Oh how I heart Halloween! I mean free candy and handmade costumes? What more could a girl ask for? If you happen to have a baby bump that is probably the most exciting costume to craft up, and not to worry, I’ve got 29 genius DIY pregnant Halloween costumes for y’all! I have also made a ridiculous amount of handmade kid costumes including an organic carrot, cheeseburger, koala bear, panda bear, Bob Ross, and a fisherman. But, adults need costumes too, so I rounded up 44 homemade Halloween costumes for adults.
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44 Homemade Adult Halloween Costumes
1. Crown and Coke: This is a fun couples costume or a bottle of coke complete with coke tab headband makes for a great costume on it’s own! The tutorial is pretty simple assuming you have a red dress on hand. Turn this into a group costume idea with friends and all be different bottles of pop! If you don’t have time to DIY, I found a cute option on Amazon: Coca Cola Dress and Diet Coke Dress. Jack Daniels T-shirt and black pants would be a super easy non DIY version too: Jack Daniel’s T-Shirt.
2. French Press: All you need for this punny costume is a black and white striped t-shirt, black pants, a blonde wig, and red lipstick, and red bandana complete with French look. For the DIY, light up “PRESS” grab this round light from Amazon and use red spray paint and sticker letters.
3. Clean and Dirty: The “Dirty” costume is as easy as it gets! For “Clean” hot glue this wide mesh ribbon to any strapless dress. And then add the white rope as a hanger. Voila!
4. Doug and Patty Mayonnaise: If you grew up in the 90’s, you know Quail Man and Patty Mayonnaise! Here’s an inexpensive red cape to complete your Quail Man costume.
5. Glow in the dark stick person: I actually bought a black unitard, which has proven to be very useful for loads of other DIY costumes! But, you could easily just wear a long sleeve black shirt and black pants or leggings. Clear packing tape is the real winner of this costume.
6. DIY Fred and Wilma Flintstone couples costume: Wilma must spray her hair orange!
7. Bob Ross and Happy Tree: The Bob Ross costume is one of the easiest DIY’s, the curly, brown fro wig is a must!
8. Operation Costume: This costume is adorable and best of all, comfortable! All you need is a grey sweat suit and red and white felt. A pair of pliers is also an essential!
9. Tourist: Add a fanny pack for the ultimate tourist costume!
10. Lady Bug Costume: I already had the red strapless dress, so I simply pinned black felt circles on the dress. I found the wings at Good Will for $1 and made a headband with pipe cleaners and black pom poms.
11. Indian: I made this from an XL Hobby Lobby T-shirt
12. Mail Stripper: This punny costume is as easy as it gets! Get it? Male stripper, ha! Cut some junk mail into strips and tape it to your t-shirt, voila!
13. Jack in the Box: This is not the easiest costume to make, but it is really awesome! For the step by step instructions check out Instrutctables.
14. iPhone: All you need is a large cardboard box for this life size iPhone costume. The costume was originally found on Everything Cardboard.
15. Cheeseburger: I love that this is a no sew costume, but if you have no time to DIY, consider buying this fun hamburger costume! Also, if you’re in the market for baby cheeseburger costume, my beefy Maxwell is pretty adorable. Check out this post for the DIY baby hamburger costume tutorial. If you have the time to make your own, all of the step by step burger costume is at Please Note.
16. Lego Costume: This incredible couples costume took about 30 hours to build and a heck of a lot of cardboard. But, if you’re looking to win Best Costume, here you go! To find a step by step tutorial check out Sew Woodsy.
17. Bat: Turn a broken umbrella into an amazing pair of bat wings! For the complete tutorial check out Evil Mad Scientist.
18. Candy Corn Dress: Oringially made by I’m Your Present on Etsy. She does not sell this dress anymore, but there are lots of other cute options, including this koala romper!
19. Piñata and a piñata hitter: This is a fun couples costume! Best part? This piñata costumes was made with Post It notes!
MY LATEST VIDEOS20. Waldo & Wenda Costumes: This costume is super simple to throw together. All you need are red and white striped t-shirts and Waldo beanies! If you know how to sew, you easily make your own hats. Also, do you spy the baby Waldo in this picture?
