Stand out in a crowd with a truly original costume. Forget the store bought costumes or the traditional Halloween costume ideas. Access the most creative part of your brain to come up with fabulously unique costumes, like the ones below.
Searching for costume ideas and looking for motivation? Or feeling like the most uninspired person on the planet? Don’t fret. Take a look at the one-of-a-kind costumes here and they will get your imagination flowing. For instance, check out the violin spider fairy costume and the toddler Liberace behind his candelabra. Also, the slow cooking turtle burger. Another super cool idea is a connect the dots costume.
When it comes to original homemade costumes ideas, the stranger the better. So, open your mind to the weird and wonderful DIY costumes here. Get inspired to make your own and share it with us here!
The BEAST stands 12 feet tall, his head moves up and down and side to side. His eye’s light up from a switch controlled at my head level. Arms are fully functioning. It is pretty light, I walked around the whole neighborhood (with my daughter on low-hanging tree patrol). I saw a giant costume guy … Read more
This Carbon Knight costume was a fun costume to work on. It took a total of five months to complete. I used EVA foam (which can be found at your local LOWS for $20). I started with some templates I made and other simple shapes. Then cut them out on the foam. Then I hot … Read more
I always want to stand out in a crowd and wear something that no other person has, which is why I always make my own clothes and costumes. I designed and created my own Ninja costume by myself from scratch. I draped the patterns on a dress form and used a stretch satin for the … Read more
Our 7 year old joined Cub Scouts this year and since scouts are thrifty we decided to make his costume out of things we had. We saw a Samurai costume made out of cardboard and used it for our inspiration. We decided to use the egg crates we had saved up for crafts. I bought … Read more
Angel of Death. I wore a black bathing suit underneath a black lace body suit. Found my black wings at a Halloween store and made my cape with black lace. I wore my black knee boots. I painted my face with black, purple, and blue liquid paint and added glitter while it was wet. The … Read more
Everyone who see’s this picture thinks it is a picture of a picture, but I have to tell them that it is my costume. I am very proud of how it turned out. I just taped together a box made of the foam poster boards, 3 black and 1 white that is in the front. … Read more
For Halloween my step-son wanted to be comedian Jeff Dunham’s Peanut puppet. The making of the costume was a collective effort of my husband, mother-in-law and myself. Body suit Beings that he was going to wear it to school, my main concern was getting the costume on and off without help (I didn’t want him … Read more
My son Tyler wanted to be gross but not too gross. He wanted to be funny too. So we came up with the Roadkill Cleanup Guy, the poor guy whose job it is to clean up the dead animals on the side of the road. We bought a vest at WalMart and used an old … Read more
This female Wizard costume was rather easy. But may be a little harder for someone who is new to sewing. I used a pattern for a man’s wizard robe and took it in where it needed to be. I then attached wire to the collar to make it stand up. From my measurements I made … Read more
I made this cool homemade Halloween costume by getting a pair of white leggings and a white long sleeved top and sewing them together. My leggings didn’t go the whole way to my ankle so I got a pair of knew high socks to wear with the suit. I then started to look at graphs … Read more
This costume wasn’t for Halloween, but for a show. Last month I was asked to be in an event called Garden of the Goddesses. The event organizer informed me I would perform (fire dance- a hobby of mine) as “Inanna-Sumerian deity of love, war, and chaos” and that the show was in 2 weeks! I … Read more
My boyfriend and I take one annual trip a year, and it’s to the Florida Keys. It’s our favorite place to get away, so I used it as inspiration when coming up with our Halloween costumes this year. Since we can’t take part in Halloween festivities in Key West, we brought Key West to us! … Read more