30+ DIY Halloween Costume Ideas

There's no need to spend a lot of money on a Halloween costume! Make your own this year with these 30 awesome ideas. Dress yourself and your kids up in fun DIY Halloween costumes you can make with everyday household items.

This is so cute and easy for you or your little girl. Simply don a yellow coat and yellow pumps and add a dash of salt for best results.

Pop on a light green suit or 1950s style dress and add some fake birds and drops of blood on your face to pull off this wacky look.

Use a brown sweatshirt to recreate this look for boys or girls. This idea is particularly good if you don't want them wearing a mask, since you can just paint their face with face paint. Remember: It's all about the eyebrows.

Look like you just stepped put of a comic book with this awesome idea. You'll need a round paint brush, which you can get from a craft store, and some face paint.

Lady Gaga has nothing on this one! Purchase faux butterflies at the craft store and glue them onto the base dress with a glue gun or plain craft glue. Don't be afraid to go crazy with the fake eyelashes for this costume.

You'll need black, white, and brown eyeliner, a bronzer, and a beige lip liner with a nude lip gloss on top. Mac white chroma cake can be used around the eye area. You can have fun pretending to be a deer in headlights.

Mouse ears are so simple to make out of cardboard and attach to a hairband. To complete the look, wear a cute red skirt with a black top and funky sneakers.

Could there be a better excuse for prancing around in a green tu-tu and eating pizza? Cowabunga!

Have fun with tulle, shells, and makeup to make you or your little one look like a pretty mermaid.

A great costume for moms and daughters: Don a black dress, sunglasses, and some bling—voila!

Cover yourself in green body paint and set your hair in vintage rollers to look as pretty as a zombie!

Red stockings and black shorts work a treat for this look. You can simply cut the emblem out of paper and tape it onto a red turtleneck. Top it off with fur lined boots to keep warm while trick-or-treating.

Black and white face paint with long fake black talons make this a great costume for Halloween parties. It takes a little time and skill, but it's so worth it!

Dress up a funky headpiece with cards and paint your face to match. It would also work well for an Alice in Wonderland-themed party.

Make sure to use plenty of brown eyeshadow to achieve that sunken eye look to make this look even creepier. The white pencil under the eyes makes them look bigger (and creepier) from a distance.

Wear pink and purple-striped pantyhose or leggings with purple shorts for this one, and if you buy an extra pair of pantyhose you can fill one leg and tie the other around your waist to make the 'tail.'

Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger: An adorable group costume for three friends or sisters. Look for pink or orange leggings and tops in the same color.

A little blue dress looks sweet for this with cookies made from felt tacked on. A little baby could pull this off with a blue romper suit.

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a mime artist, this is a great one for you. A bit of black tulle gathered on elastic as a collar and some clever face paint makes this a great costume for all you last-minute-Lauras.

Your kid will just love his beard painted with chocolate body paint (let's hope he doesn't lick it all off). The cardboard sign pulls the whole look together.

Get some PVC pipes and joints and place tennis balls at either end for the "walker." Attach balloons for the 'zimmer frame.' As an extra measure, dad could dress up as a boy scout (or a goofy dog)!

Buy elastic and tulle in black and green from your local craft store to make the skirts and wear black and red tops. The masks can be made or painted on with face paint.

Grey onesies are easy to find for kids and work perfectly as the base for shark suits. Make fins from cardboard to complete the look.

Make sure the skirt isn't too long, as you don't want her to trip!

You'll want to use a foundation with yellow tones to get the base of this look right. Black lipstick can be purchased in most drugstores and black face paint works great for the smudged look around the eyes.

A pleated red skirt with an orange turtleneck may not make the greatest fashion statement, but it looks great as a Velma costume. Don't forget the glasses!

This also works really well as a couples costume, or might give him the perfect excuse not to dress up (as he is the 'puppeteer')!

Such a beautiful and colorful way to celebrate Halloween. You'll need . . .

• black liquid and pencil eyeliner
• eyeshadow brush/blush brush
• black and white eyeshadow
• white Halloween makeup or white shimmer powder
• mascara (black or brown)
• bright eyeshadows (any color will do, I used gold and teal)
• large stand mirror
• plastic jewels or sequins for embellishment

Get as creative as you like with this one—you could even buy a fake skeleton and stick the 'bones' onto your suits.

Pregnant ladies! Have fun while it lasts! Disguise your bump by attaching doll's arms and legs to make it look like baby is trying to escape.

This is a great costume for teen girls—think brightly-colored shirts and leggings!

Great for best friends and simple to put together. Simply don a red tee shirt and pair it with a blue tutu.

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