21. Game Boy Dress: If you’re a child of the 90’s this Game Boy dress is for you! It was originally made by Here and There Vintage shop on etsy. And just in case, here’s a DIY Game Boy baby costume.
22. Sriracha bottle and a rooster: This is as easy as a Siracha t-shirt, green beanie, rooster hat, and red dress!
23. Light up cactus: The only thing better than a cactus costume is a light up cactus costume! The step by step cactus costume details can be found at Shrimp Salad Circus.
24. Bunch of Grapes: Grab a bag or 2 of burgundy balloons and safety pin them to a t-shirt. Don’t forget your vine head piece! Image via Oregon Live.
25. Pizza and Pizza delivery boy: Crepe paper and cardboard can turn anyone into a peice of pizza! If you’re looking for a couples costume, a simple t-shirt, jeans, and a of coruse a pizza box makes the perfect delivery boy! Find the tutorial at Studio DIY.
26. Wayne and Garth: Wayne’s World was all the rage when it came out in 1992. Raid you closet to find all the pieces you need for Wayne and Garth.
27. Mary Poppins and Bert: Keiko Lynn and her boyfriend threw this amazing costume together last minute! WOW! For more pictures check out Keiko Lynn.
28. Rosie the Riveter: All you really need is a red polka dotted bandana and a blue dress. A yellow “We can do it” backdrop really seals the deal! Image via jeana.d.
29. Carmen Sandiego Costume: Any child of the 90’s knows that Where in the World is Carmen San Diego aired on PBS. All you need is a red trench coat, red hat, and a of course, a globe. This genius costume was styled by Jessica on What I Wore. Jessica’s new blog is called Stars + Field.
30. Jellyfish: This DIY jellyfish costume started as a wide brim hat, an old loofa, and 4 strands ofbattery operated led lights. For the complete tutorial, check out On The Kattwalk.
31. Saved by the Bell Costumes: What a fun group Halloween costume idea, right?! Image via College Humor.
32. Jolly Green Giant: Green skin, green hair, and a green toga covered in fake vines makes the perfect Jolly Green Giant costume! Oh and don’t forget to carry around a can of corn! Image via blog stretch.
33. Grandpa: This grandpa costume is one the easiest thrift store costumes to throw together! Don’t forget to adda pillow for the beer belly.
35. Indiana Jones
36. M.I.A.
37. The Birds
38. E.T. and Elliot
40. Willie Nelson
41. 80’s prom queens
42. Nemo in the reef
43. Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
44. Dorothy, Cowgirl and Nerd: Andy and I were Dorothy and the Tin Man back in 2009. I whipped up the nerd costume at Good Will for our friend, Marcus. Natalia pulled together the cowgirl costume from her closet!
What’s the best costume you’ve ever seen? What are you planning on being this year? What is your favorite one on my list?
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Only handmaking 2 costumes this year, and I can't wait to get them on my blog. My little Sasha is going to be a peacock and her next oldest brtoher is going to be a lego man. My husband and I are going as an angel and a devil. Which one do you think I will be??? 😉
Hi! I'm a new follower! This is my very first blog hop. I just recently got back into blogging :o)
Loving Waldo by the way 🙂
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I made fake blood for Halloween through this game http://www.pheon.org. Its a Facebook app game where you climb levels as you do crafts! All of you would be great at it!
Very cute!
I will being the most epic rainbow dash ever.
No way!! that’s who i was this year!
I was a paper doll last year. It was pretty awesome, although some people didn’t get it.
That is awesome!!!
How was the sock monkey costume made???
I didn’t make it… click on the link for more deets 🙂
how did you make the sock monkey head
I loved the Where’s Waldo costume! The bun in the oven was a little tacky though… especially the “bun baker”, oh brother!
The picture for the Waldo costume won’t load on my pc. Oh, the irony.
Cute, but I’m not sure it’s ethical to include costumes from Etsy shops in a DIY blog post.
My 86 yr old Dad’s KISS COSTUME last year – he won the contest! All homemade, including the cardboard guitar. His walker was decorated with KISS CDs and posters.
