450+ Awe-Inspiring Optical Illusion Costumes You Can Make for Halloween

Coolest Bedhead Illusion Costume

9 year old was inspired by costumes from your website and came up with this Bedhead Illusion Costume. It was a huge hit.

Cage Illusion Halloween Ideas for Costumes

I made this cage illusion costume for my eight-year-old son who wanted a costume that nobody else had. One of the Halloween ideas I remembered I had seen was an old picture of a gorilla holding his trainer costume. But I wanted something a little scarier. So I searched all over the Internet for different … Read more

Headless 2

Coolest Outhouse Halloween Costume

Each year we try to come up with something unique for my kids on Halloween. I always give them several options and let them choose. This year my son Colby, age 12, decided he wanted to be inside an outhouse Halloween costume. I was able to make this costume out of a refrigerator box. I … Read more

Coolest Headless Halloween Costume

This Headless Halloween costume was as much fun to make as my daughter had wearing it! The costume can be made for any character. It just happens that the thrift store had this chef jacket for $3.95 and that made it even better. The headless component of this costume is a rolling backpack with the … Read more

Coolest Head on Platter Costume

We used a backpack and put a flat polystyrene lid inside it and then put a carton over it and taped it to the back pack. This was the trunk of the Head on Platter Costume. We then put stocking over the top of the carton and stuffed the arms (legs of the stockings) with … Read more

Coolest Homemade Headless Ghost Lady Halloween Costume

I found an old dress at a vintage thrift shop in my Brooklyn neighborhood for this Homemade Headless Ghost Lady Halloween Costume. I built the body from a piece of packing Styrofoam taped to the handle of a rolling backpack. It was almost the right size already, just had to sculpt the waist. For the … Read more

Awesome DIY Headless Halloween Costume

I couldn’t figure out how to make this costume work. It took me a while to figure out how to make it not too heavy. I used a rolling backpack and duct taped the handle in the up position so it wouldn’t slide down. I then took a scrap piece of wood as wide as … Read more

Cool DIY Headless Costume

I made this Homemade Headless Costume for the Denver 2011 zombie crawl and the Fetish Ball. The costume came out so good that I ended up on three news web sites. 7 news, Denver Metromix (their photo), and the Denver Post even though there were somewhere between 15,000 to 30,000 people on the Denver 16th … Read more

Cool Head on Platter Halloween Costume

Thank you Coolest Costumes! This site was a great resource and the inspiration for my spooky head on a platter Halloween costume. I won Most Original Costume at work and it was a sensation! I followed the instructions and tips from other happy heads on a platter from this site. I bought everything at an … Read more

Original Homemade Headless Boy Costume

Found this homemade headless boy costume idea from this site! Everyone loved it! Used parts we had at home and cost only 5$ for the fake blood and make-up! Used an old Star Wars kite and stockings filled with plastic bags… an old foam head minus the head – pretty cool and very scary!

Cool Oscar the Grouch Costume

Broke my leg and had a lot of time on my hands. Building this Homemade Oscar the Grouch Costume was my hobby for the better part of a month. I’ve seen other Oscar costumes with Oscar’s feet poking out the bottom of the trash can. Everyone knows that Oscar can’t move his own garbage can. … Read more