You can find a large variety of Halloween costumes available at stores in your neighborhood. But when you look at the cost and the absence of creativity homemade costumes are more cost-effective. Plus, if you involve your children in creating the homemade costumes, the results will be worth more than any store-bought costume in any store.

Good Halloween Costume Ideas

Here’s some cheap homemade Halloween costume ideas that are easy on the wallet and have lots of imagination.

Scarecrow: An over-sized flannel shirt, some straw, and faded jeans with patches will make a great scarecrow. Stuff the jeans and shirt with plastic grocery bags and leave a little straw hanging out of the shirt and jeans. A little makeup will complete your scarecrow costume.

Ghost are easy and a  costume that never dies. Use an old white sheet with holes cut for the eyes and sew a simple treat bag out of a scrap of material or a worn out pillow case. You can dress up your ghost to if you wanted with make up on the sheet instead on your kid. And if you have a boy beards and mustaches would be the better way to go. There’s no wrong way to make your ghost so polka dots and brightly colored sheets aren’t out of the question.

Creating a clown Halloween costume is easy and fun all you need is sweat clothes and fabric pain or markers if you don’t want the clothes .  You can so a few patches get a stick and a handkerchief for your candy bag and be a bum clown get creative .

Good Halloween Costume Ideas

Hippy: You can become a hippy from the 1960s with a tie-dye shirt and faded jeans with holes in the knees. Combine this with a headband, a ponytail wig, and a jacket or vest covered in fringe and you will have the most authentic looking hippy costume of all time.

Being a nerd for Halloween would be fun Halloween is a time to have lots of clean fun a do stuff that’s out of the normal. You can dress your child as a typical nerd, complete with white shirt, pocket protectors, pants that are too short, horn-rimmed glasses, white socks and black dress shoes. Don’t forget to tape one corner of the glasses for a true nerd appearance. Oh don’t forget to use lots of hair gel to slick your hair back and some goofy buck teeth would put the icing on the cake.

Finding a plastic barrel will be tricky but if you go to any car wash that has and automatic I’m sure you could ask them for one of there empty soap barrels and if you can get a hold of one cut the top and bottom out. Paint the entire barrel the colors and design of your favorite brand of soda in a can. {With holes for arms and your head, a simple barrel can transform your child into a soda can.}

Your kids or kid will be a the hit of the party no matter where you go and the homemade Halloween costumes will be a hit with your friends.

That’s something your kids will remember forever I know I did when my mom made my lady bug costume and I was only five it’s a good memory to have.

Good Halloween Costume Ideas