These are the newest entries from Tip Junkie readers for the 1st Annual DIY Halloween Costume Contest! {squeal} For this contest, Im looking for great tips and how-tos for DIY Halloween Costumes and it’s not too late to enter to win.
Click here for the details on how to win and how to vote for the Tip Junkies Halloween Costume Contest ~ Win a $100! right here on Tip Junkie.com.
Its a fun way to be inspired on easy to make Halloween costumes for our kids AND give three fabulous Tip Junkie members a $100 bucks.
* Tip Junkie is also hosting a handmade and semi-handmade DIY Trick or Treat Contest, for details click here.
DIY Halloween Costume Contest
Everyone is invited to enter Tip Junkies handmade and semi-handmade Halloween Costume Contest, no blog is required. {giddy} Tip Junkie members {thats YOU!} will vote for the THREE winners who will each receive a $100 Visa Gift Card to spend it however you wish. {high fives}
Deadline: Entries will be accepted through Friday, October 19th, midnight CST!
Baby Halloween Costumes
1. Baby Hershey Kiss Halloween Costume ~ This adorable Hershey’s Kiss costume was made with love by a mama who didn’t know how to sew and her tips and instructions will help you make one too.
Girl Halloween Costumes
2. How To Make a Peacock Costume for Girls ~ This beautiful Peacock costume was made using leftover peacock feathers from a farm, which were then glued onto cardboard. Directions on how to make the rest of the costume of course, is in the tutorial.
3. Milli Umizoomi Costume ~ Made completely from scratch, Andrea had to make the print on Spoonflower and the pattern for the cap by hand. Adorable.
4. Adorable Flower Pot Costume from the Dollar Store ~ This is an extremely simple yet adorable toddler Flower Pot Costume. Simply use large bucket from dollar store, and you have a flower pot costume!
5. Little Bo Peep Costume ~ Adrienne’s version of Vintage Little Bo Peep. Skirt, vest with plumes, Bonnet, lamb and crook. The perfect costume for your Little Miss.
6. Halloween Fabric Scrap Skirt Tutorial ~ This step by step tutorial with show you how to make a quick, simple and inexpensive fabric scrap skirt. Your Little Trickster will love pretending to be a Candy Corn Fairy Princess.
7. The Corpse Bride Girls Costume (DIY Tutorial)~ This is a tutorial on how to make the perfect DIY Corpse Bride Costume.
8. DIY White Queen Halloween Costume ~ If your daughter loves Alice in Wonderland, then making a White Queen Costume is super easy with a little thrift store shopping. Just buy an old wedding dress!
9. Pirate Costume ~ This tutorial is for a cute, homemade pirate costume. It’s simple, inexpensive and unique.
Boy Halloween Costumes
10. Lego Halloween Costumes {how-to} ~ Jessica got her inspiration for these costume from instructables.com. They wore these costumes to a coworkers Halloween party as well as trick-or-treating with their nieces.
11. Big Furry SPiDeR ~ If your kids want to be a big furry spider then you can make this amazing costume in 2 hours or less with some black fur and a beanbag pattern and gloves.
12. Flying Chameleon ~ Pamela came up with this homemade costume when her son asked to be a flying chameleon for Halloween. Absolutely clever.
13. Captain Destructo Halloween Costume ~ When Melissa’s son was little he broke almost everything he touched. She started calling him Captain Destructo. When Halloween came around she decided to make him this Captain Destructo costume.
14. Pirates Booty toddler costume ~ Turn your toddler into a bag of Pirates Booty. Melissa modified a Simplicity pattern for a ladybug, pumpkin or duck. Its almost like a pillowcase dress thats fitted at the bottom, and filled with some batting.
15. DIY Cowboy Costume ~ Coming up with a DIY Cowboy Costume is easier than you may think. Id bet most of you have all the elements in your home already! Youll need jeans, boots, cowboys hats and bandanas. If you are crafty, making chaps are simple and easy, too!
16. Star Wars Anakin Jedi No-Sew Costume ~ How to make a no-sew Jedi costume for a Star Wars Clone Wars birthday party or for an easy Halloween costume. This costume only cost $3 and was easy to make by simply making a few cuts in the faux-leather.
Boy or Girl Costumes
17. DIY Mummy Costume ~ A simple DIY Mummy Halloween costume using inexpensive material and techniques. Project includes tutorials on how to make a tutu, how to dye fabric with black tea, and a separate tutorial on making a matching Trick Or Treat bag.
18. Smurf Halloween Costume ~ Look at this fun little smurf costume! All Hillary did was dye a onesie to the perfect Smurf Blue (evening blue) and bought a pair of white tights. Then she just made a little smurf hat out of white felt.
Adult Halloween Costumes
19. Tutorial for a Lego Halloween costume ~ Looking for a easy halloween costuem? Well if you keep reading, Grace will show you how to make a lego halloween costume good for multiple children or a couple.
20. Free Printable- Chic Vampire Mask ~ Fara Party Design made this mask last year to decorate their Chic Vampire Collection dessert table. Just print, cut and decorate it to celebrate with style!
21. DIY garden gnome costume ~ Here is a garden gnome costume Robyn made for herself a few years back. So fun! She just used clothing she found around the house and made the hat out of red poster board. The beard and hair are poly fibre fill.
22. Extreme Couponer Halloween Costume ~ Inspired by the TV series Extreme Couponer, this fun costume is totally unique!
23. 3D Snowman Costume ~ Jodie was looking for something different to make herself for Halloween this was the costume that she pulled off. She made this Snowman Costume over a few days, and it was so much fun!
24. Corpse Bride and her Grave Digger ~ Leigh Ann had so much fun creating this Halloween costume. She created a graveyard in her front yard complete with a freshly dug grave and then stood beside it with a lantern and gave out candy.
Family Halloween Costumes
25. DIY Star Wars Themed Halloween Family Costumes ~ How to make a DIY Star Wars Themed Halloween costumes for the family for cheap!!
26. Winnie the Pooh Easy DIY Family Costumes ~ This was an easy group costume Christina made for her family when I was pregnant with fleece. So adorable!
27. Halloween Costumes from a box No Sewing required (Mailbox & Popcorn Box) ~ Two costumes featured here are a blue mailbox and a popcorn box.These were so much fun and very simple to make. Michelle says they were super fun to make and got tons of attention!
28. Family Blues Clues Halloween Costumes ~ Davis was addicted to Blues Clues so in October 2000 Jason went as Steve, Im Magenta, Davis is Blue, and Dylan is Green. Dylan is 3 months old and my mom converted a 3 pees in a pod costume into the green puppy.
It’s not too late to enter your own past ideas.
Deadline: Entries will be accepted through Friday, October 19th, midnight CST!
If you love these Halloween crafts then youll find a THOUSAND more just as creative over on the Tip Junkie Halloween site!
How To Crafts:
- 10 Best Pumpkin Patterns & Carving Templates
- 23 Free Autumn & Fall Download Printables
- 20 Spooky Things to Do for Halloween {free printable}
Thanks Ladies. I just adore these tutorials! Feel free to grab my I was featured on Tip Junkie blog button. You earned it! {knuckle bumps}
Also, dont forget to check out the Tip Junkie Facebook page for even more crafts, activities for kids, creative ideas, and free tutorials. It’s a great place to ask questions on how to make things or for specific tutorials that you are looking for. I’ll be happy to find them for ya!
Creating Memories that Endure,
Laurie
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