Nothing beats a quality homemade Halloween costume! Halloween is fast approaching, if you’ve got a sewing machine and know how to use it, you can offer your sewing services to make Halloween costumes from scratch, or alter existing ones to fit.
Patterns are available in craft stores and online, for almost every type of costume imaginable. Many elements of patterns can even be re-used for different costumes, such as simple pants, shirts, dresses, skirts, cloaks, capes, etc.
A good friend of mine is going for Halloween as Alice in Wonderland, and she paid over $50 for her costume from a Halloween store. The costume is little more than a blue dress with a white apron sewn on, very easy to make, so why don’t you make that profit instead of the store!
You could advertise general costume making services in the newspaper, or put up a flyer on a community bulletin board, or even just by word of mouth. You could even make specific costumes and list them for sale, although there’s a chance the costumes might not sell, so you’re better off taking orders for specific costumes. Make sure you leave enough time to make each one and allow time for alterations and adjustments before the 31st!
You could probably earn $40-$50 per costume depending on the complexity of each one, just 10 costumes would get you close to the $500 goal!
Tags: $500, business idea, crafts, earn money, Halloween, holidays
