something that, to our knowledge, has never been done before. After thinking ...
Coolest Homemade Oompa Loompa Costume 35
I made this costume from scratch using white fabric and mostly hot glue..
I sewed the pants together after a patern I cut out using only measurements ...
Coolest Homemade Jack in the Box Stroller Costume 11 I knew before my son was born, that I wanted to make him a Jack in the Box for his first Halloween, since we were naming him Jackson. He is only 9 months ...
Coolest Homemade Mad Scientist and His Creations Costume 3 This year for halloween my 4 year old was going to be a Mad Scientist and his 18 month old brother could be the monster he created. I thought it would ...
Coolest Homemade Willy Wonka Costume 27 Since I am a huge fan of all things Johnny Depp, I decided to be Willy Wonka this year. I bought my coat for $8 at a thrift store and borrowed the black ...
Coolest Homemade Tin Man and Scarecrow Couple Costume 20 Tin Man was made from 3x25’ aluminum sheet from Home Depot. Held together by rivets and ¼” bolts. Everything hand made. 50 hours of labor. Scarecrow made ...
Coolest Homemade Cleopatra Costume 3
I wanted to be Cleopatra this year.
It was a BIG HIT
I made the Cleopatra Head Piece from scratch.
Seriously.
I got a belt................ Cut it ...
Coolest Homemade Mario Kart Character Group Costumes 35 Mario, Princess Toadstool, Toad, Toadette, Wario, and King Boo battle it out on the streets of Honolulu. Not an original concept, but we like to think ...
Coolest Homemade Tetris Couple Halloween Costume 3 My fiance and I are huge Halloween fans and we love coming up with an original idea every year. This year we got started in December. We were playing ...
Coolest Homemade Yoshi from Super Mario World Costume 34 I work in retail so any costume I came up with had to be family friendly. The initial plan was to be one of the Guinea Pigs from G-Force and up until about ...
Coolest Homemade Peacock Halloween Costume 24 I took a blue dress and order some peacock feathers from ebay which was a lot cheaper then going to your local craft shop, then i took a round flat styrofoam ...
Coolest Homemade Cindy Lou Who Halloween Costume 5 I handmade this costume for my 6 year old daughter. I found an adult red velvet cape from a vampire costume from year's past and cut it to my daughter'...
Coolest Homemade Spaghetti and Meatballs Halloween Costume 14 My sons school does not do a Halloween parade they do a character parade. So the custom has to be based on a character in a book…(it helps that the kids ...
Coolest Homemade Romeo and Juliet of Fast Food Couple Costume 3 This year, we decided to have a little fun with some homemade costumes. It all started out whenever I wanted to dress up for work, but didn’t want to ...
Coolest Homemade Venus Flytrap Costume 5 I made this venus flytrap costume for my 7 year old son. He has his own live venus fly trap plant and that gave him the idea for his Halloween costume....
Coolest Homemade Captain America Costume This is my Captain America costume. I made it entirely from scratch. I wore it to the comic book hero themed Halloween party I held last night at my ...
Coolest Homemade Ms. Pacman Chasing Blue Ghost Costumes 11 These costumes were created for an “80’s icons” theme party that we were invited to. My fiancé suggested PacMan, but since, technically, that was the ...
Coolest Homemade Pineapple Costume After much discussion and debate about what to be this Halloween, I finally decided to turn myself into a pineapple. Of course, it was much easier said ...
Coolest Homemade Lego Zombie Costume 21 This costume was a lot of fun to make! It consists of poster board, cardboard, box tape, glue, and bug screen for the mouth. I collaborated many different ...
Creepy Homemade Jack Skellington Costume 30 Each year we have a themed Halloween party with a pretty large number of people coming to our house to celebrate. So far our themes have been vampires,...
Coolest Homemade Little Wild Thing Baby Costume 12 i made this costume for my son liam for his 1st birthday party. i have never sewn anything in my life, so this entire costume is made with glue, safety ...
Coolest Homemade Zombie Marilyn Monroe and James Dean Costumes 4
This Halloween, me and my boyfriend dressed up as Zombie Marilyn Monroe and James Dean.
Although Our costume isn't completely handmade, I feel that ...
Coolest Homemade Miss Argentina and Beetlejuice Couple Costume 16 The hardest part of putting the costumes together was my cape. It took me a couple weeks to figure out how I was going to make the similar shape from the ...
