homemade halloween costumes
homemade halloween costumes from the closet or second-hand store The old stand by a Ghost: Grab a old white sheet cut out the eyes.
Take scrap piece of sheet and sew up a simple treat bag.
OR as Kathryn suggested: Why be the same old plain ghost.
A ghost going out in public might like to get dressed up a little.
Use the same old white sheet cut out holes for the eyes and a small slit for the mouth.
Use something besides just a white sheet to be a little more fancy Clown : Sweet clothes that are too large.
Tack on some large pop-poms add a cheap wig hat and make-up.
You may also stuff the extra space in clothing with tissue.
However this could be messy if you need to make a “pit-stop”.
The American tourist : Guys loud Hawaii shirt shorts (if weather permits) Large straw hat.
Don’t forget to have a camera and maps hanging out and that look of being lost.
Guys can use a tourist bag (like you get from travel agents and gals can use the straw bag for their treats.
1960s Hippy : This one is hard after all its all back in style.
;-) Tie die clothing long wig (in the old days we called a “fall” sandals headband anything with fringe on it (vests purse.
Old man: Dark paints (cuffed) and jacket most any dress shirt mans flannel hat walking cane.
Gray the hair with any of the commercial temporary colors or dust with a little flour.
Old woman : Old style dress just below knee knee-hi stockings rolled down a little oxfords large black purse.
From our guests: Japanese Doll : My daughter won with this costume.
Her face was painted white she had red rosy cheeeks all shaped in a circle Hair in buns thoung slippers and a kimono(chinese dress) From Lani S.
America Use a old bridesmaid dress of formal add a pair of gloves a tiara some oversized jewelry and heals.
From Jacque Soda pop can: Use a round barrel cut a hole in the bottom.
- from Ann Static Cling Wear anything a solid color is good all white or all black.
With safety pins pin anything to yourself i:e: socks underware bounce sheets etc.
Tie their hair in a ponytail and wrap a scarf around it.
From: Ziemniak Mummy Wrap yourself in white bandages (rolls of gauze) Use splotches of green paint for “mold”.
From: Chris Quasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame Build the “hunchback” out of foam or cardboard.
Find an old coat several sizes too large to accomodate this.
Wear a snaggly wig and keep putting hand up to ear and muttering “eh.
From: Chris Pirate Form a fake aooden leg by wrapping your bad one in brown felt.
Tie a bandana around your head wear an eye patch carry an empty bottle marked XXX (for the “rum”) and mutter “aargh” a lot.
There is a commercial costume for this but a good one can be made with sweats and tape to make the markings on it like the crash test dummies.
Fashion a seat belt out of webbing and an old buckle and pin in place.
From: Chris Train Engineer A pair of blue jeans a blue Jean jacket a red and black bandana.
Decorate the skirt with flowers growing out from the leaves already put in place.
Use the remaining leaves and small flowers to decorate the face mask.
Place your bird on the twigs and secure into place with the wire.
The child can wear a dark coloured turtleneck and leggings under the vest and skirt for the evening walk to get treats.
be careful everyone may run Bunny Pink brown or white add a powder puff or large pom-pom to the backside and a set of ears make from constriction paper and a plastic headband.
Now just hop on out and enjoy Turtle Green with a piece of poster board attached to the back.
Simple cut the poster board into a large oval make random marks like a turtle shell and paint.
Puppy Brown tan or white either paint or pin paper spots on.
The tale can be most anything depending on what type of doggie you wish to be.
Make ears from construction paper attach to head band or bobby pin in to hair.
Spider Black For the legs grab some cheap black hose stuff with any thing dark and light weight.
Either sew or staple to keep stuffing from falling out.
Pin to clothing add a little make-up From our guests: Lady Bug Use a pair of black sweats and black sweat shirt (and a pair of black shoes).
Use a large piece of poster board or cardboard and cut out a large oval.
Staple black elastic pieces (in a loop) onto the board to make arm holes.
For the antenna atatch craft pipe cleaners with black pom poms on the ends to a headband.
From: Shaundi Gopp Snowman Last year my 3 year old was a snowman.
I bought white sweats christmas socks white keds tennis shoes a cheap black hat fake snow mittens scarf and black pom poms for the coal.
I sprayed the hat to look like snow and added a cheap red bird from the craft store.
I bought a white mask and bought a cheap carrot from the craft store and glued it onto the nose part of the mask.
From: Andee Heneghan Cereal Killer Attach little cereal boxes to a shirt cut a slit in the boxes glue in plastic knives into the holes drip red paint running down from the knife hole in the box.
From:Gail McNitt A Bunch of Grapes Using green or pruple sweets attach balloons of the same color with safety pins.
Here is one from Jo: My fav was purple tights purple (long sleeves) body suit (I can’t think of what it’s really called) 12 purple balloons and a green felt hat.
Balloons are pinned (by the tied off end to the fabric in a triangle shape 3 on top 2 in middle and 1 at bottom (on front and back).
