Coolest Homemade Cabbage Patch Baby Costume 3  This is Elyse in her Homemade Cabbage Patch Baby Costume. She is still so little I knew she would be in her stroller when we went out with her sister. I ...

Coolest Chip from Beauty and the Beast Costume 2  My children attend a school where they are given a theme for the costume dances.

This year’s theme was ‘Disneyland’. I have four children so they each ...

Coolest R2D2 Costume 15  My little guy loved R2D2 but there were no costumes to buy and we really love to make our own. He and I used tape, a garbage can and a cat pan (he's going ...

Coolest Deep Sea Diver Halloween Costume  Well this is what happens every year!! After a flash of inspiration and about 30 hours of handy work. Its quiet strange what materials you find laying ...

Coolest Wii Remote Halloween Costume  For this costume you'll need:

$13 piece of large foam board from frame shop (have them cut--see below)
Two 20” x 30” foam boards from office store ...

Coolest Popcorn Halloween Costume 9  For this costume you'll need:

Four 20” x 30” foam boards from office store or variety store ($2.75 each)
1.5” painter’s tape (usually blue tape which ...

Coolest Solar System Halloween Costume 2  This year, our 5-year-old wanted to be... The Solar System!! Gulp. After much debate and trying to convince our son that we needed a back-up plan, my ...

Coolest Tennis Ball Costume 2  Boing! Boing! Boing! It’s a big bouncy ball!

I have wanted to be a ball for a long time but I couldn’t figure out how. Finally, I was cleaning up and ...

Coolest Etch-a-Sketch Costume  Each year, our family does a theme costume, and this year, we decided to be classic toys. One of my favorite toys from my childhood is the Etch a Sketch....

Coolest Fish Tank Costume 5  One fish. Two Fish. Red Fish. Blue Fish. I have wanted to be an aquarium for quite some time not and I finally made one!

Materials:
-Big Box
-Blue ...

Coolest SuperMom Halloween Costume  Supermom on the Job!

Every few years my dear friend Jenny hosts a themed costume party. This year the theme was "Hero's and Leaders" in honor of election ...

Coolest Rocket Ship Halloween Costume 3  3…2…1… BLASTOFF!! This costume was for the 1960s Day at my school and the space race was certainly an exciting time.

The frame of this costume uses ...

Coolest Toaster Costume 7  I was making a piece of bread in the morning, tired, getting ready for school, when I burned myself on my toaster. Ouch! But then it occurred to me what ...

Coolest Balloon Lady Costume  This was for villain day at my school. I didn’t just want to be any normal villain, so I came up with my own. I love working with balloons, so I became ...

Coolest Rubik's Cube Halloween Costume 3  Looking for a costume for the ultimate smarty? Be a Rubik’s cube! Basically, this is just a variation on a box costume, so it is super easy to make.

Materials:...

Coolest Popcorn Costume 8  Popcorn! Get your popcorn here! I love food costumes and this was one of my favorites.

The basic idea behind this costume included LOTS and LOTS of ...

Coolest Tiffany "New York" Pollard Costume  This costume came across my mind when I wanted to be original. I didn't want to spend money and didn't want to be the same old "pin-up" girl who gets to ...

Coolest Glow in the Dark Cat Costume 2  I wanted to be a cat for Halloween, but I had seen the glow in the dark costumes at stores and thought they were really cool, so thus the glow in the dark ...

Coolest Bathtub Halloween Costume 3  Splish Splash I was Taking A Bath when I suddenly came up with this idea for a costume.

Materials:

Balloons
Empty shampoo bottles
Rubber Duck
Storage ...

Coolest Homemade Ketchup Costume  Who doesn’t like Ketchup? I was in desperate need of a costume for my freshmen year of high school because ninth graders have the theme of red. This was ...

Coolest Pokemon Group Halloween Costumes 7  The Pokemon family costumes found on this site were the inspiration for our 3. I didn't realize how hard it was going to be, with my basic sewing skills....

Coolest Christmas Present Costume 2  I got a box and cut a few holes in it. Also got a couple shoes boxes and cut a hole in the top, which made present shoes. Printed out a label and wrapped ...

Coolest Germ Costume  Hello, my name is Laura, I’m a senior in high school, and I make crazy costumes for my school’s spirit week and for Halloween. This costume was for Doctor ...

Coolest Bush Costume 7  Hello, my name is Laura, I’m a senior in high school, and I make crazy costumes for my school’s spirit week and for Halloween, and here I am as bush. This ...

Coolest Homemade Fire Costume 2  Hello, my name is Laura, I’m a senior in high school, and I make crazy costumes for my school’s spirit week and for Halloween. This was for Caveman Day ...

Coolest Mr. Potato Head Halloween Costume 11  Hello, my name is Laura, I’m a senior in high school, and I make crazy costumes for my school’s spirit week and for Halloween. This was for Toy Story Day ...

Coolest Historical Dress Costume  This is a "homemade" costume, one which is a little complex in structure, but overall isn't complicated in sewing technique. The costume was made by using ...

Coolest Dragon Costume   This year my 11-year-old son Cameron wanted to be a Dragon for Halloween. He has read tons of dragon books and loves Eragon. So we made him into Saphira ...

Coolest Palm Treen and Flamingo Costumes 6  My three year old daughter really wanted to be a flamingo so she could dye her hair pink. Once that was established we had to come up with a costume for ...

Coolest Claw Machine Costume  I saw a claw machine as I entered Big Lots one day... then decided then that it would be my costume. It was made out of 2 cardboard packing boxes from ...

Coolest Blooming Rose Halloween Costume 12  This costume is perfect for the girl who wants to have a unique, pretty, and eye-catching costume. It's easy to construct when you have a few pieces of ...

