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?
It was going to be a VERY cold Halloween, and my husband and I were headed to an outdoor adult costume party. Therefore, I figured I had to come up with some very warm, last-minute, EXTREMELY creative costumes. Easy task, right? The inspiration for this costume kinda hit me out of nowhere. I decided my … Read more
At 8:30 pm the night before Halloween, I decided I wanted to wear a costume to work the next morning. I had just gotten home from the gym to find that my husband wasn’t at home. I called him and discovered that he was across the street from Wal-mart. When he asked if I needed … Read more
Okay so i decided I would dress up this year. Easier said than done. Coulnt think of anything I wanted to be. Jokingly I told my teen daughter as played around with her closet for ideas that maybe id wear her monkey hat and leave it at that. She laughed and said that was pretty … Read more
So, it’s the night before Halloween and I’m desperately searching for some sort of Halloween costume I can make out of household items… Then a “Got milk” commercial came on! This costume is as last-minute as last-minute will ever get. I took an old, plain white t-shirt and wrote “Got milk?” in big black letters. … Read more
My costume was easy to make. I had almost everything I needed already – a dress, black shoes, and tights. I just needed to make a “cape” and figure out how to do my hair and make-up. For the cape: I bought a red pillowcase for the cape (99 cents!!), glued cotton balls around the … Read more
My 8 year old son, Thomas, has Asperger’s and wanted to be something totally different from anyone else! As always, every year, we make a costume rather that get a shop bought one, we like to be unique! He said he wanted to be Frankenstein’s monster. We started by thouroughly cleaning out a car fluid … Read more
This year for Halloween, I was studying abroad in the UK, about 2,500 miles away from my home in Wisconsin, USA. They aren’t as big on Halloween here as we are back home, but I knew that I would still want to dress up, and make my own costume, as I started doing that a … Read more
This costume was so easy to make and only took me about 30 mins. I made it right before I went to my costume party this year. I went to JoAnn Fabrics and only spent about $30. I bought elastic, 2 different colors of tuelle, and a braided string. For the tuelle I bought 25 … Read more
Two months ago I gave birth to my 10th child, and as a result of losing my job, we were on a very tight budget this year. I had 10 costumes to make on only a couple bucks. I thought of the idea from the movie “vacation” Aunt Edna with her walker……so I went on … Read more
My boys and I love Halloween! We usually have our costumes figured out by May :-) But this year my 7 yr old just couldn’t decided what he wanted to be. His 3 brothers had all decided on costumes that would take some work on my part. So I have to admit I was not … Read more
We wanted to do a group theme and wanted it to relate to our everyday personalities. Thing 1(myself) and Thing 2(coworker/friend) Cat(friend) are a rambunctious group together always acting wild and crazy! So we thought this idea was the best! Cheapest Halloween ever! The “things ” made our tutu ‘s extremely easy but your arms … Read more
Sweet and all but 5 hours long!… so I had seen an M&M costume but i thought to bring it to the next level on the sexy scale. I went ahead and made a tutu, which wasn’t hard but tedious job. I then started to hot glue M&M’s onto the bra and in them middle … Read more