Back in the old days, Halloween costumes were worn so ghosts and spirits would think you were 'one of them' and not bother trying to haunt you. If you think that's clever, then bear in mind that without the best Halloween costume, the same spirits and ghosts would have likely brought you back with them to the underworld in a hunt for fresh meat. So basically, the saying about necessity being the mother of invention comes to play hugely when talking about the first Halloween costume ideas.
These days, however, costume ideas have morphed into anything and everything you could imagine, and are as likely to be 'sexy' as they are scary. Are you still looking for last minute inspiration before your Halloween party? Well, these creative Halloween costume ideas, compiled in a list by Bored Panda, are seriously ingenious, and you probably won't have time to pull them off. The ideas though... They show you that if you think outside of the box and are smart about it, the possibilities are literally endless! So get scrolling and start thinking about your own DIY Halloween costume!
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My Super Adorable Headless Maya
My Grandpa And Dog
Our Daughter, Claire, Dressed Up As Grandma Completed With A “Granny” Style Clothes, Homemade Wig, Pearls And A Walker Built By Daddy. Claire Walks Well Without Assistance, But Stroles Along With Her Walker
I Am The Pumpkin King!
Halloween Is Christmas For Us Amputees
Halloween Costume Made From Halloween Decorations
Picasso Painting Halloween Costume
My Wife Have Been Waiting For This Halloween Since We First Heard We Were Having Twin Girls
They do not look happy, or they're playing the characters...either way, they're doing a good job
Frodo!
I Think My Aunt Nailed This Hocus Pocus (Bette Midler) Halloween Costume
My Daughter’s Wheelchair Made The Perfect Foundation For Her Halloween Costume
Hijabi Harley Quinn
I think this looks awesome. I love how you've done the "hair" it's really clever. Cosplay is for anyone, anywhere.
The Costumes We Made
Mother And Son 'Black Panther' Halloween Costume
Brought Along My Little Drogon To A Halloween Party
My Daughter's Maleficent Costume Made By My Wife And Mother-In-Law
My Sister Needed A Costume For Her And Her Friends So I Put Together This For Them
Halloween This Year
Our Couple’s Costume
Harry Potter Family Costume
Dressed Up As An Anti-Vaxer For Halloween Party. It Was A Hit
We All Bark Down Here
My Sister-In-Law Made The Best Costume I Have Ever Seen. Mr. Boogey Man. Ironically, She Is A Therapist And Helps Folks With There Personal Boogey Mans
My Name's Borat
My Friend Didn't Really Have A Name For It, But She Made It Herself
Well We Were Supposed To Be Cleopatra And Caesar.. Classic Case Of Miscommunication
Portal Halloween Costume
America In 2018
My First Full Costume Build. My 7-Year-Old Is Thrilled
The Royal Family Aka My Son The Queen
So My Friend Dressed Up As Buddy The Elf For A Halloween Party And Ran Into This Guy On Campus
This was just a few days ago at Kennesaw College in Georgia! Will Ferrell was canvassing for Stacey Abrams.
My Daughter Wanted To Coordinate Costumes With Me, But I Was Already Set With A Deadpool Costume. As A Result, Here Is Negasonic Six-Year-Old Warhead
Michael Somehow Found His Way On The Ramp
He’s A Lum-Purr-Jack
My Husband’s Halloween Costume He Made From Scratch
Costume Contest 2018
that people have the sense of humour to pull out such things is amazing
My Favorite Beanie Baby
My Friend Dressed As Everyone's Favourite Neighbour For Halloween
Best $40 I Ever Spent
My Brother As Edgar Allen Po
So My Wife Did My Son’s Makeup
My Wife And I Announcing Our Pregnancy
I Think My Son Makes A Good Edna Mode
Mojo Jojo Costume
Friend Of Mine Went As Banksy's "Balloon Girl" For Halloween. Decided To Snap This Photo
She Won The Halloween Contest
Me (Fat Guy In Blue) With My Albatross. The 5 Month Obsession Of Using EVA Foam And PVC Pipe To Dress A 17 Hand High, 2000 Pound Horse As An AT-AT
Turns Out Drunk People Have A Hard Time With Puns
My Daughter Shaved Her Head To Be 011 For Halloween
Grandpa Is Ready For Halloween
Our Halloween Party Last Night
Went As A Storm Reporter To A Local Halloween Party
Hahaha, love this. Now all it needs is people walking normally in the background :p
My One Year Old Girl As Mental Hospital Ace Ventura
I’m Your Other Mother, Silly!
