7 creative DIY Halloween costumes you can easily make at home

The Examiner Lifestyle team reveals their best finds this Halloween 

Halloween DIY costumes can be a fun and inexpensive way of dressing up.

"But in the olden days..." my daughter begins. "When you were little, I mean...what kind of costume did you wear?"

She's horrified that we made our own costumes instead of spending fifty euro for cheap polyester capes and queuing for half an hour for our trouble. I fill her in on my stand-out costumes over the years; Rainbow Bright, the quirky colourful character that saw me clash every possible colour around my body, including three layers of multi-coloured legwarmers.