Simple Homemade Halloween Costumes

In need of a cute easy Costume? I got your back!! I have always loved the cute and fun Halloween costumes and décor! Growing up it was always about having fun and being creative with anything we found around the house for our costumes. I have 7 easy homemade Halloween costumes to share with you that will save you money and get your creativity going. If you want to see more of our previous costumes we’ve done some really fun family costumes. Over the years we have enjoyed making many of our own family-themed and occasionally individual, costumes (I have lots of fun ideas for individual costumes).

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Easy DIY Costumes

My two fun models and I gathered up some clothes and props from around the house to share some of our fun and easy costume ideas. These are all simple enough they can be thrown together last minute if you didn’t have time to make or buy a costume before Halloween crept up on you.

1. The GHOST
   • Supplies and Instructions
     • This is one of the most traditional and easiest costumes to be able to throw together for a fun quick costume.
     • a white sheet, duct tape, and; black cardstock paper
     • Place the sheet over (depending on the size of the sheet and person you might need to fold it in half) evenly, making sure they won’t easily trip.
     • Cut the cardstock into two fun circles or ovals (any eye shape you’d like) and place duct tape on the back of them and stick them to the sheet.
     • I recommend placing the eyes of the ghost on the forehead that way they can see. Alternatively, you could put them lower on the ghost for a fun look.
2. KETCHUP and MUSTARD
   • Supplies and Instructions
     • This couple’s costume is always classic, fun easy, and bright. This one you can have fun sprucing up the Labels or making a joke on it or anything like that.
     • Red and Yellow shirts, cardstock paper (Red, Yellow, and, 2 White), black sharpie, duct tape, and bobby pins.
     • You can easily cut out the shape you want for the labels of the ketchup and mustard, and duct tape the labels onto their shirts, then make the cone shape with the cardstock and tape it, after that then use bobby pins to hold it nicely to the head.
3. GYPSY
   • Supplies and Instructions
     • The gypsy or fortune teller is always a fun and colorful one that you can play up a lot.
     • Some loose flowy pants, a couple of scarfs (fun bright, and colorful is always good), and a crystal ball.
     • The ball is fun but not necessary, the crystal ball could be anywhere from a small fun marble, to a sports ball, to random house decoration, or one you make out of material :D, just have fun with it and be creative.
4. COOKIE
   • Supplies and Instructions
     • The cookie costume is delicious and cute all at the same time.
     • Brown pants, and shirt (if possible but doesn’t matter), 2 pieces of black cardstock
       paper, duct tape, a large piece of cardboard from a box,& bobby pins.
     • Cut the cardstock into a fun big circle, cut one into multiple triangles for the “chocolate
       chips, and the other you make into a cone for the top of the head.
     • Make a handle on the back of the cookie to hold onto with the duct tape, or you can just tape it on your shirt (it might be a little too heavy for that option) and then you are ready to bobby pin the big “chocolate chip” on the head.
     • You can always choose to spruce it up with paint and do one or two chocolate chips on your face, just have fun with it, and make it your own like Evee did with the bite taken out of her cookie 😀
5. CANDY BEGGAR
   • Supplies and Instructions
     • The candy beggar DIY Halloween costume is a quick one you can throw together.
     • Multiple clothes for layering, a beanie, some brown makeup, cardboard, sharpie, pipe cleaner or string, & a pillowcase
     • You can spruce this up so many ways and add as many fun props as you can think of, even maybe a backpack or a cart as your bag as well.
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6. CAT
   • Supplies and Instructions
     • A cute classic that is easy to make your own by sprucing it up with some fun face paint.
       • Black shirt and pants, pipe cleaners, black eyeliner or makeup, bobby pins.
       • Super simple to keep with the black shirt and pants, then you shape your two pipe cleaners into triangles and bobby pin them to your hair for the cute cat ears.
       • Then simple and easy whiskers with some makeup.
       • You can easily add a tail with another pipe cleaner too.
7. FISHERMAN
   • Supplies and Instructions
     • This fun fisher costume is easy if you’ve ever gone fishing or have someone in your family who loves to fish. Get ready as if you were going fishing, but instead, you’ll fish for candy! 
     • Outdoor clothes that you could see yourself using to go fishing, a fishing net, and any other fishing gear you’d want to use to spruce it up.
     • Your net can easily be used as your trick–or–treat bag for fun.
     • For the fisherman costume, you can easily add a vest to spruce it up or some rain boots.

Trending Costumes of 2021

If you aren’t wanting to make a costume these are some of the trending costumes this year. I love making my own costumes, but sometimes I just don’t have time.

1. Among Us

• Items Needed: pants, long sleeve shirt, beanie (all in the same color) black shoes, grey felt
• Pick the color of character you want and wear everything in that color. Long sleeve shirt, pants, black shoes, bennie to match (use grey felt to cut out an oval shape for the eyes hole on the among us head and hot glue it onto your beanie)
  

2. Ghostbusters

• Items Needed: Tan long sleeve shirt, tan pants, black boots, and black backpack

3. Coronavirus

• Items Needed: Hand sanitizer, face mast, gloves, long sleeve shirt, pants, goggles.
• The idea for this costume is to be overly protected so you don’t get covid.

4. Raya

• Items Needed: oriental hat, yellow shirt, green loose fitted pants, brown boots, black wig

5. Free Guy

Items Needed: Blue button-up shirt, striped tie, khaki pants, and homemade name tag. This costume is probably the easiest to make.

6. Witch

• purple and black striped tights, witch hat (make your own felt witch hat), black dress, black gloves to give it a more authentic look grab a broomstick or wand
• This very simple costume is a classic

7. Spiderman

• Items Needed: blue long sleeve pajama set, loose fitted red shirt, felt (use the felt to cut out a spider web and hot glue it to the red shirt) or use a black marker to draw it on

8. Wonder Woman

• This costume will take a lot of sewing but the end result will look authentic and be worth the effort!

9. Cruella Deville

Items Needed: black and white jacket, black dress, black or red gloves, hair DIY (black and white) or wig

10. Werewolf

Items Needed: jeans, plaid long sleeve shirt, grey felt, elastic, facepaint, and faux-fur (from the craft store)

We hope you have fun this Halloween and that you have fun with your costume whether you make it or not. Let us know what you are being for Halloween and what you did. We can’t wait to see what fun everyone had. Here are also some suggestions for a safe Halloween this year!

Happy Halloween, and Mahalo

Rach, – and my two helpers/cute Models; Evee and Cora