Halloween season is coming up fast! You don’t want to miss dressing up for the Halloween parties or trick or treating! Well, making Halloween costumes at home is fun, inexpensive, and much more personalized. There are a lot of Halloween costumes that are simple and easy to make and it would be a lot of fun if you make them with your kids, and it would help them develop their creativity. Materials needed in making costumes can be very inexpensive; you can use old clothes, recycled papers, paints and cardboard boxes. You just need to be creative, use your imagination and you’ll end up with a nice and appealing costume.

Examples of usual Halloween costumes are Dracula, witch, and jack-o-lantern. But if you want to be a little different, why not try to think of costumes that suits your style like instead of being the scary witch why not be the charming fairy, a favorite movie character or be a cute little M&M made out of a cardboard box! Try to think out of the box.

If you are saving money and you want to make a simple Halloween costume like Dracula you just need a cape, a simple red cloth will do, or if you have silk to be more appealing just tie it on your neck, a black shirt and leggings then use a face paint or just simple lipstick and powder or whatever you may have laying around the house.

In making a cute little M&M costume, a cardboard box and some paint is all you need. Just cut the cardboard box into 2 big circles measured in a way that it can cover your whole body, a strip of card board to cover the side of your body then paint the carton as your favorite color  M&M and that’s it!

If you are really on a tight budget you may even use a roll of toilet paper just roll it around your body and tape the ends so it won’t loosen up and voila! An instant mummy! An old white sheet can be used to make a fast Ghost, just throw it over the head and cut some eye holes and a mouth hole out. Think retro, and this oldie idea becomes new again, use it to become the Halloween ghost that ET was in the movie ET.

A charming fairy costume can be made out of a dress and some dress shoes. Add some jewels and use some shiny and shimmering make up just like a fairy. For the improvised wand you’ll need a stick, a cut out piece of cardboard, it could be any shape like star or whatever shape that you want then cover it with glue then glitter it. As for the wings, a wire will be needed and some panty hose or netting. Reshape the wire that it would look like wings then cover it with the panty hose, add some glitters or just paint it with light colors such as pink, light blue, green or you can even combine the colors just be creative and use your imagination.

Halloween parties could be really fun just don’t forget to take some pictures to remember the cute little costumes that you made. I’m sure your friends won’t even notice that it’s a homemade costume! You’ll never know they may even ask you to make one for them, talking about business? Well, it could be a start…