Inexpensive and Easy Homemade Costume Ideas
homemade costume ideas
Costumes My mother always made our Halloween costumes when I was a kid, and when I had kids of my own the store-bought costumes just never looked right to me. Sure, you can buy a cheap costume at that discount store, but if you want one that looks really good, you have to spend a lot of money or make it yourself.
You do not have to be an expert seamstress to make a costume you dont even have to be able to sew at all! If you can sew a little, it does help. The expectations for quality are much lower for a costume than for everyday clothing because everyone knows it is just for fun. 
Dress up clothes can be the start of some great homemade costume ideas. Does your daughter have an old formal dress that she likes to dress up in? Princess! What about some baggy pants and a too-big shirt? Say hello to a Hobo or Clown costume! Use your imagination its fun!
Purchase gently used costumes from Craigslist, a consignment shop or garage sale. Because children typically only wear their costume once or twice, most costumes are still in good shape for the next year.
Use clothing that your child already has as the basis for your homemade costume ideas (or or purchse clothes that they can wear as regular clothes when the costume is no longer needed).
A black sweater and leggings becomes a cat costume with the addition of a tail, ears, fuzzy black gloves and whiskers drawn on with eye liner.
Or add cardboard wings to make a butterfly.
A blue dress shirt and pants can be transformed into a Policeman with the addition of an inexpensive costume hat and badge. Costume accessories are far less expensive than the whole costume.
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More Costume Ideas:
Skeleton: Use glow-in-the-dark tape to create skeleton bones on a black sweatshirt and pants.
Bunch of grapes: Blow up a 15 or 20 purple balloons and attach them to a vest so that they hang like a bunch of grapes. Add some green curling ribbon to the top so that it hangs down in curls like grape vine. Wear the vest over a fitted long-sleeved shirt of purple or green. You can sew or staple the balloons to the vest - tape doesn't work well.
Jack-in-the-Box: Paint a box with bright colors, and a crank. Wear clown makeup.
Mummy: Tear an old white sheet into strips, dye it in tea to age it and hot glue it to old sweat pants, shirt, and old shoes. You can use a ski mask for the face for extra warmth. Note: Put newspaper or paper bags inside the clothing when gluing so that the back and front do not stick together. homemade Halloween costumes
Chicken - use yellow rubber gloves as feet, white feather boa for feathers, white cap with red felt comb.
Golden Goddess: Use gauzy organza fabric as a gown and wear a crown of gold leaves (from a craft store).
Bat: Use an old black umbrella to make wings and dress in black.
Jellyfish: Use a clear bubble-type umbrella and hang 8 strips of bubble wrap (with large bubbles and cut between the bubbles) from it as tentacles. wear white clothing.
Lobster: Attach two ping pong balls to the ends of red pipe cleaner and put a black spot (about 1/2inch in diameter) on each one with a black permanent marker. Attache the other end of the pipe cleaners to a red cap.
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