Coolest Joker Costume 16  This costume was of course inspired by the movie the Dark Knight, which I saw four times, two of which were in IMAX.

The whole Joker process took two ...

Coolest Jack Skellington Nightmare Before Christmas Costume 17  The setting could not have been more appropriate the first time I saw Nightmare Before Christmas. At seventeen-years-old, I remember stepping out of the ...

Coolest Pirates Pierogies Costumes  My wife and I wanted to dress up in costumes that we’ve never seen before so we decided to be the Pittsburgh Pirates Pierogies. When most people think ...

Coolest Pippi Longstockings Halloween Costume 13  This year my daughter decided that she wanted to be Pippi Longstockings for Halloween. I thought that it would be a great idea and that it would be lots ...

Coolest Robot Halloween Costume 25  I wanted to make a Robot costume reminiscent of a 50's Sci-Fi Movie. Since I wanted a Retro-metallic look, I made body and head all out of metal. I used ...

Coolest Blades of Glory Halloween Costumes  These costumes are based off the movie: Blades of Glory.

I took two leotards (male dance uniforms), one in blue and one in skin color. I actually had ...

Coolest Batman and Robin Halloween Costumes 9  The Robin costume was made from thrift store items. This involved many trips to countless stores to find the right items to fit my son. There were many ...

Coolest Miss Captain Crunch Halloween Costume  I always have a hard time thinking of a good costume idea because every idea I think of is a boy character. So this year, I decided to forget about gender ...

Coolest Parrot Halloween Costume 10  My boyfriend and I had pirate costumes from a couple years ago, so we figured our 16 month old son would make a fine parrot.

I used Simplicity pattern ...

Coolest Beetlejuice Halloween Costume 5  Here's a costume I started in 2006 and finally finished in 2008. I've worn it on two Halloween nights and the response has been awesome - for which I ...

Coolest Wind Blown Lady Costume  I made this costume by putting wire in the seams of the jacket and all the seams of the skirt (both around the bottom of the skirt and also vertically ...

Coolest Brewing Human and Witch Halloween Costume 11  This costume was such a hit that one of the bars even carded the witch! Everyone thought it was two people!

I made the witch by building a frame out ...

Coolest Bud Light Girl Costume 3  This costume has 648 beer caps on it. It includes the hat, earrings, a necklace, an anklet, a purse, a bracelet and of course the shoes shirt and shorts....

Coolest Mega Man Halloween Costume 2  I made this costume from cardboard (donated from Trader Joe's), blue duct tape (Joann's), blue spandex (oann's), hot glue (my basement) , a hockey glove ...

Coolest Bull Costume  My 2 1/2 has always been a bull in a china cabinet, but when I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween he happily said "A BULL"!
Well, if your looking ...

Coolest Poison Ivy Halloween Cotume 15  After checking out the pretty awful Poison Ivy costumes in stores this year, I thought it would be much better, and a lot more fun, to make my own Poison ...

Coolest Energizer Bunny Halloween Costume 4  This is my version of the Energizer Bunny Halloween costume.

Coolest Lego Minifigure Halloween Costume 8  I was scourging the internet for some costume ideas and I came upon a couple of Lego minifigure costumes. I thought that they looked pretty good, but ...

Coolest Spooky Halloween Costume 2  I came up with this idea for a spooky Halloween costume after making a gash on my face for another party. I really wanted to do a few gashes and make ...

Coolest Tree Halloween Costume 6  When my 5-year-old told me he wanted to be a tree for Halloween, I quickly agreed, then thought, "Oh, no! What have I gotten myself into?" After doing ...

Coolest Little Mermaid in a Wheelchair Halloween Costume 5  My daughter, Heidi, has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair. One thing she really loves to do is dress up at Halloween time. She goes to a dance for ...

Coolest Tin Woman Halloween Costume 12  I went in a Tin Woman Halloween costume. I modified a silver dress to make it strapless, covered thigh high boots I had with glitter and silver paint, painted ...

Coolest Mad Scientist Halloween Costume  Courtney wanted to go as a mad scientist. We got some old clothes at Goodwill, took the frames out of some sunglasses to make it look like she had an ...

Coolest Inspector Gadget Halloween Costume  Each and every year my kids and I try to come up with some kind of unique costumes. My son, Colby, came up with this idea on his own and I loved it. I ...

Coolest Caged Safari Boy Halloween Costume 23  This Caged Safari Boy Halloween costume is a caged safari boy from the jungle. It shows how a capture of a gorilla went terribly wrong. Many people thought ...

Coolest Outhouse Halloween Costume 6  Each year we try to come up with something unique for my kids on Halloween. I always give them several options and let them choose. This year my son ...

Coolest Medieval Armor Hallowen Costume 5  This Medieval Armor Halloween costume worked out great for my son! I was trying to think of what flexible material there is that is metallic looking, and ...

Coolest Crayon Box Halloween Costume 8  I was lost this year on what to make my boy. I like top be different and I hate to spend money on a costume he will only wear once, so one day he was coloring ...

Coolest Bumblebee Transformer Halloween Costume 24  My 3 yr. old son loves Bumblebee the Transformer, so my wife and I started looking in stores for a Bumblebee Transformer Halloween costume to buy, only ...

Coolest Snood Costume  Come on, who isn't addicted to Snood?! I find myself sitting there for hours trying to beat my high score of this highly addicting game so I figured, why ...

Coolest Pippi Longstocking Halloween Costume 11  I told my daughter that it would be cool for her to be Pippi Longstocking for Halloween last year. She had no idea who that was. So I found a book and ...

Coolest Fairy Halloween Costume 12  I was so tired of all the hoochie costumes that were out there for preteen and teen girls so I decided to try my hand at making my daughter's costume even ...

