These easy homemade Halloween costumes for women are easy to make at home – and they’re good for costume parties, October 31st events, and trick or treating with your kids! These homemade Halloween costumes are from Xerlan, a woman who collected homemade Halloween costume ideas for women over several years…

“Clothes make a statement.  Costumes tell a story.”  ~Mason Cooley 

What story will you tell this Halloween? If you want a blast from the past, click on the Flapper from the 1920s on the right. And, read on for dozens of easy homemade Halloween Costumes for Women…

Unique Halloween Costumes for Men & Women – That You Can Make at Home

This is the first half of this article; for the second half, go to More Homemade Halloween Costumes for Women.

24 Karat Gold: Wear a gold-colored suit or dress and pin fake or real carrots all over yourself. 

Alice in Wonderland: Wear a light-blue dress with puffy sleeves. Find a cardboard box big enough to fit over the middle of your body. Cut holes for head and arms and paint it to look like a house, with your head sticking out of the chimney and your arms sticking out of windows.

All Dolled Up: Wear a white paper coverall and attach dolls all over yourself.

Baby Doll: Wear a nightgown and slippers, paint your cheeks, tie your hair with a red ribbon, and put a pacifier in your mouth.

Baby Wearing Bowl of Spaghetti: Use white cotton cloth to make a diaper big enough to fit you. Take a towel and cut a hole for your head where one side hangs longer than the other so it looks like a bib. Get a bald cap and use spray adhesive to attach cooked spaghetti (colored with food coloring to look like sauce). Then glue a bowl on top of that. You can also glue spaghetti to your bib & shirt. You might decorate your bib (I used “SPIT HAPPENS”).

Backstabbed Beauty Queen: Wear a pretty pageant dress and a crown/tiara. Make a sash from wide ribbon that says Miss America or whatever you want. Use make-up to give yourself a black eye and bloody nose. Take a hollow plastic knife and cut it to spread the knifepoint out, and tape it to a piece of stiff cardboard. Tape the cardboard to your body so that the knife handle is sticking out of the dress (safety pin around the zipper or cut a hole in the dress).

Bag Lady: Make an entire set of clothes from plastic or paper bags. Use tape to hold everything together. (This easy homemade Halloween costume for women can make an environmental statement, too)

Bag of Jellybeans: Take two or three clear dry-cleaning bags and put one inside the other. Punch a large hole on each side next to the opening for the hanger (your legs will go into these holes). Blow up about 15-20 balloons of various colors. Turn the bag upside down and step into the leg openings. With your body in the bag stuff it with the balloons. Tie the bag off at your neck with a colorful ribbon.

Basket Case: Uniform colored clothing (dark works best) with lots of baskets pinned all over. Top it off with a basket with a handle on your head.

Bird Watcher: Wear safari-type clothes, with a safari hat and binoculars around your neck. Make a mixture (white-out and latex works, or make up your own) and splatter it all over your hat and clothes (so it looks like a few too many birds flew over your head!).

Birthday Suit: Get a pre-packaged birthday kit (tablecloth, hats, plates). Cut a hole in the center of the tablecloth for your head. Staple plates, cups, napkins, etc., on the tablecloth. Put a birthday hat on your head. When someone asks what you are, tell them you are wearing your birthday suit.

Blow-Up Doll: Wear longjohns dyed pink or peach, with doll hair from the craft store hot-glued to the strategic areas (match your own hair color). Get fake boobs from a gag gift store. On the back attach a valve from an old beach ball and a sign saying something like “Acme Inflate-a-Date.” Spray paint old running shoes pink to match, or go barefoot. Use gel to make hair look plastic and wear bright red lipstick and gaudy make-up.

Body for Life Contestant: Wear a pair of very, very large pants and hold them up with suspenders. Wear a regular-sized t-shirt labeled “Body for Life Contestant.” This easy homemade Halloween costume for women could trigger more reality TV show ideas!

Bonfire: Wrap a brown towel around your waist and wear a brown or gray sweatshirt. Attach branches or twigs to the towel and put a few marshmallows on the branches. Create “flames” by using orange,red and yellow tissue paper surrounding your head. Color your cheeks red.

