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Waiting until the 11th hour to put together this year’s Halloween costume? You are not alone. But instead of panicking and making a mad dash to the costume shop, take a peek in your closet and try assembling a costume from your existing wardrobe. From Where’s Waldo to the Morton Salt girl to the Brawny paper towel man (pictured), we’ve got tips on how to piece together a last-minute costume using clothes and accessories you already own.

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Read the rest of DIY: How to Make a Delightful Shrimp Nigiri Sushi Roll Halloween Costume

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Read the rest of DIY: How to Make an Adorable Chia Pet Dog Costume for Halloween

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Do you love making Halloween costumes but lack humans to model your creations?  Or maybe your pooch just happens to love getting dolled up?  Either way, Katie Mello, an artist and Star Wars enthusiast from LAIKA/house, a Portland animation studio, created an AT-AT costume for her pup that serves as some serious inspiration to DIY for your favorite four-legged friend.  Click ahead to get inspired and then, get creative!

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Halloween can be among the most wasteful holidays if you only buy store-bought, disposable decorations, but it doesn’t have to be! One sure way to lower your Halloween eco-footprint is to make your own reusable decorations. In this easy, six-step tutorial, we’ll show you how to make super-spooky homemade window silhouettes. All you need is a roll of recycled paper and some eco-friendly paint. And the best part: When Halloween is over, you can roll them up and use ‘em again next year!

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Read the rest of DIY: How to Make a Bodacious Bodega Costume for Halloween

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Want to make sure your kid has the coolest costume on the block when you take them trick-or-treating? Then forget those conventional, store-bought Halloween costumes, and construct your own custom costume out of cardboard. It’s cheaper, more eco-friendly, and of course, it’ll be more fun. Making a cardboard costume can be pretty challenging, especially if you choose to go the more ambitious route to construct a full-body robot suit or a killer sea monster. But those projects aren’t for everyone. Click through to Inhabitots for some Halloween inspiration, and detailed instructions on how to put together a handful of cardboard costumes.

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Making a DIY Halloween costume is great, but if you don’t have a crafty bone in your body it could be disastrous. However! That’s no excuse for sending your kid out in a store-bought costume. You can suit your little ones up in charming, handmade costumes. Just log on Etsy to browse a selection of costumes that are greener and far more unique than your conventional costume.

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“Dig into the groove!” If you want to be spinning jams into the afterlife, get your ashes pressed into a vinyl record. As an alternative to anaerobic decomposition, UK-based company And Vinyly offers the chance to speak to loved ones though recordings, dance mixes, thematic compilations, or the pop and crackle of ash on vinyl. And all for a mere $4,000. Read on to learn more about Resting In Vinyl.

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Across the country, the leaves are changing and the air is turning crisp. It can only mean one thing: Time to get your Halloween plans in order. We love dressing up for Halloween just as much as the next guy or gal, but we’re less enchanted with the trend of buying pricey, wasteful and poorly-made store-bought ‘costumes’. The solution? Hit the thrift store and assemble your own creative costume. Over at Ecouterre, learn how, with a bit of leg work, you can put together your own one-of-a-kind costume for under $20.

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Have you ever broken a bone, had an x-ray, and thought the photo was actually quite cool? Swedish design students Sture Pallarp, Elin Hedlund and Emmelie Karlström, took the x-ray aesthetic to a whole new level and incorporated the film into a lighting fixture. Their X-ray Lamp is a conceptual approach that leaves much to imagination. It’s also an easy project for anyone looking for a fun DIY project for Halloween. Just make sure to break a funny bone!

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LAST DAY TO ENTER OUR HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST!

The fun and frenzy of Halloween are officially over, but you still have one LAST CHANCE to submit your creative homemade costumes in our Green Halloween Costume Contest! We want you to blow us away with your handcrafted, eco-inspired Halloween costumes, so upload your pics TODAY!

The best and most imaginative costumes will win fabulous prizes like a sweet solar-powered Bogo flashlight, an awesome $100 gift certificate to the spectacular Inhabitatshop or supercool Inhabitat t-shirts and tote bags – not to mention the fame that comes with having your expert costume-crafting skills showcased on Inhabitat for the world to see!

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And for those of you who have kids, don’t forget to enter their costumes in our kid-oriented INHABITOTS HALLOWEEN CONTEST >

Need some inspiration? Check out our gallery of last year’s winners:

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Zombie chair! Out for your wood scraps! Oozing sawdust and pure carnage! Designer Hongtao Zhou, who we found  playing with ice, decided to get Holiday on a broken, abandoned chair he found on the streets in Madison, Wisconsin. The result: chair of the undead, risen from the swamp and demanding the chance to sit in your living room looking creepy. Zhou created the drippy effect with wood scraps and sawdust (and probably some monster blood and glue). Expect this chair on your front porch Halloween night, demanding all the sweet linseed oil you can muster. Happy creepy chair night, everyone, happy monster night.

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As the trees begin to lose their leaves, once full and leafy branches grow increasingly bare to create suddenly spooky shadows in our windows — just in time for Halloween. Halloween is tomorrow and we’ve been admiring the green and ghoulish as well as just the plain weird. Take a look below for some of the best stories on Inhabitots and Ecouterre.

We’re curious to know if you would wear these LED eyelashes as part of your Halloween costume.

Sometimes a fashion faux-pas can be as frightening as a zombie, so take a look at these six howlers that will make your blood run cold.

We are seriously disturbed by these taxidermy accessories made of preserved rat heads, guinea pig feet, pigeon feathers and whole mice.

These spooky and eco-friendly lights are the perfect thing to provide light for your Halloween journey.

If you are thinking about doing some Halloween face painting, be sure to read this article about lead and other harmful toxins in paint.

And if you haven’t already, be sure to enter our Halloween costume contest on Inhabitots. There are great prizes!

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Halloween is almost upon us — and we hope that your’s will be as ghoulishy green as it is delightful. Not sure how? Well then, check out some of the best in green goodies for this Halloween featured on Inhabitots.

First, the costumes: Oeuf’s bat hat is an eco-friendly costume piece that will last even after the Halloween festivities are over.

But if you are looking for more, Oeuf also creates these wildlife-inspired animal knits for the adventurous child in your life. If your tyke is still too young for those, try these adorable hat & booties sets.

If you want to keep this year’s Halloween costumes DIY, take some advice from Vickie Howell or take a peek at Alison Jenkin’s book of wacky knitted costume designs.

Dressed up in cozy and eco-friendly costumes, you’ll probably want to treat your kids (ahem, yourself) to some Halloween candy , but if you’re not crazy about chemicals and artificial additives, try these healthier Halloween treats.

These Halloween crayons, perfect for creating spooky art, are the perfect answer for a non-sugary night.

Ah, and last, but certainly not least — check out these green options for stowing away that Halloween booty: a Jack on Black Halloween fabric bucket and ghastly casette tape sculptures that could make anyone squeal if asked to reach in for their treat.

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Halloween is just around the corner and if you’ve got any little ones in your life, you’re probably racking your brain for cute and clever Halloween costume ideas. If you’re on the verge of giving in to sheer desperation and contemplating holding your nose while buying a plastic Spongebob costume — don’t fear — we have a greener solution for you in the form of Oeuf’s adorable knit animal outfits for kids! These lovely mix-and-match knit pieces, made by Bolivian craftswomen, are not really costumes per se — more just cute dress-up separates — and that is precisely why they are such a great sustainable option for a green halloween. Kids will have fun wearing bear ears or a racoon tail any time of year, and these knit pieces are so adorable that you’ll want to encourage year-round dress up play.

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