Women’s Halloween Costume Ideas – Easy Costumes to Make at Home
Before the tips, a quip from Bella Swan in New Moon (The Twilight Saga)
”More than anything, I wanted to be fierce and deadly, someone no one would dare mess with. Someone who would scare Sam Uley silly. I wanted to be a vampire.”
If you’re looking for scary vampire ideas, read Twilight Halloween Party – 7 Tips for Twilight Costumes and Parties. If you want to dig deep into store-bought Twilight costume ideas, check out the Womens Twilight Vampire Adult Halloween Costume
Women’s Halloween Costume Ideas – Easy Costumes to Make at Home
If you want to get really creative, host a Halloween Costume Exchange Party in preparation for creating the most unique costume without spending a lot of money. This is one of my all-time favorite Halloween articles.
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. (Okay, so this has to be tweaked to be a women’s Halloween costume — but it’s certainly a unique, easy costume to make at home!).
Floor of a Movie Theater: Dress up in all black and tease your hair. Apply candy wrappers, chewed gum, lots of popcorn. This women’s Halloween costume idea would be even better if you attach real movie theater cups or popcorn boxes for a realistic touch. Speaking of movies — the more you watch scary horror movies for Halloween, the more ideas you’ll get for easy costumes!
Flower Power: Wear a flower costume, attach an electrical cord and let drag it behind you. For more easy women’s Halloween costume ideas like this – the easiest costumes to make at home – read More Homemade Halloween Costumes for Women.
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! This Halloween costume idea couldn’t get any easier.
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. This is a fantastic women’s Halloween costume if you’re overweight or pregnant. If you want to disguise yourself a little, read Halloween Costume Tips for Overweight People and Pregnant Women.
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 costume 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. This women’s Halloween costume idea is great for men, too.
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. This is a ridiculously easy costume to make at home because it requires no extra thought or running around!
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 is an easy costume to make at home, and it’s 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. (This women’s Halloween costume idea might even help you 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 is an easy costume to make at home. It’s not necessarily the most creative women’s Halloween costume, 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.”
This is the third in a series of articles about homemade Halloween costume ideas. If you fancy nothing here, try Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes for Women.
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Thanks for your comments! I think making a costume at home is better than spending big bucks on a costume that anyone can buy.
Great information here! You have done an excellent job of providing loads of costume ideas for many people for halloween. You have really given me some great ideas on what to dress my son up at this Halloween. Thanks
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What a fun list of costume ideas!
And, why not pull that costume together now so you have it in October?!