Everything you need to know to achieve classy yet scary Halloween Costumes!
Need a last minute Halloween costume? Or do you want to create DIY Halloween costumes to rock the Halloween parties? Whether it’s Halloween costumes, Halloween movies or Halloween decor ideas, we have a solution for you!
As you know, throughout the year, we get to celebrate a lot of important festivals, where children are easily enchanted by the festive excitement and they just love to have fun.
Most often, parents use such occasions to train and teach them the importance of the event with joy and pleasure.
Halloween is one of the festivals when everyone wants to be super creative in terms of themes and costumes.
All the mamas and papas can now be more creative with easy-to-follow DIY costumes for their kids.
For making spooky DIY Halloween Costumes, you should start looking through your inventory to see what you already have at home.
Here is the list of DIY Halloween costumes that you can create by using simple materials.
1. DIY Lego Costume
Children love to play with Lego. Their favorite play-time is to build and create new stuff from blocks. Here’s how you can easily make a Lego Block Costume for your kid.
- First, you need two cardboard boxes.
- Use your child’s favourite color spray paint to coat the boxes.
- With perfect measurements, cut armholes, and a neck hole in one of the boxes with scissors.
- Lastly, cut arm straps and 6 round shaped circles from the other box.
- COOL!! Now you’ve been transformed into a Lego.
2. DIY Minion Costume
With their squeaky voices and vibrant style, Minions have already won the hearts of many. To create a minion look you can follow these instructions.
- All you have to do is to print out the goggle eyes on a paper.
- Cut it out, keeping them connected in the centre and glue it to the front of your yellow hard hat.
- Then attach pipe cleaners on the top of the hat according to the hairstyle you require.
- Tape the Mason jar lids together after removing the inserts. Tape them on the printed goggle eyes.
- Make a tie on one side of your goggles with elastic.
- Wind the elastic around the hat and back around to the front, securing it to the other side of your goggles.
- Place the goggles at a slanted angle. Apply a tape to keep it in place.
- Now put on a DIY hat, black shoes, a yellow T-shirt and a blue denim dungaree (or simple blue jeans with gallace) to finish the look.
- Woah! You’ve crafted the coolest DIY Minion costume.
3. DIY Dracula Costume
One of the classiest DIY crafts for this Halloween is the legendary Dracula costume. It never gets old.
- You can either buy fake fangs or paint them on the faces with non-permanent markers.
- Make complexion of the face pale using foundation or face paint.
- Put on a red or black lipstick, you can also add fake blood dripping marks around the corners of the lips.
- Hair can be styled by spraying it with hairspray and then combing it backwards.
- Wear an oversized black cloak. And you’re finally done!
4. DIY Pirate Costume
ARRR!! Are you ready to shock others with your DIY Pirate Costume? Here is the guide to creating a look.
- You need a shirt with wide-stripe, a toy eyepatch and a toy dagger for this look.
- Trace a skull and crossbones pattern and draw onto plain white fabric cloth.
- Then cut it out and glue it in the middle of your striped shirt.
- Cut sash from remaining fabric, making it twice as long as waist measurement.
- Chop the hem off, and tatter pants.
5. DIY Mermaid Costume
Get a sparkly DIY mermaid costume in a few minutes with these easy steps to follow.
- Cut cupcake liners in half. Then, start cupcake liners to a blue recycling bag in overlapping layers until a side of the bag is fully covered.
- Measure the circumference of the child’s head, plus 6 inches, and cut the ribbon.
- Cut cupcake liners into suitable shapes and attach them to the ribbon for a crown.
- Put on tights, a leotard, and shoes, then pin or tie the bag around the waist like an apron and put on the headpiece.
- Viola! Youre transformed into a beautiful mermaid!
6. DIY Smurfette Costume
All the Smurfs lovers will love the idea of creating such an amazing look. Here you go!
- Get a blue bodysuit, a yellow wig and a white beanie for your daughter.
- Put on a full-sleeves blue body suit and paint the face with the matching blue face paint.
- Add a mini white sundress over the top and put on white pumps.
- Wear a yellow wig and fill beanie with polyester or cotton to create the perfect smurfy look.
7. DIY Salt and Pepper Costume
Two minutes guide to create the best DIY Halloween costume this year.
- All you have to do is to take two transparent plastic waste bags.
- Fill one of the transparent plastic bags halfway with packing popcorns.
- And fill the other one black pom poms.
- Then name them “S” and “P”.
8. DIY Mad Scientist Costume
Bring a new crazy look of your kids who are science freaks and love being smarty pants. Create a Mad Scientist DIY costume for Halloween by following simple steps.
