Coolest Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein Costumes   Bride of Frankenstein: The dress was given to me from a client from her wedding in the 80’s. I cut the sleeves off and shredded what was left at my shoulders....

Coolest Mermaid Costume 9  This costume was used for Halloween and for Savannah Rose's 9th birthday party which was themed UNDER THE SEA.

The Mermaid tail is a special home ...

Coolest Tampons Costume 2  Here's our interpretation of the "Monthly gift from Mother Nature..."

I wanted to do something really funny and make a costume that no one else would ...

Coolest Michael Jackson Costumes  Not only has Michael Jackson's career evolved over time, but so has his appearance. This group costume highlights the most memorable looks throughout ...

The Deadilest Catch Costume  For this "The Deadliest Catch" costume, I used one long cardboard box and one smaller. I cut the hole out to make sure of the fit. Then I started to see ...

Coolest Airplane Costume 5  For this Bi Plane Costume I started out using four cardboard boxes and four rolls of Duct tape my favorite...

The first box is the largest of them. I ...

Coolest Exorcist Costume 2  THE EXORCIST - I can spin my head!

This was always my favorite horror movie of all time. And I thought that if I did this Exorcist costume I would need ...

Coolest Irish Fairy and Leprechaun Costume  A friend of mine gave me the idea for the leprechaun costume. We bought a green suit from the Salvation Army store and cut the pants to make the knickers....

Coolest Loofah Costume 2  I wanted something unique and funny for my company costume contest. I saw the girl in the green loofah on this website, and I was sold! (thanks Wendy ...

Coolest Popcorn and Coke Costumes 5  For the popcorn costume you'll need:

Cardboard Box
Felt Letters
Red Craft Paint
Quilt Batting
Yellow Spray Paint
White Hat (Very Basic Painters ...

Coolest Voodoo Doll Costume  My daughter had been winning her contests at school and wanted to again for the third year in a row. So I knew I had to come up with something good, and ...

Coolest Mystique from X-Men Costume 2  I made this Mystique from X-Men Halloween costume 2 years ago. I put it twice and I won twice! First place $250 one year. Last year i went to an other ...

Coolest Sponge Bob Square Pants 16  My 3 yr old daughter Olivia loves watching Sponge Bob and asked to be him for Halloween. After seeing the costumes available I decided to make her an even ...

Coolest Mister Potato Head Costume 9  I first started this Mister Potato Head costume making a wire mold with 2x4 wire fencing. I then sprayed expanding foam (like to insulate around doors ...

Coolest Ben 10 Costume  My son loves to watch Ben 10, so when Halloween came around he just had to be one of the Ben 10 aliens. His favorite is Heat Blast.

To make the costume ...

Coolest Cereal Killer Costume 2  Last year I decided to make my own costume instead of buy one. I came up with the idea of dressing up as a Cereal Killer by searching different creative ...

Coolest Flintstones Group Costume 14  This year we decided to dress up at the Flintstones. Fred's costume was made out of orange, black and blue fleece. It was sewn together and the tie was ...

Coolest Michael Jackson Costume  For my son's Michael Jackson's costume I found an old leather jacket and some velvet pants at my local thrift store, jazzed up the jacket with some safety ...

Coolest Good Witch Costume 6  My sisters and I went to a costume party as witches. I was the good witch. I bought a wedding dress at the goodwill, added more layers to the skirt and ...

Coolest Homemade Nightmare Before Chirstmas Costume 11  Me and my wife are really big fans of Halloween and "the Nightmare Before Christmas" movie. I am an artist and thought I could be the Mayor of Halloween ...

Coolest Fanta Girls - The Fantanas Costumes  Whenever my friends and I went to the movies, we would always see the Fanta soda commercial before the previews. I thought it would be a unique group ...

Coolest Costume - Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Showers  This homemade costume was fun and easy! I just took old sky-blue sweat pants, an old t-shirt, a couple bags of cotton balls and hot glue!

I started ...

Coolest Pacman and Blinky Costumes 3  For these homemade Pacman and Blinky costumes, I found those thin sheets of foam that come in large rolls and used that to fashion the bodies. I purchased ...

Coolest Optimus Prime Transformers Costume 17  When first beginning my search for the most AWESOME Halloween costume ever created, I wanted to pick something I've always loved... this lead to my childhood ...

Coolest Batman and Batcycle Costume 8  Jacob, my 4 yr old, is Batman here... I made his bat utility belt out of card board and duct tape. You can make interactive boxes for storing a cable for ...

Coolest Pickle Costume  My 3 ˝ year old grandson thought of this costume. Last year he decided that this year he wanted to be a pickle. No matter how much we tried we could not ...

Coolest Marge Simpson Costume 8  First of all, this Marge Simpson costume was inspired by the others I found on this website. So all the instructions will pretty much be the same or a ...

Coolest Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd Costume  My Mrs. Lovett costume is from the movie Sweeney Todd. Mrs. Lovett is the Baker who makes meat pies out of humans that Sweeney Todd has killed. I made ...

Coolest Witchy Woman Costume 5  I have dressed up in something different for 43 years, and this year I decided to do something out of the ordinary, at least for me. I wanted to have a ...

Coolest Greaser 57 Chevy Costume 4  Our son won his age division and the overall costume contest in this costume. The Greaser ’57 Chevy costume was primarily made from a cardboard box that ...

Coolest Alfalfa Costume 2  My son wanted a costume for the school costume contest so my cousin came up with the idea of Alfalfa. He was perfect for this costume so we watched the ...

Coolest Little Rascals Costume  So here you have Porky, Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat and in front Darla.

This Little Rascals costume was a group effort and a lot of fun! We rented a ...

Coolest Crayola Crayons Costume 2  My roommates and I decided that we did not want to be a store bought regular costume. We bought black felt fabric and the specific colors we wanted from ...

Coolest Cinderella Costume  I've been working on my daughter's dress since March! I wanted to get it just right. I looked everywhere for just the right fabric and finally found ...

Coolest Max from Where the Wild Things Are Costume  My son loves "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak so we decided to make a Max costume for him for Halloween last year.

Searching on-line,...

Coolest Potato Head Costume 8  I'm always on the look out for different ideas for costumes and after seeing a commercial for a Mr. Potato Head, I thought that would make a cool costume....

Coolest Gross-ary Bag Costume 14  I made this gross-ary bag costume for my little boy and he loves it. It took some time and hard work but we got it just the way we wanted it. It was very ...

Coolest Mary Poppins Costume 6  Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...

Who would not be able to recognize this costume? I wanted to pick a costume that would be easily ...

Coolest Flamingo Costume 4  My niece goes to a Christian school and their theme for Halloween was Noah's Ark. So you had to come as an animal. Well my brother is a very creative Dad ...

Coolest Raggedy Ann and Andy Costume 4  My best friend and I decided to go as Raggedy Ann and Andy costume. The costumes were really easy.

I got most of everything we are wearing at thrift ...

Coolest Trojan Man Costume  My brother and I have been thinking of this Trojan Man costume for a couple years now, and we have finally made it.

The skirt is paper mache and cardbaord ...

Coolest Mona Lisa and Leonardo Costume  As I was trying to come up with costume ideas, I thought about how everyone wants to see the Mona Lisa in far away France. Why not give everyone here an ...

Coolest Marge Simpson Costume 7  The wig was made of poster board and cotton balls then painted blue. I covered my body in yellow body/face paint. I bought the necklace and shoes on ...

Coolest Headless Prom Queen Costume 13  Using some of the ideas from this website, The Encyclopedia of Immaturity, and my own innovation, we created this "Headless Prom Queen."

The false ...

Coolest Hamburger and Fries Costumes  A parade of twins was held here in the Philippines. It showcases twins of all ages and we were asked to have them wear their most unique costume.

Most ...

Coolest ABBA Costume  This ABBA costume was so easy to make. I bought 2 oversize white t-shirts, a few bottles of puff paint, blue fringe, 1/2 yard blue fabric, and 4 roles ...

Coolest Living Room Set Costumes  My roommates and I decided to be a living room set for Halloween. The couch is made out of a cardboard box with some fabric. The picture frame is made ...

Coolest Beer Pong Costumes 2  A bunch of girls from my high school got in trouble for playing beer pong and putting up pictures of ourselves online. It was a huge controversy and so ...

Coolest Pinocchio Costume 3  I drew my ideal jumper on paper, headed to Britex Fabrics for bright textured fabrics.

Also bought giant yellow buttons, slapped on a Woochie nose, some ...

Coolest Wizard Of Oz Costume 11  The Wizard of Oz is one of many popular themes done during Halloween, so I knew I had to make it as original as possible, also considering topping each ...

Coolest Sesame Street Costumes 2  The costumes you see here were NOT brought to you by Sesame Street. I, being a big beautiful woman, decided on a Big Bird costume. My husband was supposed ...

Coolest Octopus Costume 2  My son wanted a giant octopus costume for Halloween. I started with a hooded sweatshirt. I used three pairs of ladies heavy tights for the tentacles. I ...

Coolest Rorschach Costume  For those who don’t know, Rorschach is the main anti-hero of the graphic novel “Watchmen” which is being adapted into a movie. Now I was one of the fools ...

Coolest Mario Brothers Costume 5  My Son and his best friend and their girls wanted to Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Princess Daisy. I hand dyed white overalls (in a garbage can)in hot ...

Coolest Spaceballs Costumes 4  This Spaceball costume is a homemade costume put together after scouring thrift stores, shopping online, and crafting stuff ourselves.

Dark Helmet'...

Coolest Robot Costume 15  One day while at work I saw two boxes sitting on the floor, so I brought them home then decided to make them in to a robot costume since we can not afford ...

Coolest Lucille Ball Costume  This is my twenty-two month old daughter Leila Jayde Carrington as Lucille Ball. Me and my mother made this costume. Everything is homemade except for ...

Coolest Bill on Capitol Hill Costume  My husband is always picky about his costumes. They have to be homemade and unique. So, we chose Bill from Capitol Hill from the old episodes of School ...