Coolest Oldtimers Halloween Costume 5  My sister and I went to the Thrift shops in the neighborhood not knowing what we were gonna do for Halloween costumes. So I started by picking up a pair ...

Coolest Bookworm Halloween Costume  I made my son into a bookworm for Halloween this year. There were two major parts to the costume.

Books:

I created the illusion of a worm crawling ...

Coolest Angel Halloween Costume 4  Firstly, for the Angel Halloween costume I bought the Angel accessories; wings, halo, and gold short dress. I made my daughter wear my white dress with ...

Coolest Ghostbusters Halloween Costume 6  My boyfriend and I wanted to wear matching Halloween costumes this year. I wanted something that wasn't a common couples costume. We decided the go with ...

Coolest Tarzan Costume  I am just in love with my son's chubby legs and arms. I needed to think of a costume that would showcase just that! It was either Bam Bam or Tarzan. I ...

Coolest Betty Boop Costume  One of my favorite cartoons is Betty Boop. After deciding to be Betty Boop I knew that just wearing a red dress would not give justice to her character....

Coolest Earth, Wind and Fire Halloween Costume  Earth, Wind and Fire Costume

The whole idea for my son’s costume started from this creation that we saw online – we took a step farther. Trying to ...

Coolest Smurfette Halloween Costume 11  Wanted a comfortable, yet real looking Smurfette Halloween costume that didn't require me to paint my arms and legs. I dyed 2 pair of white tights with ...

Coolest Mermaid Halloween Costume 13  It was a lot of work but it was totally worth it. I had wanted to be a mermaid before but never found a mermaid Halloween costume that was what I had in ...

Coolest Corpse Costume  I live for HALLOWEEN and I am OBSESSED with OVER the top, LITERALLY costumes, and the fun that comes with it. I always enjoy props on wire, and the more,...

Coolest Bjork Swan Dress Halloween Costume 4   I decided that this year I wanted to make the infamous Bjork Swan dress Halloween costume. I began about a month before Halloween. I bought 6 feather boas ...

Coolest Construction Crane Costume  This year when I asked my 3 ½ year old son what he wanted to be for Halloween I couldn't help but think "Oh great!! Just my luck!?". This was the first ...

Coolest Macho Man Randy Savage Costume  I use to love the WWF when I was kid! Although many young people now do not remember the old characters, many remember Macho Man because of the many commercials ...

Coolest Ken and Barbie Costumes  I came up with the idea to do Barbie and Ken costumes with my boyfriend because I usually do something crazy or dress like a goof. This year I wanted ...

Coolest Headless Buffet Table Halloween Costume 15  We used a large piece of Styrofoam, cut a hole out of the center, added a tablecloth from the dollar store with hot glue, a plastic plate in which we ...

Coolest Headless Halloween Costume 25  We bought a Pittsburgh penguins jersey, $2.00, at the Thrift shop. Then we stopped at the party store and picked up two really big bowls, hot glued them ...

Coolest Headless Bride Halloween Costume 23  This Headless Bride Halloween costume is my wife Deb. We wanted to create something cool but a bit spooky. We purchased a wedding dress at the local Goodwill ...

Coolest Robot Halloween Costume 24  This is my son Joe. He has Autism and lives in his own little world. Joe doesn’t care what’s trendy or what any other children wanted to be for Halloween....

Coolest Wonder Woman Halloween Costume 11  I was initially inspired by costumes on this website. I have always wanted a Wonder Woman Halloween costume, but never found the right commercially available ...

Coolest Troll Doll Halloween Costume 3  Well, Where do I start, I built a 12 foot troll costume out of a full block of foam, carved the whole body and head. It took aprx. 3 weeks to build, about ...

Coolest Dentyne Ice Halloween Costume  I was looking around my room for a costume idea, and I saw a pack of Dentyne Ice on my desk. I picked it up and looked at it, and then I called my dad....

Coolest Human Grinder Halloween Costume  Who doesn't dream at night about being trapped by a giant (similar to the one Jack encountered) and ground up to make pastry? Well, maybe a lot of people ...

Coolest Jack Skellington Halloween Costume 14  I must say, this Jack Skellington Halloween costume was definitely a nightmare! Basically, I started this costume by learning how to walk again. I used ...

Coolest Headless Costume 21  I created this Headless Halloween costume based off a combination of ideas from this website! There were a bunch of headless figures shown, but I've always ...

Coolest Mario Brothers Halloween Costume 14   My wife and I needed an idea for Halloween couples and since our family plays video games together with our kids, we thought a Mario and Luigi Halloween ...

Coolest Headless Doctor Halloween Costume 22  This Headless Doctor Halloween costume was based on Headless 08 found on Coolest Homemade Costumes.com. We decided to expand on that theme to create a ...

Coolest Optical Illusion Halloween Costume 21  We were dressed and ready for bed but sitting in our living room watching a little nighttime TV when all of a sudden our front door gets kicked in and ...

Coolest Chucky and Bride of Chucky Costumes 2  I make my children costumes every year but this year I am at college full time so it had to be something quick and easy.

For the Chucky costume, I ...

Coolest Mail Order Bride Costume 2  My name is Stacey and I dress up every Halloween and I am like a kid. I have to have something new or different each year. I have been like that since ...

Coolest Haunted Cheerleader Costume  My daughter Rachel, wanted something scary but also fun to dress up as for Halloween. So we came up with a haunted cheerleader.

We slit her shirt ...

Coolest Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Halloween Costume 5  I first got the idea from this site after I saw a child as the marshmallow man. It was done very cute, but with my ideas of grandeur, I dreamed up something ...

Coolest Mario and Luigi Halloween Costume 15  This was probably going to be the last Halloween that my cousin/best friend and I were going to be able to hang out on Halloween and I wanted us to be ...

