19 Homemade Halloween Costumes

Save money and create something you really love with crafts for homemade Halloween costumes. These homemade halloween costumes are great crafts to do with kids. Create costumes for the whole family this Halloween! In this article, you will find both quick ideas and links to full projects for homemade Halloween costumes.

Homemade Halloween Costumes Table of Contents

Cardboard Box Costumes

Altered Sweatshirt Costumes

More Homemade Halloween Costumes

Horns, Ears and Hats

Halloween Masks

Homemade Halloween Costumes with a Cardboard Box

Dice- Turn two friends or siblings into a pair of dice. Simply paint the boxes black or white and add black or white dots. Cut out the bottom of the box and cut out armholes, or make suspenders with felt.

Lego- Paint the box your preferred color. Affix small round butter or yogurt containers in matching colors for the pegs.

Movie popcorn/Peanut Box- Cut off the top of the box and make a scalloped edge or cut out triangles at the top for a different look. Paint red and white stripes.

Altered Sweatshirt Costumes

Halloween Cat and Mouse- Create a homemade halloween costumes set with little more then sweatshirts and felt.

Ladybug Costume- Turn a red sweatshirt into an adorable ladybug costume. A black visor becomes the ladybug head with insect eyes and attenae.

Pirate Costume- Use a white sweatshirt to create a pirate costume complete with matching pirate hat.

Bunch of Grapes- For a no-sew project, purple balloons tapped to a purple sweatshirt make an easy costume as a bunch of grapes. For the more ambitious, make a green felt hat for the stem.

More Ideas for Homemade Halloween Costumes

Homemade Princess Hallowen Costume- Forget the retail store and make a princess costume by painting inexpensive tulle.

Robot Baby Cocoon and Hat Crochet Pattern- Even new babies can dress up for Halloween with this adorable crochet pattern for a robot baby cocoon and hat.

Crayons- Use felt to create a simple tube with two straps, like a dress, with a matching pointed hat. Use velcro to affix the felt in a tube around the body. Black felt is used to spell out Crayola and for the squiggle pattern at the top and bottom of a crayon. Use a bit of cardboard on the inside of the hat to keep its shape. With fabric glue, this is a quick and easy project.

Bumblebee- Stitch together strips of black and yellow felt for a bumblebee costume. Wrap black pipe cleaners around a black headband and add black pom poms to the ends. A strip of elastic at the bottom of the shirt will made it gather and look better over black leggings or tights. I think this would be especially cute on a small child.

Bunch of Grapes- For a no-sew project, purple balloons tapped to a purple sweatshirt make an easy costume as a bunch of grapes. For the more ambitious, make a green felt hat for the stem.

Scarecrow- Take a flannel shirt and tie it at the wrists and waist, and stuff it with straw for a scarecrow costume.

Lamb- Glue cottons balls, white pom poms, or polyster filling all over a long black t-shirt over a black leotard. Or use white ballons! Add black construction ears to a hood or hat.

Horns, Ears and Hats

Easy Halloween Horns- Sew up some horns for a devil or black cat halloween costume. Horns are easy to make for homemade halloween costumes.

Wacky Costume Hats- Knit an alien, dinosaur, bunny or cat hat for any kid this Halloween. Knitting patterns included for each.

Halloween Masks

Halloween Bat Mask- Embellish a wood bat mask with purple velvet for a festive Halloween mask.

Fun Flower Mask- Use scrapbook paper to create a flower mask. These halloween masks are great for a garden costumes.

Easy Halloween Masks- Customize your homemae halloween costumes with matching halloween masks. Masks are easy to embellish.