More Homemade Halloween Costumes for Women
If you want a unique homemade women’s Halloween costume, check out these dozens of ideas. These costumes are easy to make at home – and they’re good for costume parties, October 31st events, and trick or treating with your kids!
Before the Halloween costume tips, a quip:
“There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.” ~ Colette
Masks can be the best part of a Halloween costume! Click on the Devil Deluxe Women’s Mask and Wig if you want to get a little “sinny” this year, and read on for dozens of easy homemade Halloween Costumes for Women…
More Homemade Halloween Costumes for Women
This is part two of Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes for Women.
Mail Order Bride: Wear an old wedding dress and veil. Go to your local post office and get a variety of mailing labels and large stamps and attach them to your clothes. Make a purse out of a large mailing envelope.
Martha Stewart: Wear a flannel shirt in pastel colors over a t-shirt, with loose khaki pants and comfortable flat shoes. Stuff gardening gloves in your pocket and wear an apron. Carry a fancy lined basket with fresh muffins and cookies inside. Handcuffs optional.
Medicine Chest: Wear white clothing, and hot glue items you would find in your medicine cabinet (q-tips, band-aids, cotton balls, comb, medicine bottles, disposable razor, toothbrush, etc.).
Medusa: Get some type of hat that fits securely on your head. Buy some fake rubber snakes and attach them all over the hat. Wear all black clothes and paint your face green.
Mona Lisa: Wear all black clothes, no make-up and a very long, straight wig. Carry around an empty picture frame. If anyone asks who you are, hold up the frame and give a mysterious smile.
Ms. Canada: Wear a plaid shirt with jeans (to look like a lumber jack) and have the sash that says Ms. Canada. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women is especially funny if you have Canadian ties!
Mrs. Potato Head: Use brown felt to make yourself into a potato, wear white leggings, turtleneck and gloves underneath, with red clown shoes. Make up some felt body parts (eyes, lips, etc., and attach Velcro everyone will be able to play with your parts!).
Mummy-To-Be: Wear all-white clothes, and add padding to your belly to look pregnant (even better if you actually ARE pregnant). Then wrap yourself in gauze to look like a mummy. Paint your face with white paint and add black all around your eyes.
Old Bag: Take a large garbage bag, cut holes for your legs and arms and climb into it. Tie it around your neck. Then add a grey wig, use make-up to create wrinkles, and carry a cane.
Outlaw Poster: Get a large piece of cardboard, stained yellowish-white, and cut a circle for your face. Write “WANTED” above your head in large Western-print letters (or use a computer to print out the letters). Underneath, come up with an old Western nickname, like “Slick Samuel” or something. Write a reward for $100. Dress up in a cowboy outfit, with a fake mustache. Attach a stick to the cardboard so you can carry it in front of your face.
Paper Girl: Make an entire set of clothes out of newspaper (pants, shirt, hat, etc.) You can staple or glue them together.
Paper Doll: Wear white knee-highs and a slip. Cut out and paint a piece of cardboard to look like a dress, including rectangular tabs on the sides, and wear it in front of you attached with ribbons.
Person Walking Backwards: Wear clothes backwards. Cover your face with a black scarf you can see through. Place a mask on the back of your head. It will look like you are walking backwards! Beware: this easy homemade Halloween costume for women might get hot and stuffy.
Picnic: Use a plastic red & white checked tablecloth and cut a hole in the middle for the head. Then glue plastic plates and picnic-type food on the plates. Carry a picnic basket for the candy.
Rapunzel: Find a cardboard box (or use a round plastic clothes basket) that will sit upside down over your head to form a “castle tower.” Cut the front so two pieces swing out like windows (this is where your face will show through). Cover the basket with brown craft paper, and decorate it to look like a stone tower (you can add fake ivy, flowers, birds, etc.). Attach brown fabric along the bottom of the box, so it hangs down and covers your body. Wear a long braided wig that hangs down out the window. Attach a small action figure, so it looks like he is climbing up your hair.
Runaway Bride: Wear a bridal gown and sneakers. I love this easy homemade Halloween costume for women — it’s a chance to wear your wedding gown again!
Silent Black & White Film Star: Paint yourself gray, wear your hair black. Use creative shading at pertinent spots (eyes, cheeks, lips). Wear old gray, white or black dress from the 20’s. Paint your legs gray, and draw a black line up the back.
Single Mom: Find two long-sleeved shirts that are the same color. Cut the arms off of one, and attach them to the other shirt, add two gloves, and use stuffing to make it look like you have four arms. Attach a feather duster to one of the fake hands, tuck a mixing bowl and spoon in the other fake arm, and carry a baby doll in one of your real arms, and a broom in your other hand. Wear an apron, slippers, a spit-up-covered diaper over your shoulder, and look exhausted.
