Is there something strange in your neighborhood? Who ya gonna call? Ghost Busters costumes! Check out the costume collection below of the coolest movie inspired DIY costumes for Halloween.
Will you be a ghost or a ghost buster this Halloween? The choice is a hard one to make. Browse through these homemade costume pictures and tutorials to help with your dilemma. Another fun option is always the Stay Puft man. Also, check out the clever Ghost Busters symbol costumes here.
In addition, if you loved the newest take on the classic movie, there are a whole slew of female characters for your DIY costume inspiration.
So learn how to construct a proton pack for your best homemade costume. Then, prepare to blast your way through the crowd this Halloween. And don’t forget to share you costume with us here to inspire others on their DIY costume journey.
I started working on this Ghostbuster Costume in 2009 and it took me 3 months to build. It is built with things I purchased online, some things from home depot, and some things lying around the house. It is all functional. All the lights work, and all of the switches are located on the “thrower”, … Read more
I started working on this Ghostbusters Homemade Halloween Costume about 3 months ago. It started with just making a Ghostbuster jump suit to why not the Proton Pack! The pack has sound and lights authentic to the movie. The lights and sound also are all controlled on the gun through a series of switches. Inside … Read more
I made a Homemade Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Costume this year for Halloween 2010. I used 2 cardboard boxes, for the body, and head, and a couple of frisbees for the hat. I cut an old navy blue hoody for the bib and hat part and I used white trash bags, to cover the body … Read more
This homemade Stay Puft from Ghostbusters Halloween costume started with a pre-made inflatable costume from Kmart. We spray-painted all of it white. The head was made by using 1/2″ soft green foam hot-glued together to create a cylinder. It was then covered with white fabric. The face was drawn on with marker and the eyes … Read more
Q as Stay Puft Marshmallow Man: I received a plain white huge snow suit for my son before he was even born, and as soon as I saw it, I knew he had to be Stay Puft for Halloween. For some reason, that was the first thing to pop into my head when I saw … Read more
This is a Homemade Ghostbusters Costume. Complete with proton pack, ecto, googles, PKE meter (not shown) and trap. My brother and I built the proton pack, and the lights work on it also. We put a custom tag of the front of my flight suit that says “Akin” and also had a no ghost logo … Read more
Who you gonna call? – Ghostbusters!!! This Homemade Ghostbusters Group Costume is a great costume idea for a group of five, especially if one guy has the right size to do the marshmallow-man. For the Ghostbusters costumes we took four regular worker’s overalls and bought some patches, Ghostbuster logos for the sleeves and one for … Read more
This is a cool Ghostbuster costume with a homemade proton pack. My husband worked on this for a little over a month. It has wires, and reflectors on it. The gun is made from a sword bought at the local Dollar tree and the overalls were made from a pair of men’s painting coveralls. Everyone … Read more
This Homemade Ghost Buster Costume was my daughter Christy’s idea. We used a large cardboard box and painted it red. Used another piece of the box to cut out the face. After cutting out the face we smeared glue on top of the box and placed the fabric over it to make the white ghost … Read more
This Homemade Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Costume was made by my mother Elva. She purchased white silk king sized bed sheets for $11.00 at Ross. Then she sewed pants and a shirt pattern out of some old sweats I had. After she finished the design of the suit (which looks like marshmallows attached together) my … Read more
This is a completely Homemade Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Costume. My boyfriend’s favorite movie growing up was Ghostbusters and he looked high and low to find a good costume and it didnt exist so he decided to make his own. The Best you will find. The head is made out of chicken wire which was … Read more
My husband made this costume after our six year old son decided he wanted to be the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for Halloween this year. He got an extra large adult T-shirt and extra large sweatpants, sewed them onto a T-shirt and sweatpants of our son’s size, and stuffed them full of batting. He added … Read more