The holiday season is upon us: we’ll soon be feasting upon pumpkins, followed by turkeys (plump and with tiny pilgrim hats), and, well, more turkeys (plumper and with tiny Santa hats). Since Halloween is closing in on us like the Grim Reaper, you’re probably thinking about what costume to wear if you haven’t ordered or sewn your own already.
Our Bored Panda witches and warlocks have been busy casting summoning spells and concocting the perfect list of Halloween costumes. We hope you’ll enjoy them and that they’ll inspire you to show everyone who’s boss while you’re out trick-or-treating and dancing all night long at your Halloween bash.
You think you love Halloween? Odds are, we love it more. Way more. In fact, I’m pretty sure that pumpkin juice flows through our veins. Check out Bored Panda’s posts about Halloween here, here, here, here, and here. It’s scary how many of these we’ve summoned from the Pumpkin Realm. [Roll of thunder followed by an evil cackle]
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9-Year-Old With Cerebral Palsy Dresses Up As Beetlejuice For Halloween
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He's been obsessed with Polar Express so this year he went as a train engineer. Woo woo!
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Halloween is a great time to let out your inner creative imp. Whether you want to show off to your friends, leave a great impression on that girl or boy that you like, or scare off spooky spirits like Sam and Dean from Supernatural, it’s imperative that you look good.
And for that, you need a costume. Something different from the crowd. Something that stands out. Something that hasn’t been done before.
My High School Art Teacher's Amazing Van Gogh Costume
The Little Girl That Was Mesmerized By Michelle Obama's Official Portrait Last March Dressed Up As Her This Halloween
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However, there’s nothing new under the sun, so instead of going for total originality that might backfire, instead, go for something a bit unusual but make your costume well.
After all, it’s the quality of the costume and your ability to roleplay that pirate/knight/Jedi/superhero that counts most, not just impressing others with your innovative ideas. We’d rather dress to the nines as Castiel (some of us already wear trench coats almost daily) than pretend to be some niche character from some show nobody’s ever seen.
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My Heart Melt When This Popped Up On My Feed
There are many traditions associated with Halloween and one of them has to do with keeping away fairies if you’re Irish or have ancestors back in the Land of a Thousand Welcomes. According to local folklore, if you don’t want your things stolen by those darn pesky fairies on October 31, you should dress up, carve faces into pumpkins, light blazing bonfires, and keep yourself surrounded by black cats. Otherwise, the fairies might get you. In fact, we heartily recommend surrounding yourself with cats throughout the year. Just in case.
No, No. Too Scary For Me
My 6 Year Old Sister Wanted To Be Coraline For Halloween And For Me To Accompany Her As The Other Mother. Here Is Our Result!
This Kid's "Tired Mom" Costume
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My Nephew Had A Six-Hour Heart Surgery The Day Before Halloween. This Is How They Solved His Walking Restriction For Trick Or Treating
this is so sweet including him and making sure he doesn't feel left out aww
Now he just needs to practice saying "Good evening Clarice" in a suitably spooky voice.
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Balls, he wouldn’t even be allowed outside, he wouldn’t look that good after 6 hour surgery either and where’s his drip etc. And I bet he doesn’t even know who Hannibal Lector is.
yeah the costume is awesome but I don't believe that story - no one would push a kid around outside the next day of his heart surgery... that seems very unsafe. but again, very cool costume!
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My son has had heart surgeries... I can tell you this kid look phenomenal for going under the knife. Not all heart procedure are open heart sometimes it's a stint put in threw groin, sometimes it's a catheter under shoulder blade. We can't assume she's lying. My son has to have balloon thru groin for next time and I'm betting he won't look nearly as bad as when the co arc repair took place. I'm very relieved to see your baby alive well and living his life to the absolute fullest. Let's be gentle people you don't always know what someone else is going through
This is great!!!! Poor kiddo hope he's ok. I'm surprised he's up to it and not in horrible pain
Wow! What a little trooper. An adult would be in the hospital for 28-30 days after open heart surgery! Amazing!
He went trick or treating the next day? Would he be released that early? A creative costume though!
This is so sweet they the family was able to find a way to still have him enjoy halloween. Hope he is now all healed from such a major surgery and living his best life
Amazing he didn't let heart surgery stop him from trick or treating!
