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…
“Bee do bee do bee do! Baboi! Baboi! Mom, I want to be a Minion for Halloween!!” ecstatically exclaimed my eight-year-old middle guy. For this child to actually WANT to be anything for Halloween is just shy of amazing! You see, my middle son is diagnosed with high-functioning autism and sensory integration dysfunction, which means, … Read more
A couple of weeks before our neighborhood Halloween Party I had been trying to come up with a really good couple’s costume. One day, my 5yr old daughter was watching TV while I was cleaning and I happened to look up and I saw that she was watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it hit … Read more
The Mr. Owl Tootsie Pop commercial is such a memorable commercial for those of us born between the 60’s and the 80’s. Resurrecting this character and his love of lollipops in the form of a couple’s costume delighted fellow party-goers with it’s humor, nostalgia, and flirtatious spin. It also brought me a 1st place title … Read more
For those who never saw Disney’s brilliant cartoon TV series Gargoyles, I pity you. It was an amazing, gritty cartoon that showcased some brilliant writing along with tie ins to actual history and Shakespeare. My favorite character from this show was Demona, originally part of the main gargoyle clan who went her own way when … Read more
My son wanted to be Raph from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles so I knew I would have to make something homemade. What is funny is that several years back my friends and I had dressed up like the Ninja Turtles and I too was Raph. The first step was to find a matching green … Read more
My son-in law asked me if we could make a “Scrad & Charlie” costume where he could operate the “second head”. I made a fake arm of foam and nylon stocking, attached it to a shirt with an open back. I made the MJ zipper jacket/vest but used edging material vice zippers to keep the cost down. … Read more
My son wanted to be a Minion for Halloween but at the store the costumes we saw looked like sacks. I knew I could do better than that. Since I work all the time, I could only do the costume on weekends. I got a paper and pen and drew a schedule for how long I had until Halloween. I … Read more
P.S. if my English is bad, excuse me, I am a French Canadian. Last year, a friend of mine and me decided to do Lego costumes for Halloween and won 1st place in two different bars, so we decided to participate again this year. We brainstormed for about two weeks and ended up with the … Read more
The idea for this doll costume came after I found a really cool makeup trick that involves painting your eyelids to look like doll eyes, and slowly the character evolved. I took a simple black dress and painted the thread marks, bought striped socks and sleeves and then mary jane shoes at Goodwill. The puppet … Read more
I have been making handmade costume for 28 years. I strted when my own children were young, I was a stay at home mom and couldn’t afford to buy costumes for my 3 kids so I would collect interesting costume pieces and accessories from thrift stores and garage sales throughout the year. To this day … Read more
I wanted a costume that could combine a great articulated wing design from a fellow Instructables user, shoot steam and possibly utilize stilts. Dragon seemed to fit the requirements. The costume uses a lot of EVA foam (aka cross-linked polyethylene foam). The head was made of sheets of foam, backed with cardboard, and supported with … Read more
This is Mr. Kessler D. Quist, a big, bad, goofy wolf. I got his name from 80’s werewolf films, and his design from old cartoons and my imagination. While out and about, he loves to play tricks. His head is carved upholstery foam, held together with hot glue. His eyes are painted plastic with screen … Read more