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Coolest 60+ DIY Household Costumes
What happens when your most dreaded household tasks become hilarious DIY costumes? This awesome collection of household costumes!
Spend too much time with your washing machine? Turn it into a homemade costume! Use your mountains of dirty laundry as costume inspiration. No need to buy a costume or even fold your clothes in order to make the basket of laundry costumes here. Take a look at the easy tutorials and try one of these DIY costumes yourself.
Turn your kid into a true dirt devil by making a DIY costume vacuum cleaner. Even better, make it a couple costume by pairing it with a homemade dust bunny costume.
In addition, give your homemade costumes a creepy quality in honor of Halloween. For instance, check out the scary dust bunny costume below.
So whether you air your dirty laundry or take out the trash, get inspired by your daily chores to create a memorable homemade costume.
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Latest DIY Household Costumes
Coolest Homemade Vacuum Cleaner Costume – This Costume Doesn’t Suck!
It doesn’t suck literally or figuratively. The literal not sucking is a compromise of my 4-year old son’s original vision of having a vacuum costume that could even suck up candy when trick-or-treating. He settled on a backpack where he could pretend play that the candy got vacuumed. He was thrilled with the result and … Read more
Fun and Easy to Make Dirty Laundry Costume for the Entire Family
Don’t forget to wash your dirty laundry, with Tide detergent, in your very own washer and dryer! All you’ll need is some boxes, white paint (or you can use duct tape), cutting supplies, a clear bowl, some clothes, tape, and if you have a printer you can print all the stuff you see pictured! Or … Read more
Coolest Airing Our Dirty Laundry Group Costumes
Here’s the story behind our Dirty Laundry group costumes. After browsing photos online, our kids passed up the opportunity to be candy and popcorn and instead chose to be appliances and dirty laundry, lol! Our oldest was the washing machine, complete with a door that opens (made from a deli tray), ‘bubbles & soap’ (blue … Read more
Easy DIY Dust Bunny Costume
This was a fun play on words costume that was super simple. I bought a large gray sweater from the thrift store, bought some bunny ears online and a bag of cobwebs. Then I just wrapped myself in the cobwebs. For some extra dust I sprayed some silver hair color and found some dryer lint … Read more
Brick Layer and Brick Couple Costume
My husband has no time for such silly things as costume ideas, so I have, throughout the years, come up with every ‘Couple Costume’. After having gone through the gambit of : Mother Nature & Father Time; Queen Bee & Killer Bee (One of my favorites, although, sadly no pics.) and all sorts of silly … Read more
Cutest Little Dirt Devill Vacuum Costume for a Boy
My three year old son was obsessed with vacuum cleaners so I just knew that it would be the perfect costume for Halloween! The majority of the costume I made from foam core that I spray painted red. With a box cutter, I cut out one large rectangle for the main body of the costume … Read more
Cool Brick House Costume
I worked for a brick company that was bought by a bigger brick company. The bigger brick company sent us these HIDEOUS jackets made of fabric that looked like bricks laid in a wall. I took several of the extra-plus-sized jackets, deconstructed them, and had the fabric made into a dress for Halloween, then took … Read more
Creative Sleeping Beauty Illusion Costume
This “Sleeping Beauty” costume took a fair bit of thinking which is hard to do these days with 2 kids running about the place! The easiest part of the costume was spray painting the 4 styrofoam balls, and 3 wrapping paper rolls gold. My daughter was able to take some ownership of this costume making … Read more
Great DIY Costume Idea for a Family: Recycle Bins and Garbage Truck Family!
Moms will do anything to see the smile on their kids face that I saw when I showed my kids their Halloween costumes. This year I asked my son what he wanted to be and he said Garbage truck. So I immediately opened my computer and searching for something to buy. With no luck I … Read more
Last Minute Homemade Costume Idea: Dirty Laundry!
