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.
If you like these homemade costumes you'll love this collection of homemade Halloween costume ideas!
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
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 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.
(image via etsy)
Tunic
Tunic
Capes
Boots
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
Jane says
Oh my gosh, these are just adorable!!!
FineArtPainting says
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
Sachiko says
They are so cute! You did amazing job on the costume!
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Abbey says
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!
Susanm says
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.
AmyLenn says
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!
LenaLoo says
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 🙂
Nike@ChooseToThrive says
I love homemade costumes! Those turned out amazing (and seriously cute kiddos!)
Please Do Not Feed The Animals. says
They are gorgeous kids!
Stephanie says
Very cute! And I have no intention of making costumes. 🙂 Kaylee is darling as Leia.
Mary says
I would love to see the pattern but the link isn't working. 🙁