For you, making a homemade Halloween costume is not an option, it’s a necessity. You are not afraid of a challenge and you are ready to dig in and do the hard work. Committing to this level of crafting is not hard for you, but you want to make sure that the finished product will be worth it. In that case, we invite you to browse through this unparalleled gallery of photos and Halloween costume how-to’s.
Here you will find people who have googled, YouTubed and scoured the depths of the internet so that you don’t have to! Whether constructed by a sewing machine or a hot glue gun, the resulting Halloween costumes here will astound you!
You will see a movie quality Spiderman suit, a Prince jacket with unbelievable details and Transformers costumes that actually transform!
Get inspired and then get started. Don’t forget to take pictures along the way so that you can share your creativity with us! We look forward to seeing them.
My kids decided on our family costume theme, and we went with it. My daughter’s costume “tooth fairy” was the most difficult. We spent days finding just the right feathers for her head piece. We made a mold of her head with fabric and duct tape and then paper mached it. We added several layers of … Read more
Here’s my Harry Potter Severus Snape Boggart costume. I started this costume with a trip to Value World used clothing to search for the 2 piece woman’s suit. I found a jacket and a matching skirt to fit me. I also picked up 2 big stuffed Easter bunnies and a Teddy Bear to use to … Read more
My 13 year old daughter is 5’10” and still growing. We decided we were going to attend the first ComicCon to come to our town. She wanted to be a woodland elf, like in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. As we started working on her costume, though, she decided that adding a steampunk … Read more
Like a snowflake tumbling down a hill, it gathers more snowflakes until it becomes a big beautiful snowball. Cosplaying The Nightmare Before Christmas started for us as a single snowflake. The love of cosplay began long after the love of the movie, it just seemed fitting that they become one someday. As little girls, dress … Read more
For my homemade Queen of Hearts costume, I use what I needed and I started with no pattern. I just looked at the picture of the dress and just started to draw out cut and then started to sew. I love to sew and took out a lot of mistakes and resew and it. Took me 3 months … Read more
Here’s my Thor costume, a one month experience at building armor for the first time. I made this Thor costume because I enjoyed the fact that the latest incarnation of Thor was a female. The idea of Thor becoming unworthy to wield his own hammer was interesting to me, and was excited when I saw a … Read more
I’m not going in extreme detail about the costumes construction, if you have a question just ask! Rokzilla’s Head I started with making a frame out of chicken wires & metal clothes hangers. I covered the frame with numerous layers of paper mache along with cardboard & foam to mold out his facial features. This … Read more
I started this costume in the fall of 2013 when I was 13. I got my inspiration from watching Beastub and Ino’s videos of their quadsuits and fan videos of them. To begin, I started the Duct Tape Dummy, which I failed at but it served its purpose of letting me have a base on … Read more
“I’m a Mog; Half man, half dog! I am my own best friend.” I had a blast putting this together for a halloween contest at work last October. I wanted to be as screen-accurate as possible. Most things came together easy, like the shoes and gloves. Picked up some Converse shoes, colored laces, and finger-less … Read more
My friends and I went as some of the popular characters from Adventure Time! We made our costumes from scratch and some base items. I was Breakfast Princess. I sewed the pancake skirt completely from scratch, and sewed the embelishments onto the toast shirt. The headband and belt were made of felt to resemble bacon. … Read more
We made these costumes (for Gene Simmons) by using a plain black shirt and putting studs on and sewing the belt. We rolled up cardboard to make the spikes. We spray painted a kid’s toy guitar. I also did the makeup by outline the black then filling it in, then the white. The boots were … Read more
My daughter loves the Power Rangers. She has watched all the seasons of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in addition to the movie. She loves to act like she is Rita Repulsa and even knows her lines from the show and the movie. Also, I grew up in the 90’s and loved to watch the … Read more