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!
Shopping list: Clear masking tape Two boxes 8 meters of pink wrapping paper 5 meters of yellow wrapping paper 1 meter of purple wrapping paper 2 sheets of white cardboard 1 sheet of red cardboard Pink rhinestones Glue Rope Outfits: BARBIE Blue tights and singlet Pink belt Pink flats Pink scrunchie Colorful leg earners Pink … Read more
I first saw Wicked when I was 14. Ever since then I always wanted Elphaba’s main dress from act 2. But sadly then I had just started to sew and knew it would be sometime before I could even attempt to recreate the tony award winning dress. As time went on I made more costumes … Read more
It was so hard for me to come up with a great couples costume for myself and my awesome boyfriend. I wanted something original and funny, but also something I would be comfortable portraying as a plus size woman. Famous people tend to be on the more petite side and I didn’t want to feel … Read more
I saw a picture on Pinterest of a little boy dressed as Mr. Fredrickson from Up. My son was going to be 18 months around Halloween, and I thought that would be the cutest costume for him. I wanted to do more though, so I decided to be Kevin, the bird, and I convinced my … Read more
This is my Mario costume very easy to do. I went to Home Depot down the painting isle grabbed pant interns hat and spray painted it red and made the M logo out of white and black paint this only took me two days to do. I bought a red long sleeve shirt some suspenders … Read more
Hello, may name is Tucker. For the last three years I have made my own costumes. It was cheaper and I get to be creative. My specialty is duct tape and cardboard. This Buzz Lightyear Halloween costume took me a little over a week to make. Well worth it! The hardest part on this costume was … Read more
This fun Halloween costume from the Movie Up was my absolute favorite costume that I have made to date!! I used an old box and taped ‘basket weaving’ on it and then spray painted it brown. The top of the ‘hot air balloon’ was held up by PVC pipes taped into the corners. The suspenders helped … Read more
Alright, well it was my senior year in high school and we had spirit week. One of the days was celebrity day and so OF COURSE I was going to go all out and be one of my personal heroes, Katy Perry. I wanted to do something more original and make my own costume, so … Read more
So here it is… The Joker. For starters, I look nothing like him, other then having a narrow face. I am in the Canadian military, so no long hair for this guy. Also, did this all by myself, no woman or someone else knowledgeable with makeup helped me out. I got an amazing reception for … Read more
Last Halloween, my family and I got invited to a costume party, which was also having a costume contest. I was very excited because I wanted to go as my favorite animal, a sloth. My mother and I went to every single costume store around town looking for fake fur fabric, which was the hardest … Read more
Me and my boyfriend have been dating for four years! We have won the costume composition at our church for 3 years and we didn’t want to lose this year! So we put all we had in this costume it took us about a week of sewing and cutting and blood to finish this super … Read more
I thought of this because I watched it as a kid. Everyone knows Peg and Al Buddy! Hardest part was holding that wig on my head all night, it was heavy. I won the costume contest that night, whoo hoo. I made my husband’s shirt and we had to borrow a football, haha. I was … Read more