This is an amazing resource of Halloween costume ideas. All these costumes have won a local contest, and for good reason! Imaginative and extremely effective, you will find yourself returning to this section over and over again.
A little sample of what you will see here include everything from a mini Mr. T to a pop art version of a Stepford Wife. In addition, many costumes take their inspiration from game shows such as Wheel of Fortune and Plinko.
It seems like people have a lot of fun recreating their favorite movie characters. Considering so many of them won contests, it’s a favorite of contest judges as well. Find out how you can become Ben Stiller’s character from Dodgeball and the whole gang from Guardians of the Galaxy. Animated movies are represented here as well from Disney princesses to Rafiki from The Lion King.
Take lessons from the masters as they take concepts and turn them into recognizable costumes, hence landing them contest winner titles!
Jiminy sported a green body suit and velcroed cartoon eyes on the outer part of the mask. A felt mouth pasted on the mask finished the look. Pinnochio secured a long piece of wood with cross members on top and carried the nose for pictures. Many Disney fans enjoyed them!
I started making the boots by using an old pair of ballet flats with knee socks over top and covering them with blue duct tape. I used many layers so that they would keep their shape when I cut down the back of the boot to add grommets (about an inch apart) and ribbon so … Read more
“What do we want to be for halloween?” My wife asked as she was browsing pintrest. A click here and a click there and a image of a “R2-tu-tut” costume lead us to the family starwars costumes. It was decided that we would go as, Anakin and Padame Skywalker with our children Luke and Leia. … Read more
This is a great costume for a young boy or girl who enjoys dragons! My son is in Pre-K and they had a book report due in a week. They had to choose their favorite book, create a poster board about it and dress up like a character from the story. Well leave it up … Read more
I created this costume while I was doing my hair! I have naturally curly hair and one day it wasn’t cooperating, it just kept getting bigger and bigger! I live in Oregon, so the wet weather doesn’t do curly hair Amy favors. I was silently cursing my genetics when I thought, trying to find the … Read more
And so we went to Vegas…. This costume was made for a local Halloween Party that was giving away a free trip to Las Vegas as the grand prize, so I thought what better way to win then to be Las Vegas so with Lady Luck by my side we took the grand prize. The … Read more
My 3 year old said he wanted to be Thomas the Tank Engine for Halloween. I have seen the store bought ones and knew those wouldn’t work out or give him the excitement he really wanted, as he is confined to a wheelchair from a rare genetic disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. So I thought, … Read more
For the last few years my boss has been selecting a theme for our office Halloween party. She picked the theme 1920’s, UGH!!! Everyone was talking about “flappers” and dresses and long necklaces– and I am not one to go along with the crowd. So, of course I get on the internet and look for … Read more
Our office Halloween party this year had a theme (again! I don’t like to be limited) any Disney Character. Perfect! I already had my mind on being Lilo from Lilo and Stitch. I asked my teenage son to be Stitch- of course he said “NO WAY!” So I had to get creative. I called up … Read more
I come from an era when we just didn’t go to the store and buy a Halloween costume. Or maybe it’s that I lived too far out in the country to go to town (30 miles or more) to buy a costume? But, my mother always said, “if you want to dress up for Halloween, you … Read more
Gotta love Despicable Me! These little minions are the best and funniest little creatures. They have some great one-liners and for Halloween dressing up as a group of Minions was amazing! We won a costume contest at the first bar we went to and got a lot of high fives and “awesome costumes!” It was … Read more
I made this costume last year, I tried to come up with a costume this year as cool as the peacock but it just isn’t going to happen I won’t be able to out do this costume, I just made a few adjustments and made it a little different this year and it still took … Read more