This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

Sometimes DIY Halloween costume inspiration starts with a theme, a color, a character, or a movie…and sometimes it starts with a basic article of clothing. In the case of the five costumes I made this year, it was precisely that…the famed, beloved hoodie sweatshirt.

I partnered with Primary.com to produce these five costumes all made from hoodies. They are easy to make and do not require any complex craft skills or sewing!

OLD TOWN ROAD

The record-breaking song of 2019 cannot be forgotten for Halloween! Turn besties into Billy Ray Cyrus and Lil Nas X in their blinged out cowboy hoodie costumes from the Old Town Road Video.

MARATHON RUNNERS

For the kid looking for a comfortable costume on Halloween, this marathon runner outfit is the winner! Complete with a cozy warm hoodie and leggings, watch ’em sprint from doorbell to doorbell collecting candy!

NESTING DOLL COSTUME

This DIY group costume is perfect for 3, 4 or more kids! Friends, cousins or siblings will look adorable dressed as the classic matryoshka dolls. Use the hoodies as the babushka for the dolls!

SPELLING BEE COSTUME

Make a cute bumblebee costume a little smarter by turning her into a Spelling Bee! Best part about this costume is that the stripes are just yellow duct tape so it all peels off and you are back to your favorite hoodie!

PIG IN A BLANKET COSTUME

Pig costumes are cute, but pigs in a blanket are even cuter! Just wrap your pink hoodie costume with a blanket and you are ready to trick-or-treat (and stay warm)!

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Who’s ready to ride your horse til you can’t no more this Halloween? We could not ignore the biggest song of the year—Old Town Road—and their amazing get-ups when we were making these hoodie costumes for our friends at Primary.com. While cowboys don’t normally wear hoodies, these cozy zip hoodies from Primary.com will keep your trick-or-treaters nice and warm.

If your kids have been relentlessly singing this song all summer long, maybe it’s time to give them the full-on look? Just add a hat, a guitar, or a horse and they will be ready to go!

Keep scrolling down to learn how to make this DIY Old Town Road Halloween costume!

BILLY RAY CYRUS

What you’ll need:

• Primary cozy zip hoodie, in raspberry
• Primary leggings, in raspberry
• Primary classic tee, in raspberry
• Adhesive rhinestones
• Glitter stars
• 2” fringe
• Scissors
• Hot-glue gun 

1. Hot-glue fringe to the front, shoulders, and back of sweatshirt. Hot-glue fringe down the sides of leggings. 
2. Hot glue stars randomly around the shoulder and wrist areas of the sweatshirt.
3. Stick adhesive rhinestones around the stars and to the thigh area of the pants. 

LIL NAS X

What you’ll need:

• Primary cozy zip hoodie, in black
• Primary 4-pocket chino, in black
• Adhesive rhinestones
• Felt, various colors
• Scissors
• Hot-glue gun
• Metal bottle cap
• Leather cord
• Silver drinking straw or silver beads
• Small scraps of cardboard
• 4” white fringe
• Templates

1. Trace templates onto felt. You’ll need 2 horses (blue, purple), 8 horseshoes (lavender), 16 flowers (red, blue, yellow), multiple leaves (green).
2. Assemble flowers and horseshoes using your hot-glue gun.
3. Hot-glue fringe along the back and underside of the arms of the back hoodie.
4. Hot-glue felt shapes onto the arms and legs of the sweatshirt and pants, as shown.
5. Stick adhesive rhinestones all the way around the applique shapes. 
6. Hot glue a piece of cardboard in the back, and glue a segment of a paper straw on top.
7. Glue rhinestones onto the bottle cap.
8. Thread two ends of the black cord through the straw. Slip two small straw segments onto the ends of the cord and knot. 

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

Nesting dolls are such a childhood memory for me…my grandmother brought some back from a trip and I was so enamored with them. And I know I’m not alone; nesting dolls (or matryoshka dolls) have had a little rebirth, both nostalgically and in the marketplace.

