DIY Halloween Shoes

Ah, October. Time to start thinking about costumes!! Most prepackaged costumes include clothes to cover your middle, a few accessories, maybe a hat, but rarely do they include shoes. However, shoes can seriously elevate your costume from boo to boo-tastic (lame Halloween joke, you're welcome), so don't you dare just throw on a pair of your old sneakers or some plain black heels. Here are some simple but great do it yourself shoe projects to make your Halloween costume even better.




Bloody High Heels

1. There are so many costumes a bloody high heel will work with: zombie, dead bride, ghost, witch, skeleton, Grim Reaper, Dexter's girlfriend, and really dead anything from cheerleader to chicken.
    To make your own version, purchase a plain white pair of heels, red paint and a paintbrush. Go outside and go crazy. There's no wrong way to splatter paint - drip it, throw it, flick it, whatever. Let the shoes dry and enjoy your Halloween.

Tinkerbell fairy costume with shoe poofs

2. But not everyone goes for the gory, so if your Halloween costume is a little happier, I recommend DIY fairy shoes. Get a pair of green heels or green ballet flats, depending on your style, and affix a giant white pom pom to each toe. See my pom pom tutorial here. If you're a Tinkerbell cartoon fan, you might want to change it up and get blue shoes to channel her sister, snow and ice fairy Periwinkle. Or you could add this shoe accessory, maybe with a different colored pom pom poof, to any fairy costume idea: flower fairies, energy fairies, seasonal fairies, element fairies - fire, water, wind, earth fairies, light or sunshine fairies, and dark, night or moon fairies.

Shoe cover tutorial at Fabric.com

3. At the bare minimum, you should make sure your shoes (and your kid's shoes!) are at least the same color as the rest of your costume. If you don't want to go out and buy a brand new pair of shoes to wear for one night, you could make a shoe cover! Basic shoe covers consist of just a little bit of polar fleece and a little bit of elastic. You could technically use any type of fabric but polar fleece keeps its shape well without flopping over, stretches a bit for better fit, and if your stitching isn't straight, the fleece will hide a lot of imperfections. Fabric.com has a fantastic and surprisingly easy tutorial here. Note: their tutorial looks like it's just for kids, but the instructions will work for any size shoe, adults included.

Happy Halloween!