Coolest Chippendale Dancer Costume  This is my son Cash (2 months old) & his first Halloween. I just came up with the idea by myself. I started with a pair of black dress pants, a bow tie,...

Coolest Poodle Costume 10  Last year my daughter wanted a Pink Poodle Costume. I've always made her costumes (she's 8 now). While in Target I saw these "curly" scarves. And I ...

Coolest Mr. Peanut Costume 4  I originally got this idea from this site: http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/peanut-costume.html but thought it could be done a little better and ...

Coolest Captain Jack Sparrow Costume 4  I got the idea to do this Jack Sparrow costume after jokingly running through 4 lanes of traffic while flaring my arms. My friends said "You run like ...

Coolest California Roll Sushi Boy Costume  When thinking of what to make my son last year for Halloween, I wanted something unique and fun. While I was pregnant with him, I always craved my favorite ...

Coolest Children's Pink Sprinkle Cupcake Costume 11  This children's sprinkle cupcake costume is a 2 piece outfit. The top of the cupcake (sweatshirt) and the foiled bottom of the cupcake. I made 2 of them ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 10  My name Is Jamie and my co worker Monica are just about the same size. We always enjoy making people laugh and thought little dancing Oompa Loompa's would ...

Coolest Little Daisy Costume 7  I originally made this little Daisy costume for a birthday party but it was such a hit that I had planned to use it again for Halloween. The theme for ...

Coolest Moulin Rouge Costume  I got the Moulin Rouge bug and began making the Black Diamond costume from the character Satine. I started with a black bustier and then I glued about ...

Coolest White Witch from Narnia Costume 2  I made this costume for my 7 year old daughter. I made the dress from a bed sheet, blue spray paint and 1 yard of sheer fabric torn in strips and sewn ...

Coolest Blind Melon Bee Girl Costume  I'm a pop culture junkie and got it in my head that I wanted to be the Bee Girl from the video for the Blind Melon song "No Rain." The first thing I did ...

Coolest Cutest Pile of Leaves Costume 4  I wanted to make a costume that was original and cute for my son but we were broke so I needed something cheap. I then came up with this idea for a pile ...

Coolest Tin Man Costume 9  Dryer vents worked great for this Tin Man costume. The hat and turtleneck were spray painted with a metallic paint and the hat is a funnel also spray painted....

Coolest Yoshi Costume  Every year we make homemade costumes and the task this year was to make a Yoshi costume.

The costume cost about $35, we watched sales for everything,...

Coolest Kidnapped By A Cyclops Costume 14  My husband and I were going to a Halloween party and I wanted to make a costume that would stand out so I came up with this kidnapped by a Cyclops costume....

Coolest Cat in The Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2 Costume 13  I try every year to get costumes together for all 3 of my kids. This year, it worked out perfect that I could make them all Dr Seuss, Cat in the Hat & Things ...

Coolest Ninja Turtles Costumes 2  My mom and I took the Ninja Turtle pattern 5143 Butterwick which is hard to find and we modified it to make our Ninja Turtles costumes. We chose not to ...

Coolest Sexy Peacock Costume 3  I decided to make my own peacock costume after searching through all the ones for women on the internet that look identical. I ordered tons of genuine ...

Coolest Popeye and Olive Oyl Costume 5  My boyfriend and I went in a Popeye and Olive Oyl costume. The costumes required minimal effort and turned out great; I was surprised to realize that people ...

Coolest Big Comfy Couch Costume  I love love Halloween, so every year I look forward to October 31st. For Halloween I wanted to stand out so I decided to be this cute little clown called ...

Coolest Spa Girl Costume  My daughter needed something easy yet 'cool' for her school costume parade. She wanted to do something really 'girly' and so the spa girl costume was ...

Coolest Awesome Peacock Costume 2  My children come up with crazy ideas each year and I have to figure out how to make these ideas come to life. This year was a peacock costume. I do this ...

Coolest Thomas the Tank Engine and Percy Costume 14  I used one large box for each of the Thomas the Tank Engine and Percy costume. All I did was cut the top flaps into the shape of the back of the train,...

Coolest World of Warcraft Costume  My five year old daughter became entranced with the online role playing game World of Warcraft after watching her father and older sister play. One of ...

Coolest Simspons Costume 6  When me and my sister did this Simpson costume one we painted a whole bunch of yellow on my aunt,uncle,and 2 cousins.

With all that yellow they wanted ...

Coolest Holstein Cow Costume 2  Every year my daughter wants a unique costume of her own. She doesn't want anyone else to be like her. So I have found that the best way to achieve this ...

Coolest Flinstones Costume 13  This Flintstones Costume was our 2007 Halloween costume. All were homemade except for the masks of course but they definitely made the costumes more realistic....

Coolest Popular Pop Cans Costume 5  My friends and I were trying to think of group costume ideas for our high school Halloween dance, and we were drinking pop, and someone said , "HEY! let'...

Coolest Fairy Princess Costume 10  I made this fairy costume for my husband to wear at our daughter's 1st birthday. Every year we have a theme and he begrudgingly dresses up to match that ...

Coolest Edward Scissorhands Costume 5  Like many others, I lovethe Edward Scissorhands movie! And any other Tim Burton movie for that matter! I figured I had the hair, so I might as well give ...

Coolest Pagemaster Costume  This is my Adventure Book (Pirate) character costume from The Pagemaster movie I made for my Son Joshua.

I started with a cardboard frame and glued ...

Coolest Rafiki Costume  This is my Rafiki costume (from the Lion King) that I made for my Son Joshua. I used a pattern to sew the furry suit, but actually it was quite tight on ...

Coolest Raining Cats and Dogs Costume  Supplies for this costume:
Raincoat
Umbrella
Several Stuffed Animals (Cats & Dogs)

I used safety pins to secure the stuffed cats and dogs to the ...

Coolest Beer Pong Costume  I made this Beer Pong cup out of a 4'x 8' plastic sheet I found at Home Depot (not sure what its used for but it was perfect). I then spray painted it ...

Coolest Muppets Animal Costume 3  My boyfriend is a drummer and a fan of the Muppet's Animal. He needed a costume for a Halloween show. We found nothing in stores, so I decided to create ...

Coolest Rainbow Brite Costume 4   This was my first attempt in making a costume. I made the entire Rainbow Brite costume as well as the wig.

Growing up, Rainbow Brite was my hero!...

Coolest McDonalds Happy Meal Costume  A McDonald's Happy Meal is probably my son's favorite treat, and it is what we chose for his costume this year. He really loves it as you can see by the ...

Coolest Smurfs Costume 6  As with any kid who grew up in the 80's I was a fan of the Smurfs and what better way to pay tribute to the classic cartoon than to be dressed in the Smurfs ...

Coolest Robot Costume 14  We used a toilet paper box for the body of the robot costume, a smaller box for his head and spray painted them with silver paint. We hot glued gears and ...

Coolest Publishers Clearing House Costume  Instructions on making the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol and $10,000,000 Winner Costume:

Go to the thrift store and pick up a men's suit, dress ...

Coolest Adult Sheep Costume 4  I wanted to be Little Bo Peep and I asked my wonderful boyfriend to dress up as my sheep! To my surprise, he agreed, however, on one condition; I had ...

Coolest Haunted House Table Costume 13  My son is in a wheelchair and very hard to come up with ideas to incorporated the chair, so I decided to make him into a haunter house table costume.

I ...

Coolest Baby Carseat Angel Costume 3  My toddler got invited to a few tot-size Halloween parties, and I couldn't leave the baby (2 months old) at home. Halloween creeped up on me quickly, though,...

Coolest FBI Agent Costume  Here's an FBI Agent costume, a great last minute idea for a child's costume.

I used a long sleeve black shirt, black pants, black sun glasses, black ...

Coolest Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth Costume 8  My husband and I put this Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth costume together at the last minute and it was a high. We won 2nd place at a local costume contest....

Coolest Shaun of the Dead Costume  As a super fan of Simon Pegg and his movies, especially Shaun of the Dead, I decided to be him for Halloween last year. I purchased the shirt for $12, I ...

Coolest Iron Man Costume 2  Ever since I saw Iron Man the movie I loved it and always wanted to make my own costume, so I did.

I bought cardboard and metallic paint and some led ...

Coolest Mr Potato Head Costume 7  Last year my 5 year old son was all about Mr. Potato Head and that is all he would play with so it was only fitting to let him be a "taterhead" for Halloween....

Coolest Play-Doh Costume 2  I plan to help out with my son's first grade Halloween party at school and I wanted to come up with a costume that was recognizable and yet friendly. Both ...

Coolest Homemade Titanic Costume 2  My office was having a Halloween party with a costume contest. First prize was a full paid day off. I wanted to win BAD! I came up with the idea of being ...

Coolest Papa Smurf and Smurfette Costume 5  My husband and I love to dress up and strive to be the best costume in town every year. My grandmother taught me how to sew when I was four or five years ...

Coolest Monopoly Man Costume  My boyfriend wanted to be the "Monopoly Man" or Rich Uncle Pennybags from the board game Monopoly for Halloween.

He bought a secondhand tuxedo suit ...

Coolest Upside Down Person Costume 2  My idea for an upside down person came from a Key West Poster from Mardi Gras. To create my head, we went to our local wig store and got one of the Styrofoam ...

Coolest Chipmunks Costume 2  My nephews were dressed in the Chipmunks costume for Halloween. I bought red, green, and blue long-sleeved turtlenecks from the thrift store. I already ...

Coolest Thing 1 and Thing 2 Costume 11  My Pomeranian dogs, Maximus and Dantes, are my children and every year they get dressed up. They are constantly doing the opposite of what I tell them ...

Coolest Hotair Balloon Costume 7  This is a Hot Air Balloon costume using my daughter's left over medical supply boxes etc. It is made with a small cardboard box that we threaded wool through ...

Coolest M and Ms Costume 2  I wanted something different than the normal costume. I bought a bag of M&M's and copied it to life size - all the way down to the ingredients on the ...