Coolest Bionicles Halloween Costume  Three years ago, I told my son, Nicholas, that he could be anything he wanted for Halloween. All he had to do was show me a picture of the character he ...

Coolest Little Bo Peep and Her Little Sheep Costume  This year my six year old daughter wanted something that her and her sister could do together for Halloween. So after much discussion we came up with Little ...

Coolest Pirates Halloween Costume 13  I basically did the same costume as Parrot 05 that is shown here, but tweaked it a little bit to made it work for my daughter. My husband and I were also ...

Coolest People Eater Costume 16  For this costume I used a bowl for the eye, I attached it to fake purple fur, which I stuffed with a pillow. To the eye I added eyelashes, and a iris....

Coolest Plastic Army Men Halloween Costumes  All of this costume is homemade from scratch including the Bazooka and boards for our feet. Everything had to be spray painted weapons, bullets etc. Allot ...

Coolest Dia De Los Muertos Costume  This is one of the easiest costumes I have done. A few skirts from around the house and a sombrero I bought on eBay, and with the help of a little snazaroo ...

Coolest Lego Halloween Costume 7  My boys are extreme Lego enthusiasts. Since there are no minifigure costumes available commercially, I made one by trial and error.

The head portion ...

Coolest Mr. T Halloween Costume 7  I’ve always been a fan of the T, and he had the best damn cereal known to man. So what better way to pay homage to the master of disaster, the man, the ...

Coolest Candy Bar Couple Costume  For Halloween this year, my husband and I went as candy bars. But not just any old candy bars, I guess you could say we were “adult-themed” candy bars!...

Coolest Optimus Prime Halloween Costume 21  My son, Jackson, is three years old. He struggles a little bit with his alphabet, but he can name every single Transformer, and quote directly from the ...

Coolest S'mores Halloween Costume 4  I love the idea of home made costumes for Halloween. This year I wanted something that we could be as a group and something that was original. That's ...

Coolest Transformers Halloween Costume 22  I've never seen an episode of Thomas the Train, but what if he had an alter-ego? What if he had the ability to stand up, unrestricted by rails, and fight ...

Coolest Harlem Globetrotters Halloween Group Costume  Another year, another awesome Halloween! My friends and I decided to go with a tribute to the Harlem Globetrotters of the past; you know Curly and the ...

Coolest iPod Earbuds Costumes 3  This year, my boyfriend and I went as iPod earbud headphones. We were connected by a cable and even played music out of a portable speaker mounted inside,...

Coolest Head in Fridge Halloween Costume 6  My Daughter wanted to be scary this Halloween so she picked the frozen head in a fridge Halloween costume. We had a blast making the costume together.

We ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 19  I made this Oompa Loompa Halloween costume for my children (ages 2 & 5) by using a few ideas from this site. I created my own pattern for the Oompa pants ...

Coolest Vivian from Pretty Woman Costume  I wanted to bring back Vivian, Julia Roberts' character from the classic Pretty Woman! I went with the blue short skirt and white tank with the attached ...

Coolest Bowser Jr. Halloween Costume  Our son always plays this one baseball game on the Nintendo Wii; Mario Super Sluggers. He especially loves Bowser Jr. At first, he wanted his dad to make ...

Coolest Sweeney Todd Halloween Costume 3  Well I just saw the movie this year after my sister rented it one weekend and I fell in love with it. The music was amazing and I was so excited when Halloween ...

Coolest Colonel Sanders, Wendy and Ronald Mcdonald Halloween Costumes  I decided to theme all three of kids together as fast food Icons. We have Colonel Sanders, that I fashioned from an old pair of sunglasses with the lenses ...

Coolest Cannoli Halloween Costume  I was going to a costume party for an Italian Club in my area. The original Italian tradition evidently was a festival in the town with the poor peasants ...

Coolest Jack In The Box Halloween Costume 2  This year I wanted to be something original for Halloween. I looked around on the internet for ideas and I noticed that this site had illusion costumes....

Coolest Samurai Costume  The Samurai costume that I made using various found materials - mainly fabrics from curtains. The costume is comprised of a few parts:

The apron containing ...

Coolest Spongebob Halloween Costume 23  My 3 year old son kept saying he wanted a Spongebob Halloween costume. I was hoping he would want to be something simpler, like Spiderman, or Batmam, so ...

Coolest Crayola Crayons Costume 5  I got the bright idea of a Crayola crayons Halloween costume. My friends and I could get as many people together as we wanted or just rock the costumes ...

Coolest Where the Wild Things Are Halloween Costumes  MAX:

I purchased adult sized footed-pajamas and made several alterations to recreate Max's "Wolf Pajamas." A hole was cut at the back where a black ...

Coolest Peanuts Halloween Costume 10  This year our department opted to go with the Peanuts Halloween costume. We started with the ideas on this site to create large heads out of paper mache....

Coolest Spongebob Halloween Costume 24  I am cheap and refused to pay $40 for a costume for my 2 year old. I found this website and saw the one where she made a Spongebob Halloween costume out ...

Coolest Transforming Optimus Prime Halloween Costume 20  After watching the movie I was inspired to build my very own transformers costume that can actually transform. It took several attempts and several weeks ...

Coolest Head in Fridge Halloween Costume 5  The refrigerator is my nicest creation!! As you can see I am in the refrigerator but you can see only my head in a platter with blood like if someone had ...

Coolest Reptile-Man Costume  I went as a Reptile-Man. I came up with the idea because I wanted to do something different and kind of scary that could pass for cinema quality, only ...

Coolest Boat from the Deadliest Catch Costume  my son and husband love watching the discovery channel's show "the deadliest catch" about crab fishing in the Bering sea off the coast of Alaska. They ...

Coolest Christmas Tree Halloween Costume 6  My boyfriend was skeptical about my homemade Christmas tree Halloween costume, but when I showed it to him, and then lit it up, he was thrilled. Although ...

