DIY Halloween Costumes

I know it's not even close to Halloween, but I've wanted to create this post for awhile and missed my opportunity last October (whoops). I LOVE Halloween because dressing up is a lot of fun and I always make my own costumes - not only because they're unnecessarily expensive, but because how much fun is it to make a whole outfit based on your favorite character?! Here are some of my costumes from my last few years in college:

Pikachu

This costume was surprisingly simple!
Dress: I found a yellow beach coverup on eBay and attached brown felt to the sides like Pikachu's stripes. I used sticker felt which is such a simple marriage of tape and felt, but also such a genius stroke of crafting ingenuity.
Tail: I cut out two lightning bolts out of foam paper to make the tail. I stuck two chopsticks between the two pieces to keep it stiff. I stapled the two pieces of foam together and surprisingly it didn't look bad! I kept it on my body with safety pins!
Ears: The ears were the most intimidating part, but then I saw someone else's post on just using bunny ears and re-creating Pikachu ears! I found a super cheap one at Five Below and just wrapped yellow felt around the ears and headband to get a satisfying Pikachu topper. I also stapled everything together. I got questions about where I had gotten the costume! Imagine they're reaction when I told them I made it myself.

And of course, don't forget the rosy cheeks!

Cookie Monster

An easy costume! Only materials really needed are blue feathers, duct tape, and ping pong balls.

Headband: The cookie monster face is just a bunch of blue feathers taped to a normal headband. The eyes are ping pong balls with little circles of felt taped on as the pupils. Remember to make them crazyyyy looking.
Bracelet and Anklet: I had a lot of leftover feathers so I made bracelets and anklets out of blue feathers stuck to duct tape to add extra fuzzy blue to my body.

Crayons

What a great group costume! We took a different approach to kind of a generic costume. All this costume takes is a roll of duct tape, a heavy duty sharpie, saran wrap and party hats.
We had a Crayola factory working hard to produce these costumes in under an hour. It's very important that you saran wrap your body first! And then duct tape over the saran wrap. This way, you can also cut yourself out (preferably just a straight line up the back) in order to decorate it. Once you're ready to go out in your new costume, just tape yourself back up with the same color duct tape!

Olive Penderghast from Easy A 

Who doesn't love this movie??? All you need is a black corset (or corset like top), red cloth, pearls and sunglasses.

Halloween is fun! Add your own personal touches to your favorite costumes and you'll be the talk of the party :)