Coolest Mummy Costume 7  I decided to make a mummy costume because I wanted to be something that is typically associated with Halloween, but also something that you don't see very ...

Coolest Werewolf Costume 3  To start off I bought weave, lots and lots of weave from the hair supply store and a old flannel shirt and jeans. The only thing that is not homemade is ...

Coolest Lioness And Safari Hunter Costume 9   Last year we purchased a lion costume for our 2 year old. I love family costumes so I knew that we had to do something to match his adorable costume.

For ...

Coolest Carebears Costume 3  Where do I start? The costumes were a group decision amongst a group of grown men who all thought it was time to shock the local costume party we attend....

Coolest Mileena from Mortal Kombat Costume 2  I made the bodysuit of this Mortal Combat costume using a full swimsuit pattern with pink fabric. Then just sewed some black stretchy fabric and put as ...

Coolest Street Fighter's Chun Li Costume  I grew up playing Street Fighter and I really liked the character Chun Li. I thought she resembled me in some ways; I'm Chinese, petite, was pretty involved ...

Coolest Thing 1 and Thing 2 Costume 12  For school we get prizes for having a great creative costume, also we get bigger prizes and acknowledgment when you are in groups so I thought of Thing ...

Coolest Turtle Costume 3  First, my husband wore a long sleeve green shirt and green pants for this turtle costume. He painted his face green. To make the shell we used a thin ...

Coolest Teen Wolf Costume 3  For this Teen Wolf costume he purchased tons of fake hair (like weave from a beauty supply), face paint, fangs and an old basket ball uniform from a thrift ...

Coolest Wolverine Costume  This Wolverine costume started as a hooded fleece outfit from Old Navy. We then took pieces of felt and cut them to the shapes from the original Wolverine ...

Coolest Link from Legend of Zelda Costume  My son loves video games, and last year he was dying to be Link from Legend of Zelda. At first, I was stumped, but I soon was able to come up with a great ...

Coolest Statue of Liberty Costume  I researched online what exactly she looked like, so that the Statue of Liberty costume would be completely accurate.

I found this unique fabric, that ...

Coolest Woody from Toy Story Costume  I wanted a really unique couples costume and I found a Little Bo Peep Costume. So I tried to think of what my boyfriend could be that could match Little ...

Coolest Oompa Loompa Costume 9  I was in nursing school and attended Halloween of 2004. I remember being the only student out of my nursing class of close to 40 students, who dressed ...

Coolest Captain Crunch Costume  I thought of this Captain Crunch costume while walking through the grocery store, trying to come up with an original costume idea. I had never seen someone ...

Coolest St Pauli Beer Girl Costume 10  This year for Halloween I decided to dress my little chihuahua, Rosie, as a St Pauli Beer Girl. The whole costume was homemade. The dress was designed ...

Coolest Homemade Big Bird Costume  I built this Big Bird costume in about three months. I used chicken wire for the body, a globe for the head and a piolon for the beak! I decided to make ...

Coolest Grapes Costume 5  This grape costume is the best costume I've ever made. All I had to do was buy about 2-3 bags of purple balloons, purple tights, a purple shirt and purple ...

Coolest 4' Tall Lego Costume 5  I took a large box, painted it yellow, and cut out 8 circles to fit store bought potato salad containers. I then cut a hole for my head, a couple for ...

Coolest Troll Dolls Costume  Remember the troll dolls you used to own when you were little? Last Halloween, my friends and I had so much fun recreating them. The favorite part of ...

Coolest White Trash Costume 2  I was looking for something stereotypical and CHEAP! I bought a cheap plastic garbage can (should've seen me standing in it at the store. They must've ...

Coolest Mermaid PrincessCostume 7  Mermaid Princess, not Ariel. My daughter had the desire to be Ariel for Halloween last year when she was 6 yrs. old but I just couldn't bring myself to ...

Coolest Belle of the Ball Costume 2  I feel it is such a privilege to have the talent to make a child feel so unique and special on costume related occasions...Halloween especially!

Four ...

Coolest Bubble Bath Costume 6  My daughter came to me a few days before Halloween and told me she wanted a bubble bath costume. I wasn't so sure how I was going to pull this off. I went ...

Coolest Dora And Friends Costume 5  We went with a Dora and friends costume for Halloween. It was a good time. Dora, Boots, and The Map had a blast.



The Dora costume was ...

Coolest Frankenstein Costume  For Frankenstein, we bought an over sized suit coat from a thrift store. He wore black pants and big black shoes. We patterned his make up after a photo ...

Coolest Magican And Rabbit In The Hat Costume  My two daughters wanted to be a magician and a rabbit in the hat.

For the Rabbit in the hat I took an ice cream bucket from 31 flavors and covered it ...

Barbie In A Box Costume 3  Last year I finally convinced my boyfriend to dress up for Halloween. He said that he would wear whatever costume I wanted him to wear as long as I made ...

Coolest Hulk Hogan Costume 3   I put this Hulk Hogan costume together, and it has a lot of little parts to it. I had a bald wig with long blond hair. The shirt I cut up in the back ...

Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich Costume 2  My four year old daughter Emily wanted to go as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, so I bought two pieces of three inch foam for my bread. I dabbed light ...

Smurfette Costume 4  I was so tired of finding nothing but trampy costumes for women. I wanted something cute and creative. So I created this Smurfette costume for our Halloween ...

Coolest Rugged Deer Hunter Costume  My costume is a rugged hunter who has triumphantly shot and killed a deer. My idea just popped into my head one day and I started assembling the pieces....

Jack Skellington And Corpse Bride Costume 9  We wanted to dress up as Tim Burton characters, so we decided on Jack Skellington and the corpse bride.

I made the head for Jack Skellington out of ...

Crazy Caterpillar Costume 2  I wanted to make my little girl a fun and funky caterpillar costume, so I sewed bright donut shaped pillows out of fun fur with elastic bands on the top ...

Coolest Candy Princess Costume  My daughter and I were trying to think of a cool costume idea that no one else had done... she loves candy and she is a true princess so we decided to ...

Coolest Shower Costume  This was my eight year old daughter's idea. We took an inexpensive shower curtain and hooks, hula-hoop, shower brush, lots of silver air-duct tape, cardboard ...

Coolest Naughty Forest Nymph Costume 9  This naughty forest nymph costume was made for the Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands last April. First of all I have to admit, I bought the corset, but ...

Coolest Tooth Fairy Costume 3  I came up with this idea of a tooth fairy costume for my husband after we joked with our niece about him being the tooth fairy and wanting to pull her ...

Coolest DJ Costume  My Daughter wanted to be a DJ, So my brother in-law went out to the thrift store and purchased an old turn table. He mounted the turn table to some particle ...

Hi C Drink Box Costume 4  This is my daughter Phoenix as her favorite drink. This started from studying an actual Hi C drink box then creating from a cardboard box.

We spent ...

Coolest Britney and Kevin Costume 2  I love dressing up as the celeb that gets the most press each year. Last year I talked my boyfriend into joining me in this yearly ritual. I decided that ...

Coolest Electric Chair Costume  I was inspired to build this costume from a drawing I saw on the internet. I was looking for something out of the ordinary but yet kinda scary.

After ...

Mini Gree Costume 7  My five year old is a huge fan of the new Star Wars movies. We bought him the movies, and he loves to watch it over and over. To our surprise his favorite ...

Coolest Macaroni and Cheese Costume  My daughter loves Easy Mac and wanted me to make a Macaroni and Cheese costume for Halloween. I started with an old laundry basket I had lying around ...

Coolest Basketball Goal Costume 2  I asked my 3-year old what he wanted to be for Halloween and he promptly said a basketball goal! I thought, well that is a silly idea but as my co worker ...

The Coolest Peter Pan & Tinkerbell Costume 4  My husband and myself were driving back from Disney World and while the kids were sleeping, we were brainstorming on ideas for costumes. Every year we ...

Coolest Charlie Brown and Lucy Costume 7  I got so many compliments on this Charlie Brown and Lucy costume I decided I needed to share my idea even though it was 4 years ago.

For Lucy we used ...

Coolest Captain Hook Costume 2  This is my son's Captain Hook costume from last year. If you could not tell it is Captian Hook from Peter Pan. Every year we try to come up with a theme,...

Coolest Basketball Hoop Costume  Last year I wanted to be something different then most costumes. So I made this costume out of a laundry basket and i strapped that to my belly.

The ...

Coolest Pregancy Costume- Cat Eats Fishy 13  My daughter was 9 months pregnant and came up with this great idea for a costume for herself. We just bought some tight black pants, and a black shirt ...

Coolest Chicken Costume 11  I made this chicken costume for my daughter who was 2 at the time. It was made with 2 sweatshirts and lots of feather boas!

She won 1st prize at our ...

Coolest Homemade Bat Costume  My daughter wanted to be a bat and wanted the wings to move. So I came up with the idea of using a black umbrella for the wings.

I just dressed her ...

Coolest Jack Black as Nacho Libre Costume  I made this Nacho Libre costume for my 8-year-old son. We started with his white baseball pants worn with his bright blue underwear on top of them. We ...

Coolest Batman and Robin Costume 7  My brother which is the one dressed as Batman is a huge Batman and Robin fan. He had read in wizard magazine about a contest for homemade costumes and ...

Coolest Super Heroes Group Costume  My brother which is the one dressed as Batman is a huge Batman and Robin fan. He had read in wizard magazine about a contest for homemade costumes and ...

Coolest Wonder Woman Costume 9  My brother, who is the one dressed as Batman, is a huge Batman and Robin fan. He had read in wizard magazine about a contest for homemade costumes and ...

Coolest Catch Of The Day Costume 6  For a friend's Halloween party my husband and I dressed up as Catch of the day costume. He was the fisherman and I was the mermaid that he caught!

To ...

Coolest Scooby Doo Gang Ever Costume 4  We planned all year long for this, we went from Goodwill to Goodwill looking for just the right clothes and when we finally pulled this Scooby Doo Gang ...

