Fun Homemade Halloween Costumes

Need suggestions for fun homemade Halloween costumes that won’t take ages to make? By making a fun homemade Halloween costumes both the problems of last minute searches and endless mind changes of your fickle 5-year old will become a memory of Halloween’s past. A short list of necessary items for do it yourself costumes 101 are: a needle and thread, tape, yarn or string, face paints or at least a wide variety of make-up dedicated for Halloween use, and a variety of dress-up clothes.

My almost 10 year old daughter wants to be a dragon for Halloween and I found your pattern and love it. I have a question about the cape. The following homemade costumes require nothing more than a fertile imagination, some deft DIY skills, and a little elbow grease. The good news is that you don’t have to be a Pinterest fanatic to find homemade costumes regular parents can make. Whether you choose to make the getup from scratch or just tweak regular ol‘ household items, the folks over at Pinterest have given us 20 of the coolest costumes you can put together with your own two hands (and a bit of courage).

Jena132:This is my daughter’s first halloween…Nana wasn’t too happy that her cute little girl was a vampire. Edgar Cruz:Brenden Cruz Mendoza, 15 months If all skeletons are as happy as Brenden, we’d want Halloween daily! With a little effort and a whole lot of hot glue, these costumes — from a doughnut to sushi to a box of wine — can all be created at home. Halloween costumes, especially if done last minute, need to be creative to make up for lack of material effort.

I’ve added to it every year and it’s grown to well over 100 costume ideas – not just for kids but for families, couples, and even pets! I’ve compiled this list of 50 Easy DIY Halloween Costumes for Kids to hopefully get your creative juices flowing. I’d love to see what you come up with – and don’t forget to check out my Pinterest Halloween board while you’re looking around! Thanks for taking time to research on the top 50 Easy DIY Halloween Costumes for Kids, the list is very helpful.

I always love Halloween too and my most memorable Halloween was when my mom bought me my all time favorite strawberry shortcake costume complete with all accessories and I felt I was the luckiest kid in the world. I clicked on this article, when I saw the Raggedy Ann costume, because I pinned this image a year ago and thought you might have more cute costumes up my alley. Find your inner Cyndi Lauper or nerd from high school with these easy DIY ’80s costumes. The person who shows up at a Halloween party with no costume is usually a bummer.

If you’re a fan of Katniss Everdeen but you’re tired of the same old bow and arrow Halloween costume, take the creative way out and turn yourself into a cat. Get a bit more fun out of it for Halloween: throw on a parka over your Western shirt, put some Yaktrax on your cowboy boots and some fake snow around your cowboy hat, and paint your lips blue. WHY IT WORKS: Spell out a sign: Maybe a scary Halloween greeting, your company’s name or your company’s motto. WHY IT WORKS: It’s an easy way to get the whole office into the Halloween spirit and is probably the easiest costume to take off. Love or hate the show, it does make for an excellent easy (and warm) costume for Halloween.

If you’re handy with a sewing machine and have a hooded sweatshirt that’s a bit stained (or that would just look better with some dinosaur horns), this is the Halloween project for you. Channel a ’90s hero and fight the boring trend towards skimpy Halloween costumes, all at the same time. When you’re wearing a sexy costume to a Halloween party, it’s probably a good idea to stay away from sedatives and not bring your own restraints. We’ve seen homemade Hitler costumes before (which are also ridiculous) but this commercial version just blows us away. When we’re done with this year’s costumes they’ll go straight into my girls’ very own costume box.