Headless Marie Antoinette Costume: This costume is unbelievable! There’s a fake clay bust involved, welding some copper tubing and sewing. Costume building details found at NicoleMagne.com.

Homemade Barbarian Armor: Armor plans plus tunic staining instructions included. Armor is made from black vinyl sewn together with upholstery thread. Details found at flickr.com.

Hooded Cape: (pdf) Here’s a very simple (but great looking) hooded cape perfect for Halloween. You’ll need fabric, a fabric marker, ribbons and string. Very easy pattern suitable for beginner sewers. Pattern details found at teresafranco.typepad.com.

How to Build a Better Bat Costume: Make a bat costume from a hoodie and an umbrella. Surprisingly easy and it looks great! Costume details found at EvilMadScientist.com.

How To Distress Clothing: This distressing process takes three months and involves burying clothing in the garden to let it rot in the dirt. Very realistic results! Details found at SkullandBone.com.

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.

Kids Halloween Costumes: Five different designs, each easy to make–Pirate, Bee, Monkey, Lego & Sushi. You can quickly and easily whip up these five amazing kiddy costumes using supplies you probably already have on hand, plus a bit of creativity. Projects found at Craftzine.

Ladybug Costume: This toddler or baby costume is just too adorable! And so easy to make, a simple padded ladybug shell that you attach with velcro to the back of a shirt, and cute antenna headband to finish the look. Costume project found at Make Baby Stuff.

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.

Oscar The Grouch Costume: This 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 Costume (Kids): Yarrrr! Pirate Costume – Featured on the CBS Early Show in a segment devised by and starring Natalie Zee Drieu of CRAFT Magazine. Includes instructions for all the gear such as cardboard sword, head scarf, eye patch, vest and pirate boots. Details found at Belle Epoque.

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.

Portrait Costume Idea: This is a fun and very simple project and something you can take in a variety of directions…you could place yourself into a variety of famous paintings. Ideas & details found at The Swell Life.

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.

Sock Monkey Costume: Create this life-size sock monkey costume from sweaters, scarves, hats and mittens. Quite a clever costume! Found at HGTV.com.