Thinking of going green for your Halloween costume? Take a look at the fairy tale inspired collection of homemade costumes below. These awesome Shrek costumes will have you releasing your inner Ogre DIY costume like Fiona after sunset.
Check out the different ways people here transformed their skin for their homemade costumes. Green yourself with the best DIY costume tips and tricks found below.
Also, homemade costume accessories are key. Discover how to craft your best green horns for the grumpiest Ogre costume. Learn how people have made the best long red braid for their Fiona costumes.
In addition to the main characters’ costumes, you will see Gingerbread Man costumes. They look so good, you may be tempted to take a bite of DIY costumes! But you shouldn’t. They are costumes, after all.
So, browse through the coolest Shrek costumes below and get inspired to create your own DIY costume for Halloween!
Inspired by the classic movies and recent Broadway production of Shrek, we decided to make some green magic of our own. Shrek and Fiona costumes are easy to create. For Fiona, we found a green bridesmaid dress at our local Value Village and added a white peasant shirt from the closet. We added a red … Read more
I wasn’t sure what to dress my six month old son as for Halloween, and I wanted him and his older brother to have a common theme. So after my other son picked a donut I thought of another cute treat for the baby to dress as… a gingerbread man costume! The costume was very … Read more
I thought long and hard about what to be for Halloween. A Shrek and Fiona Couple Costume was perfect for my husband and I for we are shaped a lot like the characters. LOL I bought a green dress for myself and added rhinestones and a gold chain belt. I bought a long sleeve cream … Read more
My boyfriend and I have been making our Halloween costumes for the last few years and have tried to go bigger and better each year. This awesome Shrek and Fiona couple costume was our most recent endeavor. We wanted to try something with a different color skin, so we went with Shrek and Fiona. For … Read more
My husband and I were invited to a Halloween camping experience and needed costumes quickly, but due to a contest, needed them very creative as well. My husband did not grow up wearing costumes much and I love crafty things. We both are larger sized, so I wanted something that wouldn’t look horrible on me, … Read more
This Homemade Shrek and Fiona Couple Halloween Costume was very easy and fun to make! Everyone loved our costumes, and they were a big hit! Shrek: For clothing we found a white long sleeved shirt, black vest, pajama pants and a belt. We made sure to tear the clothing a little to make them look … Read more
We won a costume contest this weekend dressed as Shrek and Fiona. It also gave us a wonderful excuse to eat non-stop at the banquet table and to carry around drumsticks for additional chomping. We used a tavern wench costume and something similar for Shrek, and added the red wig for Fiona, green face/body paint, … Read more
This is our Homemade Shrek Family Costume. We have Puss-in-boots, Donkey, and of course Shrek and Fiona. We widened our nose with noses we made out of clay, then we pained everything exposed green. It was a great family affair!
We are always on the look out for a great couples costume, and because we are of the “fuller figure” population – great costumes are few and far between. We have had Shrek and Princess Fiona as plan B for a few years. 2011 was the year we had to do it, I am happy … Read more
I am from Germany. Here I want to show you my Homemade Shrek Costume. It`s really easy to create! I took a long white fleece shirt. You cut the endings of the arms and collar! the waistcoat is made of a potatoes sack. I also put a potatoe sack over my shoes! My ears are … Read more
My husband and I always try to do coordinating costumes. For a friend’s party we decided to go as Shrek and Princess Fiona. I bought my husband an oversized cream Henley shirt which he wore with his own plaid pajama pants, hiking boots and belt (I also made him a little vest out of a … Read more
For the Shrek costume I used brown pajama pants with a beige thermal for the shirt. For Shrek’s vest I used a regular brown t-shirt then cut off the sleeves, cut the shirt half way to where it barely touches the belly, I then cut it from top to bottom for it to look like … Read more