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!
For my Ursula costume, first I made the tentacles. I bought material purple and black and some cotton. I cut them into triangles and sewed the sides, then added the cotton along with copper wire to make sure I could curl them to my liking. I left some space for a belt at the top … Read more
My brother’s son, my nephew, was having a superhero theme birthday for his 4th yr party, a week before Halloween. I wanted to do a batman costume that he would find super fun. I love the “pop” series toys, basically pop culture characters, small body big head. I am 6ft and 255lbs, so the head … Read more
In the summer a person on an on-line garage sale was giving away a large bag of bubble wrap. i jumped on it thinking, I know I can make a costume with this. I immediately thought of an octopus, but it was my husband who said, make him a scuba diver that has been captured … Read more
After watching The Lego Movie and loving it, we thought about making some characters from the movie. We just went through a rough summer, with an adoption that fell through four days after we brought home the baby, and our hearts were broken. We decided we needed a project, and recruited our good friends and … Read more
We used a cardboard box cut to look like a cage, some old pants stuffed to look like my son’s legs. A piece of foam board to support the upper body of the clown as well as a pool noodle for the arms and some fake hands. I sewed the back of a mask together … Read more
When I decided that I wanted a shocking and disgusting Halloween costume, I ordered a latex mask from amazon. The first one ordered was sold out so I went with a back up one. I bought liquid latex, black and red makeup, black out eyes, spirit gum and remover. The gown and gloves I bought … Read more
I started thinking of what to wear last year when I won the office costume contest. I had a few ideas and then in July I started working on my Genie on a flying carpet. I worked on it while my 86 year old mom was visiting and she loved the idea and could not … Read more
I have been pretty much obsessed with anything Disney, mermaid, Ariel and the ocean pretty much my whole life, and with my red hair I figured it was about time I was Princess Ariel from The Little Mermaid! To make this costume I enlisted the help from my friend to sew the tail as my … Read more
Last year when my son wasn’t walking yet, I was trying to come up with a funny costume that would make sense with a crawling baby. I thought a crocodile or something low to the ground was perfect and loving a little dark humor I wanted to make it eating my son. Unfortunately, I never … Read more
Our daughter Helen loves to be unique at Halloween. She was watching an episode of one of her favourite tv shows where the main character gets her drivers licence. The characters brothers made her a homemade license to celebrate, which led Helen to think that the most amazing and unique costume would be a drivers … Read more
Inspired by the Johnny Depp Mad Hatter. This costume took several weeks to put together. I live in the middle of nowhere Alaska with few shopping options, so almost all of the items to make this costume were ordered online (thread, buttons, lace, hat, paint, beads, tulle etc). Mad Hatter costume Skirt: I loved the … Read more
For my first DIY Halloween costume for my four year old was this Vanellope costume from the movie Wreck it Ralph. We watched the movie for the first time early in October, and she immediately fell in love with the idea of a Vanellope von Schweetz costumes, problem was there wasn’t any pre-made costumes available. … Read more