- To design a lab coat, cut the cuffs off the shirt and roll up the sleeves to the appropriate length.
- Cut each cuff in half crosswise to create four pieces; stick the sides and lower edges of the sections with adhesive to create pockets.
- Add some rubbery toy insects and glue onto the coat.
- Start bowing up a rubber glove and tie it towards the end.
- Pin the end of the glove beneath the shirt collar on the coat’s shoulder, being mindful not to damage the rest of the glove.
- Put on white pants and a funny grey wig on. Wrap a stethoscope over your neck and a headband around your wig.
- With fake blood, splatter your face and costume. Cut pieces of spider web and drape them over the rubber insects.
9. DIY Lumberjack Costume
This lumberjack look is so easy to create with everything you have in your inventory. See this:
- Dress your kid with a pair of blue denim jeans and a red buffalo-check shirt.
- Draw beard and mustaches on their faces with black non-permanent marker.
- Tightly put on a black winter cap.
- Get a toy axe to finish the look.
10. DIY Tour Guide Costume
One of the simplest and easiest themes to follow this year’s Halloween is this. Follow these steps to achieve the look.
- Wear a Hawaiian shirt and plain nude shorts.
- Put on a straw hat, and throw floral lei around the neck.
- Finish the appearance with a toy camera that your kid can wear around his or her neck.
- Viola! Your kid is now dressed up as a gaudy tourist.
11. DIY Crab Costume
Let your kids transform into new creatures for this Halloween such as a goofy-looking crab. Follow the instructions to achieve the appearance.
- You need to get a bright red hoodie.
- Then, cut a tiny square of red felt and hot-glue a red pipe cleaner in the centre.
- Apply some hot glue on the same side of the felt and adhere to the centre front of the hood, allowing pipe cleaner ends to protrude to the sides and pull the ends of the antennas upward.
- On white felt, hot-glue buttons a few inches apart; cut around buttons to form eyes. Apply hot glue to the ends of the pipe cleaners and set aside to cool.
- Split a dome shape from pink felt for the sweatshirt’s chest region; cut in half crosswise and hot-glue pieces on each side of the zipper. Allow it to dry.
- Freehand a claw slightly bigger than the glove, using the glove as a guide; cut out. Make three tracings and cut out each one. Allow to dry after hot-gluing one felt claw to each side of each glove.
- Put on a red hoodie, pants, shoes, and gloves. The look is ready!
12. DIY Arthur Costume
Arthur is an educational tv show for kids, based on the Arthur Adventure book series. To get this amazing look for your kids, try these steps.
- Firstly, you need to dress your child with a white collared shirt, denim pants.
- Put on the yellow sweater on top of the white shirt and wear red shoes.
- Make a cap out of a nude-colored fabric and use hot-glue to attach the beige color felt ears with the hint of pink to the top.
- Draw big spectacles on brown felt, cut it out and glue it on the nude-colored cap. Your kid is ready!
13. DIY Shark Costume
Baby Shark Doo-Doo costume is everything kids are getting all mad about. Create an amazing Halloween look with the items you have at your home.
- Dress your child in the grey allovers and grey mitting for the side fins.
- For eyes, cut two rings of black felt and stick them to the sides of the grey winter hat with hot glue.
- Cut a triangular piece of grey felt for dorsal fin and glue it on the top back of a costume.
- The shark is ready to eat the trick-n-treat!!
14. DIY Casper Costume
To scare the people around the festival is the whole idea of Halloween. Nothing beats the look of the old classy ghost Casper. To have this spooky getup all you need is plain white cloth. Check out the details:
- Take a huge piece of white fabric and punch two holes out for the eyes.
- Cut out two larger armholes so your kid to easily carry their trick-or-treat basket, your Casper look is completed!
15. DIY Bumble Bee Costume
Create a Bzzyyyy outfit for your kids having all the stuff that can be found at your home. You need to follow these steps to make this costume.
- Cut the strips of a plain black fabric and hand sew a long running stitch through the yellow T-shirt, pull to ruffle, attach to the shirt, then machine sew.
- For antennas, you need to drill two holes in a black headband using a craft drill, feed a yellow and black pipe cleaner through each side, twist, and place into foam balls painted yellow.
- Use a white felt, and draw two bee wings.
- Cut it out and attach on the back of the yellow, now striped Tee.
Final Thought
Halloween is all about spookiness, and nothing shocks people more than incredible budget-friendly DIY Halloween Costumes. Try these simple DIY costumes for your kids to add a little fun to the Halloween parties.