Gameboard Costumes
Coolest 60+ Homemade Gameboard Costumes
Looking to capture people’s attention this Halloween with a bit of nostalgia and ingenuity? Take a look at this awesome collection of gameboard costumes. If you love to play board games, you will love them even more as homemade costumes.
Check out the Candyland inspired costumes here. Create a character from the beloved kid’s game or be the actual board. There are tons of fun and delicious looking DIY costumes below, from Princess Lolly to King Kandy.
Or, be a twister board for an easy homemade costume. Just make sure people don’t get too handsy!
Also, Scrabble addicts know there is only one game worth dressing up as. Browse through these DIY costumes for some super innovative ways to arrange your tiles.
So, whether you have a soft spot for Operation, Monopoly or Guess Who?, get the best DIY costume inspiration from these homemade gameboard costumes.
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Coolest Homemade Candyland Characters Group Costume
This year we made this cool Candyland Characters group costume. We love doing themes each year for Halloween that involved the whole family (mom, dad, and four girls). So, we decided on the characters from the classic board game, Candyland. While this Homemade Candyland Characters Group Costume took quite a while to create, there was … Read more
Cool DIY Monopoly Car Costume
Wearing The Monopoly Car Costume Here I am as the Uncle Pennybags costume, and my car (the Coopie monster) in the Monopoly Car costume. Monopoly Car Costume Inspiration This year I had the unique chance to hand out candy to trick or treaters. Instead of your average “knock on doors” technique most kids follow, I Joined the … Read more
Cool DIY Operation Skill Game Costume
Here is an idea I came up with and I was rather impressed how well it came out. I started out with a box that a treadmill was delivered in and ran with it. I have about 35 hours into building it. Luckily my Daughter is an arts student and did the art work for me. … Read more
Princess Lolly Costume from Candyland!
For a couple of years now I have wanted to make a Princess Lolly costume from the board game Candyland. I wasn’t sure how to go about making the costume. I looked at different ideas online, and tried to come up with my own take on it. All in all, this costume took about two months to … Read more
Coolest Operation Game Cavity Sam Costume
My company has a yearly Halloween costume contest, for the best individual costume as well as for the best departmental costume theme. While my department has won continuously for the past two years, several employees were going to be out on Halloween 2014, so I decided to go to it alone with a solo costume … Read more
Coolest Guess Who Costume – Claire (Easy and Comfortable)
Tired of storing my childhood and college things, my mom has been sending stuff home with me when I visit my parents’ house. On one such trip, she asked me if something she’d found in the garage was mine. It was a lone flip-top garbage can lid (without the garbage can) and, to be funny, … Read more
Easy, Unique, Inexpensive, Contest-Winning MONOPOLY Group/Family Costumes
Our family dresses in theme every year—not an easy feat when you have 7 in your family and the children range in age from 4 to 15! This year we pow-wowed around the kitchen table over several nights and after much back-and-forth (and a bit of angst) we settled on Monopoly. We have lots of … Read more
Sexy Miss Mint Costume from Candyland
This costume was a lot of fun to create! I made the shorts myself and then glued peppermints on to that. I had the red top and used red fabric to sew on it and then glued peppermints onto the red fabric. The hardest part was creating the shorts. Using a sequin fabric is tough … Read more
Coolest Homemade Scrabble Nerd Costume
I love Scrabble, so I decided to be the game for Halloween! I bought a bag of 1000 tiles online and got to work. I made a belt, headband, bracelets, earrings, and rings out of the tiles. For the headband, I bought a plain plastic headband and glued the tiles in a way that created … Read more
Homemade Couple Costume – Princess Lolly and Lord Licorice from Candyland
I had so much fun coming up with this idea for Princess Lolly and Lord Licorice! I first thought of my costume when I was listening to a Katy Perry station on Pandora and saw her album cover for the Teenage Dream collection. I thought to myself, “Candyland, that’s it!” After coming up with Lolly … Read more
Original Couple Costume Idea: Mr Monopoly and Princess Lolli from Candy Land
My husband came up with this fantastic couples costume idea. He wore a suit and we bought him a cheap top hat and bow tie, and he used some monopoly money as props. We found the mustache on Amazon. I used an old bridesmaids dress and added some felt fabric to make Lolli’s dress, then … Read more
Sexy Candy Land Costume
The main part out this outfit is to super glue candy into a tutu! I also bought iron on letters (inexpensive) and ironed them onto a tank to say “Candy Land.” The leg warmers were about $8, but aren’t necessary! Add a giant lollipop, candy necklaces, and a ring pop and you’re done! WARNING: Drunk people … Read more
Pretty Pretty Princesses Board Game Group Costume
This past year my three friends and I decided we really wanted to wear tutus and just had to find the perfect group costume idea to support it. While playing one of our favorite games, Pretty Pretty Princess, it hit us! We will all be a princess – blue, purple, pink and yellow. We decided … Read more
Coolest Baby Halloween Costume: Rich Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly
It all started with a novelty mustache pacifier we received from my parents. Once we saw Joshua with it we knew his costume needed to revolve around that rockin’ ‘stache. We rejected Mario on the basis that Daddy had been Luigi several times already and we wanted a costume that would work for the whole … Read more
Cool Couple Costume: “Guess Who” We Were for Halloween?