Halloween 2018
What Can I Say, Except You're Welcome
Full Costume! It’s The First Time I’ve Thought Someone Of The Silver Screen Looked Like Me
My GF's House Party Was Batman Themed. I Present To You Harvey Dent
My 80 Year Old Grandma Wants Opinions On Her Halloween Costume
Poison Ivy Costume
Married... With Children Halloween Costume
My Wife Went To A Pirate Themed Charity Bowling Event But Decided Last Minute She Didn't Want To Dress Like A Pirate Since She Figured Everyone Else Would Be. So She Went As A Cannon
As A High School English Teacher, I’m Excited That Halloween Falls On A School Day. I Can’t Wait To Teach While Dressed As Arwen From “Lord Of The Rings” This Year. I’ll Take The Book With Me And Hopefully Inspire A New Generation To Read This Classic
You look beautiful! And I especially like how it looks you were basing it off the character as described in the book, not the movies.
My Boyfriend And I Went As Bob Ross And A Happy Little Tree
Mom’s Spaghetti
Omfg
Here To Guard The Galaxy
My Dad And I As The Dude And Walter
Channeling My Inner David Bowie As The Goblin King From Labyrinth
My Drax Halloween Costume. I Was Standing Really Still When I Took It
My Son’s Costume This Year Made By My Wife. About $20 Worth Of Fabric, Cardboard, And 2 Shower Rings
Really Proud Of This. Made My 5 Year Old Wonder Woman An "Invisible Plane" For Halloween
The Only Thing I Had To Ruin Was A $7 Pair Of Jeans. And My Beard, Too, I Guess
The Wet Bandits Halloween Costume
My GF And Me As Hermione And Hismione
We Didn’t Do Too Bad
This Boy's Mom Made His Halloween Costume. He Truly Is The Man Of Steel
Never Half-A** Two Things.... Whole-A** One Thing. My Buddy Was Perfect
Ruth Vader Ginsberg
Sharknado
Other Mother Costume
That would scare the heck out of trick or treaters at your door....
Is This A Halloween Costume?
Our Miguel And Hector Costumes From Coco
My Sister Just Sent Me This And Said Her Costume Is “Reverse Cowgirl”
Turned Myself Into A Nurse From Silent Hill. Lifegoal Achieved
Daenerys And Drogo. Happy Halloween
again, thumbs up for the spirit of celebration and the sense of humour lol
My Buddy Dressed Up As Barf From Space Balls
Thank You For Being A Friend
Heeeeeeere's Johnny
My Friend And I Are Both In Wheelchairs So We Did A Mario Kart Group Costume This Halloween
Brave Costumes
My Best Boy Was Magneto For Halloween
When I Learned The Bar I Was In Didn’t Serve Straws, I Yelled “Bigots!” And Stormed Out/Angerly Forced Myself Through A Doorway
straw: *bends* me: kinky (Im sorry but ive wanted to make that joke for a month)
My Husband And I Winning "Best Couple" At The Casino
I'm Mister Green Christmas, I'm Mister Sun. I'm Mister Heat Blister, I'm Mister Hundred and One...... I'm Mister Icicle, I'm Mister Snow. I'm Mister White Christmas, I'm Mister Ten Below. https://youtu.be/IGhT_ylXN8s
Rolling The Dice On This Selfie So... You're Welcome
Dressed Up As A ‘Drinking Problem’ And Got Virtually No Laughs
Morton's Salt Girl
My Cousin Lost His Arm In A Motorcycle Accident, So He's The Part In The Movie Where Woodie's Arm Starts To Rip
Showed Up To A Party And Blue Myself Halfway Through
I Made Myself Into A Bushcamper
My Tony Stark Costume For Halloween
My Halloween Costume
Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica
Deadgar Allan Poe & His Lost Lenore
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a ghostly tapping, As of some one dead gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “dead-ly tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.”
