Halloween is a big holiday in North America, but not so much in other places in the world, although it is gaining more popularity. You can’t deny that it is an enjoyable time for adults who decorate their homes, consume everything pumpkin spiced and carve out jack-o'-lanterns.
But it’s probably the most entertaining for the little ones as parents take care of their children’s health and don't let them eat too much candy, but Halloween is an occasion when kids are even encouraged to go from door to door and ask for candy. Not only that, they can dress up as their favorite characters from cartoons, movies and more, ditching their boring everyday clothes for a day. Some of the costumes kids dress up in are quite intricate and it’s always interesting to see what they want to pretend to be.
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She Looks Just Like Grandma
Children and parents can come up with really creative ways to dress up for Halloween. They actually often put a lot of effort into the costumes, designing them and then making them themselves. It’s not always that you will find the precise outfit your kid wants as they can be into really niche stuff.
In this list you will find children dressing up as characters from various movies that are not all meant for kids, like horror movies, they also dressed up as animals and characters from video games. Their imaginations were really limitless.
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Burn The Witch
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If we look up some statistics, we would find out that in 2019, before the pandemic started, Americans spent $3.2 billion on costumes alone, that equals to about $31 per person, according to the data of the National Retail Federation (NRF). And in total their spendings for costumes, candy and decorations, reached $8.8 billion in 2019. This year it is expected that they will spend even more, $10.1 billion.
According to the NRF survey, about 65 percent of Americans are planning to celebrate Halloween and that’s about 214 million people. It’s not surprising that the biggest age group to celebrate is from 18 to 44, but what is interesting is that 67 percent of people of ages from 45 to 64 and 40 percent of people older than 65 also answered that they are going to celebrate.
A Headless Knight These Days
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My Son’s Young Maleficent Costume I’ve Been “Working On” For Two Years Finally Finished By His Mom Just In Time For Halloween
Very nice costume, and what ahandsome young man you've got there
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In current times Halloween evidently became very commercialized but it’s not like the tradition came out of nowhere. Obviously, children just like to dress up and Halloween is a perfect occasion to be whatever they want to be.
But according to the online magazine History, the dressing up is rooted in the Celtic festival of Samhain started celebrating 2 millennia ago. During the festival which would take place at the end of October when the harvest season ended people would light up bonfires and dress up with costumes as they believed that the dark season is full of ghosts they needed to trick by disguising themselves.
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I Pity The Fool
My Daughter Nailed Her Minister Of Silly Walks Costume
If you think that this list is not enough to satisfy your craving for Halloween content, Bored Panda has more for you to see. If you are interested in pet costumes, you can give a look at this post and if you want inspiration for what to wear this year, in this article you will see some next level creativity.
But what do you think about these children’s costumes? Will you try to recreate any of them? What would you think would be a great idea to dress up as that wasn’t in this list? Let us know your thoughts and don’t forget to upvote what are the most creative costumes in your eyes.
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And The Best Costume Award Goes To
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Great collar choice...I think Justice Ginsburg would have *loved* the collar!
This Is The Cutest Halloween Costume
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Baby's First Costume
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My 2-Year-Old Son As Pennywise. I Made The Entire Costume And Am Extremely Happy With How It Turned Out
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My 11 Year Old Daughter As Sir Elton John. Saturday Night’s Alright For Frightening
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My Son As The Rock
Perfect Halloween Costume
Medusa? EDIT**(BTW This got a lot more upvotes than I thought it would so thank you guys ;) )
My Kids Were Doc & Marty From BTTF
My Cousin’s Halloween Costume
Wow, that was a lot of work...she is intent on having the bossest costume in the neighborhood!
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My Son’s Link Costume
Great idea for when you need some quiet... since Link does not speak.
Starter Pokemon Triplets
Dressed As The Coolest Professor This Year
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My 10-Year-Old Wanted To Be A Very Famous Singer For Halloween
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We Always Joked That Our Little Guy Looked Like A Mandrake Root When He Cried. Therefore, We Dressed Him Up As One For His First Halloween
Matilda
My Family’s Avatar The Last Airbender Costumes
My Cousin’s Kid After I Handed Him A Panda Head. I Give You: The Pandalorian
My Kids Are Sus
How’d We Do?
“Come With Us And You Will See, This, Our Town Of Halloween!”
My Daughter Is Obsessed With Halloween. We Bought Her A Skeleton Costume For Her Birthday And She Insisted On Putting It On Immediately, With A Birthday Hat
My Son And I 3D Printed His Costume This Year. The Lich King From Warcraft III And WOW
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My Rainbow Brite Costume Made From Scratch By My Amazing Mom, 1986
Yes We Can
I Told Them They Won Halloween, Split The Rest Of My Candy Between The Two Of Them, And Turned Off My Porch Light
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Baby Shark In Real Life
My Daughter, The Bat
The ear tufts are most excellent! Bats are so important to our ecosystem.
My Little Brother's Halloween Costume
I Made A Scuba Diver Costume For My 1yo. Approximately 8 People Saw It. So Pleased With Myself Though
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My 5-Year-Old Wanted To Be Ace Frehley For Halloween
Father And Son Halloween Costume
My Son’s Costume. He Made His Own Fangs
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I Never Posted These Pictures Of Halloween. Landon Is Carl From The Pixar Movie Up
My Son On Halloween 2020
My Daughter When She Said She Wanted To Be A Transformer For Halloween
The eyes project a baleful look, but the lips look secretly pleased!
