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How to Make Your Own Cheap Halloween Costumes
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Overview
These days, you don't have to be a trick-or-treater to get excited about Halloween. Halloween is a much loved holiday for people young and old. However, between purchasing candy and decking out your yard and home with ghoulish decorations, Halloween can be quite an expensive holiday. If you're hosting a Halloween party, holding a haunted house or preparing your child for trick-or-treating, scary costumes are a must, but they don't have to be expensive. You can make your own creepy and affordable Halloween costumes right in the comfort of your own home.
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Mental Patient
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Attach heavy-duty straps to the sleeves of a large, long-sleeve white T-shirt. Sewing these straps on will be the sturdiest method, but you can hot-glue them onto the sleeves or pin them on with safety pins.
How to Make Your Own Cheap Halloween Costumes
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Apply dark makeup around the eyes. Black eyeshadow is a good choice.
How to Make Your Own Cheap Halloween Costumes
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Tear jeans or white pants with scissors for a distressed look.
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Tangle hair with a brush.
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Cross your arms and have someone tie the straps at your back to achieve a straitjacket look.
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Step 6
Add a mouth guard for an even creepier look. These mouth guards are very affordable, and around Halloween can be purchased for less than $5.
Human Plant
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Purchase fake leaves from a dollar store; you can get a large pack for only $1. You will need at least five packs of leaves for this outfit.
How to Make Your Own Cheap Halloween Costumes
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Hot-glue the leaves onto a black zip-up hoodie. You want the hoodie to zip so it is easier to put on and take off.
Glue the leaves close together so that no fabric from the hoodie shows through. Make sure to add leaves to the hood.
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Hot-glue leaves to a pair of black gloves. You should be able to cover your face completely by holding the gloves up to your face.
How to Make Your Own Cheap Halloween Costumes
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Crouch in a plastic pot to complete the look. Add fake flowers to the plant if you like.
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If you sit very still at a party or outside a haunted house, you can jump up and frighten people's pants off with this costume.
Zombie
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Shred a pair of jeans and a button-down shirt with scissors.
Even zombies get their makeup done.
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Stain the torn clothing with fake blood. Allow the fake blood to dry and put on the clothing.
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Rim the eyes with black eyeshadow.
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Cover the face, neck and arms with fake blood and accent with black eyeshadow. This will create what looks like wounds on the skin.
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Tangle hair with a brush and apply hair gel to make the hair look greasy and matted.
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- Straps, about 8 inches long
Long-sleeve white T-shirt
Needle
Thread
Glue gun
Glue stick
Black eyeshadow
Pants
Scissors
Brush
Fake leaves
Black zip-up hoodie
Black gloves
Large flower pot
Button-down shirt
Fake blood
Hair gel
- Straps, about 8 inches long
- Long-sleeve white T-shirt
- Needle
- Thread
- Glue gun
- Glue stick
- Black eyeshadow
- Pants
- Scissors
- Brush
- Fake leaves
- Black zip-up hoodie
- Black gloves
- Large flower pot
- Button-down shirt
- Fake blood
- Hair gel
- You can add more makeup to all of these costumes if you want to spend more money or produce more detailed, realistic looks. Using white makeup to pale the face produces a ghoulish, undead look.
- You can add more makeup to all of these costumes if you want to spend more money or produce more detailed, realistic looks. Using white makeup to pale the face produces a ghoulish, undead look.
- Fake blood stains, so allow all clothing to dry before wearing. Make sure to wash hands thoroughly when applying fake blood.
When using hot glue, do not allow the glue to come into contact with the skin. The glue can burn the skin.
- Fake blood stains, so allow all clothing to dry before wearing. Make sure to wash hands thoroughly when applying fake blood.
- When using hot glue, do not allow the glue to come into contact with the skin. The glue can burn the skin.
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