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My kids love dressing up for Halloween or just about any time they are doing pretend play. I love making an easy DIY costume for them that make them happy!
Since I’m usually making more than one costume every October, I need my costumes to be really easy and really quick to make. I loved when I could make family costumes and everyone coordinated, but those dreams are long gone now that they are old enough to have their own opinions. Now I’m just making a fast DIY costume that look fantastic with minimal effort.
I remember being so excited for Halloween when I was young and seeing all the cool handmade costumes that parents made. It was so fun to see what everyone was dressed up as! I still enjoy trick or treating and seeing all the amazing and imaginative costumes!
It’s a little different now that most people buy their costumes since the cost is so low, but there is something so amazing and special about a handmade costume. When I was young my parents sometimes helped me make a costume, but sometimes my brothers would help me and those were my favorite cotumes!
These costume definitely work for Halloween, but they also work for a costume party any time during the year. A lot of these have separate pieces that would work great for regular dress up. I love seeing my kids wearing a mermaid tail skirt, a furry animal tail, and wearing a pirate hat. Their imaginations are great!
Learn how to make a DIY sirius costume for your black or gray dog. This easy costume of the Azkaban prison number hangs off a dog collar. We love to include our dog in our costumes, but I like to keep it as simple as possible for me to make and for him to wear….
Learn how to make a DIY Medusa costume with a green dress and a DIY snake headband crown. This is a great last minute costume! I’ve always wanted to create a Medusa costume. The snakes fascinated me, and I knew it would be easy to make a cool snake headband. This DIY Medusa costume is…
Learn how to make an easy DIY skeleton costume with a free SVG cut file. Cut the design with a Cricut Maker and apply to black pajamas. Skeletons are so fun for Halloween. They always make me think of funny, quirky dances, and they are great for fun costumes or cute pajamas. I made my…
Learn how to make a DIY Professor Trelawney inspired costume with a green dress, accessories, and a upcycled sweater vest. My husband picked a Harry Potter character costume this year, so I wanted to pick character that would go with it. He picked Professor Quirrell since he’s bald, and I chose Professor Trelawney since I…
Learn how to make a DIY Professor Quirrell inspired costume with a DIY wrapped hat and cloak. This is the perfect costume for a bald man. My husband has always been great at accepting that he was balding, and he now shaves it everyday. We decided to really lean into the bald head for his…
Learn how to make a DIY Pokemon trainer costume with clothes in your closet. Use a free ball sewing pattern and a Cricut for the extra details. My son loves everything Pokemon, and he wanted to design his own Pokemon trainer costume for Halloween this year. He drew out the character and all the details…
See the DIY Olympic gymnast costume I made for my daughter for Halloween. There are several different pieces that complete the outfit. My daughter has been doing gymnastics for about a year and has fallen in love with it. She loves going to class, and she loves practicing at home. She loved watching the gymnasts…
Learn how to make a DIY owl costume with a cape covered in feathers and a simple hat. This DIY costume works great for kids and adults. My daughter threw around a bunch of costume ideas this year, and she finally settled on Hedwig or a white owl costume. She had no preferences so I…
Make this DIY pirate costume for an easy Halloween costume. It’s perfect for a child with a big imagination and uses stuff from their closet. I have updated this post since I originally made it so you can see both a toddler boy and an elementary school boy wearing a DIY pirate costume. This version…
Learn how to make a Halloween costume robe with a free sewing pattern. I used this pattern to make a Jedi Robe and a Harry Potter robe. There are so many costumes that can be based of off a really good robe sewing pattern: wizard, witch, grim reaper, Harry potter character, jedi, sith, other star…
Learn how to make a cape from a t-shirt for the easiest DIY cape! Add Velcro to the neck for an easy on and off option. It’s superhero time all the time at my house. ALL THE TIME. My son wears a cape morning to night, and then it sits on his windowsill while he…
Learn how to make DIY suspenders with elastic and clips. This quick and easy sewing project is great for kids and adults. I made suspenders for my son when he was a toddler, and I loved seeing him wear them. Making DIY suspenders is such an easy sewing project, and it’s great for toddlers, kids,…
See how I made DIY Buttercup and Westley costumes from the Princess Bride. I sewed the dress and the shirt and put the accessories together. I grew up watching the Princess Bride movie, and I can quote almost the entire movie. I loved it as a kid, and I love it as an adult. This…
Learn how to make an easy DIY pumpkin costume perfect for adults! Add HTV to an orange sweatshirt and top it off with a handmade pumpkin hat! What’s more classic than a pumpkin or a jack-o-lantern at Halloween? The best thing about this costume is that it is a great last minute costume. It’s so…
Learn how to make a DIY costume inspired by Sisu from Raya and the Last Dragon. Sew the details onto a hoodie for an easy Halloween costume. We watched Raya and The Last Dragon earlier this year, and our whole family loved it. It’s such a fun movie! My youngest daughter requested to be Sisu,…