5 Dollar Costumes - Homemade Halloween Costumes on a Budget

What Is Halloween?

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween is often associated with the colors orange and black, and symbols such as the jack-o'-lantern and witches. Halloween activities include wearing costumes (people of all ages), trick-or-treating (activity for the kids), ghost tours and visiting haunted attractions, costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns (AKA carving pumpkins), entering decorative pumpkins in pumpkin contests, pranking (or tricking) people (no mean pranks!), watching scary horror movies, and reading scary stories.

Halloween Safety

Safety Tips:

1. Wear bright colors while trick-or-treating.

2. Use a flashlight at night.

3. Pin child's phone number and name in the costume.

4. Leave the carving to adults.

Use Pumpkins For Costumes!

Great for Twins!

Buy two $2. pumpkins and you have yourself two costumes for under 5 dollars!

Suggestions:

1. If you don't have kids, you could always use your small dogs.

2. If you don't have any kids or small dogs, you could always visit my Pimp My Pumpkin lens for more ways to use pumpk8ins...like making gifts out of them or using for wedding decorations.

3. Just do this for picture taking....and dress the kids in something warmer for Halloween.

Twister

Cut out colored felt and glue to white clothing. Use a thin piece of cardboard, or a thick piece of construction paper, and markers or crayons to make the spinner.

Mummy Costume

All you need is a little gauze and some fake blood!

Suggestions:

1. Wear a sheet and wrap just your head with gauze.

2. Don't wear a sheet and wrap your entire body in gauze.

3. Skip the gauze and buy a really cool mummy outfit from Amazon :)

Under 5 Dollar Costumes For Pets

All you need is an old sheet!

Suggestions:

1. Dye, or tie-dye, the sheets orange and black.

2. Paint or stencil something fun on the sheets.

3. Write something funny on the sheet like, "Dead Dog Walking" or "Boo". Use your imagination and be creative and I'm sure you can come up with something fun.

For A Woman Or A Man

All you need is paint! And of course, someone who can draw.

Suggestions:

1. Not pregnant? This would work on any belly, man or woman.

2. Paint a pumpkin face instead.

3. Paint a Baby on Board sign. Funny for a man to do too.

4. If you are really brave, paint this on your belly and wear a bathing suit and flip flops.

Use Your Sports Uniforms

Suggestions:

1. Wear one of your old sports uniform. Don't have one? Borrow one from someone who does.

2. Couples can have some fun by reversing the roles. Have him wear your cheerleading outfit and you wear his uniform!

For All You Beer Pong Fans

Use cardboard to make a table. Glue cups to table.

Pizza Man

Just grab the box from last nights dinner, cut a whole in it, and presto!...you have a Halloween costume.

Suggestions:

1. No pizza box? Well, I guess you could always use a Happy Meal box from McDonald's.

2. You can skip the pizza box and just borrow a uniform from someone who works at a pizza place or McDonalds.

Fruit Of The Loom

Suggestions:

1. Use a purple (or green) cap and balloons to make a grape costume.

2. Go as a group as the Furit-of-the-Looms.

Costume Shirts

You can purchase shirts like these or just use an old shirt and write Costume, Witch or Dead Man Walking on it.

Where's Waldo? Costume

Have a red and white shirt laying around? Add a cap and a pair of glasses and you have a Waldo costume!

Cheap Homemade Halloween Gift Baskets

Decorating ideas:

1. Use orange and black tissue paper.

2. Attach Halloween balloons.

3. Use a plastic pumpkin for a basket.

4. Use black or orange wicker baskets and fill or line with straw.

5. Fill the basket with popcorn and a scary Halloween movie instead of candy.

*Visit my Smores lens to learn how to make a homemade Smore gift basket. or my Pimp My Pumpkin lens to see all the things you can do with pumpkins, including making some really great gifts out of them.

A Box Of Tissues

Suggestions:

1. If blue is not your color, paint the box a different color.

2. Tape tissue or tissue paper on it. Tissue might be too thin, the thicker tissue paper might work better.

3. Use pre-made stickers or stencil letters and cut them out. Be sure to glue (or tape) to both the front and back of the box. The cheapes way would be to just use markers and draw it on.

Dress As A Member Of The Blue Man Group

Very cheap and easy costume.

Blue rubber cap.
Blue face paint.
Blue shirt.

Ghosts Were People Too

Ghosts Were People Too by CelebrationZazzle

Save Money By Wearing Buttons Instead Of Costumes

Buttons under $5

You can always wear a Halloween button instead of a costume. That way you'll still be in the Halloween spirit without having to spend more than a couple of bucks.

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