DIY Home Depot Bucket Halloween Costume

For most of my life, my Halloween costumes have revolved around being creative with D.I.Y. First out of necessity, growing up on a dryland farm in Central Nebraska, my mother would sew our Halloween costumes as children to save money each year.

Due to this early exposure of DIYing Halloween, my love and enthusiasm for creativity with costumes has only intensified each year as I’ve grown into adult . . .

So imagine my delight when (my home away from home) The Home Depot asked me to get creative with their tools and supplies and DIY a one-of-kind Halloween costume for my absolute favorite holiday?! Yeah, needless to say, I was pumped and knew in an instant what I wanted to be.

Yeppers, abstract is the name of the game for Jenna this year regarding her Halloween costumes! To get started on this human-size Home Depot Bucket, I made some minor adjustments with the help of a few layers of hue-matching duct tape. You can spray paint any garbage can orange, too!

Next, using a tool you personally feel comfortable cutting plastic with (I’m using a cordless saw), saw carefully around the bottom portion of theorange trash can. You’re basically creating an opening in your costume for your legs because safety first!

I also decided to use some additional orange-tastic duct tape around the lip of this new “leg” opening as well ;) for an extra safety precaution. Don’t need to be scraping up those shins, y’all!

Now it’s time for straps! Using a Phillips screwdriver and hammer, create four holes in the top lip of your BRUTE trash can.

Then, again using the hammer, lightly tap the end of each of your two orange bungee cords; through the hole you created with your Phillips screwdriver.

The most important detail of your HD Bucket Costume is by far the HD logo itself. For this portion of the DIY, I personally relied heavily upon this “old school” classroom projector I salvaged years ago from a junk yard; but of course, this is not a commonality in most households. Luckily however, the Home Depot does have a pretty inexpensive option for you and your creative needs: the HD Mini Projector!

I cannot even begin to tell you how many different DIY projects I have used this vintage classroom projector on, so in my professional opinion = having some sort of projector on hand as a creative is an absolute must in your DIYing tool kit!

Plus, then you won’t have to be like me ;) spending over an hour – cutting out each THD letter by hand with scissors. Instead, you can just upload The Home Depot logo to your projector and work smarter, not harder!!

While projecting The Home Depot logo onto your orange Brute trash can, first mark out the base of each letter with white electrical tape.

Next, using smaller strips of the same electrical tape, start refining every aspect of The Home Depot’s iconic logo.

Then, last but not least, create the square frame that goes around The Home Depot logo as well, using yet again additional strips of white electrical tape. And don’t worry – one roll of the white is MORE than enough ;) #doershonor