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32+ EASY DIY Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas for Kids

Are you struggling to come up with a Halloween costume for your child this year? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. While it’s true that kids are often more focused on the candy than their costumes, it’s still fun to dress up and get into the spirit of the holiday. Luckily, there are plenty of easy and creative ideas for last-minute Halloween costumes for kids that you can make with items you already have at home. From superheroes to animals to classic Halloween characters, these ideas are sure to delight your child and make them the hit of the party. So, don’t panic – with a little bit of imagination, you can create a fantastic costume in no time.

Disco Ball Costume

Help your daughter induce that Saturday night fever with this costume that’s all about the disco and the dancing floor in it, consisting of gray tights as the bottom section, a plain tank top as the top part, optional sunglasses for additional style, and a giant disco ball that covers the area from the neck to the legs and has many silver sparkling squares on it that give it the characteristic shiny look.

by Ohhappyday

DIY White Swan Costume

Turn your little girl into the main performer of the ballet world with this white swan dancer costume that features silver or white ballerina shoes, white tights and a white tank top or a white leotard, a white tulle skirt, a fluffy white hair ornament, and a white scarf made of feathers joined together.

by Apumpkinandaprincess

My Flower Girl

That shy but cute flower from the old cartoons is a wonderful choice for a girl costume, and to make it for your daughter, you just need a pair of green leggings, a green T-shirt, and some green tulle you’ll easily turn into a tutu, and a bit of pink and green fabric you’ll use to sew a pair of green leaf gloves and a big pink flower face mask to get the adorable costume you see here.

by Pepperdesignblog

Snail Costume

Transform your princess into the cutest little snail as you dress her in light brown sweatpants, put a white dress on top, make small snail antennas out of a plastic headband, twisted brown paper, and two foam balls put together, then complete the outfit with a large sheet of brown paper rolled into a snail house she’ll wear like a backpack.

by Ohhappyday

DIY Unicorn Costume Tutorial

Bring out the rainbow magic with a unicorn costume your kid and everyone who sees it will adore, featuring a pair of white pants or leggings, a white hoodie you’ll glue a pink egg shape onto, topped with a rainbow-colored mane, a pair of ears with pink interiors, and a white horn attached to the top of the hood.

by Craftaholicsanonymous

DIY Cotton Candy Costume

Here comes one of the sweetest costumes a kid can wear, a cotton candy outfit that’s simple but looks amazing with its main section that covers everything from the neck to the legs and is made of pink cotton, as well as a matching pink headpiece with a long white cone that represents the stick you hold the candy with.

by Costume-works

DIY Olaf Costume

Elsa says build a snowman so why not make Olaf with this costume that’s extremely easy to put together out of a pair of black shorts, a white hoodie that you’ll decorate with three felt circles set vertically in line, a pair of eyes, and those three branches on the hood top, and a cardboard or paper carrot nose with a thread or a rubber to keep it on your little one’s face.

by Desertchica

Hedwig Baby Owl Costume DIY {No-Sew}

Let your baby become Harry Potter’s loyal companion Hedwig as you whip up this costume with a white onesie, a bunch of faux feathers you’ll glue onto the onesie, and a little headband you’ll embellish with felt and faux feather so it looks like an owl face.

by Makelifelovely

Rainbow and Cloud – creative Mom and Kid Halloween Costumes

Here’s a quick costume idea that will make you and your little one the most adorable pair for the next Halloween, you as a ray of sunshine in a bright yellow raincoat with a big rainy cloud in your hand, and your daughter or son as a tiny lovely rainbow with a cardboard rainbow on their chest and a yellow paper crown on their head.

by Babybirdsfarm

Cheese grater + Cheese dress DIY Halloween Costumes

Your kids can become the duo with the most creative pair of costumes in the block next Halloween thanks to this idea that helps you one cheese grater outfit out of paper or cardboard, and one Swiss cheese outfit with a yellow dress that has many round holes like a block of cheese.

by Ohyaystudio

Boy Girl Twin Costume Idea-Cowgirl and Cowboy

It’s time for rodeo y’all, and your kids will be the stars, the cowgirl with a white shirt and leggings, a pink tulle skirt, neck bandana, and boot, and a cowhide vest with a matching hat, while the star cowboy wears jeans and a white shirt, cowhide chaps and vest, a red neck bandana, and cowboy boots with a matching hat.

by Thecraftingchicks

DIY Donut Costume for Halloween

Everyone loves donuts but kids adore them, as they do this costume of a donut hanging around their neck or waist, made of a children’s inflatable swim ring you’ll color like a donut and decorate with many differently colored hair curlers that will look just like the frosting on real donuts.

by Studiodiy

Yarn basket Halloween costume

Here’s a fun costume idea for kids who enjoy crafts just like their parents, an outfit that will transform your little one into a weaved basket with many colorful balls of yarn, coupled with a lovely hat that has a few small yarn balls attached to the top, decorated by a crochet hook or knitting needles.

by Repeatcrafterme

DIY Penny Costume

Miniature gentlemen who enjoy collecting coins will love this costume because it can turn them into an antique coin with a base on one side of the head and some additions like a fake beard and a copper-colored suit that will give them that presidential look and make them seem like a big coin when viewed from the side.

by Themerrythought

No-Sew Care Bear Costumes

This family costume set will make you, your husband, and your kids into Care bears, each one with a hoodie and matching pants in one of the colors of the bears, decorated with small ears on the hood and a white circle that has one of the symbols of the bears inside, placed on the belly of the hoodie.