Coolest Tampons Costume  Well, I wanted to be different, shocking without too gross, funny and spend less than $30. I ended up spending $21 and winning a lot more.

Needed:
Big ...

Coolest S'more Kids Costume 2  We usually try to all dress up in a theme each year and this year we decided S'mores would be fun. However, I made a twist on the idea and had each child ...

Tiny Terrifying T-Rex Costume 4  My four year son was obsessed with T-Rex's last year, so Mom had to deliver! I made his T-Rex head out of a children's plastic fire fighters helmet. I ...

Coolest Colonel Sanders Costume  I decided to be Colonel Sanders after driving through the drive-thru and seeing Colonel Sanders on the sign. I thought it would be pretty easy and very ...

Coolest Mother Nature Costume  I'm a mom, and what sort of costume fits best to us moms, but Mother Nature?! This was a super easy costume to throw together.

I used a burgundy ...

Coolest Man In The Yellow Hat from Curious George Costume 2  Two years ago when the Curious George movie came out, I immediately thought of this idea. I love to have my kids wear costumes that are handmade (of course!...

Coolest Rodeo Clown Costume 3  We waited untill the last minute to come up with my son's costume last year and since he already had western clothes we decided to make him a rodeo clown ...

Coolest Mr. Potato Head Costume 6  My son was two and was crazy about his Potato head, so we decided that he would have a Mr. Potato Head costume for Halloween.

I just took brown cotton ...

Coolest Electrocuted Ben Franklin Costume  Ever wondered what Ben Franklin looked like after he was flying that kite with the key, and got struck by lightning? No problem, here he is!

We sewed ...

Coolest Organ Grinder Monkey Costume 5  We purchased material and pattern at a local fabric store to make this organ grinder monkey costume. Fortunately for us, Grandma is a great seamstress!...

Coolest Jack Skellington Costume 8  The head of the Jack Skellington costume is made from papier mache over an old crash helmet. Underneath, the plastic visor has been removed and was replaced ...

Coolest Ghost Busters Costume 2  Who could forget Ghost Busters, or better yet the Stay Puft Marshmallow man (sent to destroy the earth?).

For my baby's 2nd Halloween I choose to make ...

Coolest Caterpillar Puppy From Alice In Wonderland Costume 9  My dog, Ohana, is dressed as the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland which I made from scratch along with his sidekick Willow, who is wearing a store ...

Coolest Bartleby from Dogma Costume  My costume is the angel Bartleby from the movie Dogma. I wore this costume to DragonCon this year and every one there was blown away. This costume was ...

Coolest Garbage Can Boy Costume  My husband came up with this idea for our son.
We bought an ordinary outside garbage can (take your child with you to make sure that the can will be ...

Coolest Mary Poppins And Bert Costume 5  My family loves Mary Poppins and the kids' grandmother and me put this Mary Poppins and Bert costume together. My mom made the coat as well as the little ...

Coolest Strawberry Shortcake Costume  I made this costume for my friend's 7-month-old.

It is red cotton with white eyelet sewn on for the apron. I didn't want a separate apron for this ...

Coolest Owl Costume 2  This owl costume I made for my son to dress up in this fall. In this moment in time he really wants to know about animals and seasons of the years. He ...

Coolest Spider Woman Costume 7  This spider woman costume was so difficult to do. I cut and interfaced each spider leg and placed them accordingly onto the suit. It has the same spider ...

Coolest Officer Big Mac and the Hamburglar(ette) Costume 2  Hamburglar(ette) was a pretty simple costume with a jail outfit and a cape. But, the real challenge for Officer Big mac was creating the head.

We basically ...

Coolest Yellow Submarine Costume  My 4 year old son went through a serious Yellow Submarine phase where we had to watch the movie and read the book almost daily. I created this out of ...

Coolest Mama And Baby Robot Costume   This Mama and baby robot costume was very easy to make. I took a box and cut out arms and head holes for myself and covered it with foil paper. then I ...

Coolest Cracker Jacks Costume  I have made my son, Jack, many costumes that have been based on his name (lumberjack, jack-in-the-box, jack and the beanstalk) but last year's was my favorite!...

Coolest Jack Skellington Costume 7  I originally wasn't even going to make a Halloween costume but then a few of my friends ended up having their birthday's over the Halloween weekend and ...

Coolest Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf Costume 4  It was fall of 2004 and I had built a wolf costume that walked on all fours but still stood about 6 and half feet tall. Using a bike helmet as a base ...

Coolest Corn On The Cob Costume 2  This corn on the cob costume was easy to make, but a little time consuming. For the hat I used an old milk jug cut in half with bubble wrap painted yellow ...

Coolest Pony Costume 8  Everyone always asks me if my dog has a saddle. And I can now say yes he does! I ordered the saddle from minitack.com It is for toddlers to ride miniature ...

Coolest Morticia and Pubert Addams 4  This Morticia and Pubert Addams costume is a very simple costumes!

Morticia: I colored my hair black and copied Morticia's hairstyle. I wore my ...

Coolest Homemade Costume Idea - Beside Myself  I bought a kid sister doll on ebay, then a striped dress from a thrift store. i cut the dress up and made one for the doll. I duck taped the doll to my ...

Coolest Pippi Longstocking Costume 8  My daughter was more into Pippi than modern day shows so I made her a Pippi Longstocking costume. The fun stuff, I used pipe cleaners to shape her braids....

Coolest Homemade Electrical Outlet Costume  This costume was made for my son's 2nd Halloween. He was 15 months old at the time. My husband is a master electrician so I thought it would be cute ...

Coolest Indian Couple Costume 2  This Indian costume was put together literally hours before my boyfriend and I were about to go out for a Halloween party at his fraternity. College costumes ...

Coolest Transformers Costume 14   My name is Chris. My best friend(Jason) asked me to help him build a costume for his nephew(Mikey). He wanted to be a robot from a recent film. Mikey was ...

Coolest Tooth Fairy Costume 2  This year my 6 year old daughter wanted a tooth fairy for Halloween! I did not know where to begin, I mean who has ever seen the Tooth Fairy?
So I went ...

Coolest Homemade Exorcist Costume  I wanted to make a unique costume that people would recognize, but would stand out from the crowd. I love Alfred Hitchcock so I went with the Exorcist ...

Coolest Hitchcock Costume - Tippy from The Birds  I wanted to make a unique costume that people would recognize, but would stand out from the crowd. I love Alfred Hitchcock so Tippy from "The Birds" was ...

Coolest Baby Chicken Costume 10  Our daughter had the cutest baby chicken costume ever! I took an onesie and put it inside a one piece turtle neck. I sewed the two garments to each other ...

Coolest Shrek And The Gang Costume 3  The whole family decided to get in on this Shrek and the gang costume!

We had Shrek: Sleeping pants and shirt from the thrift store, cut and old brown ...

Coolest Homemade X-Men Costumes  My friends and I are huge dorks and as an x-men enthusiast I convinced them to join in on the fun for our company Halloween party. They were a HUGE hit ...

Coolest Girls Gone Wild Costume 3  I didn't feel like going to the bar for Halloween but at the last minute my friends thought it would be a good idea to go.

The idea for this "girls ...

Coolest Couch Potato Costume  I began working on this couch potato costume in September 2007. My little brothers have a most creative Halloween Costume Contest at their school so we ...

Coolest Mouse Caught in a Trap Costume  There have been many variations of this costume, but none were what we wanted for our costume. We decided to take matters into our own hands. We bought ...

Coolest People Magazine Cover Costume  This is the favorite costume I've made. It was actually pretty easy to make. I went out and bought about 6 sheets of Bristol board, 4 sheets of black ...

Coolest Homemade Indian Costume  I had tons of fun making this Indian costume.

I started with some fake suede from the fabric store. I used a shirt as the template for the top. It ...

Coolest Tinkerbell Costume 3  My littlest girl wanted to be Tinkerbell last year. We didn't like the fluffy costume you could buy in the store so we made our own Tinkerbell costume....

Coolest Mother Superior Costume 2  Last year I was a nun for Halloween. This Mother Superior costume required a lot of sewing. The main gown of the Habit was a long black gown. I made ...

Coolst Ring Costume 3  My Ring costume was the evil girl out of the Japanese film ‘The Ring’ (also the USA remake of the same name).

I wanted to come across, as the scariest ...

Coolest WWF Ultimate Warrior Wrestling Costume  Growing Up in the 80's I watched WWF, as many people did, and my ICON was the one and only Ultimate Warrior! I took one look at him and thought to myself,...

Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas Costume 6  Well my daughter just loved the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas and of course she wanted to be Sally for Halloween but after much searching, the store-...

Coolest Ronald McDonald Costume 2  My 7 year old daughter was obsessed with McDonald's Happy Meals. She would eat them every day if I'd let her. So when Halloween rolled around last year,...

Nintendos Mega Man Costume  OK, for those who know oh so well, and played Nintendo growing up in the 80's you'll appreciate this one. Mega Man was an original NES SuperStar in the ...

Coolest Skeletor from He Man Costume 2  I decided one day to make a Skeletor from He Man costume. He is one of the coolest villains to rule the television. I only make my costumes from scratch....

Coolest Homemade Flintstones Theme Costumes 11  The family decided to do the Flintstones, so we were Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, and Dino Flintstone.

FOR Fred, I found an old white laundry bag that I ...

Coolest Thomas the Tank Engine Costume 12  My son loves Thomas. Last year he was Thomas and this coming year he wants to be James.

The Thomas the Tank Engine costume is made from cardboard boxes,...

Coolest Optimus Prime Transformers Costume 13  I was a big fan of Transformers as a kid. One day I saw several boxes in my garage and decided that I could use them to make a Transformers costume.

I ...

Coolest Homemade Grapes Costume 4  This grapes costume was a relatively simple costume to make. She wore a purple sweatsuit (with a hood) and I made, out of a big piece of felt from the ...

