15 Playful DIY Family Costumes for Halloween • Heather Handmade

Get inspired to make one of these playful DIY family costumes for Halloween. There are fun and playful ideas from a wide range of stories.

Do your kids love to dress up? Do you and your spouse love to dress up? I love coming up with family costumes. It’s so fun to plan characters from the same story. Throughout the year our whole family talks about costumes over the dinner table so we can come up with better ideas.

Get your next DIY family costume idea with this list. There are some with only a few members of a family, and there are some with lots of family members. There’s an idea for every family!

Playful DIY Family Costumes for Halloween

Why Make DIY Costumes?

I love to make DIY costumes for my family for lots of different reasons. I love that I can make something unique that we want and that we’ll love. We live in a cold area so I always have to plan costumes to be warm so that we don’t have to wear a jacket or coat over it.

I almost always save money by reusing fabric and clothing from my stash and around our home, and I have found that reusing clothing saves me time.

Homemade DIY costumes use stronger and more durable fabric that will last through months and years. My kids play dress up year round, so the costumes get lots and lots of use. I love that the costumes will last longer than one day of partying or trick-or-treating.

Love to sew? Try some of these sewing projects:

DIY Family Costume Ideas

DIY Gru and Lucy Costume: Easy Couple Costume Idea

Easy DIY Despicable Me Costumes

Learn how to make a DIY Minion, Gru, and Lucy costume inspired by any of the Despicable Me movies. This no-sew costume works for kids or adults, and it works for any number of people.

DIY Kpop Demon Hunters Huntrix Costume

Learn how to make DIY Huntrix costumes from the movie Kpop Demon Hunters. These costumes are sew and no-sew to make them easy and fun. Three family members can be Huntrix and the other family members can be Huntrix fans. The fans are so easy to put together!

DIY Home Alone Family Costume

Learn how to put together DIY Home Alone costumes perfect for a family or three friends. This Halloween costume is easy and keeps you warm.

DIY Goldilocks and the Three Bears Costume

Learn how to put together a DIY goldilocks and three bears costume. This Halloween costume is perfect for a family or group of friends.

DIY Bluey Costume

Learn how to make a DIY Bluey costume with a sweatshirt and felt. Put it together with some simple accessories for a really fun Halloween costume.

DIY Calvin and Hobbes Costume

Learn how to make a DIY Calvin and Hobbes costume for a boy or man. Use regular clothes and add a stuffed tiger for a quick and easy costume.

DIY Ghost Family Costumes

Go as the same character and be a family of ghosts. This is a fun way to scare all your neighbors and friends.
DIY adult ghost costume, DIY ghost costume, DIY ghost dog costume

DIY Star Wars Family Costume

Make a bunch of Star Wars characters for a sci-fi family costume. There’s lots of different characters for choose from.
Free SVG for Star Wars T-Shirts, DIY Mandolorian costume

DIY pirate lobster mermaid family costume

DIY Pirate, Mermaid, and Lobster Family Costume

This ocean themed family costume is fun with a pirate, mermaid, and lobster. There’s lots of fun characters you can add to this costume!
DIY pirate costume, DIY mermaid costume, DIY lobster costume

DIY Harry Potter Family Costume

Pair some Harry Potter characters together for a fun family costume! My family did these costumes a couple years ago, and it was so fun!
DIY Harry Potter costume, DIY Professor Trelawney costume, DIY Professor Quirrell costume, DIY owl costume, DIY Sirius Black costume

DIY Crafty Family Costume

Is your family crafty? Dress them up as some of the fun tools you use in the craft room.
DIY thread costume, DIY pincushion costume, DIY scissors costume

DIY Halloween Family Costume

Pair any classic Halloween characters for a fun family costume! There are so many to choose!
DIY ghost costume, DIY vampire costume, DIY Frankenstein costume, DIY witch costume, DIY pumpkin costume, DIY grim reaper costume, DIY mummy costume, DIY werewolf costume, DIY skeleton costume

DIY Toy Story Family Costume

We love all the Toy Story characters, and it would be a fun place to get inspiration for a couple costume. Pair any of the characters for a fun look!
DIY Bo Peep costume, DIY Ducky and Bunny costume, DIY Gabby Gabby costume, DIY Duke Caboom costume

DIY Pumpkin Family Costume

The best part of fall is the pumpkins. Dress the entire family as pumpkins for a really cute orange themed family costume!
DIY adult pumpkin costume, DIY pumpkin costume

DIY Mario Family Costume

Join the Mario world with these Toad and Peach costumes. These are fun costumes to put together and wear.
DIY Toad costume, DIY Peach costume, DIY Blue Shell Costume

If you make something using this sewing project, I’d love to see! Please share it on social media with the hashtag #heatherhandmade and tag me!