Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas Made By Recycling Plastic Water Bottles

Plastic Queen: Use old plastic water bottles or soda bottles to make accessories for a girly, modern costume. You'll use two bottle bottoms, a zipper and some sewing skills to make the bubble clutch. Then cut plastic water bottles into strips and color with permanent markers to make beads for a colorful bracelet. Photo and idea via Greenupgrader, inset via Threadbanger.



The Paparazzi: Don't bother dressing up as one paparazzi photographer, dress up as the entire paparazzi with lots of flashes. Collect as many water bottles as you can in different sizes to create the backdrop of camera flashes. Then go through your (and your friends') past Halloween costumes for a bunch of masks to include as your subjects. Bring your real camera on Halloween to catch anyone in a celebrity costume who reaches for a bottle of water. Photo and idea via Mental Floss.



Scuba Diver: Dress up as a scientist ready to explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in DIY scuba gear. Here, the costume is shown on a child, but we think it's okay for adults, too. Dress up in a wet suit or a rash guard and swim suit. Get a big pair of goggles and attach pictures of fish or create underwater shapes using craft foam. Unless you want to walk around in real flippers, make flipper shaped covers out of blue craft foam and attach them to your shoes. Finally, your air tank is made from two plastic bottles, the bigger the better. Fill them with blue tissue paper, attach plastic tubing for your breathing tube and some duct tape and craft foam add the finishing touches. Photo and idea via Parents magazine.



Suit of Armor: Plastic bottles are designed to last for centuries. Because of their abundance and durability,  designer Kosuke Tsumura thought they'd be the perfect material for a suit of armor. We think so too, though this costume gets a difficulty rating that's off-the-charts-hard! If you want to give it a try, you'll need to slice up lots and lots of PET bottles and sew the pieces together. If you can pull this off, we bet you'll win the costume contest. Then again, maybe you should just start with a plastic water bottle sword? Photo and idea via Pink Tentacle.



Recycled Robot: For this robot costume, which is fun for kids and adults alike, you can use lots of recycled items. The biggest part of the costume comes from cardboard boxes -- find one that your body can fit into and another smaller one the size of your head. Use plastic bottle tops to create buttons on the front of the box. The bottles, use 20-ounce or bigger, become your robotic hands. You'll cut the tops and bottoms off of the soda bottles and cut the remaining part in half length-wise to make them. If the costume is for kids, the bottles can even work as hard plastic robot arms. Photo and idea via How Did I Do It?