Born to Be Wild: Dress like a baby (diaper, bonnet, bib, rattle), then add a leather jacket, bandana and boots.

Bottle of Champagne: Wear a long, light-gold-toned dress or something similar. Style your hair piled up, wear lots of body glitter and carry a bottle of bubbles to blow from.

Bubble Bath: Wear pink, blue or white clothes, with small pink, blue or white balloons attached. Wear a matching bath cap, also with balloons. Carry a back scrubber, a rubber ducky, and for an added touch hang some soap on a rope as your belt. Optional: take a toy tub, cut out the bottom and form straps to hang from your shoulders.

Burned Out: Carefully burn some holes in a white work shirt. Use make-up to put dark circles under your eyes. Wear frazzled, bed-head hair. 

Caesar Salad: Wear a toga with a laurel wreath on your head, and attach lettuce leaves all over yourself. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women is especially effective if you’re going to a potluck on October 31st — you can take salad!

California Raisin: Use a black drawstring trash bag, cut a hole in the bottom for your head and one on each side for your arms. Pull drawstring out far enough for each leg to go through. Wear tight black pants or leggings and black turtleneck sweater underneath. Blow up balloons and stuff into trash bag. Pull drawstring(tape up if you need to). Put on sunglasses and white tennis shoes to complete the look!

Can-Can Dancer: Wear an old, long, frilly skirt. Attach empty cans underneath so that when you lift it up to dance everyone will see your can-cans!

Castaway: Take an old pair of khaki pants and tear off the legs to create shorts. Wear a dirty white T-shirt, beard and long hair. Carry a volleyball with red handprint and face.

Cat Burglar: Dress all in black, with a tool belt, bag, etc., make yourself a pair of kitty ears and a tail from scraps of black fabric, paint on whiskers, have a kittycat stuffed animal peeking out of your bag of loot. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women could be Catwoman, too.

Catholic Schoolgirl:  Red headband, short full plaid skirt, white knee socks, horned-rim glasses, Peter Pan collar, white shirt, vest, etc.

Cat with Litter Box: Dress like a cat (black clothes, cat ears and tail). Carry a new cat litter box, filled with the following mixture: rolled oats and granola cereal mixed together, Tootsie Rolls (softened with water), and dabs of chocolate icing. Offer to your friends. Gross… but delicious!

Cat’s Pajamas: Wear an “instant” cat set (ears and a pin-on tail), with drawn-on nose and whiskers. Then add your favorite colorful pajamas! (this is a Halloween costume that’s also very easy to make). 

Cereal Killer: Take a package of small cereal boxes, 6-8 Kellogg’s, and attach different things to “kill” them with. Examples: a small knife with blood, a mini pack of cigarettes glued on, different kinds of pills (overdose), mini noose, etc. You could also just use one big box with a “killer” idea on it.

Cheap Watch Dealer: Wear a large black trench coat with black sunglasses and a black hat. Wear many watches on both wrists, hang more watches/jewelry from the inside of your coat. Look smug and try to talk everyone into buying a “genuine” Rolodex.

Cheery-O: Dress like a cheerleader, and attach the letter O all over yourself. For an even easier homemade Halloween costume for women, just be a cheerleader!

Chick Magnet: Dress all in black, and glue yellow Easter peeps all over your body (this is one of the easiest costumes for women).

Chicken of the Sea: Wear a mermaid or fish costume and add a chicken mask or a chicken beak.

Chocolate Mousse: Fashion yourself some moose antlers and stencil a Hershey’s Bar onto your clothes.

Christmas Tree: Wear a green sweatshirt and dark-colored pants. Tie green garland around your upper body to give that “piney” look. Then decorate yourself with ornaments.

Chucky’s Bride, Tiffany: Wear a long flowing black dress. Poof up your hair and make it really frizzy. Use a lot of black eye-liner and black lipstick and put on heavy/dark makeup.

Cleaning Agent: Wear a trench coat, sunglasses and ear piece. Use Velcro to attach cleaning supplies to the inside of the coat, and wear a holster/belt with bottles of 409 and Windex as your “guns.”