Coolest Ice Cream Cones Costumes 5  These ice cream cone costumes were made through instructions on FamilyFun, a great crafting magazine.

You use stuffed womens/girls stockings for the ...

Coolest Jack Jack Incredibles Costume 3  My son's name is Jack and we try to do a costume each year playing on his name ( A Jack from the game Jacks and this year a Jack in the box). The first ...

Coolest Homemade Chicken Costumes 9  Made these chicken costumes for my twin girls last year. Everyone thought they were so cute, and they were REALLY easy to make.

I made the body with ...

Coolest Vending Machine Costume 4  I am a HUGE M&M collector. I have an entire room full of M&M items. Everyone tells me it looks like a store. I have M&M candy dispenser, many many pins,...

Coolest Alien Abduction Costume 11  This is our version of the Alien abduction costume. We used a backpack to hold up the alien head, and a long black robe to cover him. The footie jammies ...

Coolest Homemade Ghost Buster Costume  This Ghost Buster costume took some work, but it turned out really good. My son won our local costume contest.

We first found the coveralls at Goodwill ...

Coolest Clown with Balloons Costume 2  Look closely and you'll see a little "baby balloon" being held by the clown.

The Clown costume was made by my Mother in Law for my husband when he was ...

Coolest Homemade Pirate Theme Costume 12  For Halloween 2006, we went with a pirate theme. Our two sons went as pirates, as did I, and their aunt went as a keg of rum.

PIRATES

The boys' costumes ...

Coolest Men in Black Theme Costume 1  For our son's first Halloween (2006), he had an NG tube due to a health issue. We decided to incorporate it into our Halloween costume and made him an ...

Homemade Wicked Queen from Snow White Costume 2  Wicked? In the photo above I'm having too much fun for the actual menacing look, but I'm supposed to be the wicked queen from Snow White.

The occasion ...

Coolest Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf Costumes 3  These Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf costumes were created by a family friend and are completely hand made. Halloween is my favorite holiday ...

Coolest Homemade Alien Costumes 10  These alien costumes were made from a Simplicity pattern. Both costumes were made from liquid lame fabric which is stretchy and comfortable. The helmets ...

Coolest Jailbird Prisoner and Guard Family Costume  I love to make our Halloween costumes a family theme. One year I decided that I was to be a prison guard trying to keep track of my jailbirds.

So I ...

Coolest Homemade Zurg Costume 1  Our family had a Toy Story theme for Halloween 2007. Our sons were Woody and Buzz (store-bought costumes I'm sad to say) my husband was Zurg and I was ...

Coolest Mr. Potato Head Costume 5  Our family did a Toy Story theme for Halloween 2007. Our sons were Woody and Buzz (store-bought costumes, I'm sorry to say) but my husband and I were ...

Coolest Mail Order Bride Costume  I needed something quick and easy, and something that I could still do my job at work in. I started looking around the house for things I could make a ...

Coolest Homemade Campbell Soup Costume 1  For my daughter Campbell Claire's first Halloween I couldn't resist this cliche. So many people had already referred to her name as, "you know, like the ...

Coolest Grapes Costume 3  for my grapes costume I wore a green skirt and a crochet sweater. I tied strings to all the balloons and tied them to the crochet sweater. It was perfect ...

Coolest Baby Factory Costume 1  Last year I didn't have a clue what to be so, as usual I pulled something together the night before.

I went as a "Baby Factory" (but most people thought ...

Coolest Teen Wolf Costume 2  I went all out for this Teen Wolf costume and it really paid off.

I purchased a high school basketball uniform and had the team name and number screen-...

Coolest Maggie Simpson Costume 4  We are HUGE Simpsons fans and here's our homemade Maggie Simpson costume.

We started off with a basic bunting pattern that was easy to sew and we found ...

Coolest Teabag Costume 7  For my teabag costume, I purchased a few yards of Crinoline, a couple yards of cording and a box of Lipton teabags. I cut out two huge rectangles the ...

Coolest Beetlejuice Costume 2  My brother asked me to make him a Beetlejuice costume for a Halloween party he was going to, he asked me the day before so I did not have much time.

I ...

Coolest Jack Skellington Costume 5  I decided to make my children the Sally and Jack Skellington costumes from a nightmare before Christmas for last Halloween. To make the Jack costume, I ...

Coolest SpongeBob Squarepants Halloween Costume 14  This SpongeBob Squarepants costume was made by using an "egg-crate" mattress pad (spray-painted yellow) over a cardboard box. Holes were cut out of the ...

Coolest Homemade Mermaid Costume 5  I made the fin for the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island, Brooklyn and Joe loved it so much he borrowed the Mermaid costume for a children's cartoon characters ...

Coolest Indiana Jones Costume 2  My husband downloaded the demo of LEGO Indiana Jones for our X-Box 360. My four year old son saw him playing the game one day and wanted to try it for ...

Coolest Frozen Head in Fridge Costume 1  The frozen head in fridge costume started out as a water heater box. I cut it down the left side to make the "doors" then placed a piece of cardboard ...

Coolest Homemade Baby Elvis Costume 4  Here's my easy to make baby Elvis costume.

We were going to the Elvis festival in Collingwood and we thought it would be funny to dress the baby up ...

Coolest Mad Hatter Costume 4  This entire Mad Hatter costume was hand made, except for the teapot purse which was found on ebay.

The vest was made from a pirate costume pattern, the ...

Coolest Homemade Samara Costume 2  For my homemade Samara costume (from The Ring), I used a night gown purchased at value Village, a wig from Wal-Mart. I also applied liquid latex on my ...

Coolest Shrek and Fiona Homemade Costume 2  For Homemade Shrek, I used: old clothes, gourd ends cut and glued on head, fake teeth, and I sprayed body with colored hairspray

For Homemade Fiona,...

Coolest Homemade Spit Roast Costume 1  I tried to combine my two favourite pastimes: eating and dressing, and threw this costume spit roast costume together for 20 euros for a huge fancy dress ...

Coolest Homemade Blade Costume 1  "Blade: The Series" was a program on "Spike TV" during the summer of 2006. It was based on the successful "Blade" movies produced by Marvel Comics that ...

Coolest Vivian from Pretty Woman Costume 1  I first searched online for a good costume I could buy, but to my disappointment there were no good ones to be found. So, I decided to make my own - a ...

Strawberry Costume 1  My daughter declared that she wanted to be a Strawberry for Halloween when she was 4, but I could not find a pattern anywhere! To improvise the Strawberry ...

Princess Zelda Nintendo Character Costume 1  My daughter had a Zelda kick after the Twilight Princess came out on Nintendo, and she wanted to be Princess Zelda for Halloween.

She is wearing a T-...

Corpse Bride Costume 2  I am constantly on the lookout for costume ideas so I pick up pieces and bits at yard sales and thrift stores in hopes that I can use them one day.

This ...

Thomas the Train Costume 11  Theo my son loves Thomas the Tank Engine but for carnival party 2008 at his school he wanted to be Percy the tank engine! I surfed a lot on the web collecting ...

Wicked Witch Costume 3  This wicked witch costume was thrown together at the very last minute. I was getting the kids ready to go and decided I wanted to dress up to. The cape ...

Megatron Costume 12  Like so many people, I have been a Transformers fan since for ever. Still have all of my toys from the 80's. I had been wanting to make a costume for a ...

Green Eggs and Ham Costume 1  My son's favorite book is Green Eggs and Ham. His name happens to be Sam so he decided he wanted to be Sam-I-am. I thought it would be easy to find the ...

iPhone Costume 1  After the iPhone craze I decided it would be great to dress up as one. I bought two pieces of foam board (gray and black). I printed the icons large and ...

Back to the Future Costume 1  We wanted to do a couples' costume for Halloween that people would recognize and while Marty McFly and Lorraine Baines are actually mother and son I wanted ...

Mary Poppins Costume 4  My park district was doing a Sing-a-Long with Mary Poppins event and I got nominated to portray Mary Poppins. I decided to make the Mary Poppins costume ...

Tortoise Costume 2  My daughter had the role of the Tortoise in her first grade play of the Tortoise and the Hare. I decided to make her costume. I cut out two oval shapes ...

Wonder Woman Costume 8  This Wonder Woman costume is a work in progress costume. I improve on it every year. It's the only sewing I do so my skills don't improve much from one ...

Black Labrador Costume 9  My four year old daughter wanted to be Chevy (our black Labrador dog) for Halloween. At first I wasn't sure how in the world I was going to pull that off ...

Thing 1 and Thing 2 Costume 10  For this Thing 1 and Thing 2 costume I bought a sleeper pattern that had a back opening for the main piece and used red fleece material.

For lettering:...

Mr. and Mrs. Peanut Costume 3  I like to make my own costumes out of bed foam.... and wanted something unique for my boyfriend and myself.

So, I made up a "Mrs. Peanut" and of course ...

Pregnant Belly Costume 12  At almost 7 months pregnant with twins I needed something clever for my costume. I bought a cat set from the Halloween store that had ears, whiskers, tail ...

Calculator Costume 1  My son loves calculators and when Halloween was coming up a few years ago we told him he could be anything he wanted to be. Of course he wanted to be a ...

Cockatoo Parrot Costume 8  I was inspired to make this costume after owning three cockatoo parrots and collecting tons of their beautiful white feathers. Zeus, my 50 year old Umbrella ...

The Little Mermaid Costume 3  I was able to make this Mermaid costume in four days. I made the rock and the bra with paper. The tail is a fabric triangle that I put on the rock. The ...

Gene Simmons Costume 3  I built this Gene Simmons costume in 2005 as the climax to a 10 year long journey into rock stardom. Since I was 13 I have been Gene on Halloween, ironically ...

Oompa Loompa Costume 8  Every year I search for the perfect costume and last year it was Oompa Loompa from he original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Execution of the costume ...

Pasta and Pizza Costume 8  For the pasta gone wild costume I bought a colander at the Dollar store. I added Cream colored yarn and brown pom-poms (from Michaels). I used a red T-...

