Halloween is fast approaching and you have no costume. Sound familiar? Some of the most creative people are major procrastinators. Okay, we may have made that up. But we can definitely relate. Maybe a little too well. Lucky for us, this section has over 700 pictures of homemade costumes and how-to’s to create your own fabulous DIY costume.
Best of all, last minute costumes usually mean using materials you have around. This translates into saving money! So you can have cool homemade costumes that are made super quickly and inexpensively.
Looking for something funny? Check out the lost dog and cat costumes here. Feeling nostalgic? Using just a bucket, a bandage and a friend, you can dress up as Jack and Jill. Handy with makeup? Try a Day Of The Dead or a pop art costume. Always aspired to be a Mr. October? Now you can be!
In addition, you will see classic costumes like nerds, vampires, skeletons and movie and television characters. With hundreds of images to inspire you, what are you waiting for?
This is my last minute women’s Harvey Dent/ Two Face costume. The hair was the easy part, I have asymmetric hair and so I pinned the shorter side into a quiff and kept it pinned down. The other side was sprayed with grey colour spray and left in its natural curly and unruly state. The … Read more
We put this together last minute, but it was super easy. We went through our closets for whatever blazers and skirts we could find. We ended up doing black because that is what we all had, even though in the movie they wear navy. then we wore white tank tops underneath, but you can see … Read more
I have made a few homemade costumes before, it just takes imagination. My one son has bleach blonde hair, so he has gone as Billy Idol (when he was just two) and it fit him perfectly. Then the following year was his little brother’s first Halloween, and they went as Mighty Mouse and Underdog, again … Read more
I had so many different ideas for Halloween this year and i ended up working so I decided not to go out but last minute plans arised and I had to get something together. I decided to go as Mickey Mouse but then i ran into red wings and thought to myself i have never … Read more
his costume was totally last minute. My other costumes for the weekend were weird or scary so I wanted at least one costume to be cute! My friend, Kailey and I brainstormed for days but really struggled since it was the week of halloween and we really wanted something original. I know minnie mouse has … Read more
This Halloween, I basically forgot the holiday existed until about a week before. I’m not sure why, since I spent hours on Pinterest pinning cute costumes and crafts, but I realized I had no costume – severely disappointing. While I didn’t “need” a costume for any one event, I really wanted one. With that in … Read more
This cupcake costume was a last minute decision the weekend before Halloween. We ran out to our local Dollar Tree and picked up some cardstock poster paper & a round small laundry basket. Then we headed over to JoAnn Fabrics and picked up some tule. I cut the bottom out of the laundry basket and … Read more
My daughter always insists on being a food item for Halloween! Here is is sushi costume: Make an interior tube, using thin flexible cardboard, be sure that the this tube fits over your child. Cover with biodegradable packing peanuts that look like rice. using a hot glue gun. Add green felt for wasabi, and sprinkle … Read more
I had told my husband that everybody at my work was going to be disappointed that I wasn’t dressing up as something Fun for Halloween this year. I just hadn’t had time to come up with anythng Fun because we had been to busy dealing with other issues. I got up the next moring and … Read more
We were trying to brainstorm an idea for our Annual Halloween party. My husband and I love the NAPA and Sonoma Vineyards and collect wine. So we decided we should dress up like a wine bottle or something like that. I researched wine costumes and found some really tacky ones. Upon further searching I found … Read more
I made several costumes for my toddler in the last 2 months. I did not enter all of them in this contest because it takes a while to do the write ups. Also, some of my favorites aren’t always the popular ones. I did’t initially post this one because I wasn’t sure how it would … Read more
My son, Brian, 4, wanted to be a garbage truck, a forklift, an army tank, a transformer, and I can go on! We finally decided on an Army tank. I must admit, I was NOT feeling the Army tank. I wanted him to be the garbage truck. I even had an idea for a bin … Read more