We Own A Restaurant Who Specializes In Burgers And This Is How We're Showing Up To Work Until Halloween
Monty Python's And The Holy Grail Costumes
Anakin Skywalker Female Version
Three Years Of Convincing My Now Wife And It Finally Happened
First Of Her Name
Spooky Treat
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
My Family And I Love Dressing Up For Halloween This Is Our 7th Year And Decided To Do Something Old School. I Was A Plague Doctor, My Wife Dressed Up As A Victorian Ghost And Keeping With The Whole Theme We Made Our Son A Home Made Costume Of Tomas From El Orfanato
Ewok Baby!
White Walker Cersei And The Night King
“I Like Beer” Judge Kavanaugh Halloween Costume
Brannigans Law Is Like Brannigans Love: Hard And Fast
Wishing You A G.R.O.S.S. Halloween!
DIY Beetlejuice Costumes
Come On Grab Your Friends
This Costume Took Multiple Hours To Sew, And A Few Good Friends To Help Sneak Into Disneyland (They Have A Rule, No Disney-Themed Costumes Allowed Beyond The Staff), But Oh So Worth It For A Photo As My Favorite Disney Character In Front Of Sleeping Beauty's Castle
Chillin’ With Bae
After Avoiding Halloween For Several Years Then Losing 70 Lbs, I Decided To Try And Sport My Best Alex Vause
Wow, I had to re-read the caption cause I actually thought it was the actress. :O
Fairly Oddparents
Darla “I’m A Pa-Ran-Nah!!”
My Costume For This Year
Gettin Spooky Monty Python Style
The GF And I As Eustace And Muriel Bagge
Neo And Trinity Of Matrix Reloaded
Angela Anaconda And Johnny Abatti
We Won Best Couple's Costume
My Wife And I Went As Patty And Selma
Clue Crew
My Pyramid Head Cosplay That I Wore For Halloween
Best Costumes Ever
What’s The Difference Between Jelly And Jam?
“I’m Not Bad, I’m Just Drawn That Way”
Made Myself A Moana Costume This Year
The Mayor Of Halloween Town
Lara Jean Croft: To All The Tombs I’ve Raided Before
My Sister And Her Friends This Weekend
My Kid Wanted To Be Beefsquatch... But My Kid’s Mom Made A Better Bob So I Was Linda
Sparkle Like A Wealthy Woman's Neck
I Was Steve Harvey. This Has Been A Dream Of Mine For Some Time. Just Wanted To Lighten Up The Timeline. Enjoy. Kate Was “Now That’s What I Call Music 5”
Made These FNAF Costumes For My Son And Nephew
Don’t Have A Doug, But I’m Loving My DIY Patti Mayonnaise Costume
You Know Us. I Mean... I Was Famous In The 90’s
Happy Halloween, From Sorcerio And Bean
Zombees
Duracell Battery
Arthur Fist Meme Halloween Costume
I’m So Obsessed With My Friend Aaron And His BFs Couples Costume That I Had To Share It
Me As The Dude, Picking Up Some Half & Half At Ralphs
Our Bob’s Burgers Costume
Halloween Meme
I watch WWE, and most of the time, this is pretty damn accurate. Its like violent theater but most of the storylines are kinda s**t.
Keeping Halloween Safe From Them Covies
I don't understand people who keep and display their empty liquor bottles. Can anyone explain the thought process behind that?
Thotnos Ready To Make The Hard Decisions And Look Good Doin' It
My Krang Costume, Halloween 2018
Taking Back The Playground
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica
Believe It Or Not, It's Ripley... Mostly
Jack And Sally Costumes
American Gladiator Costume 2018
Skyrim Chitin Light Armour
What Kind Of Costume Is This?