As an etsy seller, I personally don’t think it’s unethical to list an item in any blog post (even a DIY one,) as long as the link takes you back to the item listing, and/or the creator is given credit. This one just happens to have been deactivated, maybe because the seller did it, or it’s possible etsy did. Either way, even if the item was copyrighted, someone crafty could make something similar for personal use (but, from what I’ve seen, not of the same quality unless they’re experienced with printing on fabrics!) Most sellers are up on their SEO and google stats, and it appears this one’s sales haven’t been hurt by their item being posted all over the web. 😉
Anywho, I have loved that jellyfish costume idea for a while now! I have to give it to Martha, she and her team get pretty freaky for Halloween.
I’m a sucker for Halloween and costumes in general. My hubby and I have been participating in our church’s “trunk or treat” for the past couple of years, and it’s been a blast. The first year we went as Dorothy and the scarecrow, and our trunk was Oz: http://buymelovestore.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/tuesdays-treasure-3/
I made the hub’s costume from sweats, raffia and elastic, sewed the hat with fleece scraps, and painted his face.
I bought my dress and added a layer of lace to the hem and a slip for length. My mom mercifully glitter-ified my shoes, and I made the backdrop from a mishmash of different papers, glitter glues, fake poppies, paint, and a plastic tablecloth.
Last year, we were a mermaid and a pirate, and our trunk was my giant shell: http://buymelovestore.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/make-it-monday-a-very-belated-reveal/
I made my ear “fins” from floral wire and tulle, and meticulously hand sewed sequins. I wore a nude tank top and pinned my hand sewn shells on. Then I sewed a fin, using a skirt as a pattern, and added tulle fins (again, meticulously hand sequined.) I was covered in glitter and blue and green makeup, and found that delightfully tacky wig at Goodwill. Don’t worry – it was new and unused!
My husband’s costume was a combo of thrift finds, torn, tattered and stained. We added some eyeliner and a scar, a tattoo sleeve found at the dollar store, some fake jewelry, and, believe it or not, that scarf on his head and wooden sword at his waist are both his.
I made the shell from 6 pieces of foam board, acrylic paint, glitter, and fishing line. (I cut a stool-sized hole in the bottom half so I could sit in my shell.) The “water” is an iridescent door curtain.
Even though these aren’t from Halloween, I thought I’d share our last Comic Con costumes. We went as Tank Girl and Clark Kent: http://chelsealikeengland.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/dallas-comic-con-2012/
The only thing I made for Kent was the tie, and that was just wire sewn into the tie and formed, bent, and sneakily safety-pinned around his collar. The rest came from my hubby’s closet.
Tank Girl breakdown: shirt – mine, target painted on w/acrylics; shorts – mine, vintage; vest – thrifted, and I added patches and doodads; socks – hub’s and thrifted rainbow toe socks (one cut off as an arm warmer); goggles – dollar store; belt & holsters – my husband’s; weapons – dollar stores (I painted the bright orange gun); boots – mine; bat – thrifted kid’s plastic bat that I covered in contact paper and athletic tape. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to add wounds and bruises, but I did add some bandages. 🙂
Anyway, now that it’s completely clear I’m a nut, I hope someone out there enjoys and can even use some of the ideas!
I was a One Night Stand once. I wore a box that I turned it into a nightstand by drawing on drawers and gluing on drawer knobs. I glued an ashtray with a cigarette in it, condoms, and an old cell phone on the nightstand and wore a lamp shade on my head.
Classy.
Last year I was the school girl Brittany Spears with two baby dolls on a leash dressed as thing one and thing two, I would drop them and sing “Opps I did it again, I had everyone rolling,
zomg. I know people from these photos! Did you live in the honors quad?
nope, I never lived in the honors quad. who do you know?! the first 3 pictures are of my friends!
My husband and I were the couple from the American Gothic picture. It’s super easy. Get a pitch fork and dress like an old farmer couple.
I like the mary poppins and bert and the Jolly Green Giant! I had some friends and they dressed up as “Moonshiners” with overalls that had the “seat” area cut out like a flap, so when ever the occasion presented itself they could “moon ” you! It was funny, mason jars with their drinks and a blacked out tooth here and there.
