I just got scammed on Craigslist for $1700 so I was thinking of an innexpensive costume idea. The Wednesday before Halloween it hit me, Octomom! I went to the $1 store and bought 8 babies. I also got a t-shirt from 5Below that says “In the business of hardley working”, a cheap wig and wax lips. TA DA! haha And in this picture I photoshopped it and put myself on a red carpet

Submitted by Beth Shuster,

Shown in Picture are two [characters] from Mel Brook’s moving, Spaceballs, combing the desert. These costumes were both hand made and crafted out of household, garbage, and scrap materials and totaled less than $40 for everything

Submitted by Mark Ruszkowski, Philadelphia, PA

This homemade crayon was not that hard to make. I used orange and black felt. I found a combination of fonts on Word to make the Crayola as close to the crayon as possible. I sewed all the black pieces on once I figured out how large to make the orange base. I found a wave design on the net and used that over and over to make the wavy black lines. Sewed them all together, added some copper pipe insulation at the top for sound roundness and used cardstock with orange felt for the tip. Cut some arm holes and used some elastic around the neck to pull in the felt around his neck area. There you have it, a cute orange crayon.

Submitted by Karin, Wildwood, MO

My son wanted to be a cuddly turtle for Halloween. The body was a white cotton sweatsuit that I dyed green. I made the back with a cardboard base, green fabric, and lots of stuffing. A yellow tail and yellow rim completed the shell. The shell is velcro’d on so he could remove it when he wanted. The chest is thick batting topped with yellow fabric and I used green thread to create segments, The eyes are styrofoam ball halves and green felt eyelids.

Submitted by JAMIE DONNELLY, SWEENY, TX

Everything was purchased from a resale store for under $15.00

Submitted by Marco De Leon, Houston Texas

this is my 8 year old son, Nathan. He decided this summer after playing with some boxes he was going to make his costume this year. He was the hit at his School Halloween Party. It even has lights and a battery pack on the back.

Submitted by Linda, St. Charles, MO

Love the show South Park and decided to reinvent the robot for this special Halloween!
Cartman pretends to be a robot (awesomo) in an episode of South Park

Submitted by Anai Saucedo, El Paso Texas

I have always loved playing the game of Tetris. I thought it would be fun to create the costumes for Halloween. The difficult part was figuring out what kind of boxes to use because they had to be the same size. I went with medium sized u-haul boxes. It took 4 boxes for each costume. Initially, I cut the flaps off the boxes. Then I used spray paint to coat the outside. Two coats were needed for the lighter colors. The technical part was using the black duck tape to assemble the Tetris pieces. This was the longest process because all the lines had to be perfect. Overall this process took about 4 hours to make. It was a fun experience. The final stage was cutting the face and armholes. The Tetris pieces were an exciting costume to build and the first homemade costume I have ever made. I would say it is an inexpensive and easy costume to construct.

Submitted by Maria, Colorado Springs, CO

My face is latex and bathroom tissue, we are wearing clothing from Goodwill and the prop in the background is homemade

Submitted by Joe gersch, MiNgoville, PA

I made this out of cardboard boxes.

Submitted by Angela Benefiel, Pendleton IN