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Budget Halloween costumes

Use these fun Halloween costume ideas, courtesy of iVillage community members, and make them - right up to the witching hour - with items you have around the house. Find your 'base' item and add a few choice elements to put together these ideas in a snap

Costumes you can make with sweatshirts and sweatpants

'Get a white sweatsuit. From there, your tot can be a dog, a cow, or a ghost. Just get some black felt, cut it in shapes and pin (or velcro) the "spots" to her suit! Add a little black eyeliner to the tip of her nose. For a dog, use the pencil to draw whiskers.' cl-mon71

'Attach balloons to a sweatsuit and be a bunch of grapes!' cheatize

'I bought a hooded black sweatshirt for my two-year-old girl and hand-sewed black felt triangles on the hood and glued smaller white felt triangles inside the black ones. She just wore it with black trousers and shoes and I used eyeliner to draw whiskers. She was an adorable cat and wore the sweatshirt all winter.' barville

'Be a bird! I cut out poster-board wings and tail and stapled on elastic bands. My daughter glued on hundreds of feathers, and wore a blue sweatsuit.' terri55

'One son was a dinosaur. He wore yellow and green sweats with yellow socks over his shoes. We cut green and yellow sponges diagonally, then tacked the corners together and to the sweats to make the ridges of stegosaurus running down his back and tail.' terri55

'One of my kids' favorite costumes was a skeleton. They wore black sweat suits and white gloves. I cut bones out of white contact paper, peeled the back paper off and just stuck them on, painted their faces white and black, and off they went! When they were done, I peeled the "bones" off the sweat suits and they wore the suits all winter!' mama2olscam

'Last year my one-year-old son was a snowman. I bought a white sweatshirt and trousers. We painted his face white, black around eyes, and gave him an orange nose. He wore mittens and a matching knit hat. For "coal" buttons, I cut circles of sticky-backed black felt that could be removed easily from his sweatshirt after Halloween. This costume worked well because he stayed warm all night while trick or treating, and then we were able to use everything all winter.' mum2sunshinegirl

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