Get excited, these are the best Halloween costumes to come across our site! These costumes were given special mention by our Editors. Due to this, you will be astounded by their creativity and realism.
Go inside the minds of the people who came up with these unbelievable costume designs. Some ideas are simple and others are extremely unique. Either way, this collection of the best Halloween costumes are all done supremely and realistically well. As a result, they manage to completely blow our minds.
In this section, learn how to effectively become your favorite movie character. See the best Halloween costumes for Marty McFly, Mary Poppins and Bert, Chewbacca and even a Beetlejuice family! If you’re a TV fan you will love Marge Simpson, Wun Wun the Giant. and some truly scary American Horror Story costumes. Additionally, we have Broadway play characters like awesome Elphabas.
In addition, we have food items, insects and larger animals. So you can dress up like slurpees, butterflies, and even a baby Octopus. The range and talent is truly remarkable.
Finally, we have optical illusions, famous expressions and even more.
You will find something great to make here. Whether you have a month or just an hour or a month to spend working on your costume. We can’t wait to see what you come up with! Please share it with us here…
I was thinking to myself, “How could I do a fun spin on dressing up classy/fancy for Halloween”. My mind immediately went to magazine covers and GQ fit the bill perfectly. It was also super easy and cheap to make. I took a big piece of cardboard, drew the logo and shape that I wanted … Read more
Find the creepiest, ugliest, scariest clown online and go to town with face paints that dry. Use your imagination. This way you don’t have to spend a lot of money on costume materials. Be creative, when you create your costume with face paints, you can alter it and do ANYTHING you want. I used Snazaroo … Read more
We got invited to a Halloween party an hour before we needed to be there and as usual did not have costumes prepared! Heather decided to go as a black cat. She converted her lion ears from the previous year’s Cowardly Lioness costume into cat ears. She did so by safety pinning them near the … Read more
My two daughters, Audrey and Natalie, are very close with their two cousins, Emmitt & Derek. They play (and fight) together all the time. For at least the last couple of years, they have built and destroyed (each other’s) countless Lego creations. When The Lego Movie came out, that’s all they talked about. They quickly … Read more
The original idea for this costume came from my desire to continue my annual tradition of paying tribute to different artists and their work through homemade Halloween costumes. Last year, I was the “Son of Man” by Rene Magritte, and this year, after some research and last minute procrastination, I decided on Banksy’s Flower Thrower … Read more
Growing up, my brothers and I all had homemade costumes. I knew I wanted to continue this tradition for my own daughter. For her first Halloween, since she isn’t walking yet, I knew we would need to do something with her stroller or wagon. I enlisted the help of my very creative father and within … Read more
Halloween is my favorite time of the year and I love getting creative and making my own costumes. This year, I was pregnant with my first child and due on October 28, so I wasn’t sure if I would spend Halloween in the hospital or not. My daughter, Cadence, arrived a few days early, on … Read more
I wanted a costume that was original and funny this year, and I think this Sharknado Costume came out perfect. I started with the top of the tornado, using wire to create two different sized circles that connected. I used a frame for a wreath that I found at a craft store and manipulated. I … Read more
Kinley is 3 years old and uses a wheelchair and we wanted to make her a cool costume that she could have fun in. We were inspired to do this project after seeing other amazing wheelchair costumes from fellow special needs families and seeing how it just lights these kids up. She picked a Hello … Read more
So this homemade Rain Cloud costume was inspired by one my best friend’s photograph of a sunset. We live in Costa Rica Guanacaste in a little town called Tamarindo and it has been very dry this season so this costume was also a pray to the rain Gods to send some more moisture our way. … Read more
These Bunny in Magician Hat costumes were completely handmade. The bunny outfits were made from white fleece and only 1/2 to waist where the hat rim was. We glued cardboard to the fleece to make it flat for the bottom of the bunny feet. We then glued pink felt cut in shape of paw bottoms, … Read more
I decided to throw a Halloween party for the group of kids my husband and I teach on Sunday mornings. I wanted to dress up for the party and make it as fun as I could for the kids. One night, I was going over my costume ideas with my husband. One of those ideas … Read more