Coolest Homemade Poison Ivy from Batman Costume 38 I wanted to be poison Ivy for Halloween this year but I couldn't find a decent costume anywhere so I decided to make one. I bought a nude corset and made ...
Coolest Homemade Cotton Candy Halloween Costume 8 My kids always want to have very original costumes, and my 10-year-old was coming up with such original costumes that I had no idea how we would make them....
Coolest Homemade Sweet Pea Costume 3 My daughter couldn’t decide what she wanted to be this Halloween until I ate peas in pasta at a restaurant and it came to me. I researched how to make ...
Coolest Homemade Oompa Loompa Costumes 33 My sister and I have always wanted to be Oompa Loompas for Halloween, so this year we finally did it! We are both short which made this even more perfect....
Coolest Homemade Crayola Crayons Costumes 15 This costume was made purely by 3 unversity students. We borrowed a sewing machine from friends of ours and made 3 dresses in different colours/ We then ...
Coolest Homemade Oompa Loompa Costume 32 I was a big hit at the party in my Oompa Loompa costume. I got the idea from this website and thought I could pull it off. I don't sew but I thought ...
Coolest Homemade Cruella De Ville Costume 9 This was a very easy and inexpensive costume to put together. I spent about $10 on the entire thing and then used things I already had. The hardest part ...
Coolest Homemade Toy Robot Costume 34 Our daughter loves to make things out of boxes. This inspired her to want to be a toy robot for Halloween this year. We let her pick out the color, and ...
Coolest Homemade Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth Couple Halloween Costume 22 My husband and I have been wanting to do this costume for a few years. We got the wigs from the costume shop. I put beads and feathers in "dogs" wig....
Coolest Homemade Bearded Lady Costume 4 I got it into my head that I wanted to use some sort of fake hair for my Halloween costume, so I ended up deciding on a bearded lady. Once I settled on ...
Coolest Homemade Playful Porcupine Costume 2 After seeing the movie "Open Season", my son decided he wanted to be "Buddy the Porcupine" for Halloween. My first thought was "How the heck am I going ...
Coolest Homemade Peacock Costume 22 After looking at various peacock costumes around the interwebs, I decided the build my costume on a peacock fan. From there, I added about 60 more peacock ...
Coolest Homemade Evil Butcher Doctor Costume
My daughter wanted to go as a scary doctor butcher so here is how we made it.
1)Bought Dr Outfit off eBay.
2)On a breakfast tray platter we made it look ...
Coolest Homemade FedEx Mail Order Bride Costume 2 I was looking online for creative Halloween costume ideas and stumbled on a picture of a lady who was a Mail Order Bride. She was wearing a wedding ...
Coolest Homemade Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat Costumes 17 This year for Halloween my boyfriend and I dressed as the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. My costume was very easy, I bought ...
Coolest Homemade Lifesize Barbie in a Box Costume 4 Well, as a child my favorite thing to play with was my Barbie doll collection. Now all grown up, this costume was a fun and nostalgic blast from the past!...
Coolest Homemade KISS Group Costumes 32 this year my friends and i dressed up as the band kiss. we bought lots of faux leather material as well as silver and many studs, we used a lot of super ...
Coolest Homemade Peacock Halloween Costume 23 So, I got on this website about 2 weeks ago and I was trying to find inspiration for a Halloween costume. The necklace I'm wearing in the photo gave me ...
Coolest Homemade Dead Head in a Feezer Costume 13
I got inspiration from various sites including yours; it was a big hit on the night here is how we made it....
1)We got a cardboard box bend it in the ...
Coolest Homemade Saul from Pineapple Express Costume So my costume is James Franco’s character, Saul Silver, from the movie Pineapple Express. This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and James Franco’...
Coolest Homemade Harely Quinn Costume 37 I'm Harley Quinn as seen on the new Arkham Asylum Video game. I had to paint almost everything, the bra, the corset. Couldn't find the boots so compromised ...
Coolest Homemade Pee Wee Herman Costume 6 I got my suit from goodwill, the bowtie from mens warehouse, and the shoes I just spray painted some old brown ones that I had. I was a total hit out ...
Coolest Homemade Chicken Halloween Costume 16 This is my favorite costume yet! Wait, she is only two so that doesnt give me many to choose from.This was a simple costume that had everyone talking. I ...
Coolest Homemade Mad Hatter Halloween Costume 16 My Costume is the Mad Hatter which is inspired from Tim Burtons new movie "Alice in Wonderland" coming out in 2010. I love the twist that Burton puts on ...