Cut two leg holes in the bottom of the bag and two arm holes near the middle.
Have your child stand in the bag and fill with blown up balloons.
Write on each piece of cardboard “JELLY BEANS 2 CENTS EACH”.
Cut off excess bag around face From: Dee OR If your prefer to be a little high class Jelly Bean.
put an enlagred Jelly Belly sign on the front of the bag.
Black Eye Pea When I was younger a teacher from my elementary school dressed up as a “black eyed pea” and it was so cute my mother dressed me up the same way the next year.
Wearing all white with black tennis shoes I cut out the letter ‘P’ from black construction paper and pinned the P’s all over the white outfit.
:) hee hee) and I was a “black-eyed ‘P’ ” From: Angela Black Bat Using a black umbrella and tights Rip the umbrella in half.
If you are fancy you can sew the edges of the umbrella to the back of the body.
If you don’t have the time or patients to sew the umbrella you can always safety pin it.
From: Sydhen Butterfly Put on black sweats and black shoes.
Use a piece of poster board and paint wanted color cut them out in an appropriate wing shape.
attach pipe cleaners and pompoms to a plastic head band.
Get a green body suit and some green tights and on your head wear a beanie hat.
Glue fake flowers to the beanie hat and maybe pin a few on your body suit.
Also it’s fun if you paint some flowers on your face and arms.
I found some cheap fake Ivy and wrapped it around my neck and arms and presto.
From: Kym Tucker Spider to Bat You need an oversized black sweatshirt black sweat pants black open faced ski mask two HUGE googly eyes black yarn or fishing line pipe insulation (for legs.
three pairs of gloves (very small) and black opaque tights.
Hot glue googly eyes over the opening in the ski mask The foam pipe insulation is placed into tights.
So that the “leg” could bend I cut the length of pipe insulation in half.
Attach all legs together for coordinated movement with black yarn or (fishing line) Attach toddlers gloves on the ends of the “legs” and have your child wear one pair.
For safety I bought some reflective tape and created a “design” on the back and front so that he could be seen.
Two years later we took the legs off added a huge set of black felt wings hot glued from wrist to neckline to wrist and used craft foam to make big black bat ears.
From: Amy Darcy Prairiedog (Little Dogs on the Prairie) Items needed: Light and dark pink felt an old hooded pink sweatcoat pink gloves pink slacks pink slippers.
Cut out light pink felt into what looks like prairiedog ears.
Place the dark pink felt inside in in the same shape except smaller.
From: Patricia Ragdoll One year for my girls I had them dress up as ragdolls and I didnt have to spend a penny.
I took an old sleeper and cut out the feet then I sewed patches in various places over the sleeper.
For the head I used an old stocking cap and sewed strips of fabric from old clothes to the stocking cap.
Tights and a turtleneck if you will be in a warm building.
Take an inexpensive (thin) plastic laundry basket and cut a hole in the bottom that you can fit through.
Make it small enough so that is “sits” on your hips after you pull it over your head.
Fill basket with laundry and pin a few dryer softener sheets to your sweatshirt.
From: Dede Bubble Bath Take a white laundry basket and cut out the bottom be sure to tape the cut edges with masking tape.
Attach two wide strips of material (white) to front and back of basket (these are the shoulder straps).
Attach white light peach and pearl balloons to the staps using safety pins (these are bubbles) Wear a white bodysuit and white pantyhose.
Put on your houseshoes shower cap and grab your scrub brush.
(If the laundry basket has holes in it cover the inside with posterboard) From: Bridgette homemade halloween costumes made from boxes Just use your imagination.
Pokemon card Last year I made my 6 year old into his favorite POKEMON card.
My computer scanner felt my computer’s publisher and a little creativity made him the hit of the party.
- from Bonnie Paint it silver glue on a few extras a presto.
Paint it red tack on some paper plate wheels and you are a race car.
Paint it white and a handle and you will be a cool refrigerator.
Draw on a keyboard you will be the first walking Macintosh.
(may work with Windows 
) Wrap it in Christmas paper add a large bow.
You can pop into the local Halloween party as a Jack-in-the-box Cover with table cloth glue on silver plastic platter in the middle (cut hole for head to pop through.
Glue on a couple of place settings of Plastic dishes and glasses.
With colored construction paper add stripes and train number to sides also add black train wheels.
On front make a 3D face with construction paper to match your train of choice.
Attach a belt from a robe to each side and harness over shoulders.
this was done very inexpensively and we had a lot of fun with it.
From: Tracy Dice Grab a friend and take 2 cardboard boxes paint them white.
Cut out several black circles (From construction paper) and glue them in the appropriate places to make you and your friend a pair of dice.
It’s so easy From: Laura Jones OR Have the second person dress as a key ring and use a light weight chain to attach the two people.
To make the key ring cut several large keys out of poster board attach one to the back and another to the front.
Attach a medal ring to a hat then attach a few more keys to the ring.
