Have you been too busy to get a costume together in time for Halloween? Or maybe you’re just one of those people that leaves everything to the last minute. Whatever your ghastly excuse is the best costumes are always the creative ones!
So here’s our top 5 recommendations for creative last minute DIY Halloween costumes that you can make at home – in order of most complicated to the very simplest, including where you can buy the supplies.
1. A Banksy Painting
Original image from http://www.neatorama.com
What you’ll need:
- A black sweater – ReUse it Centre
- Black pants – ReUse it Centre
- Black shoes – ReUse it Centre
- A black bandana – ReUse it Centre or a ski store in the village
- A black hat – ReUse it Centre
- Black gloves (or black face/body paint) – Probably at the ReUse it Centre, but also at a ski store in the village
- Black face/body paint – Whistler Hardware usually stocks Halloween face paints
- A small bouquet of flowers – One of the village markets such as Creekside Market
- White paint – Whistler Hardware or Garibaldi Graphics
2. Day of the Dead Sugar Skull
Original photo from http://kerli.buzznet.com
What you’ll need:
- White face/body paint – Whistler Hardware usually stocks Halloween face paints, or Garibaldi Graphics
- Black waterproof eyeliner – Shoppers Drug Mart
- A brightly coloured waterproof eye shadow – Shoppers Drug Mart or Rexall
- A flower for your hair – Shoppers Drug Mart or Rexall
We also found a great Day of the Dead makeup tutorial, here.
3. Cat in Love Emoji
Original image from http://instagram.com/surfacemag
What you’ll need:
- Card – you’ll cut the cat ear shapes out of this – Whistler Hardware or Garibaldi Graphics
- A headband to attach the cat ears to – Shoppers Drug Mart or Rexall
- Yellow material to glue to the card cat ears or you can colour them yellow with Sharpie – Whistler Hardware or Garibaldi Graphics
- Yellow and red face/body paint – Whistler Hardware or Garibaldi Graphics
- Black face/body paint – Whistler Hardware or Garibaldi Graphics
- Black eyeliner – Shoppers Drug Mart or Rexall
4. Cereal Killer
Original image from http://www.instructables.com/id/Cereal-Killer/
What you’ll need:
- An empty box of cereal (or full in case you get peckish later in the night) – Creekside Market, IGA Marketplace or another of the village markets
- A plastic toy knife – Whistler Hardware or Whoola Toys
- Red paint – Whistler Hardware or Garibaldi Graphics. Or if you’re really in a hurry red food colouring, flour, and water will work too, you just have to make it thick.
5. TP Mummies
Original image from http://cdn.ymaservices.com
What you’ll need:
- Toilet paper – Creekside Market or IGA Marketplace
It’s that simple!
A note of caution to ladies: It’s really hard to use the washroom when your fully wrapped up.
That’s it for our round up of fiendishly fast last minute costumes. Happy Halloween!