Cleaning Lady: Wear ragged clothes and a bandana on your head. Wear a belt with cleaning supplies and dirty rags attached. Carry a bucket. Make your face and hands look dirty with make-up or real dirt

Cookie Monster: Dress like any kind of monster and attach cookies to yourself.

Cotton Candy: Buy some pillow stuffing from a craft/fabric store and dye it pink. Use spray adhesive to attach it over a long sleeved shirt, going around and around until it gets big and fluffy (don’t forget to cover the arms). Wear a hat or headband covered with stuffing made into a point, and white pants or skirt, with white shoes.

Devil Disguised as an Angel: Dress up like an angel with a white dress and wings. Wear a devil’s tail so that it comes out from under the back of the dress. Wear some small horns on your head.

Devil in Disguise: Put a long coat or trenchcoat over a devil costume and finish it off with a pair of Groucho Marx glasses.

Devil With A Blue Dress On: Blue dress, devil horns, devil tail, pitch fork. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women may encourage your authentic self to shine!

Deviled Egg: Wear all white. Paint or attach a yellow circle to your stomach. Wear devil horns and carry a pitchfork.

Diaper Genie: Make a genie costume out of colorful clothes or fabric (a vest and sweat pants work well), with a turban, belt, slippers/sandals, and some jingle bells. Then safety pin a bunch of baby diapers all over your outfit. 

Dizzy: Buy some metallic wire garland with little gold and silver stars all over it, and circle a few loops of it around your head. Add a few small white dove birds.

Drama Queen: Wear a drama mask (comedy and tragedy) along with a queen’s crown.

Dust Bunny: Wear a dirty old white bunny costume and carry a feather duster, or “dust buster” vacuum.

E-mail: Dress as a man and tape an “E” on chest. “E”-male. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women is comfortable — and a great conversation starter!

Fairy Goth Mother: Dress as a goth (white face, black clothing, black lipstick, studded collar, wrist band, and belt). Then add a wand, fairy wings, and blue or pink hair. For extra flair carry some glitter confetti to throw at people when granting their wishes–but only before midnight!

Family Tree: Wear brown tights with brown sweatshirt. Cover with large brown garbage bag with holes for head & arms. Use drawstring at bottom, & tuck inside. Write the family names of all your ancestors with a gold paint pen in large letters. On your head, make a wreath of Spanish moss with twigs and a bird’s nest.

Fireworks: Dress in all-black clothes. Use puffy paint to splatter colorful designs on front and back. Pull your hair up in a bun and put sparkly objects sticking out. Then use highlighter to make flames on your white socks.

Flasher: Wear a trench coat with flesh-colored clothes underneath, or just shorts and a t-shirt. Take a couple of camera flashes (the old-style ones from the 35mm cameras) and attach them to a belt in front of your groin area. When you open the trench coat, activate the flashes.

Floor of a Movie Theater: Dress up in all black and tease your hair. Apply candy wrappers, chewed gum, lots of popcorn. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women would be even better if you  attach real movie theater cups or popcorn boxes for a realistic touch.

Flower Power: Wear a flower costume, attach an electrical cord and let drag it behind you.

Fortune Teller: Dress like a bank teller (suit, name tag with bank logo), and attach fortune cookies all over your clothes.

Frazzled Housewife: Wear your hair in rollers, put on a green facial mask or green face paint, wear pajamas, black socks, ratty slippers and a dirty bathrobe tied cock-eyed. Put a TV Guide and a remote in your pocket, carry a crusty spatula, optional cigarette hanging out of mouth and use brown eyeshadow under your eyes to make bags. 

Freak of Nature: Put hair up and entangle leaves, vines, etc. Wear a green shirt with the words “Freak” on it, then glue more leaves and stuff all over yourself.

French Kiss: Use aluminum foil and padding to make yourself into a giant Hershey’s Kiss. Add a French beret and . . . voila!

Garden: Wear solid-brown clothes. Use hot glue to attach fake plants in rows. Add a few fake insects too. This easy homemade Halloween costume for is great for women who love gardening.