Coolest Shower Loofah Halloween Costume 7  This year was kind of crazy for me. Being that I am an "adult" now, I was over the whole sexy costumes that every girl in college wore. I decided to ...

Coolest Pacman Halloween Costume 4  Well, I love the 80's. Last year I was a Rubik's Cube. I had to think of something to top last years costume. I wanted to think of something that everyone ...

Coolest Shrek Halloween Costume 5  This Shrek Halloween costume was fun and easy. I enjoyed creating Shrek. Used clothes from the Thrift store, berlap saks, and some harding clay.

This ...

Coolest Robot Halloween Costume 22  My son wanted to be a hi-tech robot Halloween costume this year, and it had to have a shrink ray. So my husband and I worked out an idea and did all the ...

Coolest Garden Gnome Halloween Costume 3  This garden gnome Halloween costume was such a fun costume to make and to wear. First, I took two pool noodles and taped them in a straight line. Then ...

Coolest Beaker from the Muppets Halloween Costume 4  This is my beaker costume from 2008. I went out in San Francisco and people loved it. I was stopped every two seconds to take a picture with someone...

I ...

Coolest Crayola Crayons Halloween Costume 4  Well it's freshmen year of college, and it's Halloween time. My friend and I didn't want to be the typical nurse, French maid, or police officer that you ...

Coolest Tabasco Sauce Halloween Costume  I love hot sauce so I thought this Tabasco sauce costume would be a perfect costume for me. I printed out the label on a t-shirt transfer paper and ironed ...

The Demon Harlequin Costume  This costume began it's journey 3 years ago. I did not use a sewing machine or patterns, just a needle and thread and a ton of various types of material....

Coolest Invader Zim Halloween Costume  My 16 year old son, Erich, asked me to make him this costume based off of the Invader Zim cartoon. The character is called GIR and one of his disguises ...

Coolest Homemade Radio Robot Costume 36  hi all here another eazy & fun costume to make
the little radio bot

all the items you will need is
a cardboard box size for the body and a small ...

Coolest Walking Ocean Halloween Costume  My boyfriend's son is really into the ocean. The life inside of it, the colors, the animals, everything about it. So, last year he went as the walking ...

Coolest Jack Skellington Halloween Costume 18  My son's favorite character is Jack Skellington and I promised him that I would make him a costume. I also told him that my version of the head would ...

Coolest Rake It Or Leave It Costume 7  After trying and failing the night before the school Halloween parade to make my son the tennis racket costume that he desperately wanted, I scrambled ...

Coolest Raggedy Andy Halloween Costume 6  Our precious little Raggedy Andy had tons of photos taken of him this evening. He complimented his cousin who was Raggedy Ann.

The hair was made from ...

Coolest Spaghetti and Meatballs Plate Halloween Costume 11  Materials, which may be purchased for 40% off a few weeks before Halloween at some sewing/craft stores (retail prices quoted):

Fabric glue ($10 at sewing/...

Coolest Clark Kent Halloween Costume 3  This year, our 4-year-old wanted to be Clark Kent and so the quest began. However, after analyzing what we needed, it ended up being rather easy and the ...

Coolest Bird in Nest Costume 6  Kaw! Kaw! Fly away home birdie! This costume features a mother bird and her babies in a tree.

Materials:
-Swimming pool ring
-raffia
-ivy
-brown ...

Coolest Lion in Cage Costume 11  Grrr. There is a very scary lion in this cage! Do not feed! Lion will attack! This costume was for Zoo Day at my school.

Materials:
BIG cardboard box
...

Coolest Ice Cream Halloween Costume 6  MMM. I love ice-cream, don’t you? What could be better then than becoming an ice-cream cone?

Materials:
-Garbage can
-Candies or other brightly colored ...

Coolest Golden Globe Award Costume  And the winner is? I made a Golden Globe Award costume for my school's Spirit day "Red Carpet Day".

Materials:
-2 boxes
-3 hula hoops
-gold fabric ...

Coolest Cactus Costume 2  This costume was for Western Day at my school. I knew right away that I wanted to be a cactus, but figuring out how to do it was more difficult. In the ...

Coolest Baby Angel Costume 5  I found a cool baby owl costume on the this site. But I really didn't have time to make it. So I took the idea and simplified it to make a baby angel ...

Coolest Corpse Bride and Groom Costumes 10  My husband and I live in China for 3 years now... on our first Halloween here we were kind of worried that we would not have any Halloween parties to go ...

Coolest Ceiling Fan Halloween Costume 20  My costume was an incredibly easy and cheap thing to pull off. It's a clever play on words that you may have to explain to some of your friends who may ...

Coolest Aliens Powerloader Costume 2  Every year we host a Halloween Party and this year's theme was Sci-fi. For her costume, my girlfriend and I recreated one of the most memorable pieces ...

Coolest Zombie Halloween Costume 15  My creative daughter made this costume herself. She used one of the little costume makeup kits available at Halloween and a tube of fake blood less than ...

Coolest Running Refrigerator Halloween Costume 21  I’ve been running a Halloween 5K for a few years now. For my first two years, I just repeated costumes I had used before. But for the third year, I was ...

Coolest Rubik's Cube Halloween Costume 2  We started with a half-inch PVC frame of a cube thirty inches square (so it would fit in the car) which was painted black and allowed us to attach the ...

Coolest Alien Abduction Halloween Costume 18  This costume consists of a backpack with a cardboard frame inside that supports the head. The head is made of paper mache over a balloon painted green ...

Coolest Hot Rod Race Car Costume 7  We came up with the idea for this costume because of our love for old cars and hot rods. We also wanted to give the cardboard box costumes a run for their ...