Hot glue 6 cottage cheese containers on the top of the box (the flat part) like a Lego piece.
Spray paint the whole thing whatever color lego you want to be.
Just slip into the open part of the back of the box and stick your arms through the holes.
From: Elliott and Danielle and Kevin and Angela and Kristie (this one is real popular this year.
Walmart or Kmart sells cardboard dressers in the laundry department.
Cut out holes for arms on the sides and hole on top for head.
I put foam in the inside for the shoulders to hold it up.
I painted the dresser and wrote on each drawer underwear socks ect.
Hot glue a doily to top with hairbrush and hair accessories.
Put a small lamp shade on child’s head so neck and face are base of lamp.
From: anonymous (by way if you don’t want to spend the $$ for a cardboard dresser it wouldn’t take much to make one out of a box.
Attaching long flat boxes on the front and hot glue small balls on the front for pulls.
homemade halloween costumes for Chair Users With a little thought you may come up lots of ideas that make the chair a natural part of the costume.
King or Queen on Throne Convert chair into a throne by wrapping the back and arm rests with gold or silver foil / paper.
Use plastic gems (from craft store) old jewelry Christmas garland to give it that “special look”.
Simply wear a cape of a royal color (velvet looks great).
Scepters and crowns can be purchased at most retail stores or make your own.
If an attendant will be going they may dress as the mate (King or Queen) or as a court jester.
A variation of this would be to dress like Santa and have the attendant be an elf.
Skier Skiers have a bad habit of falling and breaking a bone or two.
Wrap a leg in wide white gauze (to look like cast) and if you really want to “ham it up” and you use a power chair wrap an arm too.
Ventriloquist If you know anyone who has a ventriloquist doll this can be a quick and easy one.
You may wish to go with the formal look wearing a tux or the casual look by dressing to match the doll.
Gift Jack in a box or Robot Find a box that will fit conformably over chair (still allowing you room to maneuver inside).
Remove top flaps cut hole in top for head and in sides for arms.
For gift box wrap box in wrapping paper make a large bow and wear as hat.
To be a Jack-in-the-box paint the box in bright colors than wear a matching top and hat.
To be a robot cover box in foil then use your imagination to decorate.
Car Truck Space Ship Again using a box (as above) decorate as you favorite vehicle.
This can be real cool costume for high tech power chairs and or using a vent.
Make Your Own Make-up You will need: 2 tablespoons of soft shortening 4 tablespoons of cornstarch Food coloring Mix ingredients shortening and cornstarch.
Separate the recipe into different cups add food coloring.
Wash your face and any area that you will be applying makeup to and than dry thoroughly.
Using a cotton ball gently pat cornstarch over cold cream.
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I do realize that she is in fact just a baby and cannot eat any of the candy but still.
I want her to look back at the pictures when she is older.
Long tail and upright ears draw whiskers on cheeks kitty.
Safety pins make it all temporary just unpin and ready for bed.
With them all so young a herd of colored bunnies would be cute coming up the walk.
A ghost is always easy if she’s small enough you could use a pillow case.
All you need are sweat suits and about 1/4 yard of matching fabric to make floppy ears and of course some yarn to make tails.
I bought it for like a quarter and cut it down the middle to make a cape.
Try to look at stuff and see what it CAN be not just what it is now.
Bought my daughter a pink jogging outfit did the same thing but using pink and she was majenta.
They looked realy cute and all together I think I spent max $9.
And that was only because the pink sweat outfit for my daughter was almost $7.
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Start In Your Own Closet By Mac Brophy Homemade Halloween homemade halloween costumes.
Start In Your Own Closet When you think of homemade Halloween homemade halloween costumes the first thing you probably imagine is a bedsheet ghost or a torn pants hobo.
These days though homemade Halloween homemade halloween costumes can often outshine in quality and creativity some of the poorer quality homemade halloween costumes from dimestore type outfits.
The best place to start putting together that one-of-a-kind costume is your own closet.
Mosto f us have clothes we never wear and never will wear.
Think hats wigs used clothes clothes that are too big or too small.
Next hit the local store for markers paint beads - anything that might turn your so-so creation to a WOW costume.
We’ve found that the basics for most homemade halloween costumes can be items like leggings and even socks (think PAWS.
Leggings are a great choice for wearing under any costume (particularly in chilly weather) or to complete an outfit that too short without something under it.
We’ve seen several painted-faces that can rival any mask ever seen.
We’re particularly fond of the painted face look that emulates a gorgeous feathery mask.
Halloween will be here before you now it - so be creative have fun and start putting together that costume.
Oh yes - although we love putting together our homemade Halloween homemade halloween costumes we often buy great accessories from online or in-town Halloween stores.
no comments About Me About Mac Brophy I’m a Halloween-ish kinda guy.
Since I was a kid I loved getting dressed up and now I have a kick helping my kids fulfill their fantasies by dressing up as pirates ballerinas - whatever they want.
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