I really like the Bert and Mary Poppins and the “bun in the oven” 🙂 Last year my boyfriend and I dressed as Fry and Leela from Futurama and it was epic! This year I think we are going to be Dia De Los Muertos figures…
I love how people have an issue with the “bun in the oven” costume but not with the “Indian” costume. How about I dress up as a Caucasian or an African American this year. Now that’s tacky, dressing up as an ethnicity haha.
i’m a real native american…honestly we don’t mind if people dress up like indians…actually i do it myself. really, most of us just don’t want people to get all racially guilty about such a little thing. it insults our intelligence.
I’m from a Native American family too. Never mind things like that either. We even have a football team 🙂 Just wish the skins would play a little better. People get to uptight about stuff in general.
I think it’s okay too. A Geisha girl is popular. Caucasian stereotypes include little Dutch girls and drunken Irish men. Also hearkening from my background, I wouldn’t be offended if someone dressed as a Scot in full kilt etc. (especially if he has nice legs! lol), or the French stereotype: a beret, a baguette and a bottle of wine. I appreciate though that you don’t want to needlessly offend anyone.
Last year, my son wanted to be Woody from Toy Story. And then he wanted friends. So I was Jessie, my husband was Buzz and my sister was Rex the dinosaur. All homemade. I loved that group. And I love the Carmen Sandiego costume from this list!
My personal favorites from the last few years: Proper Young Lady, complete with leather bound “books” balanced my head and penny loafers; Mother Nature with butterflies, birds, leaves, and glitter all over and in my hair (inspired from Martha Stewart’s “Grey Lady” costume); and Medusa, a sheer black toga over leggings and a men’s long-sleeve black tee where i split the sleeves on the outside and cut the neckline to match the toga and decorated everything with gold and bronze paints, rope belts, decorated gladiator sandals, and snakes glued to hair clips that slithered through and stood up in my hair.
My dream costumes are the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Rosie the Riveter, and a Domestic Goddess (which is already made, just haven’t worn it.)
Without a doubt being Rosie The Riveter!
Me and my two friends are going as the powerpuff girls this year. I will be bubbles. We are going to sew the costumes. So excited
My husband and I went last year as Publishers Clearing House! I wore a robe and sweatpants with my hair all messy and makeup smudged, and he wore a suit. I made a giant check, and we bought balloons and red carnations. It was really fun, and I was psyched to be able to wear sweatpants in public because I was pregnant and uncomfortable at the time!
That is AWESOME!
I met my fiancee on Halloween, and he had to hand make his costume. He got a big box, wrapped it in Pink Wrapping paper, Put a Bow and A Tag that said “To: Women From: God” =] He was God’s Gift to women… Guess it worked.
My husband is a big Halloween lover so we’re always trying to do something unique. Before we met, he did that “God’s gift to Women one”. Last year, he was a giant mudflap and held me up through armholes… I was the chrome girl (body paint). It was amazing with great reactions. Still trying to figure out how to top it this year. 🙂
Hi, my daughter linked me here, love all the ideas for costumes. Our enlarged family has been doing Halloween for many, many years, and all the costumes have been handmade! My husband and I went as Sonny & Cher, he was Cher & I was Sonny, everyone loved it. Also, Hunchback & Gypsy girl, salt & pepper shakers, referee & football player, so many I can’t remember them all. Now once a month my sisters, our older girls, & our mom meet for a card night but we theme dress up: Harry Potter Night, Jersey Shore, Roman Toga, Nerd, and so on, we have so much fun doing it, take pictures, then we relax for the night. My neice made my mom a scrapbook of all our nights we’ve done, it’s great! Enjoy all.
Love those ideas! Thank you for sharing 🙂
one of the easiest costumes of YEARS of loving Halloween and dressing up, is the BLACK EYED PEA … it is simple, green clothes, sweats … green all over and a black eye with the letter p ON THE FRONT AND BACK OF SHIRT~!!! ONE YEAR a cereal killer ,…. yep … white t shirt, with small cereal boxes attached, with a plastic knife stuck into the boxes and paint or blood dripping from ea box down the t shirt …. no one will ever guess this one !!! one year I dressed up like a hunter, wanting to look more like a man I needed a beard, so I spread a thin layer of corn syrup on face and took coffee grounds and patted on syrup for a scruffy beard, the smell of the coffee all day at work gave me indigestion, but no one knew it was me, because of the real looking beard, just washed off with warm water …