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…
My 12 year old daughter decided this was her last year to go trick-or-treating and wanted to be a Hermit Crab. I looked and looked for shell ideas but did not find any that we liked, so we set out on a very long journey filled with tons of mistakes! We started out with 1” … Read more
That’s right, a Bug Zapper. When your 7 year old requests to be a bug zapper, you should say, “No”. But I said, “Yes.” And truth be told, it was the best Halloween EVER. Let me start by saying there are ZERO internet searches you can do to figure out how to construct a bug … Read more
7 year old, growing William Joel (born with spina bifida) owns a very special Nascar Dale Earnhardt jacket that surely will NOT fit him next year so this Halloween I decided to make him a wheelchair costume to match his speedy personality & his special jacket. I first measured huge pieces of cardboard to fit … Read more
My 9 year old son decided he wanted to be a minion for halloween this year. I saw the paper mache minion costumes and thought they looked nice but I have no paper mache skills. A man posted a great trash can minion costume and I decided to give it a try. I found the … Read more
The Story of How to for BeeDoo My son is a first grade teacher and loves dressing up for Halloween for his class in a character the kids can identify with. Thus this is how CARL was created. It all began with a cardboard drum for the body.. I cut the drum to my son’s … Read more
My costume was inspired by my love for sunflowers. Being in college, I didn’t have a lot of money to spend on a pre-packaged costume (some of them run about $40-70) so I had almost given up on dressing up at all for halloween. I remember my friend told me that I remind her of … Read more
Originally I was just going to dress my boy up as the old man from UP. He is 12 months old. Then I thought why not dress him up with his lady friend who is 9 months old. So we added her to the mix as his lady love as little old people and they … Read more
My boyfriend (Luke) and I (Danielle) attend Ohio University in Athens Oh, and Halloween is always a huge deal! So if you want to stand out you HAVE to be creative! All summer we contimplated all kinds of costume ideas. When I got back to school a group of my friends also wanted me to … Read more
I have always wanted to do an elegant costume for Beauty and the Beast. I wanted them to look a little more historical, however, so I did some research on French court fashion from around 1800 and based the designs off of that. For the baby, we wanted to do Chip originally, but couldn’t agree … Read more
Get a cheap basket that has a solid board floor. Punch the board out and remove all nails. Get an oversize t-shirt and hot glue the bottom of the t-shirt to the inside of the basket frame. Now your child can put the shirt on and “wear the basket” without having to hold it. Next, … Read more
Ok, so our whole family LOVES playing Plants vs. Zombies. (For those who don’t know, it’s a video game where you use plants in your yard to fight off the zombies trying to get into your house. Why do they want in your house? Because they want your BRAINS!!!) This year for Halloween, my 6 … Read more
I had the idea to make a John Carpenter’s “The Thing”(’82)-inspired costume back in 2011. I went searching around the New England thrift stores for a parka-like jacket with a fur-lined hood, reminiscent of the one used in “The Thing” poster artwork. After much searching, I found one for a good price, and purchased it. … Read more