Halloween Costumes - Funny Costume Ideas

It’s open season on Halloween! Let’s face it, Halloween is NOT just for kids anymore! I tend to get super excited around Halloween, as I am someone who tries to find any excuse to dress up. Here are some fun, clever ideas for a unique, nontraditional costume this year.

1. Deviled Egg:

Wear white and paint a yellow circle on your stomach. Then wear devil horns and carry a pitchfork.

2. Gold Digger:

Put on a gold dress. Sprinkle gold glitter in your lip gloss. Paint your nails and a toy shovel gold, and carry it with a bag of gold rocks.

3. Table for One

Use cardboard to make a table that will fit over your head. Secure the cardboard with straps that rest on your shoulders, so that the table goes around your waist. Cover the cardboard with a red checked tablecloth.  Put play dishes and play food on the table, and add accessories (candle, salt and pepper shakers, menu, etc.). 

4. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

Dress up like an old lady, with dress, slippers and a grey wig. Then cut out paper hoof prints to place on your back... or go ahead and paint hoof prints right on the dress (unless you want to wear it again...). 

5. Martha Stewart

Wear a flannel shirt in pastel colors over a t-shirt, with loose khaki pants and flat shoes. Stuff gardening gloves in your pocket and wear an apron. Carry a fancy lined basket with fresh muffins and cookies inside. Handcuffs optional.

6. Dust Bunny

Wear a dirty old white bunny costume and carry a feather duster, or "dust buster" vacuum.

7. Jack and Jill

Get two t-shirts and write or paint JACK and JILL on the backs of each. Jack can wear a broken crown. Jill should have lots of bruises from tumbling after, bruised face and bloody lips. They can both carry around tin pails of water! Although it may be a good idea to cut out construction paper water...just to spare yourselves wet costumes later in the night. 

8. French Kiss

Use aluminum foil and padding to mold yourself into a giant Hershey's Kiss. Add a French beret.

9. Can-Can Dancer

Wear an old, long, frilly skirt. Attach empty cans underneath so that when you lift it up to dance everyone will see your can-cans!

10. Chiquita Banana Lady

Make a hat out of a basket and fill it with fake fruit. Wear a long colorful skirt and a white peasant top. Add large gold hoop earrings. 

11. Blind Date

Use a black trash bag and some loose stuffing to make yourself into a giant date (kind of like a big raisin). Add sunglasses and a white cane.

Ok, so you’ve just been invited to your friend’s Halloween party, but alas, you don’t have a costume… Check out these quick ideas that are easy and are guaranteed to get a few laughs:

1. Buccaneer:

Attach a dollar to each ear. Clever eh?

2. Babysitter:

Strap a doll to the seat of your pants and sit on it.

3. Leaf Blower:

Wear a baseball cap with a leaf dangling down in front of your face. When someone asks what you are, blow on the leaf!

4. Werewolf: Dress in everyday clothes. When someone asks why you're not dressed up, say that you're a werewolf, but it's not a full moon out tonight. 

Going as a couple? Try this idea!

Hawaiian Punch:

One person should dress like a boxer (boxing shorts, boxing gloves, lines beneath the eyes), while the other person dresses like a Hula-girl (grass skirt, bikini top, and a lei).

Here are some great ideas for larger groups that want to stick together:

1. Gang Green:

Everyone wears green and travels together. Alternate version: everyone dresses like gang members with green clothes and green bandanas.

2. iPod Commercial

Dress in ALL black, and use black make-up to cover exposed skin. Carry around an iPod and dance wildly. Preferably in front of bright solid color backdrops. 

3. Static Cling

Wear any kind of mismatched clothes, pin one pant leg up, pin dryer sheets on you as well as socks, small towels, etc., and then use hair gel to make your hair look like it has static

4. Leftovers

Wrap your body in tin foil or saran wrap. Warning!: May get a little toasty so leave air holes. Also, wear clothes underneath the tin foil or wrap. 

What was your most unique or creative Halloween costume?