This Dirty Laundry costume was super easy to make for my daughter! The only cost was the laundry basket which was about $8. First we cut out the bottom, making sure not to make the hole too big so that she could carry it on her hips. Then we threw in a sheet, a towel, a … Read more
Fancy Trash! The Fanciest, Cheapest, Easiest Costume for Fancy Ladies
October of last year (2012), I had been very busy. My best friend’s wedding was the weekend before Halloween, and on top of that, I was very busy with a 2 week long Halloween event at my place of employment. Needless to say, I did not have the time, energy, or disposable income for a … Read more
Original Pregnancy Announcement: Bun in the Oven Costume
After finding out we were pregnant with our third, and most likely last child, I begged my husband to let me make a big announcement. Since Halloween was 2 1/2 weeks away we decided to wait to tell everyone with an awesome couples costume! I got started right away with the focus piece…the oven! I’ve … Read more
Easy and Fun Ant at Picnic Costume
This Ant at Picnic costume was a fun and very easy costume to make. My daughter was a lady bug and I needed something to go with it so an ant at a picnic was perfect. First, you purchase all of your materials – foam board, red and white table cloth, black pipe cleaners, black … Read more
Funny Homemade Clothesline Costume!
This costume all started about 35 years ago when my mom was about my age. My mom and her best friend needed a cheap and easy costume, fast. That’s how the clothesline costume was born. It has now kind of become a family tradition if you want to say that. My sister and her best … Read more
Coolest Bun in the Oven and Chef Costume
Wow! Everyone just loved this idea of a Bun in the Oven and Chef costume. My wife was very pregnant so it was a great idea. We took a box and cut it out then covered it with white fabric. We used spray paint lids for the knobs then printed out a picture to put … Read more
Awesome Pregnant Woman’s Costume – Bun in the Oven
I made this awesome pregnant woman’s costume – Bun in the Oven for Halloween 2011! I was 7 months pregnant. I wasn’t gonna dress up cause I was so huge but the idea came from my husband when he was looking online! so I thought it would be awesome! It took me like 3 days … Read more
Coolest Chef and Turkey in the Oven Pregnancy Costume
My wife and I are pictured here last Halloween. I’m the one on the left, wearing the oven and thrusting forth my five-month pregnant belly to make the turkey stick out just a little bit more. My wife is on the right, turkey baster in hand with her chef hat reaching toward the sky. She’s … Read more
Original Washer Costume
Last year I wanted to have some originality in my son’s costume. I was so tired of the same store bought ones. I did some research and found the idea to make him a washer costume. It seemed very early and with this being the 1st time I’ve tried to make his costume I went … Read more
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 to make an electrical outlet costume for our son. My Mom and I bought cheap black fabric at the store along with white and one … Read more
Coolest Bag of Trash Child Halloween Costume
My 8-year-old daughter was playing in the rain one day, and came out of the garage wrapped in large black trash bags. I thought to myself “what a great costume for Halloween”…and the Homemade Bag of Trash Child Halloween Costume was created. I bought a long sleeved black shirt at the goodwill for $2.50, saved … Read more
Coolest Homemade Bulb Costume
My daughter had a fancy dress competition and the theme was “innovative idea”. So my mind started working. I wanted to build something extra ordinary and something that was not done before. I thought about BULB as I can also make it functional by giving a light torch in my daughter’s hand which she can … Read more
Coolest Homemade Electricians Couple Costume
The idea for this homemade electricians couple costume evolved through several phases. Initially we thought we would be Chilean miners wearing hard hats and the green jumpsuits. However, our “jumpsuits” were going to be dyed green, size XL 180-230 lb Home Depot painters suits. We really needed to let the creative juices start flowing again. … Read more
Coolest Homemade Recliner-Man Halloween Costume
The inspiration for this years labor intensive homemade costume was shopping for a new couch. My wife and I went to Reclinerland while looking and though we didn’t end up buying a couch there I did get inspired to become RECLINERMAN. I vowed to not do the homemade Recliner-Man Halloween costume unless I could engineer … Read more
Coolest Scary Dust Bunny Costume
I wanted to be a crabby old Dust Bunny that has been living under your bed. I made the dress out of cheese cloth and cotton jersey fabric that I dyed by hand. Torn strips of gray taffeta were added to the skirt to give it volume. The feet are made from faux fur glued … Read more