Ghost of Christmas Presents: Dress like a ghost. Attach wrapped Christmas presents all over yourself.

Gift: First you take a cardboard box (one that will fit the child or adult nicely – make sure it is above the knees so they can walk). Cut out holes for arms and a hole for the head. Cover the box with wrapping paper. Add bows or whatever you want to dress up the package. Add a bow to the top of your head.

Girl Gone Wild: Wear a flesh-colored body suit with a shirt pinned up as if you were flashing. Attach a black cardboard rectangle to the front of your chest, with the word “CENSORED” painted in white letters.

Gold Digger: Wear a gold dress, put gold glitter in your hair, gold glitter make-up on your eyes, gold glitter in your lip gloss, paint your nails gold or put gold glitter in clear polish. Paint some rocks and a toy shovel with gold paint. Carry the rocks in a bag as your find and the shovel for digging.

Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer: Dress up like an old lady, with dress, slippers and a grey wig. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women is especially effective if you put hoofprints on your back.

Granny Gone Wild: Make yourself look like an old woman. Then wear saggy stockings, a mini skirt and a tank top. Stuff your butt and chest to make them saggy. Spike bracelets and jewlry leave a great touch. Wear a gray wig, or a cheap blonde wig. Wear a lot of flashy make-up and jewelry. Carry an old lady purse and wear old lady shoes.

Hershey’s Kiss of Death: Purchase or create a Hershey’s Kiss costume. Underneath it wear a black robe with hood. Use makeup to make yourself look dead. Carry a sickle.

Holy Cow: Find or make a cow costume (black or brown clothing, a cowbell around the neck, fashion an udder, maybe carry a bucket of milk…say “moo” a lot). Then put wings on your back and a halo on your head

Identity Crisis: Wear a sweatsuit or other uniformly-colored clothing, and put “Hello my name is…” tags with random names all over your body.

Internet Surfer: Wear a wetsuit and flippers. Make a cape out of brightly colored fishing net, and attach signs like IBM, Macintosh, Apple, and so on. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women is especially funny if you have a snorkel and boogie board!

Keebler Cookie Elf: Get a pair of yellow sweatpants, red socks, elf shoes, green suit-like jacket, white polo shirt, a yellow tie (you can make one out of some fabric and pin it to the shirt), and one of those tall hats. For the hat, cover it with red fabric and a yellow strip near the base. Color your hair white too. 

Kissing Booth: Use two boxes, with the opening of the top one facing forward. Spray paint them white and then use red paint to write stuff like”Kisses $1″ and “Kissing Booth” all over the boxes. (You might even make some money!)

Kitty Litter: Dress in black from head to toe. Use black eyeliner/makeup to draw a kitty nose, whiskers, etc. on your face. Add a cat-ear headband, and stuff a long black sock or one leg of a pair of (small) black tights to hang from the back of your pants as a tail. Pin various trash items (soda bottles, crumpled paper, gum wrappers, cigarette butts, etc.) all over your clothes.

Lawn: Wear green clothes. Make a vest out of synthetic grass (available from a home improvement store). Attach a Frisbee, tennis ball, dog bone, fake doggie-do, etc. Carry around a pink flamingo lawn ornament.

Letter to Santa: Take an old white pillowcase and cut out three holes for your head and arms, so it will fit over your chest. Use a black marker to address it to Santa Claus at 1 Merry Lane, Cold, North Pole, 12250. Make up a fake return address and draw on a stamp. Stuff it as needed to make it look like an envelope.

Little Girl in PJs: Wear some cute pajamas. Put your hair in pigtails or braids. Use make-up to add freckles to your face. Carry a teddy bear. This easy homemade Halloween costume for women isn’t unique, but it is cute.

Little White Lie: Wear all white and pin little notes all over yourself that say things like “the check’s in the mail,” “your baby is so cute,” “you look great in that dress,” and “you don’t look fat.”

For more Halloween costume ideas, go to Creative Halloween Costumes for Women, Girls, and Couples. And 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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