I know we’ve blown past Halloween, but I couldn’t move on without sharing some of the DIY costumes readers sent in this week. You’ll have to PIN them for next year, because they are some great ideas!
The adorable Raggedy Ann costume pictured above was sent in by Melissa. She writes, ” I love to craft, so I had the ribbon in her hair and on the straps of the apron sitting around the house already! I purchased some clearance white fabric from JoAnn’s for about $3 total.. And the dress was handmade by a friend who can sew and had fabric on hand. The hat/wig was crocheted, partially by a friend, and the yarn cost me about $10. Some lipstick and eyeliner that I already had completes the Raggedy Ann look! Not too shabby for $13!”
Pin it.This Popcorn costume idea was sent in by Kylene, she wrote, “Since I knew I would be carrying my son while my older son goes trick-or-treating, I decided to do something that I could incorporate his carrier with. I decided to have him go as a bag of popcorn! The costume couldn’t have been easier, or cheaper. I took a white piece of felt I bought by the yard (on sale even!) and cut it to fit the carrier. I hot glued red stripes, also cut from felt, to make the bag. For the letters I printed out the text that I wanted from the computer and traced out on the felt. For the popcorn hat, I took a larger, stretchy hat and hot glued popped popcorn. All told, the costume took about half an hour to make, and cost less then $5. I received a ton of compliments during our town’s Halloween celebration, and we took 1st place in the costume contest!”
Pin it.This adorable Pacman team was sent in by Clara, she wrote, “I bought the felt at JoAnn’s on 40% off deal so I made costumes for my family of 8 for a little over $10! And we won the costume contest last weekend at Fred Meyer and got a $20 gift card. And we did a simple tacking stitch so we didn’t ruin any of the shirts.”
Pin it. And finally, this adorable LEGO man, send in by Brenda. She wrote, “Here’s a picture of my son’s Lego costume from two years ago. We used an old fan box that I taped up with red duct tape. I used red solo cups also. You can get almost any color of duct tape these days so the colors are pretty much endless 🙂 He was the hit of the Halloween party that we attended and on the streets while trick or treating!”
And earlier this week I featured this DIY Starbucks latte costume!
Aren’t these costumes great? Each of these readers gets a $10 Amazon gift card for sending in such creative DIY costumes! If you have a photo of a DIY costume you can send it in to thehive@queenbeetoday.com. I’ll post another round-up later this week and we’ll save them as reminders for next year! If I feature your costume you’ll get a $10 Amazon gift card. I may not feature all submissions.
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