Coolest Transformers Costumes 25  This year my son wanted us to be Transformers. He wanted to be Bumblebee from the movie. I looked at a lot of different ideas and came up with the idea ...

Coolest Toilet Paper Roll Costume 7  My 8-eight-year-old’s goal for Halloween this year was to be something “totally random”. What’s more random than a huge roll of toilet paper?!?!

The ...

Coolest Smarty Pants Halloween Costume 19  Almost every year I make my own costume. I was at my youth group with no clue as to what I was going to be. Someone asked me a question and, of coarse,...

Coolest Jack Skellington Halloween Costume 16  I wanted to go as Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas but definitely didn't want to go as superstore big hot mask Jack. I found a tight striped ...

Coolest Spongebob Squarepants Halloween Costume 25  As others have stated, the key to a good Spongebob costume is finding the right box. We got lucky - the new vacuum cleaner we purchased in early October ...

Coolest Cindy Lou Who Costume 3  My daughter had been wanting to be Cindy Lou who for the last two years, so this year I went all out and made her dress and cape. She loved it so much ...

Coolest Headless Halloween Costume 27  I was given this idea from someone on the internet. Then to make it all work, I checked this site, which was very helpful in putting it all together.

First ...

Coolest Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth Costumes 14  I got the idea for these costumes actually from this website (coolest-homemade-costumes). I thought the idea would be really fun and it was!

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Coolest Car Costume 6  My son wanted to be a Mini Cooper just like his Gramps' car. He wore it to school, and "parked" it in the classroom. He was beeping and honking and having ...

Coolest MVP Baseball Trophy Halloween Costume 4  I came up with the idea for this costume after a business trip to Las Vegas. While there in Vegas, I saw ‘living statues’. People would actually dress ...

Coolest Little Girl Being Abducted By An Alien Halloween Costume 17  I created this little girl being abducted by an alien Halloween costume to wear to work and also take my kids trick or treating in. I made a lot of costumes ...

Coolest Jessie from Toy Story Halloween Costume 3  I saw a 'pumpkin carving picture' of Jessie and Woody from Toy Story this year as I was trying to find an idea to carve a watermelon. I planted my first ...

Coolest 101 Dalmatians Halloween Costume 4  I hardly ever dress up for Halloween but since I have children and grandchildren who like dressing up I decided "Grandpa and Grandma" had better do something ...

Coolest Headless Witch Halloween Costume 10  You've seen a headless man but have you seen the witch that carries her head in a caldron? We went to the Halloween store and got a little inspiration....

Coolest Girl Joker Halloween Costume 14  I got most of the Girl Joker Halloween costume parts at Goodwill. Painted her hair green, her face white with the joker's twisted smile, and even included ...

Coolest Wicked Witch Halloween Costume 9  My daughter, Megan, decided she wanted a wicked witch Halloween costume. I knew that this was a pretty generic costume, but I decided to accessorize ...

Coolest Pippi Longstocking Halloween Costume 12  I always enjoyed the movie Pippi Longstocking when I was younger and my daughter Megan, age 3 at the time, loved it too, so we decided to make her a Pippi ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Halloween Costume 20  I have always loved the movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". So when I asked my daughter Megan, age 7, if she was interested in an Oompa Loompa ...

Coolest Medieval Crusader Halloween Costume 4  This Medieval Crusader Halloween costume has 2 parts, the chain-mail part, and the tunic. These are the items I needed to make this costume:
1. A black ...

Coolest Short Medieval Hooded Cloak Halloween Costume 6  This is an easy way to make a short Medieval hooded cloak Halloween costume that is very versatile! It could be used in a Knight costume, a monk costume,...

Coolest Munchkin Couple Halloween Costume 22  My 9 year old son and his best friend wanted to be something original for this year’s costume parade at school. They were throwing out inappropriate and ...

Coolest Papa Smurf Halloween Costume 12  I found the red pants at a thrift store and then used a blue tank top I already owned. The hat is made of felt and stuffed with cotton that was left over ...

Coolest Fortune Teller Halloween Costume  Looking in my crystal ball, I can see your future. Using some tyvek boards my husband had in the garage, I found some wallpaper that looked like wood ...

Coolest Grim Reaper Halloween Costume 5  This year I wanted to make a costume that would be more on the scary side of the costume scale. I put together pieces from all sorts of different ideas....

Coolest Witch Halloween Costume 8  I decided to do something traditional this year by dressing up as a Voo Doo Witch. I bought the pre-made nose and chin, but the rest is a complicated mixture ...

Coolest Gameboards Halloween Costume 4  This Gameboards Halloween costume kind of twisted itself together over time. I came up with the idea at a garage sale this summer where someone was selling ...

Coolest Eve Halloween Costume 2  This is a tasteful version of an Eve Halloween costume. It includes floral headpiece, apple, snake and costume.

It has 4 different kind of leaves on ...

Coolest Hellboy Costume  This is my nine year old son max who came up with this Hellboy costume idea about six months before Halloween. We usually try to make our own costumes ...

Coolest Madhatters Halloween Costume 7  This Madhatters Halloween costume was a last-minute stroke of genius achieved by my boyfriend, Nick Kiser. I had planned my Queen of Hearts get-up for ...

Coolest Road Halloween Costume 4  I took the Road Halloween Costume to an adult theme with a story. When you go 4x4'ing you go with friends, so I have a convoy. There was an accident ...

Coolest X-Wing Pilot Halloween Costume 14  X-Wing Pilot Costume

My son decided he wanted to be an X-wing pilot for Halloween, so after looking at multiple Star Wars photos on the internet, here ...

Coolest Jack Skellington Halloween Costume 15  The Jack Skellington Halloween costume is totally a home-made costume. I made the tie out of cardboard, fabric and paint. For the jacket I bought a used ...

