Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes

Some of the best costumes you've seen in stores and on websites can be a bit more expensive than you plan to use, especially if you do not save them from future wear or if you do plan to go a Halloween event. If you prefer to save money for something else or just be more creative with your costume this year, there are many ways to try to make your own.

Start with the basics

Most costumes can be started with a simple leotard and a pair of socks or tights in the right color. Just a few accessories, bought or handmade, and some makeup and you have the perfect costume. For example, a combo gray tights / socks easily turn into a mouse, rat, squirrel or the elephant, depending on their tails, ears and makeup. Black could be the beginning of a cat or dog and vegetables could be easily transformed into fairy or Robin Hood.

Other color combinations can be used to create a clown, a pirate, or if you really want to go the easy route, the gymnast. Add a couple of medals is false and can be an Olympic gymnast.

Shop in your closet, attic or

We have all the clothes we are shocked that we ever wore, and can not imagine why we still have. For once, it's a good thing.

Look through the relics of your painful past and see what you find, can be transformed for Halloween can support.

Still unable to Shimmy in those pants down wrong? Add a cardigan and some pearls and come as a hippie.

Finding wearing the old uniform? Go military.

Go to the closet and dig deep, you know that all bridesmaid dresses are hiding and begin to take these treasures out. The uglier than I thought they were when they were swept down the corridor they will be better for Halloween. Been to magenta, bright sequins atrocities that put his cousin? This would be perfect to use as a cabaret singer. The dress is a second door and well, if during the night, something terrible happens, you will have the perfect excuse to get rid of it. Finally!