If you have a few days, you can make a killer homemade costume! Spare a few moments and browse through this section of over 1000 DIY costume ideas. None of these took longer than a few days, which means your costume is well on it’s way!
Send someone out to buy the candy so you can focus on a homemade costume idea. Will you go with movie characters like Forrest Gump and the Queen of Zamunda? Or will you transform yourself into a popcorn or crayon box? Your options are not limited, even if you only have a few days to prepare.
You can create a killer whale with a trainer costume, use a pregnant belly as a crystal ball for a fortune teller costume or build some really awesome optical illusion costumes. All this in just a few days!
In conclusion, don’t discount your dreams of becoming a windy weatherman or a pumpkin spice latte. Your homemade costume idea is waiting for you on these pages below…
My boyfriend Cody an I watched the movie Bonnie and Clyde and fell in love. It was such a interesting and fun movie to watch and so we decided to recreate the characters as our halloween costumes. We only spent $27.00 at our local goodwill and bought every piece to our costume. We put our … Read more
This is my 8 year old son Colin in his Headless Lego Guy costume. The idea originated with us wanting to make a standard Lego Guy costume. Once we had the idea, we were looking everywhere for ideas and thoughts on how to create it. We then came across his Lego bucket from a past … Read more
My son Antoine (8) had won the Sartorette Elementary’s harvest festival costume contest in San Jose for the last 3 years in a row. This year was a challenge coming up with an original costume for the contest. While driving by a Red Box I told my wife what about we built the box, we can … Read more
How did the awesomeness that is Kitty & Keroppi’s California adventures begin? Well, me (Anthony) and my awesome boyfriend Joe are goofballs. I personally am not a fan of sexy costumes that are supposed to show off your body more than the costume, so being a sexy caveman or sexy police officer were out of … Read more
Football gear…check…Te’o jersey…check…fake girlfriend…double check! As you can see not much involved to put this costume together. It didnt hurt already having the same skin tone as the original guy either. Didn’t win any awards while wearing this in Vegas but took soo many pictures with random people that Lennay and I walked away feeling … Read more
My daughter’s Halloween school party is fast approaching, she wanted to be beastly Maleficent, we’ve looked in every shop near us, amazon, ebay, american website NONE! Either sold out or not in her size. My wife said “we will make her one” not to mention none of us have any sewing experience. To cut story … Read more
The idea for this started last Halloween (2013) my kids became obsessed with Ghostbusters. All they talked about was being the Ghostbusters for the next Halloween. I am one of those crazy Halloween loving people, its my favorite holiday. So I was down with it. By the time Halloween 2014 rolled around my older son choose … Read more
I am a mechanical engineer by trade and am lucky enough to work on the Curiosity Mars Rover project! My love of Mars and technology runs deep and I could think of no better way to honor that this Halloween than with a Marvin the Martian inspired Halloween costume! Planning Once I had my muse … Read more
Here’s Branson’s 2014 Handmade Corn on the Cob costume!! What is so funny is when we went trick or treating people kept telling him corny jokes. I hope you don’t pop while trick or treating. I hope everyone can hear you you big ear. How corny are you! It was a very fun costume
It took about 2-3 days to make these Zazu and Rafiki costumes. Zazu is made out of different color felts from a craft store and clothing articles we already had. We made the beak from a thick cirlcle of felt and cut it to size. For the beanie we used smaller pieces of felt and … Read more
I used a hard white board shaped in a rectangle, painted the Google words etc, covered the board with clear cellophane so people at the Halloween party can write on it with a marker, cut out the GOOGLE letters, painted them, attached them to the top of the Google board with thin chicken wire, made … Read more
I didn’t want to be like everyone else, this was a for a festival in Pittsburgh with over 1000 unique beautiful people going. I knew there would be a ton of amazing crazy weird costumes (and there totally were!) So the thought just came to me when i was driving, I’ll be a Road. Different … Read more