Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
After watching the Sharknado Movie on the Syfy Channel this summer I was inspired to make a Sharknado Costume for Halloween. I am a Shark Week geek and I love Syfy so this seemed to be the best of both worlds Sharks and Syfy. I threw this costume together in just two days and on … Read more
We put this together last minute, but it was super easy. We went through our closets for whatever blazers and skirts we could find. We ended up doing black because that is what we all had, even though in the movie they wear navy. then we wore white tank tops underneath, but you can see … Read more
My husband created the boat from a cardboard box. We then painted it to match the boat from the Jaws movie. We added so much detail to the boat trying to get it exactly; yellow barrels, wire, ladder, windows, life ring, tower, lines, letters on the back spelling orca, lights and the funnest accessory was … Read more
This costume was a hit! The white contacts made it really scary! I won first prize at the Halloween Party with this — everyone couldn’t believe it was me. The white contacts were purchased at Coastal Contacts. To make the costume, I went to a thrift store and bought the nightgown, the priest’s hat, pants … Read more
Suprisingly one of the easiest costumes I’ve done and such a HIT with people of all ages. Done individually these costumes would be a little hard to pull off but together the costumes were recognized left and right; I mean come on who hasnt seen Home Alone. Id be the one dressed as Marv along … Read more
We decided on the costume after watching the movie and trying to come up with a fun and loveable costume that hopefully nobody else would wear out this Halloween. All of the clothes for both costumes we either had or borrowed from friends. A few things we had to make like the flag with paper … Read more
Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year! I spend weeks looking and searching for creative and unique costume ideas that I can make. Sometimes this isn’t the easiest task but I always manage to come up with ideas that surprise and awe many people. My costume this year was Rosie The Robot, the maid from … Read more
My daughter wanted to be Sally from Nightmare before Christmas this year for Halloween. Not wanting to spend $50 on an outfit that honestly was going to fall apart before the end of the night, we set out to make our own. We went to JoAnn’s and picked out 14 fat quarters at $1 a … Read more
My son Sean was an upside down old man. My husband doubted that we could pull this costume off, I am so glad we proved him wrong!! We bought men’s pajama bottoms and a windbreaker jacket at a thrift store. They were oversized, but needed to be. We had him wear the jacket as pants … Read more
Halloween costume-making is truly a labor of love. And, as with all efforts of labor and matters of the heart, there invariably arises a bit of turmoil and chaos. I’m delighted to say the creator and designer survived the ups and downs in our efforts to create ZOMBIE FREERIDE. This costume was the brainchild of … Read more
I’m always up for a challenge, so I love to let my kids pick whatever they’d like for Halloween, and then do my best! My daughter so far has always had some sort of dress (witch, princess, etc), but now, at the age of 4, she chose to be an Astronaut! However – it had … Read more
As you can tell by the name of my costume, I was 50 Shades of Grey. My inspiration for this costume came to me after I read the books “within a two week period” then heard they were coming out with a movie. I took what I knew he wore an made it into an … Read more