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October 29, 2019 By Brandy 12 Comments

Home » Holidays » Halloween

Homemade Star Wars Costumes

Filed Under: Halloween, Sewing

Make a set of Star Wars themed costumes using these simple patterns! The pants can even be made without a pattern! Perfect for dressing up for Halloween.
homemade star wars costumes
If you like these homemade costumes you’ll love this collection of homemade Halloween costume ideas!
star wars costumes anakin obi wan and leia
My homemade Star Wars costumes were a huge success this year. All 3 of the kiddos were giddy as we headed out to go trick-or-treating. That makes every hour and every stitch absolutely worth it!
The best part of the night was as we were walking door to door, and a little boy dressed as a bounty hunter walked by. There was a bit of tension in the air as he aimed his gun at my Jedi, and the boys held their light sabers 🙂 It was pretty funny. I love how animated kids get.

Homemade Anakin Costume

homemade anakin costume
We always see Clone and Darth Vader costumes. It was refreshing that my little guys were the only  Jedi that we saw this year.

Homemade Obi Wan Kenobi Costume

homemade obi wan kenobi costume

Homemade Princess Leia Costume

homemade princess leia costume

Patterns and Tutorials for Homemade Star Wars Costumes

I used the following patterns to create our Star Wars look. Patterns that I already had in my stash from previous years. Grab a few basic costume patterns and you can use them to create basically any pattern you’d like! I used an astronaut costume to make Aaron a Cookie Monster costume one year and Buzz Lightyear the next. I’ve used the same Dracula cape pattern to make a little red Riding Hood Cape, Star Wars cape, and a Batman cape. The tunic pattern has been used to create Star Wars costumes, Davy Crockett, and Peter Pan. It is designed to be used with felt, but you can easily use cotton. You just need to hem the edges.
Tunic Pattern: SIMPLICITY 9862
Cape Pattern: SIMPLICITY 5927 or 8729
Boots Pattern:  BUTTERICK 3244
Dress Pattern: BUTTERICK 3316
And the pants? I always make my costume pants from scratch WITHOUT A PATTERN. This technique works great for kids. For adults, I always recommend using a pattern to make sure that the hips and crotch area fit properly. Kids don’t have a lot of shape, or hips, so our homemade pants tutorial is a super quick and easy method. Click here for the tutorial.
Because sewing patterns go out of print, I’d suggest using mine as a guide, look through the ones you already own, and get creative!
I added photos below so that you could get an idea of what to look for since there are many different patterns that would work.
Disney 9862 Simplicity Peter Pan Tinkerbell Sewing Pattern image 0
(image via etsy)
Tunic

Capes


Boots
Girls Top A Line Dress & Pants Sewing Pattern Butterick 3316 UNCUT Size 2 3 4 5
Princess Leia.

I didn’t have a pattern for the boy’s belts. Just made them out of felt and added velcro.

The best part is that these will be added to the costume box downstairs which gets almost daily use. So my time and effort will be utilized for more than just one night.

This post has been slightly updated since it’s original posting date in 2010

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Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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  1. Mary says

    October 29, 2010 at 1:51 am

    I would love to see the pattern but the link isn’t working. 🙁

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  2. Stephanie says

    October 29, 2010 at 4:27 am

    Very cute! And I have no intention of making costumes. 🙂 Kaylee is darling as Leia.

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  3. Please Do Not Feed The Animals. says

    October 29, 2010 at 11:38 am

    They are gorgeous kids!

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  4. [email protected] says

    November 1, 2010 at 2:48 am

    I love homemade costumes! Those turned out amazing (and seriously cute kiddos!)

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  5. LenaLoo says

    November 2, 2010 at 7:40 am

    Wow! too cute! My goal is to make my son’s costume next year… Maybe Yoda and hubby can be a Jedi and I can be Leia? That is very ambitious for me as I just started sewing again (for the first time since I was about 10 years old)… This year I made capes so my friends and I could be super heroes (we gathered the rest of our costume pieces) and my son wore a panda outfit that his grandma got for him at Sam’s club (with a homemade cape of course 🙂

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  6. AmyLenn says

    November 2, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Super cute! Our whole family was star wars too.. but I did the quick way of using karate gi’s and didn’t use a pattern to make the robes and Leia’s dress. I love the way yours came out though!

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  7. Susanm says

    November 3, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    My son went as Obi Wan too. We used his Star wars Build-a-Bear as a model and also checked out Padewan – everything you want to know (and stuff you didn’t) about SW costumes). We found brown pants and a beige overshirt at a clothing sale and a belt at a charity shop. I made cloak with a hood from a remant of brown cord from the fabric store, plus the tabert (goes around the waist and the belt goes over it). I hadn’t sewn in 20 years so it was a bit challenging but fun. Total cost $11 plus a spool of thread – my son was very happy with his “home made” costume. There was lots of room under the shirt (unlike store bought costumes) and we didn’t fight about him wearing something warm under his costume – we had snow on the ground and the temp was close to 0 celcius.

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  8. Abbey says

    November 3, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    L-O-V-E These! My son is obsessed with star wars right now, and I think my husband would spend whatever amount of money to make these costumes happen, as he is a little obsessed himself! I’ve got two boys and a girl and this would look awesome! Thanks!

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  9. Temporary Tattoos to Keep Kids Safe! says

    November 3, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    Following you of WGW… such cute costumes… check us out at http://myidink.blogspot.com

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  10. Sachiko says

    November 4, 2010 at 2:38 am

    They are so cute! You did amazing job on the costume!

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  11. FineArtPainting says

    November 6, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    hi brandy.
    lovely costumes, not just for halloween for all kind of dress up parties.

    so good in fact, that i’d like to invite you to come link it up here:
    http://www.finecraftguild.com/diy-linky-party-19/
    so that our readers can find you too.

    (our parties are weekly events, so every wednesday you can in fact come back to both find and submit other craft / diy tutorials.

    hope to see you soon on the site,

    Rose

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  12. Jane says

    May 23, 2014 at 6:39 am

    Oh my gosh, these are just adorable!!!

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