DIY: Kids Halloween costumes

Check out these DIY Halloween costumes that are great for kids!

These simple fancy dress ideas try to use items you may already have in the wardrobe. Pair together with some imagination and a few extras and you have an outfit ready for Halloween...

Minnie Mouse Halloween costume

  

What you will need:

• A red tutu with a black top OR a red dress with polkadots
• The Minnie Mouse ears
• A bow (red with white spots is the traditional)
• Yellow shoes

 Minion Halloween costume

What you will need:

• A yellow T-shirt or hoody
• A pair of blue dungarees
• A yellow beanie
• Minion-style glasses
• Some black pipe cleaners to thread through the hat and look like Minion hair!

Tinkerbell Halloween costume

What you will need:

•  A green dress OR green tutu and green strappy top
• Fairy wings and wand
• Ballerina pumps or little heels with white pom poms to stick on the front
• Ribbon for your hair

Mad Hatter Halloween costume

 

What you will need:

• A hat! This outfit depends on a crazy top hat... Decorate with a colourful ribbon, feathers, hat pins, notes sticking out of the ribbon
• Stiped, checked, polkadots are the key to the clothes. For boys choose a shirt with any of these. Girls can wear a crazy tutu paired with colourful tights.
• A blazer (velvety material if you have it)
• Coloured boots
• A necktie tied into a bow