Creative costumes
for a unique look

Make your own Creative Costumes from materials found around the house.

Costumes can be as simple like the skeleton above.

It depends on how much time you have to create them.

Face Paint

You can create your own make up using the following recipe. No need to look for tubes of the coloring you need, create your own.

Face Make-Up
1 tsp corn starch
1/2 tsp water
1/2 tsp Cold Cream
Food Coloring

Mix together the Cream and the Corn Starch until well blended. Stir in the water and the food coloring. See how easy that is. Use brushes to apply or just smear on with fingers. Remove it easily with soap and water. Store in an air tight container. Discard if you are done with it.
Use this make up for Creative costumes like witches, ghosts, vampires etc...

The Costumes

8 Ball Creative costumes

  2 Black Shirts One needs to be a sweatshirt other can be a t-shirt.
  White Contact Paper
  Black Tights or Black Pants
  Dark Shoes
  Stuffing material: balloons, newspaper, pillows etc...

Using the White Contact Paper Cut out a Circle about 10" in diameter for adults costumes, 6" for child costume. In the center of the white circle paint the number 8. (use either markers or paints).  Place finished circle onto the Black Sweatshirt. This might be easier to do with the shirt on.
Put on the t-shirt, then slip the Sweatshirt on over it. Fill the area between the t-shirt and the sweatshirt with stuffing material. Once you have a nice round shape you can safety pin the bottom of the shirts together or staple theme. Finish this creative costume with black pants, shoes and if cold out a black hat.

Acorn Creative costumes

   Brown Clothes
   Cap:  Can be knit or baseball cap worn backwards
    Brown Felt or Fabric
    Safety Pins or Glue

 Cut pieces of the Felt into oblong shapes about 4" long. Some of the pieces can come to a slight point at one end, they should all be slightly different. Start at the bottom of the hat. Glue or safety pin the oblong pieces to the hat, overlapping them and trimming the pieces as needed. Once your have the look of the top of the acorn, you are ready to go. You can paint your face a brown color or leave natural. You can staple or glue some leaves to your shirt and pants.

Apple

     2 pieces or poster board, use red if you can find it
     String:  shoelaces, ribbon, kite string etc...
      Paper Punch
      Paint if you couldn't find the red board

    Draw the shape of the apple on one of the pieces of cardboard. Cut it out and  lay onto the other board. Trace and cut out the second
    apple.  Paint if you need to. Lay the boards one on top of the other and using the whole punch punch two holes at the top (one on the left side, one on the right side. (these are what hold the boards onto your body)  Punch two holes into the sides (these keep the costumes from sliding around)
Place String into the holes (shoelaces work great) One string per hole. Tie a knot on the side that is going to face your body, make sure its big enough that the string doesn't fall through the hole.  To wear the costume, place one in front of body and one at back, tie the strings together adjusting as necessary to get the apple to hang nicely.  You can dress up in red clothes to finish the costume. Also if you have a green knit cap it would look great. You could even add a couple of leaves or a worm for some fun on this Creative costumes.

Bingo Cards Creative costumes

  2 pieces of  poster board
   Paper Punch
   Markers
   String
  Draw a bingo card on each of the pieces of poster board. Punch  a set of holes at the top of the card and also on the side. These are for placing string into and holding the cards onto your body.  You could take some ping pong balls and write numbers on them and glue them onto the cards or onto a hat to wear.

Bird House Creative costumes

 Rectangular shape box
 Extra pieces of cardboard
 small dowel rod about 2"long
 
The Box needs to be able to fit over your head yet not be too big.  Open the top of the box. on one of the shorter flaps find the center of it at the very top. Draw a line from the center down to one of the corners where the fold was. Draw another line from the top center to the other corner, forming a triangle shape. Cut those two sections off leaving the triangle. Do the same for the fold that is behind that first flap. Then take the other two flaps and glue them or tape them together to form the top of the house. Use the extra pieces and cut into strips to form the shingles. Put the box onto your head and find the area where your eyes and nose are going to be.Take House off your head and Cut this area out in a circle shape. Make Sure You Can See Clearly from your Creative costumes. Enlarge the circle if you need to. Punch a small hole underneath the large circle with a pen. Put the dowel into that hole. You can paint the birdhouse or leave in a natural coloring. Wear Brown clothes and staple or glue leaves onto your clothes. You could also put a small bird onto the top of the house.

Clowns-Are Classic Creative costumes

  Baggy Clothes of Mixed Colors
  White Face Make-Up
   Red Face Make-Up
   Color Hair Spray or a Colorful Wig

If its going to be cold where you are celebrating Halloween, this is a great costume because you can layer on the clothes. Use wild unlatching colors. You can glue or pin patches all over the shirts. Find a silly hat or layer a couple hats together and pin so they don't fall. Paint your face white using the face make-up. Paint a red mouth larger than your actual mouth. Put on a colorful wig or use spray on hair color  to create bright hair.

Deck of Cards

  Two Pieces of Poster board
   Markers
   String
   Hole Punch

Draw the front of a card on one piece of poster board. Draw the back onto the other poster board. Punch a hole at the top right  and top left of the boards, these are to hold the costume onto you. Punch holes in the left and right center of the cards to allow tying them on the sides.  You could also tape or glue an actual deck of cards onto the poster board using the number sides facing up on the front and the back sides facing up for the back of the costume. For a couples costume. One costume can be the Queen of Hearts and just glue red cards onto that costume and the other would be the King of Clubs and paste the black cards onto that costume.

Dragon

    Green Sweat Pants
    Green Hooded Shirt
     Dark Green Christmas Garland
     Green Felt
     Stapler

Cut the pieces of green felt into triangles. Have the victim I mean child put on the pants and shirt, pulling the hood over their head. Take the garland and measure it from the front of the hood (near the face) and down their back leaving a tail of about 12" to drag onto the ground. Then take the triangles and wrap them around the garland stapling them into place. This forms the spikes on the dragons back. Use safety pins or stapler to attach the garland to the sweatshirt and sweat pants.  You could paint the childs face green if you choose.

Deviled Egg Creative costumes

 White Fabric
 Yellow Fabric
  Safety Pins
  Devil Horns

Cut two circles from the white fabric, the circles don't have to be perfectly round but they should be both the same. Lay them on the ground, lay on the circles and have someone mark the spot where your head is, your arms and the leg area.
Sew the two pieces together leaving the arm holes open, the neck open and the leg area open. Turn the Creative costumes pieces right side out and cut a circle from the yellow fabric. Pin this to an area on the front of the costume. Put on the costume and your devil horns and you have "Deviled Eggs". If you don't have yellow fabric you can use crayons to color the spot.

Fisherman Creative costumes

    Floppy Hat
     Flannel Shirt
     Vest
     Rubber Boots
     Fishing lures

   Safety Pin some fishing lures onto the floppy hat. If you don't have any lures, you can glue some Goldfish candy or cookies to the hat.
Glue or safety pin some of the lures or goldfish to the vest. You could draw some pictures of fish and pin those to the costume also.

Ghost

   This is one of the classic Creative costumes made with a white sheet or white fabric. Just cut out holes for your eyes.
   Make Sure You can See Clearly in all directions. Make the holes bigger if you need to. You might also  cut out a spot for you mouth.