I don’t know about you, but since the beginning of time I have loved playing the game “Guess Who”. I especially enjoyed when my opponent drew a girl as their character because that meant less for me to have to guess. Ha! The ratio of men to women in that game is just plain nuts. … Read more
Coolest Homemade Candy Land Group Halloween Costume
We planned Candyland a YEAR in advance. It took a long time to make. Basically we bought things for our costumes whenever we found something, throughout the year. Princess Lolli: I was princess Lolli. I found the yellow dress at Goodwill. It was old. Long with a high neck & sleeves. I altered it. Cut … Read more
Best Candy Land Group Halloween Costume
Candy Land Halloween 2012 My friends and I were looking for a great group costume idea. We came across a childhood favorite game, Candy Land! The characters of Candy Land and their creative personas intrigued us and we were excited to create the costumes. We quickly began assigning roles to group members, we did have … Read more
Original Couple Costume Idea: Guess Who? Board Game
I love making my costumes and always try to do something original, and this year my boyfriend and I looked back to our childhood for this one. I came across the board game Guess Who and remembered all the characters and how I used to play it for hours…”does your person have a hat”, does … Read more
Original Homemade Scrabble Group Costume
Every year my friends and I struggle coming up with costume ideas. We always want to be creative and original and this year I really think we topped ourselves! Our Scrabble group costume came about when a few of us were sitting around the table trying to figure out what eight girls could dress up … Read more
Easy, Last Minute Twister Couple Halloween Costume
I saw the Twister idea on your website originally but just for a guy. We decided to make it in to a Twister couple Halloween costume. We both wore white on top and bottom, I cut out the circles from sheets of felt from the craft store and used double sided tape to stick them … Read more
Dirty Last-Minute Twister Costume
Buy a white t-shirt and white shorts or pants. This dirty last-minute Twister costume requires 4-10 pieces of construction paper of 4 different colors (to make the circles) and black string to hang the twister board around your neck if needed. For the game spinner, use a white sheet of paper and cut out a … Read more
Coolest Rock, Paper, Scissors Group Costume
Rock: required metalic tank and spray painted to-to. Paper: was a homemade sheet dress, with perminated marker to create the lines, and holes. Scissors: was made from poster board and a hinge so that when the legs moved so did the scissor and was attached with a little string. It was an awesome costume for … Read more
Coolest Homemade Candyland Costume
This year I decided on a homemade CandyLand costume for Halloween. I was trying to think of something fun and originally thought either cotton candy or Twister but I kept seeing Twister costumes at the Halloween stores and wanted to be something different. So I made myself a plain white dress as a base. The … Read more
Coolest Operation Costume
I first had the idea to make the operation costume when I was playing the game with my younger brother, I then had to think how could I make it fully functional??… I’m a carpenter by trade and decided to use a sheet of 6mm MDF to draw the outline on. I wanted the costume … Read more