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 asked my 8 yr old daughter Trinity what she wanted to be for Halloween, she replied with “a cemetery angel” – a challenge was made! I bought 2 pieces of foam core board to use as the wings, free handed the wing shape and cut out with a box cutter. I used craft foam … Read more
I had a vision to create a “bowl of spaghetti and meatballs on a table” but had no idea how it would come together. I started with the hat. Hot glued yarn on a hat along with brown painted foam balls for meatballs. I was very worried she would have nothing to do with the … Read more
Anybody can be Johnny Depp’s version of The Mad Hatter, but I decided to take the Hatter’s madness to its (il)logical extreme. In my vision, the poor Hatter was so confused as to which hat to wear to the Queen’s Tea, that he decided to wear EVERY hat he owned at once. Now, of course, … Read more
My goal was to make a homemade dinosaur costume as cool as possible by spending as little as possible in only 2 weeks. I had to start somewhere. Some of the “How to make…” sites used foam to shape heads for costumes, so I figured this is where I should start. I had some foam … Read more
This year my son picked Mickey Mouse as his costume and every year we have to incorporate a costume for the wheelchair. We start with a heavy cardboard form that slips right over the wheelchair. We then layer 2″ foam core on top of the cardboard. We layered outwards for each piece that we needed, … Read more
BrainStorm is made mostly of aluminum, along with PVC, plastic salsa bowls, and a good amount of electronics. I used EL wire, an infrared security camera, a toy voice modulator, several LED’s, vacuum tubes, and a tiny laser pico projector. This robot costume took three months of solid work to design and build it in … Read more
This swamp monster, officially dubbed as Seymour Fishgerald, started out as a simple concept sketch. The idea came to me as I was talking to the supervisor of a local haunted walkthrough. As we discussed our ideas for how to scare the pants off of poor, innocent people for the seasonal Haunted Hollow, I realized … Read more
This Zombie LEGO Minifigure Costume was made for the pop culture convention, Supanova in Perth, Australia in 2011. I used cardboard for the torso and legs, resin/fiberglass to make the structure strong, foam for padding insides and arms, straps with Velcro inside the legs to strap the LEGO legs in place, old fly wire for the … Read more
With the passing of New York’s Gay Marriage, we thought Bert and Ernie should get married. I found foam padding at a local thrift store for only $3. We proceeded to sculpt, cut, tape, glue, carve, and tape some more the basic shapes of their heads. Using the right color felt, we attached to the … Read more
My wife, being an elementary librarian, came up with the idea of honoring Maurice Sendak with this year’s costume. We always do homemade costumes, but these took more work than normal. Papier Mache Heads: Each head was constructed out of paper pulp papier mache over a punch balloon. Each layer took 2 days to dry … Read more
My husband has a few of these awards lying around (he is a television camera operator) and I thought it a great idea to go as an “Emmy”. But just like all costumes on this website, it just takes time and patience. I started off by researching the length of the dress (floor length) and … Read more
Run in terror from the Catskill Mountain Yeti! This is my 3rd home made costume and was by far the most difficult and expensive yet. Due to the thickness of the faux fur I had to hand stitch almost every inch of this costume. I used my full face ski helmet covered in furniture foam … Read more