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 made several costumes for my toddler in the last 2 months. I did not enter all of them in this contest because it takes a while to do the write ups. Also, some of my favorites aren’t always the popular ones. I did’t initially post this one because I wasn’t sure how it would … Read more
My kids have finally all reached the age where they can watch the Wizard of Oz without me fearing the night ahead. In honor of this (and the fact that it’s celebrating its 75th anniversary) we chose to take on ‘characters’ from this classic. My youngest daughter was DOROTHY, complete with thrift shop ruby … Read more
Stop! In the name of love! The traffic light costume was made by getting three battery-powered tap-on lights, painting them red, yellow and green, and ductaping them to an all black outfit. The pylon costume consisted of a bright orange shirt, ductape stripes, and a mini pylon with a battery-powered light inside of it, secured … Read more
This is my 10 month old daughter Joni! Since the day she was born she always reminded us of a “baby bird” so her nickname “J Bird” instantly stuck with the entire family! I knew I wanted her to be a bird for Halloween but just couldn’t find any store bought costumes that were good … Read more
For the past four years I have wanted to make a peacock costume. I researched the internet for peacock costumes, I looked at real peacocks and this year I finally made my peacock costume. First I purchased a prom dress from a local thrift store in midnight blue as my starting point, cost $7.50. I purchased some beaded trim and … Read more
Gremlins has always been one of my favorite movies as a kid. And Greta Gremlin has always been my favorite character. It’s a costume that I’ve always wanted to do… And I finally got around to attempting it this year. I started off by investing in a really good green wig. Then I purchased a … Read more
I live, love, breath for Halloween. I am always in love with illusions and quirkiness, missing body parts, etc. I have the “Corpse Coming Alive” on here from a couple of years ago as well. Which led me to The Contortionists idea. I love all things Freak Show and Vaudeville, so that helped with my … Read more
It all started late one August night. My best friend and I were reminiscing about past Halloweens and how we had so passionately enjoyed them. It was not two minutes later my 3 year old son and my 5 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback dog came flying into the room and my son was exclaiming that … Read more
This costume was created for my boyfriend who had one request this Halloween: “nothing cute or fuzzy please” We both race dirtbikes so the idea came to me right away! I search the Internet to see if it had been done before and it hadn’t. I designed the costume on sticky pads then made it come … Read more
My friends and I decided to dress up for Halloween as a group and the theme we picked was captains. We had Captain Morgan/Crunch/Lela/Kirk with me as Captain America. Since there were so many store bought versions of Captain I decided to make a cheap one out of Card board and Colored Duct Tape. I … Read more
It was September, and just as has been the case for many years now, I asked my 10 year old son Chance what he wanted to be for Halloween. “Something headless”, he replied. Gone are the days of cute Halloween costumes, replaced in recent years by zombies and the like. “Okay”, I said, all the … Read more
Here’s the story behind our Family’s Despicable Me costumes. I had never been much of a Halloween person until my oldest was 3 and started to really have a blast on Halloween. Last year, we dressed up as Monsters, Inc., and my kids dressed up in their costumes all the time long after Halloween was … Read more