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.
You can either make this costume yourself as I did or even buy it at a costume shop (good luck). Stuart Townsend is the vampire Lestat, who has awakened from a century-long slumber and turned his considerable energy to rock music. Lestat ‘s powerful music reaches the ear of the slumbering Akasha (Aaliyah), the millennia-old … Read more
It started with ideas for a group costume idea for Halloween. It was my niece who was hugging her Scooby Doo doll that sparked the interest! but how??!! I figured that it would be easy to make the people. Several trips to Goodwill and a photo of the ‘Mystery’ solvers. I am a stickler for … Read more
During a few drinks at a New Years party 2012 / 2013, my brother and I talked about how cool it would be to suit up as Iron Men to celebrate his son’s birthday party in 6 months. I had an unfinished War Machine from IM2 movie, which I made out of EVA foam, but … Read more
I always make our costumes! These are actually costumes I made for my family in 2010. Had to start the aliens (my 2 boys) back in August. It took a whole lot of work and patience. Paper mache, window screen for the eyes, lots and lots of spray paint, graduation gowns and some green latex … Read more
This epic Thomas the Train costume started out as a train for my two year old nephew for Halloween turned into an obsession for a 48 year old “child”. I started with a shipping container for the cylinder body. I then formed the face out of clay on an old fan base and wire mesh screen. … Read more
This handmade Reindeer Fursuit costume is made from faux fake fur fabric (about 3.5 yards white and 3.5 yards tan brown), thread, upholstery foam, plasti dip, slippers, paints, prisma color markers, elastic, bacalava, fleece, clay, stuffing, wire, hot glue sticks, a zipper and fake leather fabric. The head was made from upholstery foam and hot glued … Read more
As an unemployed engineer, I had some free time to spend working on making a great Halloween costume. My wife came up with the idea shortly after Halloween 2010, when we dressed as Pacman and Ms. PacMan. We tried to come up with another character that is hardly ever seen as a costume, and is … Read more
My son is obsessed with the Nightmare before Christmas movie. Obsessed!! It has been his favorite movie since he was 3. So when I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween, I should not have been surprised when he announced Jack Skellington. Little did I know this costume would become my obsession over the course … Read more
Every year my sisters and I go Halloween crazy!! We never try and be hot, half the time we dress up like boys, but we go all out! For last year’s theme, we went in a Harry Potter gang costume. We bought little boys’ sweaters from Walmart and cut letters out of felt for our letters (some … Read more
This scary homemade costume is a few years in the making getting better every year. First we went shopping and went to flee markets, garage sales and thrift stores to find the old school hockey mask , shoulder pads, knee pads and old clothes. Next we hit the Halloween stores and didn’t know what I … Read more
I’ve always been a huge fan of technology! I’ve always been good with wires (I have thousands of random wires I’ve collected throughout the years). My other talents consists of soldering, modifying components, computers, and game systems, operating systems etc. Star Trek The Next Generation movie series had a race of cybernetic organisms call Borg. … Read more
The cutest little Dukes of Hazzard Bo and Luke Duke costumes. My son and his best friend really fit the part.. hair and all! I wanted their costumes to be as close to the original Bo and Luke Duke as possible. I did some investigating and watched a couple episodes. I enjoyed them as I did … Read more