How to Make A Mask Out Of Tin Foil and Tape: Using tape, aluminum foil and some paint, you can make quite the Halloween mask. You’ll need to be creative for this one, but the examples provided look great. Details found at Wikihow.com.

How To Make Halloween Costumes: Five free patterns for kids costumes - Bat costume, Butterfly costume, Flower costume, Lady Bug costume, Mummy costume. Patterns are provided on a pdf download. Found at Running With Needles @ mlive.com.

Jedi Robe: Instructions for how to make Jedi Robes, just like in the Star Wars movies. Some sewing skills involved. Add a mask and a light saber and you’re good to do. Instructions found at Degraeve.com

Kid’s Pirate Hat - Knitted: Here’s a free pattern for knitting a child size pirate hat complete with skull and bones. Tips included for sizing it larger if necessary. Pattern found at scrubberbum.typepad.com.

Lego Man “Lego minifig” Costume: Details for building the head of a Lego Man using Styrofoam sheets and some spray paint. Great job! Instructions found at Xenomachina.com.

Men In Black Costume (MIB): Sure you just put on a black suit and tie, but what about the guns? This tutorial shows you how to make some super cool MIB blasters. Details found at Instructables.com.

Mr. T Costume: Details showing how to make a Mr. T style headpiece using a balding cap, foam sponges, velcro and spray paint. And of course, flexing the “guns” adds to the costume effect ;). Details found at flickr.com.

Mummy Costume: Looking for an easy yet great Halloween costume? This is the one for you. Supplies needed include a big wack of gauze, black tea (to stain the gauze), underclothes and black fingernail polish to complete the look. Talking in stilted “mummy speak” and roars compliments the effect ;). Details found at 365halloween.com.

Musketeer Costume: This instruction set is for a Kids Musketeer costume, but you could easily adapt it for an adult size. All you need is some fabric, a Zorro style hat and aluminum tape. Some sewing involved. For a simple costume idea, it looks great! Details found at Instructables.com.

Operation Board Game Costume: Very cool costume built like the Operation Board Game. Includes all the lights and sounds needed to make the costume complete (and just like the game!). Video showing the costume in action is also available. Details found on a home.san.rr.com webpage.

Oscar The Grouch Costume: Two different instructions here, first one is a garbage can, some velcro, bungee cords, green shorts and a mess load of green yarn are used to create this Oscar The Grouch costume. Details found on flickr.com.

The 2nd instruction set is amazing and for the more advanced costume builder: Instuctables.com - Oscar the Grouch Costume.

Pacman Arcade Costume: Plywood, plexiglass, ferring strips and spray paint are all used to make this costume, which also has a laptop incorporated behind the scenes ;). It looks awesome! Details found at Rluzinski.blogspot.com.

Pirate: Captain Jack Sparrow Hat (pdf download): Very realistic pirate’s hat using tooling leather. The cost is about $80 with enough supplies for two hats. You’ll need a week to make this, it’s quite the project. Instructions written by Nick Stokes and found via HouseOfAnoria.com.

Professional Paper Mache Maskmaking: This method of paper mache is not the lumpy flour paste method most people think of when they hear the words paper mache. It is a strong, smooth, durable construction method that happens to be very cost-effective for many individually-produced (one-of-a-kind) masks, puppets and props. Found at Goblinart.com.

Qbert Costume: Included are the plans and notes scribbled down before making the costume, sound effects used, pictures, and some videos of the costume in action. Pretty cute! Details found at g42.org.

Shrimp Sushi Hat: A sewing project to produce a shrimp sushi hat. Involves fabric, stuffing and sewing. Details found at HidingInAsia.blogspot.com.

Simpsons Duffman Costume: Great details included for the construction of the beer belt which incorporates a luggage belt, pop cans and some spray paint. The Duff beer cans are pop cans spray painted red and mailing labels printed with the “Duff” lettering. Cool costume featuring one of the Simpsons characters. Details found at Arr-The-Kraken.com.

Stalkaround Costume: A giant skeleton of a costume, very spooky and very tall. Costume details found at SpookyLake.com.

Star Wars Stormtrooper Costume: Incredible costume for Star Wars fans, this Stormtrooper outfit looks amazing. Process involves body casting. Costume details found at StudioCreations.com.

Theater Effects: Lacerations: Not for the squeamish, these laceration and wound effects are VERY real looking. Instructions provided by Instructables.com.

Tron Costume: Spandex shirt and pants, frisbee, magnets, PVC pipe, glow paint and a hockey helmet are all used to create this Tron costume. Instructions found on flickr.com.

Tusken Raider Costume: The “Definitive How To” on making a Tusken Raider costume from the blockbuster Star Wars movies. You will find steps to build a Tusken Head piece, sew up the ragged robes and build their deadly Gadeffi (gaffi) stick. Costume building details found at StudioCreations.com.

Where’s Waldo Hat: Here’s a quick & easy pattern for a knitted Where’s Waldo hat. Details found at WiseNeedle.com.

Where’s Waldo Sweater: Here’s a knitting pattern for a Where’s Waldo sweater, skill level: Easy. Pattern found at a comcast.net webpage.