Do it yourself Costumes

Better Homes and Gardens has 32 do it yourself costumes. 

I also just saw the cutest cupcake costume on Bakerella, just scroll down through the pictures until you see the little girl with the costume on. 

 (Never heard of Bakerella?  You MUST check out her site, she makes the cutest treats)

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 I am making both of my kids costumes this year and on the cheap too! 

My daughter is a cat, so I picked up cat ears at the $ spot at Target, and picked up some "furry" fabric for $2.50 at Joanne's Fabric.  I just made cuffs for wrists and ankles, a collar and a tail on elastic to go around the waist.  I went to Walmart and picked up Garanimals black leggings and black turtleneck for $3.50 each that she can wear again later.

My son is going to be Ash, the pokemon trainer.  Such an easy costume!  I went to the 22nd Street Thrift store (see our post about this place, HERE).  We found a hooded sweatshirt with the pockets on the side for $2.  I cut it down the center and cut the sleeves and hood off.  I sewed them up and put a white short sleeve collar shirt that he had in his closet underneath, and picked up a green tee shirt.  We are still looking for the hat and gloves, but haven't tried really hard (yet).  I will be making some hair out of felt to stick under the hat too.  Then he will just wear jeans and sneakers and we're all set! 

Have fun with it!  Making costumes is a great way of recycling old pieces of clothing, use your imagination.  Or just use the internet, it's a great resource for this kind of thing!

Here's a little information sent in by one of my loyal readers:

"Hey you should also post about recycled halloween costumes.
3 years ago I bought a Fiona dress 75% off at Jo’s after Halloween, so $29 down to $8.24.

Last year she was just a green princess (hair died green)  This year she’s adding wings from her angel costume from 3 years ago and going as a fairy,  It’s big enough to go again next year as a witch, or princess or fairy or what every, heck maybe even Fiona! "

That's a great tip about recycling old costumes into new! Thanks AFScrapperMom!