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 6 year old son, Nick, took an open cockpit biplane ride this summer in a 1929 plane named Ace, flown by a modern day barnstormer named Mr. Goodfolk (Dewey Davenport). Nick wasn’t overly excited to fly in a “small” airplane as he called it, being a commercial airliner is all he has ever flown … Read more
I am super proud of two parts to this Medusa costume – the headpiece and the boots. Both took me days to create. For the headpiece, I took at long wig and braided two strands of hair with a pipe cleaner (So I could bend them afterwards). Once this was done, I sewed pieces of … Read more
I originally planned on dressing up as a zombie clown for Halloween when American Horror Story started. I saw the Twisty character and thought it was the scariest clown I had seen and thought it would be a great costume. The problem was I only had a little over two weeks to accomplish it and … Read more
We love Halloween and dress up as a group every year. We knew from the moment we had two girls and a boy that Simpsons was on our short list for Halloween ideas. We couldn’t pass up this perfect opportunity! After much brainstorming on how to go about “becoming the Simpsons”, I decided several things: … Read more
So it’s a struggle to get my Samoan to dress up in costume. I’ll usually come up with something and then guilt him into participating. I’m not proud of myself but it works. Well, we got invited to an incredible Halloween Party, I mean the kind that would make Walt Disney want to be there. … Read more
After brainstorming for hours and being drawn to my favorite 90s characters, it finally hit me what would be the perfect costume; Lola Bunny! I was absolutely obsessed with both Michael Jordan and Space Jam. I felt a special connection with the sassy Lola and decided to get to work. I used a boys’ football … Read more
The inspiration for this costume happened to coincide with my 25th High School Reunion. We all decided we really wished we could do a “prom do-over,” because, well, we all remember prom. When the last Maleficent film was released – a story of the sadness and rage that drives this dark fairy who never got … Read more
My boyfriend (Ethan) and I (Amber) are HUGE Halloween fans! We love to go all out for our costumes and knew that we had to come up with something over-the-top this year! I was inspired by a Matt Valentine character on an episode of Face Off, and we created an Ice Cream Man and Candy … Read more
To make this Lord Business costume, I mainly used cardboard to craft the helmet and shoulder pads (as we call them). I looked at the actual Lego pieces and came up with some dimensions that would fit my son’s head. Then, I crafted shapes out of cardboard and glued them together. I used painters tape … Read more
Hi there! At my job, we are BIG on Halloween every year. Everyone dresses up and the groups of people are always different. This year, it was groups of three and it was picked at random by drawing numbers! For the past three years, my group has always won, so I knew we had to … Read more
I hand-made the costumes for myself (Mermaid) and my Pirate husband, AARRHH! My costume was fairly simple. I used an old tank top and bought a green skirt from a thrift store. I took in the sides and added a tail with tulle. I created green hair extensions from individual store bought pieces. I added … Read more
Since Halloween and the Renaissance festival occur at the same time around here, and we had just read Robin Hood, my 8 year old decided he wanted to be the famous outlaw for both events. This was my first real sewing project besides some pillows, so I was pretty nervous. The pants and shirt are … Read more