If you want to make your own funny costumes, scary costumes, costumes that look like your favorite celebrities, or totally unique costumes, these Halloween costume ideas will help get you started. You can make costumes for everyone in the family.To start out, you should browse through all of the costume photos I have collected. You can also send in photos of your home-made costume. To have your costumes featured in one of these collections, just follow these simple directions!
You can find directions to make hundreds of different costumes. Some are extremely simple home-made costumes while others take a little bit of work. Some follow along with more of a traditional Halloween costume them while others are quite unique. You can explore all of my costume ideas and patterns by theme:
- Animal and Creature Halloween Costumes
- Edible Items Halloween Costumes
- Inanimate Objects Halloween Costumes
- People Halloween Costumes
- Popular Characters Halloween Costumes
- Scary Characters Halloween Costumes
You can easily make Halloween costumes out of items you already have at home or items you can find for cheap at a thrift store:
- Cardboard Box Halloween Costumes
- Sweatsuit Halloween Costumes
- Thrift Store or Closet Halloween Costumes
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Thank you for the clear instructions-I am trying to create items for the students to work with in the days and you have just given me great info-Thanks again)-:
The photo gallery is wonderful. I couldn’t stop oohing and aawing.
The animal costumes and the group costumes impressed me the most. Thanks Sherri!
I have never thought about an ‘inanimate object’ costume, that is definitely a new idea to me. Thank you for giving all the great ideas about making your own.