Optical Illusion Costume 13  My daughter wanted to be anything that would include a person holding her! So I began to think. We had a scream costume from years past. Firstly, for her,...

Coolest Coffee, Tea or Me Costume 16  This costume is a funny play on the better know Starbucks barista uniform.

The costume consists of:
1. Green Apron
2. White Shirt
3. Black skirt ...

Coolest Sandwich Costume 3  I had to go to a "Don't Be A _ITCH, Be A WITCH" ladies-only party... I've worn wicked witch costumes in the past, but was looking for something more creative ...

Scary Leprechaun Costume 5  This Leprechaun costume was made out of old clothing and junk we found around the house. We recycled some parts from previous Halloween costumes, such ...

Coolest Labor and Delivery Optical Illusion Costume  This optical illusion costume is a variation of the baby in the high chair. It's a nurse holding a newborn which is me. On the back of the scrubs is ...

Coolest Gangster Costumes  These gangster costumes were for a Halloween party 3 years ago.

We bought most of my husband's costume at a thrift store. The watch chain was really ...

Coolest Devil Wears Prada Costume  This Devil Wears Prada costume was really easy to make! You'll need:

Devil Costume
Devil Horns
Iron-On Letters (3 packs to spell out Prada several ...

Coolest Tool Box Costume  This tool box costume idea came to me because at the time I worked in a repair shop. I used two computer boxes as a start, but any durable box would do....

Coolest Skunk Costume 2  For this skunk costume I used a Skunk pattern found at my local fabric store and altered the pattern by adding the elastic on the cuffs rather then the ...

Coolest Operation Game Costume 2  I thought about what childhood game could I make into a costume. Operation Game!

I started by making a wooden box. I then cut out all of the holes ...

Coolest Dangle Costume 4  I am a big fan of Reno 911 so I decided to dress up as Lt. Dangle for Halloween 2007 because he is hilarious. I saw all the cheap costumes that the Halloween ...

Coolest Pinocchio Costume 4  I got the idea for this Pinocchio costume from the one that appears on this site - this is the one...

The total was about 60 dollars.

Coolest Tough Cookie Costume 16  I was having a hard time thinking of something to be... and then I thought of being a tough cookie! I dressed up as an Oreo cookie with boxing gloves and ...

Coolest Tea Bag Costume 8  This is a costume made for my daughter last Halloween. It is so simple to make - but you have to be able to run up a seam on a sewing machine.

What ...

Coolest Lawn Gnome Costume 2  I made this Lawn Gnome costume for my boyfriend for an impromptu costume party. I made the hat out of poster board and red felt. All I needed was a glue-...

Coolest Hell In Handbasket Costume 15  My old roommate (RIP) made this hell in handbasket costume. I have no idea what gave her the idea for this. It was probably just one of those random ideas....

Coolest Peter and the Wolf Costume  For Christmas this year, my parents gave my son a record player and all my LP records. He fell in love with ‘Peter and the Wolf’ and ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’...

Coolest Pilot And Airplane Costume 4  I built this pilot and airplane costume at my company. Used sauna tube, foam insulation and paint.

I was the pilot manning the airplane. I work at ...

Coolest Mr. T Costume 5  I couldn't find anything online that looked remotely original, so I had to try and get all this Mr T Costume together myself.

I bought a latex head ...

Coolest Beth Chapman Costume 10  Two years ago, before you could buy the costumes everywhere, I decided to take advantage of my long blond hair and dressed up as Beth Chapman (Dog the ...

Coolest Penguin and The Riddler 6  Danny Divito stars as the Penguin! This Penguin and the Riddler costme was a great idea and a lot of fun and was not hard at all!

The Penguin: Tons ...

Coolest I Dream of Jeanie Costume   My daughter wanted to be a Jeanie from "I Dream of Jeanie" for Halloween. She picked out a costume in one of the Halloween magazines and it cost $40. Well,...

Coolest Transformers Costume 16  My nephew and neighbor's boy wanted to be Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. We looked at this website for ideas and came up with our own Transformers costume!...

Coolest Fire Extinguisher Costume  I got this idea from a cartoon I came across when searching for ideas. The cartoon was a picture of a fire-extinguisher with a funny caption that read ...

Coolest Popcorn Box Costume 4  I made this popcorn box costume for my daughter two years ago and everyone around where we live absolutely loved it. It was the best not only original ...

Coolest Rodeo Clown Costume 5  I first started with the clothes I would wear for this rodeo clown costume. I made the skirt out of an old pair of my husband's wranglers. I found the ...

Coolest Barbie In Box Costume 5  I took a wardrobe box and spray painted it pink. I hot glued glitter and snowflakes, wrapped packaging saran all around the box and borrowed a neighbor'...

Coolest Pink Daisy Costume 9  I got this idea for a pink daisy costume from a Tom Arma costume, but didn't want to pay the price, so decided to make my own cuter version. I used felt,...

Coolest Elvis Impersonator Costume 14  Our mastiff Bull Dozzer is wearing a handmade cape with a red velvet lining and the outside is covered in beads. He is also sporting a pair of Elvis type ...

Coolest Dog The Bounty Hunter And Beth Costume 9  We had a costume party and thought of this Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth costume the day of the party.

We went to the thrift store and got all the ...

Coolest Evil Knievel Costume  This Evil Knievel costume was a BLAST! I found these white pants on clearance for $4 and a white button up top. I gathered acrylic paint and some iron ...

Coolest Monopoly Gameboard Costume  Our family loves family game night and one of our favorite games to play is Monopoly. I suggested the idea to my daughter after seeing the Twister costumes ...

Coolest Squidward Costume 2  My son wanted to be Squidward for Halloween. There are no Squidward costumes to buy at all. So I had to make one. I am NOT a seamstress,however, I accomplished ...

Coolest Peter Pan And Wendy Costume 5  Wendy was Peters love interest!

For Wendy I got a long nightgown and curled my hair. Peter was a green shirt, green pants, fake plastic leaves sewn ...

Coolest Cosmopolitan Costume  I love Halloween so I decided while watching Sex and the City one night what I would be... a COSMO. Perfect.

I Have a back strapless dress as my base....

Coolest Headcase Costume 13  This is a Headcase costume. I wore white scrub pants and a white shirt (like the crazy people). I shredded the shirt at the bottom and at the arms. I then ...

Coolest Ron Burgandy Costume 3  This is my 6 year old Jake dressed in a Ron Burgandy costume. It couldn't have been more simple. He already had a little suit and tie, so I slicked his ...

Coolest Hello Kitty Costume  Every year at the Children’s Museum where I work all the employees dress up for almost the entire month of October. My best friend and many of my (adult)...

Coolest Our Town Costume 3  What started as a simple idea of a "Our Town" costume for my 2 year old son in 2002 soon became too big to fit on him. I began with collecting business ...

Coolest Plant Stand Costume 8  I started this plant stand costumewith a presentation board, and cut a hole in it big enough to pull up over my hips, leaving tabs on the inside of the ...

Coolest Highway To Hell Costume 12  I was trying to think of a costume when I was listening to some ACDC's highway to hell. "Hmmm... what a great idea!" So I went to Home Depot and picked ...

Coolest Doll In Box Costume 4  This doll in the box costume my daughter and I made last year for her. We used an old baby type costume(baby dress and bonnet)to start with. She wore ...

Coolest Elvis Costume 5  Elvis lives in Colorado! This Elvis costume was made for a celebrity party. I made my own jumpsuit pattern out of a pair of pants and a long sleeve top....

Coolest Popeye And Crew Costume 6  This Popeye and crew costume idea turned out to be really easy. We shopped around at thrift stores for most of the items, Olives's dress, skirt, Popeye'...

Coolest Veggie Tales Group Costume 2  My Son is a HUGE fan of Larryboy and decided that the whole family needed to dress up for Halloween as Veggie tale characters. Daddy and son are Larryboy,...

Coolest Bjork Costume 2  Each year my adult daughter asks me to make her a unique Halloween costume. This year she is Bjork the pop singer from Iceland who wore her famous swan ...

Coolest Princess Leia Costume 8  My husband and I are HUGE Star Wars fans, so all our kids are stuck being Star Wars characters for their first Halloween. Our first born was Darth Vader....

Coolest Mr. T Costume 4  You don't really need a stage by stage tutorial on making this Mr. T costume, since it is mostly just accessories piled together.

All I did, was bought ...

Coolest Pool Set Costume 2  Starting left to right...

Pool chalk: Take a square box and cut the top of for the bottom part. Cut circles for the arms and top with a painted foam ...

Coolest Hannibal Lector Costume  My co-bartender and myself wanted to do something different this year. He has this fascination with Dr. Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs, so ...

Coolest Napoleon Dynamite Costume  We wanted to be something that would make people laugh. We thought that maybe we could pull these two off. And we did, we were a hit. It was probably two ...

Coolest Devil Queen Costume 5  As you can see from my Halloween photos this Devil Queen costume is really easy even if you do not sew! I do not own a sewing machine so I use hot glue ...

Coolest Wizard of OZ Costume 10  Tin Man was made from a Bally fitness suit purchased from Goodwill for $2.50 I backed it with poster board and made the heart from a pocket watch and an ...

Coolest Sorry! Gameboard Costume 3  My 6 year old son's favorite game is Sorry, and this year he decided that was what he wanted to be for Halloween, Sorry Gameboard costume. I purchased ...

Coolest John Deere Tractor Costume 9  My 3 year son Ean is a tractor fanatic so he wanted to be a tractor, but of course it had to be a John Deere tractor costume, not just any old tractor,...

Coolest Sally The Nightmare Before Christmas Costume 10  First I drew a sketch of Sally, The Nightmare Before Christmas costume, while watching the movie and labeled the colors and design of the patches. I then ...

Coolest Box of Popcorn Costume 3  I wasn't sure what my oldest son was going to be so I decided to make my own costume. All I needed was a box , white paint , red construction paper and ...

