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!
When my girlfriend and I decided to dress up for Halloween this year, we definitely wanted to make our costumes ourselves. We figured we wanted to do something cute and simple but we wanted to make sure we looked good. Adam and Eve was one of our first choices and we stuck with it. Little … Read more
This costume was made in 2 hours. Using cardboard, wooden sticks an old mask, dollar store hands, a back pack, duct tape, pillow stuffing, a little bit of makeup and some mens xxxL clothing. At first I had no idea ghow I was going to complete this, finding a way to attach his head was … Read more
It all started with a gal who looks a lot like Flo from Progressive. So we added the Geico Money Man which took 8 hours to construct, one package of hot glue sticks and 500 fake dollar bills. Rounding out the team is the not so memorable Erin from Esurance – a cartoon character brought … Read more
I was at a Hallowen costume shop, looking for something that I didn’t think many others would be wearing, when I noticed the creepy yet simple, doll mask. I grabbed one up and starting gather other items throughout the store that I thought would look appropriate with the mask. I then found the bouncy, curly … Read more
This costume was beyond fun to be!! Everyone loved it! It’s easy to make you just get a dress and see on the tulle of what color you chose! They were so fun and hot! we got a lot of compliments on how nice and cool they were! Overall great Halloween costume!
We go to an outdoor adult Halloween party every year, so dressing warmly is always at the base of our costume ideas. We’ve won the costume contest at the party several times, so we always feel the pressure to create some amazing oufits! Since our 8-year old son is addicted to LEGOs, it was an … Read more
My husband and I are into karaoke. He was singing the song Fever, and one line of the song was “chicks were born to give you fever,” so I thought of making a chick costume. I made him a chick magnet costume out of styrofoam, and I glued feathers to to ends. His song was … Read more
Spent a couple months assembling our costumes. We used as our sources eBay, Walmart, hobby lobby, Walgreens, Halloween City and everyone’s closet. The shoulder pads came from a renaissance festival leather crafter. Silver duct tape added flair to plain black boots and leggings. Both wigs were adapted to work for kiss. Imitation leather pants and … Read more
This was a fun costume to make , although I couldn’t find a wedding dress to ffit the bride so I had to make it myself. i started off with buying a blowup doll, and making a wedding dress, bridal bouquet , vail and all. I had to make the bottom of the dress to … Read more
My best friend and I wanted to have cute costumes this Halloween but we didn’t want to have to worry about running into someone else with the same costume! We did some online searching and came up with the perfect idea: Thing 1 & Thing 2! We bought all of the pieces seperately (wig, sequin … Read more
I’ve always loved Marvin the Martian from Loony Toons and wanted to give it a try. For the base outfit I wore white shoes, red tight pants, red corset, red long gloves with cartoon white gloves on top. The skirt is a yellow tutu with green felt cutout sewn on top. The head is made … Read more
I am not a sewer in the least so I probably made this harder than it was with a lot of trial and error. I made a skirt for the wrapper of the cupcake. I made pleats in the skirt to look like a cupcake wrapper. The skirt took me three evenings to get … Read more