10 Make Your Own Cheap Halloween Costume Ideas
Doctor or Nurse: Purchase scrubs from a thrift store, Wal-mart, or borrow from a friend. Optional: get a stethoscope, or wear a fake name tag on a lanyard.
Cat: Purchase cat ears, make your own tail. Pair with any black outfit you have, and use your makeup to draw whiskers on your face. This do it yourself Halloween costume will take no time at all!
Princess: Wear a pink dress you already own, borrow one, or buy one for cheap. Make a crown with cardboard or poster board and cover it with foil. Optional: make a scepter with cardboard and foil.
Ghost: Use one of your old sheets or buy one from a thrift store. Throw it over your head and cut eye and mouth holes. This is a definitely a cheap Halloween costume idea, and you can make it on the fly.
Witch: Start with a black dress you currently have, borrow one, or buy one. Purchase a witch hat. Over do your makeup to incorporate a lot of black around the eyes. Carry your broomstick.
Jellybeans: Buy a bag of small multi colored balloons, blow them up, and pin them to whatever you’re wearing right now. Carry a small jar or bag full of jellybeans to pass out to friends, and you’ll be the hit at Halloween! You can also use only purple or green balloons and call yourself the Grape Bunch. A cheap way to pull off a great costume!
Cowboy or Cowgirl: Wear your jeans and a flannel shirt you already own or buy from a thrift store. Add a large cowboy hat. Optional accessory: create a cardboard star and cover it with foil. Pin to your chest so you can be The Sheriff.
Toga Toga: Sacrifice a sheet from your home, or a used one and wash with bleach. Pin this around your clothes in toga fashion. A craft store will have leaves to make a cheap crown for your head.
Baby: Wear pajamas or overalls, a bib, and a pacifier around your neck. Go with a messy hairstyle or pigtails if your hair is long. Carry a baby bottle, if you want it to look full, use kid’s glue to imitate the milk. Make your own Halloween costume and show your friends you really can be cheap and cool!
Bunny ears: Get yourself some bunny ears, and pair with anything you own white. Add very pink cheeks and a pink nose with your existing makeup.
These 10 do it yourself costume ideas are great if you are strapped for cash or time. Make your own costume using these tips and improvise with things you already own, or can borrow. You’ll definitely look great at Halloween!
For great do it yourself costumes for couples, check out another article Make Your Own Cheap Couples Costumes for great couples costume ideas!
Written by EmmaVine
Freelance Writer
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You can usually find some pretty cheap Halloween costumes on the shelves of your local stores each year, but most of the time, they are not very good. In fact, finding what you want at a good price in such a store can be hard. You can wait until a few days before Halloween, as many offer discounts at that time, but the chances of what you want still being there are going to be very small. Instead, what you want to do is to think and shop early, as much as a year early, to get the very best discount Halloween costumes that you can find.
One way to get discount Halloween costumes is to see what you can find to make them on your own. Some of the best and most interesting costumes are born this way. You can get the materials rather cheaply if you have a good plan, and then you can let your imagination do the rest. You can find some good ideas and materials if you go to your local craft store, or if you look for discount Halloween costumes and pieces on the Internet. Try online craft stores for really great deals.
One trick to getting discount Halloween costumes is to wait until after Halloween. Though that will not help you this year, it can give you the costume that you want for next year at a very good price. You can even find one that you can alter to fit your blooming idea. You can find amazing discounts right after the holiday because retailers want to get rid of what they did not sell, and they want to get rid of those things quickly. This holds true for both online and physical location stores, and you can also find Halloween items in craft stores.
You don’t have to buy a year early to get great discount Halloween costumes however. You just have to be a smart shopper. That means taking some time to think about the ideas that you think you would want to have, and then see what you can find. Take some time to see what you can find online, as that is probably one of the best places to get what you want. Some stores will even send the costume to the store for you, so that you just have to go pick it up. That means that you can save on shipping when you get discount Halloween costumes as well.
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