My Sons Handmade Skull Kid Costume Is Finished
Just A Couple Of Witches
My Kid Wanted To Be A Shoe For Halloween So I Made Him A Classic.
My Daughter Won Our Office Halloween Contest
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Sir Daniel Fortesque Costume I Made For My 6-Year-Old Son. It's His Favourite Character From The Game Medievil
Family Halloween Costume. Made These For My Kids. I Followed Them Around Wearing Basic Leggings And Flannel, And Drinking Wine From A Starbucks Cup. Best Costume Ever
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I once saw four guys on Castro Street in San Francisco who went as a box of Crayolas. Each of them was a crayon and then the outer two had some sort of arm fastener to keep the box going across their back.
My Sister (10) Wanted To Be Prison Mike For Halloween
The Little Guy Was A Salad
Luigi's Mansion 3 Halloween Cosplay
Son Wanted To Be Skull Kid For Halloween. My Friend Made The Mask And I Sewed The Costume
My Daughter And I Made Slimer For Her Younger Brother
Still Finishing Up For This Year, But These Were The First Costumes I Made For My Kids That Started Our Homemade Halloween Tradition
We Decided To Order My 10-Month-Old Son’s Halloween Costume Early
My Halloween Costume A Few Years Back That My Grandma Made For Me. I’m Really Happy With The Trim Out
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My Daughter Loved Ciri And Asked For Months To Be Her For Halloween. My Wife Put All Of Her Costume Together. I Am Happy With How It Turned Out
My Younger Brother Killing It As IT
Gave My Daughter's Costume A Go. Second Time Will Be Better
My Kids Costume. We Did A Mini Shoot In The Corn Maze
Have A Safe And Fun Halloween
The Yiga Clan Costume I Made For My Son
I don’t know what the Yiga Clan is, but that’s a rockin’ costume. The bananas are a nice touch!
My Son’s Homemade Hallow Knight Costume From A Couple Of Years Back
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My Kid Wanted To Be A Cup Of Mac N Cheese For Halloween
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I think there was an article about her on BP a little while ago
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Madeline And Totoro!
Trick Or Treat! (My 9-Year-Old's Halloween Costume)
Headless Harry
Our 6-Year-Old As His Favorite Character Flick For Halloween
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Cute Baby-Ghost
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My 9-Year-Old Son's Halloween Costume This Year
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You’ve Got A Friend In Me
i like how the little girl is buzz and not barbie or Jesse bc it shows that the rents are open-minded.
Literary Titans
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John Wick Is Always Ready For Action
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My Brother's DIY Among Us Costume
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Baby Red Grinch
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Happy Halloween 2020
Mad Scientist
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I Don’t Think He Likes His Halloween Costume
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My 7-Year-Old Nephew's Halloween Costume. Awesome
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What is everyone dressing up as this year?( p.s. I’m gonna be the mad hatter)🎩
We don't have the tradition here to dress up for halloween. In Europe (most of) we dress up for carnival.
I am 12 and i love making costumes out of cardboard but we don’t have halloween in Europe🥲
I don't have a picture, but when my older brother was little, he didn't like people, couldn't have sugar, and didn't like dressing up. My mom made him a Vending Machine costume for our church trunk or treat and he passed out candy and didn't have to talk to people. It was great!
Im going as a witch, kid 1 is going to be a Cat, kid 2 Optimus prime, kid 3 Captain Kirk.
I went as medusa in 4th grade, nowhere near as cool as the one on this list though!
I always had homemade costumes because none of the catalog costumes really appealed to me.
I don’t get the “my kid is obsessed with [R-rated film character] thing. I am trying to think of any restricted films my parents let me watch even in part. Best I could do was ask my dad to give me the highlights!
Best two I remember seeing on here was the little boy who was dressed up as a fart and the baby in the front carrier, dressed like a parachutist while his dad was all blued out with clouds all over him and his had was an umbrella tricked out to look like the parachute. Parachute-...ad55e5.jpg
What is everyone dressing up as this year?( p.s. I’m gonna be the mad hatter)🎩
We don't have the tradition here to dress up for halloween. In Europe (most of) we dress up for carnival.
I am 12 and i love making costumes out of cardboard but we don’t have halloween in Europe🥲
I don't have a picture, but when my older brother was little, he didn't like people, couldn't have sugar, and didn't like dressing up. My mom made him a Vending Machine costume for our church trunk or treat and he passed out candy and didn't have to talk to people. It was great!
Im going as a witch, kid 1 is going to be a Cat, kid 2 Optimus prime, kid 3 Captain Kirk.
I went as medusa in 4th grade, nowhere near as cool as the one on this list though!
I always had homemade costumes because none of the catalog costumes really appealed to me.
I don’t get the “my kid is obsessed with [R-rated film character] thing. I am trying to think of any restricted films my parents let me watch even in part. Best I could do was ask my dad to give me the highlights!
Best two I remember seeing on here was the little boy who was dressed up as a fart and the baby in the front carrier, dressed like a parachutist while his dad was all blued out with clouds all over him and his had was an umbrella tricked out to look like the parachute. Parachute-...ad55e5.jpg