by Seevanessacraft

Bullseye Costume using duct tape

Kids love goofy costumes like this one, an archery target practice bullseye, with a black long-sleeved top and matching pants, a plastic headband with two pipe cleaners that you make an arrow out of so it seems as if it goes through the head of the person wearing it, and a bullseye on the tummy that’s made of red, black, white, and yellow duct tape.

by Craftsbyamanda

DIY Scuba Diver Halloween Costume

Prepare your children for imaginative deep sea diving as you make them these scuba diving costumes that have two bottles colored and taped together as the oxygen tanks, black pajamas as the diving suit, felt flippers, and protective goggles you color and embellish so they look like swimming goggles.

by Delineateyourdwelling

DIY Toddler Tinker Bell Costume and Hair

Peter Pan needs help and your toddler must become Tinkerbell to help him with his quest, so dress her up appropriately with this costume that features white fairy wings, white dancing slippers, and an adorable little green pillowcase dress with white shoulder straps and a serrated bottom hem.

by Sincerelyjean

 Skein of yarn costume

Be careful not to confuse your kid with your knitting essentials when they put on this costume of a big skein of yarn with a wide white paper around their waist to keep the yarn from unraveling, and two large knitting needles stuck upright between the paper and the yarn.

by Dukesandduchesses (on WEB ARCHIVE)

Black Sheep Halloween Costume

Mary had a little sheep and it was ridiculously adorable because it was a baby in this costume, with a black onesie that had white cotton balls glued to the belly area, black leggings, and a white bonnet with black ears and white fluffy cotton puffs on the exterior.

by Sayyes

Piglet costume for a child

The loveable yellow bear Winnie wants his friend Piglet and this idea can make your kid into the cute piggy in a flash with its three parts, a pair of pink felt pig ears on a plastic headband, the creative pig nose plastic bottle cap with an elastic, and a curly pink pig tail that you can attach to their pants or shirt.

by Inspirationmadesimple

DIY Disney Elsa Costume

Let your daughter become princess Elsa as you fashion her one of the favorite easy DIY costumes for kids out of a white long-sleeved shirt, a blue camisole on top, two tulle skirts, a blue one set around her waist, and a longer, transparent white one that starts beneath her arms.

by Apumpkinandaprincess

DIY Toddler Strawberry Halloween Costume

Toddlers deserve the cutest costumes, and this one is in that category without a doubt, with its black pants, a red long-sleeved shirt with black spots all over, a red tulle skirt, and a green collar that looks just like the top part of a strawberry, making your baby into the sweetest little red strawberry on the block for Halloween.

by Spotofteadesigns

Harry Potter costume for a baby

The new school year is starting in Hogwarts so better get your little Harry Potter baby ready for it, with khaki slacks, a white shirt, a knitted vest like the uniforms of the school, a knitted scarf in red and yellow stripes of the Gryffindor house, and a pair of round glasses, as well as a little drawn mark of the boy who lived on their forehead.

by Loveandlion (on WEB ARCHIVE)

Baby Cow Costume…with an UDDER!!

You know of cowboys and cowgirls but here comes a cowbaby, an adorable costume of a cow for your bundle of joy, with a white bonnet that has black spots and black cow ears with pink interiors, and a white onesie with black spots and a pink udder with four baby bottle top parts that make it look almost like the real deal.

by Makeit-loveit

DIY Needle and thread costume

Those of you who have kids with similar creativity and love for crafts like you will love this costume because it turns your child into a fun giant wooden spool with a white thread wrapped around it and a giant needle with the thread end tied to its eye.

by Creatingreallyawesomefunthings

DIY Where the Wild Things Are Costume

Your toddler can be the cutest king of the jungle with this costume that features a pale beige romper with long sleeves and pants, a hat with faux fur that represents a lion’s mane, a yellow felt crown on top of the mane, and a long fur tail attached to the back of the romper.

by Anightowlblog

No-Sew Lemon Lime Costume

Your teen daughter and her gal best friend will appreciate these costumes a lot because they’re simple, they aren’t childish, but they’re inventive and cool, a lime and lemon set with black leggings for both girls, a green T-shirt with a white lemon slice shape on it for one of them, and a matching yellow T-shirt for the other one.

by Sugarbeecrafts

DIY Bubble Bath Halloween Costume

Everyone loves relaxing bubble baths and that’s why everyone also loves this silly but fun and creative costume of a bubble bath, with a simple white T-shirt and matching leggings or pants, and a bunch of white, transparent, and pink balloons joined together and tied to the shirt and head, complete with a yellow bath duck between the bubbles!

by Gigglesgalore

Scarecrow costume

Who says scarecrows must be scary and can’t be cute never saw this toddler outfit, featuring a checkered flannel shirt, jeans overalls with decorations like flowers, patches, and hay, as well as a burlap sack farm hat with a sunflower at the front just above the brim.

by Wherethesmileshavebeen

Halloween is a time for fun and creativity, but it can also be stressful trying to come up with the perfect costume. If you’re short on time and ideas, don’t worry! We have some easy and affordable last-minute costume ideas that will make you the hit of the party. Whether you want to be a spooky ghost or a hilarious meme, these costumes are sure to make you stand out. And the best part? You won’t have to spend a fortune on a store-bought costume!

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You should be set for the next ten Halloweens with costume ideas for your kids now! Did you already find your favorites? Be sure to drop by and let everyone in the comments know how your costumes turned out and share your ideas for improving them. The subscription is always available to you if you want to receive the freshest updates promptly. Enjoy trick or treating!