There’s a more than a week to go until Halloween and you need costume ideas! Rest assured, you have come to the right place. The costumes in this section will amaze you. Even more so when you realize they are all homemade and constructed in less than a month.
Perhaps you are looking for a family group costume. Check out the Beetlejuice family or the Flinstones family (you won’t believe the car they created).
Maybe you’re going for a stand-alone homemade costume? Check out the peacocks, LEGO people and superheros. In addition you will find Cleopatra, Jack Skellington and ET. The best part is, there are instructions on how to design and put together these incredibly realistic costumes.
If you are really stuck for DIY costume ideas, you should probably turn to your favorite food! Learn how to make slurpees, burgers, funnel cakes and churros.
Have fun browsing through this section. Let your creativity wander over the pages and please share your homemade creation with us here!
My boyfriend and I were Kat Von D and Jesse James for Halloween. I LOVE Kat Von D and her unique style so I thought it would be fun wearing all her tattoos and make-up. I ordered the shirt “High Voltage” from her tattoo shop in Los Angles. I cut it up to give it … Read more
This is the Thomas the Tank Engine costume I made for my son this past Halloween. The chassis is a Little Tykes wagon, with the pull handle at the back. The body is entirely cardboard, affixed with hot glue. I coated the whole thing in Plasti-Dip (hoping to ruggedize it somewhat), then spray painted it … Read more
This ultimate Spaceballs group costume was made up of Lord Helmet, Princess Vespa’s stunt double, a Space Ball Trooper, and Barf. We picked characters based who we looked like and what people would recognize. PS princess Vespa did not look like a man but we thought it would be funnier. Barf had made his costume … Read more
Halloween is our favorite holiday and we enjoy the creative process as much as the party and night itself. We are not the type of people that start our costume planning the NIGHT of Halloween. We have ideas years in advance and plan for months each year to have our costumes ready. Our Nightmare Before Christmas costumes … Read more
This scary scarecrow costume started with a burlap sack. Then it took off from there. I dyed the shirt and cut the pants. I used store bought hay and gloves with long fingers and put finger tips in them so my hands looked creepy. I bought a plastic white mask and glued strips of the … Read more
Each year, our family chooses a Halloween Theme. It usually takes two to three months of sewing and assembling and raiding of the second hand stores to find what we need. This year, our favorite movie was How to Train your Dragon. We decided this year to be animated characters, just a little bit harder … Read more
Each year, our family chooses a Halloween Theme. This was the year for the Night at the Museum Characters (taken from both movies). Our costumes were made out of inexpensive fleece found at our local Wal-Mart. Where we live, it is usually cold on Halloween and I didn’t want anyone wearing coats over their costumes. … Read more
My friend and I randomly decided to do this Great Muppets Honeydew Bunsen and Beaker Couple Costume one year for Halloween. We wanted something funny, unique, and a little complicated. Professor Bunsen and Beaker both used lab coats from a medical supply store. Bunsen’s head was made out of paper mache wrapped around a beach ball. … Read more
These Anrgy Birds costumes took hours and hours to make, but so worth it! It all started when my son, age 5, became obsessed with the Angry Birds game on my smartphone. He insisted I make him the pig costume “just to play in and he could knock it over by throwing random toys at it. Well, it was … Read more
My dad and I made this Yo Doody Doody! Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba costume for my son “Doody” in about 2 weeks! We used a bunch of different materials to construct the body and helmet and covered it all in yellow felt. I hand painted everything else including the eyes. It was nice to … Read more
When our son Chase was born, my husband would constantly tease that his wayward ‘old man’ hair made him look like Doc Brown from ‘Back to the Future.’ As he got older, it got worse and others (complete strangers even) made the same observation – definitely the Doc. The inspiration – Doc hair! Construction … Read more
Last year I decided to build a velociraptor from Jurassic Park. I wanted it to be life-sized (in the movie it’s 12 and a half feet long); it would be my most ambitiously difficult Halloween costume yet. Shortly after the last Halloween, I settled on the male raptor design from Jurassic Park 3 (it would … Read more