Coolest Dead Mermaid Costume 8  I'm not sure how I came up with the idea for this dead mermaid costume, it just sort of happened. The net and the fake grass/seaweed was bought from a ...

Coolest Smurfette Costume 7  This Smurfette costume was pretty easy to pull off. I got the little white dress and yellow wig at a thrift store, and the blue tights and blue body paint ...

Coolest Siamese Twins Costume  Here is my son as a Siamese twin. He has 2 arms 3 legs and 2 heads, but one body. Home made and looks awesome, very cheap to make!

The costume took ...

Coolest Killer Clown Costume 5  This was part of a Hollywood project for college, I decided to try costume designing. I based the Killer Clown costume on "The Red Triangle Circus Gang"...

Coolest Board Games Costume 4  Who says Halloween is just an excuse for girls to dress up in the skimpiest costumes? Not me and my sister! Every year we try to come up with something ...

Coolest Dora the Explorer Costume 6  I made this Dora the Explorer costume for my husband to wear at our daughter Paige's 2nd Birthday. He just loves dressing up and entertaining the kids....

Coolest Jurrasic Park Dinosaur Costume 5  This is my Jurrasic Park Dinosaur costume from Jurassic Park movie I made for my Son Joshua. I started with some black foam pad used for upholstery. I ...

Coolest Hot Dog Vendor Costume 2  This is for the Hot Dog Vendor costume (the one in the middle).

Supplies:
White shirt
Red Tie
Cardboard Box (kind used for carrying canned cokes)...

Coolest Fear Factor Contestant Costume  Supplies for this costume:
White Long Sleeve Shirt
Jeans
Knee & Elbow pads
Goggles
Transfer sheets that can be ironed onto clothing (buy @ Walmart)...

Coolest Billboard Costume  This billboard costume was made a bit easier to do having a projector. My son surfed the web for billboards that he like including taking pictures of local ...

Coolest Billiard Ball Costume  For my Billiard Ball costume, I took a pattern for a tennis ball. Any pattern for a round object will do. I cut out the pattern in black felt (since magic ...

Coolest Baby Pebbles Costume 12  I made this baby Pebbles costume for my daughter in 2007! The entire thing is hand made and she was shoeless like a stone age baby! The necklace was ...

Coolest Pine Fresh Air Freshener Costume  This year my husband's costume is a Pine-Fresh air Freshener. Here's how it came about...

Every year my husband says he will dress up for Halloween,...

Coolest Dog Pooh Costume 13  Every year, we take our children camping for Halloween. The campground has a Halloween contest and trick or treating and all kinds of fun things to do....

Coolest Raining Cats and Dogs Costume 2  We have a costume contest every halloween at my job and I've won 1st place the last 3 years so I had to come up with another original idea.

I decided ...

Coolest Narnia Costume  I really like unique ideas for costumes, and always make mine. I was inspired by Labyrinth and Narnia. It took me (and my sewing mother) a week to create ...

Coolest Alien with Flying Saucer Costume 13  My son wanted to be a space ship for Halloween, so after much thought and ideas bouncing all over the place, I came up with a solution! Why not be the ...

Coolest Fat Bastard Costume 14  When I was pregnant with my first daughter I wanted to be fat bastard thinking what a funny costume it would be but being to tired and not feeling the ...

Coolest Fruit of the Loom Doggy Style Costume 12  I honestly don't remember what made me choose to make my little puppy into a bunch of grapes but I can tell you that to this day, my Boston Terrier, Jake,...

Coolest Leather Back Turtle Costume 4  Dear Friends,

We are all aware that due to indiscriminate industrialization, lot of pollutants are generated. Oceans are one of the important part of ...

Coolest Neo from the Matrix Costume  For this Neo from the Matrix costume, you'll need to raid you closet and possibly some of your area thrift stores to make this costume. The good thing ...

Coolest Taz Costumes  My husband loves Taz so I thought, why not?

I bought 2 union suits and dyed them dark brown, then painted a lighter brown for the chest and stomach ...

Coolest Genie Costume 2  My daughter wanted to be a genie last year and we always try and make our own costumes so we don't look like everyone else. We went to the fabric store ...

Coolest Chris Farley Chippendale Costume  We put this outfit together when we were invited to a “Saturday Night Live” themed costume party. Without the pillow, it also works as Patrick Swayze’...

Coolest Head On Platter Costume 12  We won the scariest costume award. This head on platter costume is such a great and easy costume.

The table is just foam poster board with a Halloween ...

Coolest Corpse Bride And Groom 5  The dress, suit and everything thing you see for this corpse bride and groom costume was purchased from the Goodwill store. The roses were white bouquet ...

Coolest Reno 911 Costume 3  In 2005 I dressed up as Deputy Clementine Johnson from Reno 911. I purchased as real "Security Guard" brown polyester uniform online and added brown stripes ...

Coolest Play Doh Costume  I work at a daycare and we are required to dress up for Halloween every year. It's a secret competition between all the teachers to see who can come up ...

Coolest Captured By A Monster Costume 12   This idea came from the abducted by an alien costume. I had bought some masks, and skeleton gloves on clearance and didn't know what I was going to do ...

Coolest Beetlejuice and Lydia Costume 3  To make Beetlejuice's costume, we bought a dark over sized suit from a thrift store and put pinstripes on it using white tape. We stuffed a white t-shirt ...

Coolest Gomez and Morticia Adams Costume 5  Making the Gomez and Morticia Adams costume was fairly easy. For Gomez, we went to a thrift shop and bought a dark suit, and found a thin dark tie. We ...

Witch Costume 4  I used the Dracula dress from the year before. It's black satin. We just sewed feather boas around the bottom and at the wrists.

The hat I bought ...

Coolest Scarecrow Costume 10  I just used a sweat suit (it's warm). Felt for the patches and markers to draw the stitches. I cut the cuffs off of the shirt and leave the cuffs on ...

Coolest 80's Rocker Chick Costume 3  First of all I totally rock, so I totally had to build the best rocker chick costume I could think of so the first thing that came to mind was a totally ...

Jack in the Box Costume 4  We made this Jack in the box costume for my son about 5 years ago. We started off with a box. We painted it gold and then decoupaged (glued over) a printed ...

ClownCon Cutest Clown Costume 4  Every year in London we have a ClownCon and this was to be my first. So I took a day off work and made a clown costume. I got cottons from the charity ...

Coolest Bjork in Swan Dress Costume  I made the infamous Bjork swan dress for Halloween. It was super easy. I took the crinoline that I wore under my wedding dress and took off the top layer ...

Bush Man Costume 4  This bush man costume is an original costume made by fake leaves I bought at a craft store and old clothes I found around my house. I either hot glued ...

Coolest Kool Aid Man Costume  The idea for making the costume came from an obsession with drinking an access amount of Kool-Aid. I've been pretty crafty, so I knew the challenge of ...

Cavewoman Costume 2  I decided to dress myself as a cavewoman this year for Halloween. I wanted a way to be original and didn't want to dress in that pretty-girly costume like ...

Coolest Flavor Flav Costume  The only thing I bought for this Flavor Flav costume was the viking hat. I hooked a wall clock to a chain and sewed my cape! I thought this guy was crazy ...

Wolfman Costume 2  We tore up some old blue jeans and an old green jacket to make our Wolfman costume. We bought some fur fabric to use for the chest hair and also stitched ...

Cereal Killer Costume 12  Cereal Killer is a pun on words so the teachers loved it. He won 1st prize for most original.

All I did was get a black tee shirt and black sweats ...

Coolest Rock And Roll Costume 2  We had my mom a 60th birthday party where everyone dressed up in the rock-n-roll era. I made my daughter Sofie, who was 3 at the time, a pink and black ...

Dorothy - Wizard of Oz Costume 8  After watching the Wizard of Oz more times than I care to recall, my daughter announced she wanted to be Dorothy for Halloween. Since I'm able to sew a ...

Coolest Deviled Egg Costume 11  I always try to make costumes that play on words, so I made I made this "Deviled Egg" costume for my three year old son, complete with hood and cape out ...

Coolest Dog The Bounty Hunter And His Wife Costume 7  This Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife costume was really easy to put together. We found 2 mullet like wigs and for Dogs costume we got a tight black ...

Coolest Corpse Bride Costume 3  Our 5 yr old daughter wanted to be the corpse bride from her favorite movie. We took her baptism dress and used black sidewalk chalk to make it look a ...

Coolest Zombies Costume 11  My daughters wanted to be zombies for Halloween, but we couldn't find anything at the stores. So we went in their closet and found old pants and shirts,...

Coolest Bobbits Costume 3  We took the Bobbits costume idea a little further. I wore a black night gown and robe (that I already owned). We purchased a cheap pair of pj's for him ...

Coolest SpongeBob Costume 15  I made the coolest life size (for a 10 year old) SpongeBob Squarepants costume. It has been a contest winner for 3 years, on three different kids and ...

Coolest Homemade Pitfall Costume  I was trying to come up with a costume to one up mine from last year, and I wanted to keep it old school. More importantly, I needed to keep it cheap... I ...

Coolest GI Joe Costumes  When my boyfriend and I arrived at the Halloween Party in these costumes, the crowd went NUTS with cheering and applause! There were probably 400-500 people ...

Coolest Hulk Hogan Costume 2  My son (and I!) love Hulk Hogan, and I purchased a Hulkamania shirt online for his birthday. Later, we found a padded muscles costume at the Goodwill,...

Coolest Thomas The Train Costume 13  My 3 year old son loves trains, particularly Gordon the #4 engine from Thomas and Friends. I decided to make it for his Halloween costume! It took 2 ...

Coolest Iron Man Costume  This Iron Man costume is my first real costume attempt. The body is made of swag foam. Kinda a pain, because paint doesn't stick to it too well, so next ...

Coolest Double Double Costume  This costume was so easy to make... I made it the day before Halloween!

I bought a child's red apron at Joann's Craft Store, used some fabric paint ...