Coolest Headless Halloween Costume 24   This Headless Halloween costume was as much fun to make as my daughter had wearing it! The costume can be made for any character. It just happens that ...

Coolest Loofah Halloween Costume 9  I wanted to dress up for Halloween but I didn't want to look like everyone else. So, I came to this website and found the loofah Halloween costume idea ...

Coolest Scooby Doo Halloween Costume 5  We decided to go as the Scooby Doo Gang and it turned out pretty good. Our friend who was Scooby put on brown clothes, a long sleeve shirt and brown jogging ...

Coolest Cereal Killer And Cereal Box Halloween Costume 4  This cereal killer and cereal box Halloween costume was an idea I came up with, by surfing on this site before Halloween.

For the cereal box: I knew ...

Coolest Mary Poppins Halloween Costume 8  I used items from my wardrobe and a piece of red ribbon for the necktie. The only item I had to buy was the hat which was 99p from eBay and I customized ...

Coolest Sheep Halloween Costume 5  I did this sheep Halloween costume for Halloween 08! It turned out great and was very warm for when I went outside. I used 1 white hoody and 1 pair or ...

Coolest Bubble Gum Machine Halloween Costume 4  I made this Bubble Gum Machine Halloween costume for my 2 year old neighbor. It required red paint, a box, balloons, Styrofoam, aluminum foil, and a swimming ...

Coolest Aquarium Halloween Costume 4  I made this aquarium costume for my 3 year old son using a box for the base, 2 yards of material (could use a cheap table cloth), a swimming cap, craft ...

Coolest Bull Rider Cowboy Costume  I got the idea for this costume several years ago in a magazine. I made the costume first for my daughter who dances. She was a ballerina riding a unicorn....

Coolest Fall Leaves Halloween Costume 6  One of the best parts of fall is the colored leaves. So don't just look at them- wear them.
My son, Dusty, was turning 11 the week before Halloween, so ...

Coolest Robot Halloween Costume 23  For the last couple of years, my son has asked me to make him a robot Halloween costume. This year he even drew a sketch for me and he insisted on the ...

Coolest Doll In The Box Halloween Costume 8  My 8 year old daughter loves American Girl Dolls. And it just so happens that she looks just like Kit Kittredge. So this year for Halloween she asked to ...

Coolest Joker Halloween Costume 13  This Joker Halloween costume was originally intended for a student film, however since Halloween was around the corner we decided, “why not use it for ...

Coolest Garbage Halloween Costume 3  This garbage Halloween costume allowed me to pull my head and arms inside and become completely unseen. I could lean against the wall and look as though ...

The Holidays Costume  This was my costume from last year, but I just stumbled on this site and think it's great for people to share ideas. Last year, I wanted to do something ...

Coolest Loofah Halloween Costume 10  I got my idea from this website for a Loofah Halloween costume. Everyone at the party loved it, they thought it was so funny. It took FOREVER to make though,...

Coolest Scarecrow Halloween Costume 14  Being in our mid forties with the kids grown and out of the house my wife and I find ourselves being more impulsive every day. We've begun to live by ...

Coolest Alex from Clockwork Orange Halloween Costume  This is a costume I have been wanting to do for a couple years now so I just went ahead and did it this year! I'm into a lot of obscure movies with Stanley ...

Coolest Crayola Crayons Halloween Costume 6  We wanted to be something different but yet as a group. It ended up being the two of us. This Crayola crayons Halloween costume was something decent, cute ...

Coolest Gene Simmons Halloween Costume 9  I was in a Kiss cover band, and this is/was my costume. All Homemade.

So I decided to go in a Gene Simmons Halloween costume.

Coolest Scarecrow Halloween Costume 15  I decided that I wanted Daniel to have a scarecrow Halloween costume this year (2008) but I could not find his size in-store or on-line. I was determined ...

Coolest Zombie Prom Queen Halloween Costume 14  I took an old prom dress and pink sweater and ripped them up to make this Zombie Prom Queen Halloween costume. I then applied fabric paint to make it ...

Coolest Washing Machine Halloween Costume 7  My wee boy, Cooper, is washing machine daft. He knows all the makes and loves looking at them in books etc. We decided to make him a washing machine ...

Coolest Car Halloween Costume 5  Started out as a pull up box, a pack of stickers and some taplights. I used makeup wedges to put behind the lights to wedge them pointing down at an angle ...

Coolest Joker Halloween Costume 11  I decided to go as the ever popular Joker this year. Enjoyed it and think it scared a good few people.

Coolest Optimus Prime Halloween Costume 23  I wanted to create a truly impressive Halloween costume; something where I could express my creativity. Optimus Prime and the Transformers have always ...

Coolest Gnome Halloween Costume 4  I wanted to do something original, cute and funny. One day the Travelocity Gnome popped into my head. Although a lot of people also thought I was David ...

Coolest Big Wheel Halloween Costume 2  My husband and I watch the Price is Right everyday, along with our almost three-year-old Cameron. He loves the wheel, and the noise it makes. Early this ...

Coolest Thomas the Tank Halloween Costume 17  My son is Thomas crazy, so of course he had to have a Thomas the Tank Halloween Costume for Halloween.

I constructed the body out of cardboard boxes ...

Coolest Headless Halloween Costume 26  It all began by surfing the web and seeing someone else with the same Headless Halloween costume idea from a few years ago. I thought to myself I should ...

Coolest Beth and Dog the Bounty Hunter Halloween Costume 13   My husband and I dressed up in a Beth and Dog the Bounty Hunter Halloween costume this year. Too funny! I went to the thrift shop and got him a pair of ...

Coolest Bluebird Halloween Costume 5  We have called our 4 month old daughter "Baby Bird" (nickname) every since she was a few days old. That's where I got my inspiration for her first halloween ...