Sleepy Housewife: Put your hair in pink spongie rollers, put cold cream all over your face. Wear a bathrobe and some big fluffy slippers. Carry a big alarm clock and pillow. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women won’t make you feel sexy — but you will be comfortable!
Snoopy the Flying Ace: Wear white clothes. Make a tail out of white felt. Use brown fake leather to create an aviator cap. Add some black felt goggles with blue felt “lenses” (attached to the top of the helmet). Wear a long scarf around your neck and use wire to give a “wind-blown” effect. Use make-up to give yourself a white face with a black nose.
Spice Girl: Wear solid color clothes and attach spice labels (or actual spice bottles if you can!).
Starving Artist: Wear a smock, beret, and carry a pallet of paints. Spatter yourself with paints. Carry a sign that says “Will paint for food.” This easy homemade Halloween costume for women is especially funny if you’re an artist.
Substitute Teacher: Dress conservatively like a teacher (hair up in a bun, skirt and sweater, glasses on a chain around your neck). Then, stick a paper airplane in the back of your hair, put a note that says “Kick Me” on your back, cover your hands and face with chalk, and put chalk eraser prints on your clothes. Attach staples and paperclips to your clothes, with broken pencils sticking out here and there.
Taco Belle: Wear a Southern Belle outfit complete with a hoop skirt. Top it off with a sombrero. Speak Spanish with a southern drawl!
Tampon: Wear a red sweat suit with white sock cap that has about five pieces of white yarn braided and tied to the top.
Tea Bag: Use sheer white cloth to form tea bags, and stuff with dried leaves. Make up a large a tea bag tag. Wear white clothing underneath (sweat suit, leotard and tights or long johns).
The Udder Woman: Cut udder off of an old cow costume. Glue or sew it to front of any dress or “cheap” get-up. Use a lot of make-up: mascara, false eyelashes, really red lipstick, really blonde wig, etc. Voila! You’re the “udder” woman.
Titanic survivor: Dress up in clothes from the Titanic era, wear a life preserver around your neck, pour water over yourself, add seaweed (keep your hair “wet”-looking with hair gel).
Trophy Wife: Wear a cute outfit, blonde wig (or hair), a huge fake diamond ring, and carry a trophy! This easy homemade Halloween costume for women would be especially funny if you’re married to a wealthy man.
Voodoo Doll: Wear off-white sweat pants and turtleneck shirt. Stitch a plaid heart with yarn on the shirt. Stick pins all over your clothes by using a glue gun on the inside and outside of fabric (so they do not stick you). For your head, sew a long rectangular piece of off-white fabric to an off-white beanie so it covers your entire head and goes just past your shoulders. Cut out holes for your eyes and sew black mesh on the inside, so you can see out. Tie a piece of twine around your neck to hold the excess fabric down. Use black yarn to make stitches for the mouth.
Washing Machine: Turn a box upside down and cut holes for your head and arms. Attach some knobs from old washing machines, or draw them on the box. Pin or glue clothes all over the box, add a laundry detergent box, fabric softener, etc. For added effect, add an old electrical cord to the back of the box.
What are Little Girls Made Of?: Take some rubber cookies, rubber or paper cakes, sweet spices, sweet candies and luscious fruits and have them sticking out of the child’s shirt (open the child’s shirt and have some of the items spilling out of the front of the shirt).
Wicked Witch of the East: Design a large box to look like a house. Place it over yourself, cut holes so you can see out, and so that your legs show. Wear striped stockings and red glittery shoes. An alternate version of this easy homemade Halloween costume for women: wear black sweats and hang striped stockings with red baby shoes attached to look like the legs dangling underneath the house.
Windblown Biker Babe: Wear leather jacket, boots, etc. Rat your hair and hairspray it so it looks blown back. Run tons of makeup off to the sides to simulate high speed biking. Add flies and bug splats for realism. Put coffee grounds in your teeth and smile a lot.
Wind-Up Doll: Dress like a doll, with a frilly dress, Mary Janes, gloves, pigtails, rosy cheeks and drawn-on lower eyelashes. Cut a piece of cardboard to look like the end of a key and cover it with duct tape or paint it silver. Attach it to your back sticking out of the back of your dress.
Witch Doctor: Combine witch costume accessories (hat, wig, green make-up, fake nose, black nails, etc.) with doctor gear like scrubs or lab coat, stethoscope, mask, rubber gloves, etc.
For more Halloween costume ideas, go to Creative Halloween Costumes for Women, Girls, and Couples. If you’re throwing a Halloween party, don’t miss Halloween Decorations for Parties on October 31st.
If you have any easy homemade Halloween costume ideas for women, please share below!
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Pingback by Maureen on 4 August 2009:
Last year, I wore a Devil women’s mask and wig — and got a little “sinny”! Not sure what to wear for Halloween this year, but this is a great list.