Coolest Stoplight Costume 4  I took a narrow cardboard box and covered it in yellow fabric for this stoplight costume. I then cut out 2 holes in the front of the box. I covered these ...

Cooloest Tragedy Andy Costume  I bought the Tragedy Ann Costume from an online store, but needed something for my husband. I got an Andy costume pattern from the fabric store and used ...

Coolest Homemade Underdog Costume  My son decided to be Underdog after seeing the movie. The Underdog costume turned out so cute.

I used a plain ol' long sleeved red shirt, and I cut ...

Coolest Optimus Prime and Bumblebee Costume 15  I wanted to make this Optimus Prime and Bumblebee costume after seeing Youtube video of actual transforming costumes. Although these costumes do not transform ...

Coolest Homemade Volcano Costume  I wanted an original and cheap Halloween costume for my daughter Abby that would wear well for her many parties and outings with friends. We were watching ...

Coolest Campbell's Soup Costume 2  Made recently for an Arty Party! I was inspired by one of those pop-up springy washing baskets - very cheap to buy in pound shops or similar. I simply ...

Coolest Simpsons "Radioactive Man" Costume 5  Who doesn't like The Simpsons! Well anyone can go to a Halloween store and buy a Simpsons costume to wear. Not me though. I have to take it one step ...

Coolest Skeleton Costume 3  I made this skeleton costume for my son last year and it was really a hit! He loves skeletons but I felt he was too young for a "scary" costume so I came ...

Coolest Coconut Tree Costume 3  I made this coconut tree costume for my daughter. She loved it. She got so many compliments on this costume. And I had a lot of fun making it too.

I ...

Coolest Chucky and His Bride Costumes  We wanted something that was not store bought but always wanted to dress as a couple costume... This Chucky and his Bride was perfect!

We found most ...

Coolest Popeye and Olive Oyl Costume 3  This Popeye and Olive Oyl costume was very easy to make.

Popeye:
For the hat I found a cheap similar white hat then sewed the black band around it ...

Coolest Lt. Dangle and Deputy Johnson Costumes 2  My fiance and I were planning these costumes for months back in the summer of 2006, before all of the Reno 911 costumes were available to buy.

We ...

Coolest Dog The Bounty Hunter and Beth Costume 6  My husband and I had the perfect costume last year (2007) for Halloween. We were huge fans of the Dog the Bounty Hunter show and thought it would be a ...

Coolest Popeye and Olive Oyle Costume 4  My son and my niece are very close in age and love to trick or treat together. They like to coincide so last year we came up with this Popeye and Olive ...

Coolest Dog The Bounty Hunter Costume 5  This Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife were definitely a last minute decision. We found two blond wigs and went clothes shopping for some black outfits....

Coolest Smurf Costume 3  Our community has a Halloween Costume contest every year. We had seven employees in our office and wanted everyone to dress in a theme. Since everyone ...

Coolest Captain Jack Sparrow Costume 3  We were headed to Disney in the fall and my son wanted a really great pirate costume. I got the pattern for a captain Jack Sparrow costume from a local ...

Coolest Homemade 50s Costume  This costume was really simple.

I took an old curtain and made a large circle skirt with an elastic waist.

I found a color page with a picture of ...

Coolest Veggie Tales Costume  This is the Veggie Tales costume I made for my son. Since he was so young and slept A LOT I wanted to be able to carry him in his car seat. The only ...

Coolest Homemade Joker Costume 4  Halloween has always been my Christmas so I decided that last year I would go as one of my favorite villains. I based the look of the Joker costume on ...

Coolest Edward Scissor Hands 4  The Edward Scissor Hands hands, boots and wig were purchased at a costume shop. The wig required some trimming so that my son could see and so that it ...

Coolest Homemade Lego Costume 4  I came up with this Lego costume for my two year old. I found things around my husbands shop, put it together and then my brother in law painted it for ...

Coolest Alice and the Mad Hatter Costumes 5  Everyone always told my daughter that she looked like Alice so we went ahead and dressed her for Halloween. Their grandmother made the dress and my son'...

Coolest Homemade Costumes - Jack as a Jack  My son's name is Jack and I like to incorporate his name in his costumes (as long as he will let me). I decided it would be fun and easy to make him a ...

Coolest Wizard of Oz Costumes 7  My friends and I did a Wizard of Oz theme for Halloween a few years ago. We even have a yellow brick road!!!

The Tin Man is the only purchased costume:...

Coolest Head on Platter Costume 11  My son Benjamin wanted to stand out from the crowd for Halloween. In the U.K Halloween isn't as great as in the U.S, so we had our work cut out!

We ...

Coolest Homemade Gargoyle Costume 2  We've always made my son's costumes at home since he was a baby. Since his birthday is just a few days before Halloween we go all out. Every year he decides ...

Coolest Happy Birthday Cake Costume 10  Our daughter was obsessed with birthday parties. She would go around the house singing the Happy Birthday song at the top of her lungs. So when Halloween ...

Coolest Homemade Television Costume 1  This is a televison costume I made for my 9 year old son. We used a large box that had a screen sized hole in the front for his face, as if he was the ...

Coolest Head on Platter and Waiter Costume 10  My two boys, age 10 and 11 wanted to do something fun for their Halloween Banquet with a scout troop. We decided to do the head on a silver platter but ...

Coolest Reno 911 Dangle and Clementine Costumes 1  For our homemade Reno 911 Dangle and Clementine costumes we bought Dickies shorts (for Dangle), pants (for clementine) and button-up short sleeve shirts ...

Coolest Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth Costume 4  For our Dog the Bounty hunter and Beth costumes, we bought all of the clothes and shoes from thrift stores.

The leather vest, black jeans and black ...

Coolest Homemade 1980s Prom Costume 1  I went to an 80s themed fund raiser with my homemade Prom costume.

All of the dress was made from fabric remnants, minus the trim which was dirt cheap....

Coolest Homemade Braveheart Costume 1  For my homemade Braveheart costume, I took a full length leather coat I bought from Value Village for $12. I cut little leather leaflets to look like armour ...

Coolest Homemade Wonder Bread Costume 1  I decided to make my 3 year old into a loaf of wonder bread for Halloween. The Wonder Bread costume was easy to make and everyone loved it.

You need:...

Coolest Homemade Tootsie Roll Costume 1  I was trying to come up with an ideal costume for my son for Halloween, and he was sitting there at the table eating tootsie rolls, which he loves, and ...

Marge Simpson Costume 2 

My children came home from school and announced they wanted to enter the fancy dress competition at the summer fare the next morning!...

Doctor Who Costume 1 

My children came home from school and announced they wanted to enter the fancy dress competition at the summer fare the next morning!...

Gumby Costume 1  I wanted a homemade costume that was out of the norm and for some reason Gumby popped into my head.

I decided I had to make pants and a top so I could ...

Boxer Costume 1  This was two yards of red satin sewn into a robe with a hood. I did not use a pattern. I just traced his bathrobe, sewed the two pieces together and cut ...

Harry Potter Costume 4  For the Lord Voldermort costume we used an old mask and black cape from our costume trunk. The snake came from Dollar Tree. After the picture was taken ...

Bubble Bath Costume 5  For my bubble bath costume I spent maybe $8 on the tub and some balloons, a scrub brush and a shower cap. I got everything from the dollar store. I hot ...

Outhouse Costume 5  I have seen a boy in a white outhouse picture online and that was my inspiration for this costume. I got boxes from my grand-dad (washer and dryer boxes)...

SpongeBob Costume 13  When I was invited to a Cartoons and Comics themed party I could only think of one character I wanted to go as: SpongeBob.

I took inspiration from ...

Cable Guy Construction Costume 2  My son was obsessed with the cable guy. If we were driving and we saw a truck we had to follow it. So it was no wonder what he wanted to be for Halloween ...

Football Player Costume 2  We are huge Ohio State Buckeye football fans. My son who turned two in October, would recognize anything Buckeyes and gets all excited and says "oohh guckeyes!...

Wizard of Oz Costume 6  The whole Wizard of Oz costume idea got started when my sister-in-law lent my son a homemade lion costume she had made several years ago for her son. Then ...

Hot Air Balloon Costume 6 

My children came home from school and announced they wanted to enter the fancy dress competition at the summer fare the next morning!...

Dr. Seuss Costume 11  My idea for the Thing 1 and Thing 2 costume came from the book Cat in the Hat, which I read every night to our boys at the time. It was fairly simple ...

Zombie Costume 10  This Zombie costume won me first prize at a venue in Devon last year.

I bought a white shirt, tights and skirt then spent about ten minutes in the garden ...

Hillbilly Costume 2  A redneck hillbilly retirement party in West Virginia was the inspiration for these costumes. The guys wore thrift store bib-overhauls. My dress from ...

Pirates Costume 11  We were invited to a pirate party in West Virgina. We dressed before we left and stopped at a rest stop on the way. What a hoot!

The Pirate costumes ...

Bill and Ben Costume 2  I was asked by my children's school to make a Bill and Ben costume for the opening of a garden. I bought two big flower pots and drilled out holes for ...

Duck Costume 2  My daughter was in a storybook parade at school and she was a white duck. I took a toboggan and sewed feathers to the top of it. The duck bill was a foam ...

Pooh Costume 1  My mother-in-law is an amazing seamstress and always makes a killer costume for her granddaughter. We decided that piglet would be good for her at age ...

Smurfette Costume 2  This Smurfette costume was very, very simple. I bought a cheap white t-shirt. Then I bought some white burlap from a fabric store and cut the bottom ...

Transformer Bumblebee Costume 11  Well last year, I wanted to make my son, Xavier, his favorite character from the Transformer's movie. So I thought about paper machaeing the helmet that ...

Bush Costume 2  "The bush" is a double meaning costume. Let’s begin with how this concept came about. It started that I wanted to be poison ivy because she has red hair ...

Headless Costume 12  I got this great idea for a scary headless costume from this site. I used an old backpack and installed in the bag two long plastic sticks (for extension)...

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