When my friends at Primary.com suggested this idea to us, we were all in! It’s such a cute idea for a group of friends, siblings, or cousins. We used the zip hoodie as the head covering and layered the girls up with leggings, the pocket skirt (my fave piece!), and the classic t.

This is a costume that will certainly turn heads on Halloween, and one that will encourage these three little trick-or-treaters to stay together!

What you’ll need:

• Primary Zip hoodie, in cherry
• Primary Legging, in sunshine
• Primary Pocket skirt, in grass
• Primary classic tee, in white
• White bandana
• Fabric paint
• Craft foam
• Cardboard
• Hot glue gun
• Wine cork
• White felt
• Various bright colors of felt
• ¾” grosgrain ribbon
• Scissors
• Flower templates 

Make It!

Apron

1. Fold a piece of felt in half. The rectangle of felt should be a bit smaller than the front panel of the pocket skirt. Draw a scallop shape on the felt and cut out. Unfold.
2. Download templates and trace them onto bright colors of felt. You can create you own flower pattern or be inspired by the ones we made! 
3. Hot-glue the felt pieces to the apron and hot glue a ribbon around the top edge as the belt. 

Bandana

1. Cut a flower and leaf from craft foam. Hot glue them to a small piece of cardboard
2. Stamp a flower and leaf border around the bandana, and use the cork to make polka dots through the center.

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

When my son Oliver was 13 months old, it was time for his second Halloween already! I knew he couldn’t handle being in a complicated, fussy homemade Halloween costume (and let’s be honest, what mom of a 13 month old wants to make one?), so I turned him into a little marathon runner.

We recreated this turn-key costume here with the help of Primary.com. You can get everything from hoodie sweatshirts, to racer-back tops, to athletic shorts in one shop. And all you need to DIY is the runner’s bib number (and remember…it’s so easy!).

This is the perfect costume for the parent that wants a clever costume with minimal rigging, and for the kid who just wants to take off and get her candy! On your mark, get set, GO trick-or-treating!

What you’ll need:

• Tyvek envelope
• Scissors
• Washi tape
• Adhesive vinyl letters
• Leggings
• Hoodie
• Primary Active running shorts, cherry
• Primary leggings, heather gray
• Primary Zip hoodie, cobalt
• Primary active racerback tank, white
• Primary Baby play short, tangerine
• Primary Baby leggings, heather gray
• Socks
• Safety pins

Make It:

1. Cut a rectangle from the Tyvek envelope that’s fits across your child’s stomach.
2. Add washi tape stripes on the top and bottom of the rectangles. (Safety  tip: florescent colors reflect  light for safety.
3. Adhere number stickers to the center of the number. Pin number onto shirt.

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.

Making animal costumes is fun, but adding a silly or punny twist makes the whole thing that much better! So what’s better than a DIY pig costume? A DIY pig-in-a-blanket costume! Wrap your little piglet in a blanket that does double duty…it keeps your trick-or-treater warm on Halloween night and it provides great comic relief.

So instead of of just dressing up like a pig for this Halloween, take it one step further (just hold the mustard)!

What you’ll need:

• Primary Cozy Zip hoodie, in raspberry
• Primary yoga pant, in raspberry
• Primary Mittens, in raspberry
• Blanket
• Pink felt
• Pipe cleaner
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors
• Egg carton
• Pink paint
• Elastic
• Pink marker
• Template

1. To make the snout, cut a segment from the egg carton and paint it light pink. Let dry.
2. Draw two darker pink ovals on the front of the snout.
3. Hot glue a thin elastic cord on either side of the snout. 
4. To make the ears, download and print the template. Cut it out, trace it onto felt twice, and cut.
5. Fold the bottom corners to the center and hot glue. Flip it over, apply a line of hot glue along the bottom, and fold to secure.
6. Cut a piece of felt the length of a pipe cleaner, about 1” wide. Glue the pipe cleaner just off center. 
7. Fold the strip in half and hot glue closed. Cut the end to a point.
8. Twirl into a spiral and use a safety pin or hem tape to attach to the back of hoodie.

This post was sponsored by Primary.com.