Run Away!
Minimal Effort And Maximum Comfort
Valkyrie Costume
After Twelve Years I Finally Got My Husband To Dress Up
My Friends Killing It This Halloween
I Went As Pope Malone For Halloween
Dr. Krieger And His Hologram. I Think We Nailed It
My 6' 6" Friend And I Went To A Halloween Party Over The Weekend As Ed Kemper And Holden Ford From Mindhunter
It’s Morphin Time
Trailer Park Supervisor
Eleven, Dustin, And A Box Of Eggo’s
Haha! I could've definitely went as Dustin this year too - a bit disappointed I didn't
Gravity Falls Family
Yaaaaaassssssssss (I hope the fandom gets rekindled with another series of this awesome show)
This Halloween, I Went As A Cringeworthy Pun
The Turd
Oh My God
Sploosh
Randy Marsh
F Is For Friends Who Do Stuff Together
F IS FOR FIRE THAT BURNS DOWN THE WHOLE TOWN U IS FOR URANIUUUUUM N IS FOR NO SURVIVORSSSSSSS down here in the deep blue sea
Halloween 2018
We Had To!
It’s Not Therapy, It’s Science ?
Cheetah Girl, Cheetah Sista
I'm Old Gregg
It’s Ok That No One Guessed My Costume For The Second Year In A Row
I was the TARDIS! And so proud of it! Nobody got my costume, but I loved it anyway! TARDIS-cos...720abb.jpg
So many Bob's Burgers costumes! And Beetlejuice. But otherwise, very creative and well done!
All these amazingly talented and creative people make me feel like unoriginal poop.
Aw man, i am so jealous! Here in France, people are so uncreative when it comes to Halloween costumes. Last year, I went to my brother's party as Virginia from the movie "Spider Baby", but no one got it! :(
Meanwhile, some people in Belgium are a bit outraged and complaining that the Christmas market is being called winter market from now in Bruges and saying we don't need to change 'our' culture for muslims while at the same time every r****d and kid gets dressed up for Halloween, something that did not exist over here 20 years ago... Apparently commercialism and hypocrisy go well together! :-/
Most of these were awesome although there were a couple I didn't get
I SO LOVE HALLOWEEN FOR MANY (PURPOSES) LOL. THESE COSTUMES, IMAGINATIONS, ARE AMAZINGLY ??? SCARY
Back in the old days, Halloween costumes were worn so ghosts and spirits would think you were 'one of them' and not bother trying to haunt you. Pretty clever right?..................HERE► www.jobsthings.com
I prefer it to the 312654651321698 posts about what it's like to be a Mom or the 3216432165464 cartoons about relationships or periods.
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So many Bob's Burgers costumes! And Beetlejuice. But otherwise, very creative and well done!
All these amazingly talented and creative people make me feel like unoriginal poop.
Aw man, i am so jealous! Here in France, people are so uncreative when it comes to Halloween costumes. Last year, I went to my brother's party as Virginia from the movie "Spider Baby", but no one got it! :(
Meanwhile, some people in Belgium are a bit outraged and complaining that the Christmas market is being called winter market from now in Bruges and saying we don't need to change 'our' culture for muslims while at the same time every r****d and kid gets dressed up for Halloween, something that did not exist over here 20 years ago... Apparently commercialism and hypocrisy go well together! :-/
Most of these were awesome although there were a couple I didn't get
I SO LOVE HALLOWEEN FOR MANY (PURPOSES) LOL. THESE COSTUMES, IMAGINATIONS, ARE AMAZINGLY ??? SCARY
Back in the old days, Halloween costumes were worn so ghosts and spirits would think you were 'one of them' and not bother trying to haunt you. Pretty clever right?..................HERE► www.jobsthings.com
I prefer it to the 312654651321698 posts about what it's like to be a Mom or the 3216432165464 cartoons about relationships or periods.
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