Coolest World Series of Poker Chip Halloween Costume  My son and I love watching the World Series of Poker on television. When we were trying to come up with a unique Halloween costume, a poker chip seemed ...

Coolest Joker Halloween Costume 12  To make the Joker Halloween costume (the Jack Nicholson version)I had to find a light coloured jacket to fit a 7 year old as I do not sew. This was no ...

Coolest Biker Trash Halloween Costume 18  My name is Sherri and it had been years since I dressed up. But I was invited to a Halloween/Birthday party so I thought I would throw something together ...

Coolest Wonder Woman Halloween Costume 10  This Wonder Woman Halloween costume was easy to make! I purchased all articles of clothing for this outfit from a used clothing store. The bottoms were ...

Coolest Iron Man Halloween Costume 5  This Mark 3 Iron Man Halloween costume is based closely on the the movies. I spent lots of time trying to get all the details in.

It is mainly made ...

Coolest Bumble Bee Halloween Costume 2  This Halloween I really wanted to be a Bumble Bee. Because I'm 14, and most bumble bee Halloween costumes are for little kids, I tried finding a costume ...

Coolest Woopie Cushion Halloween Costume 2  I made this woopie cushion Halloween costume for my daughter Avery. She loved it. And after trick or treating said it made all the "old guys" laugh. It ...

Coolest Frog Costume  My son loves frogs. This year he wanted to be a “Cool” frog. So I started working on his costume. First I made the Lilly pad from a piece of cardboard ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Halloween Costume 18  I got this idea for a Oompa Loompa Halloween costume, because I'm very short and I love to make people laugh.

I started out with a shirt from Target ...

Coolest Witch Halloween Costume 7  I love Halloween. So I had to think really hard on what my daughter and I were going to be. I finally came up with this idea. I love sunflowers and autumn ...

Coolest Mario Bros. Halloween Costume 13  I really wanted to be Mario for Halloween. But I wanted to be my favorite version: Raccoon Mario from Mario Bros. 3.

I had a lot of fun making this ...

Coolest Jack Skellington Halloween Costume 13  My friend and I decided about 1.5 weeks before Halloween that we wanted to dress up to go out. I was looking for costume ideas on the internet and had ...

Coolest Pee Wee Herman Halloween Costume 2  I've wanted to do this Pee Wee Halloween costume for a few years now, but due to laziness I never went through with it. Last year I ended up doing nothing,...

Coolest Joker Halloween Costume 10  Spent long hours, shopping at Goodwill and Marshalls for an outfit for this Joker Halloween costume. Bought a white peacoat and dyed that and the pants ...

Coolest Beetlejuice Halloween Costume 4  I was looking everywhere for a black 2 piece suit for the Beetlejuice Halloween costume. I later realized a white suit (like for a baptism) would be ideal,...

Coolest Traffic Cone Halloween Costume  Every year the University of Hawaii Parking office purchases over 100 traffic cones, of that approximately 50 cones go missing every year. In memory of ...

Coolest Mr. T Halloween Costume 8  I made this Mr. T Halloween costume using a bald cap, a sponge cut into a Mohawk, faux fur to make the hair and beard. I then took a foam visor and glued ...

Coolest Beer Pong Halloween Costume 3  I decided to make a gigantic beer pong Halloween costume because we play beer pong at a lot of our parties and I saw the costume that was posted on this ...

Coolest Corpse Bride and Groom Costumes 9  For our Corpse Bride and Groom costumes we bought the dress, veil, tux shirt and pants at a thrift store. We made a wig out of 1 blue and 1 purple roll ...

Coolest Lion Hunter Halloween Costume 20  This Safari Hunter had a Lion who actually Hunted her and now he carry's his prize around to show everyone! Creepy!


THE STORY: Okay, so it was my ...

Coolest Skeleton Kidnapper Halloween Costume 19  My son and I looked at your website for costume ideas. He liked the Headless costumes and that’s what we were initially going to make. Once we started ...

Coolest Head on Platter Halloween Costume 16  Thank you Coolest Costumes! This site was a great resource and the inspiration for my spooky head on a platter Halloween costume. I won Most Original ...

Coolest Dukes of Hazzard Halloween Costume  This is a costume of the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard. The costume is made from one stove box I acquired from a local furniture store. It is ...

Coolest Gameboard Halloween Costume 3  This gameboard Halloween costume is a real working operation game. It took a lot of time but I was very please with the outcome of it. I took a cut out ...

Coolest Thomas the Tank Halloween Costume 16   After searching the web for weeks trying to find a Thomas the Tank Halloween costume and only found those boring apron like costumes. I found inspiration ...

Coolest Head on Platter Halloween Costume 15  This Head on Platter Halloween costume was easy, inexpensive and so much fun to put together. The only guidance I had from my 8 yr old son was that he ...

Coolest Marionette Puppet Halloween Costume  I wore a red top hat, white shirt, red bow tie, black shorts and tights with black high heels.

I made a puppet handle out of black pipe cleaners. I ...

Coolest John and Lorena Bobbitt Costume 4  We had so much fun with this costume! I got pajamas and stained them with blood. Then bought a "prop" and cut the tip off and painted it with glue then ...

Coolest Garden Halloween Costume 5  I started this garden Halloween costume with an idea, of anything that you can find that would be on grass, hence the fence, dogs running around, dog fencing,...

Coolest Aqua Teen Hunger Force Costumes 6  I put these Aqua Teen Hunger Force costumes together a day before the party, so they could be better but there was no time, it was such a blast making ...

Coolest Little Red Riding Hood Costume 5  I love twisting bed time stories up a bit. This time it's Little Red Riding Hood costume attacked by the Wolf!

Supplies:
Red Riding Hood Outfit
Cape
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