I hope he's ok! great that he got to participate. good for you, bud!
I'm impressed day before had 6hr heart surgery....... i wouldn't even be up
Awesome costume! More importantly is that he is upright, dressed and that he even feels like caring about trick-or-treating! Kids are such resilient little beings; this is one of my many reasons why I am a Pediatric & NICU RN!
This is sweet... but I DO NOT envy the person who has to get him up and down steps of houses to trick or treat.
Not sure that this is a costume for a child... that's really twisted.
I see how it would be a problem if they had fake blood or gory props (knife, severed head) but I think this is OK. It doesn't specify how old he is but he's not a little kid. And whether we like it or not, Hannibal is part of our pop culture.
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I grew up watching horror movies because they never bothered me. My bed time movie was actually Jurassic Park. My parents put that movie in and I would be out like light.
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Awwwwwwwwwwwww...... How has no one commented how cute she is! Bless her heart
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The hubs and I are super into the holiday and go all out with months of sfx work. Everything is made from scratch and if it's not, its been reworked to make a custom piece.
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My Lara Croft Cosplay
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Me and my kid last year. She went as Snow White... IMG_0488-5...17543b.jpg 
The girl who dressed up as Wednesday Addams and people just asked her why she didn't dress up for Halloween reminded me of when something similar happened to me... I dressed up as a Pink Lady (from Grease). I made my clothes and hair 50's style--I wore a high-waisted A-line skirt and a high-necked short sleeved sweater top (tucked into the skirt to give the classic 50's new look silhouette), and did my hair up in a high pony with a headband, and I had a Pink Ladies jacket left over from a high school production of Grease... but everyone who saw me at work just said "you look very nice today!" and I had to turn around to show them the Pink Ladies iron-on lettering on the back of my jacket. Oh well.
Laura, most people aren't all there upstairs, you know. Grease (the original) was my FAV. It was the only movie I saw about 4 times & I couldn't even afford to go to the first one. I wonder what they would have said had you dressed up as Olivia in those skin TIGHT pants LOL I'm sure you looked GREAT :)
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Really a lot of extremely creative ideas!!! Awesome! (Still some don´t get the concept of Halloween. It´s about Death, Horror and ghost world)
Nah, Halloween is about being anything you want to be.
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Wow that’s incredible! When I first looked at it, I thought you photoshopped yourself into the poster. It takes real skill to put together a costume that well.❤️❤️
Load More Replies... People take Halloween so seriously! I've never known anyone dress up other than the occasional mask, face paint or store bought costume. If some of these arrived at my door I'd totally freak out!
You know the order is not fixed, right? So which one was your 69th?
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These are all so insanely creative and fun! Wonderful post!
I'm old enough that we used to just buy the cheap costumes from K-mart and call it good. My son picked out a prisoner costume - a jumpsuit with the white and black stripes and the little cotton striped hat. I painted a thin mustache on him and out we went. And people would say, "And what are you dressed up as?" He would answer "A zebra!!" I didn't have the heart to tell him....
How can I submit my family’s costumes??!! When I upload it never works 🤷🏽♀️😕
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What is up with parents putting their kids in costumes from totally kid inappropriate media?
How far you want to go back? Parents have dressed their kids up as ghosts, pirates, zombies, famous 80s slasher movie icons....for decades. Are you even a parent?
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People keep saying stuff like this and then it doesn't happen.. because everyone says stuff like this
Load More Replies... Me and my kid last year. She went as Snow White... IMG_0488-5...17543b.jpg
The girl who dressed up as Wednesday Addams and people just asked her why she didn't dress up for Halloween reminded me of when something similar happened to me... I dressed up as a Pink Lady (from Grease). I made my clothes and hair 50's style--I wore a high-waisted A-line skirt and a high-necked short sleeved sweater top (tucked into the skirt to give the classic 50's new look silhouette), and did my hair up in a high pony with a headband, and I had a Pink Ladies jacket left over from a high school production of Grease... but everyone who saw me at work just said "you look very nice today!" and I had to turn around to show them the Pink Ladies iron-on lettering on the back of my jacket. Oh well.
Laura, most people aren't all there upstairs, you know. Grease (the original) was my FAV. It was the only movie I saw about 4 times & I couldn't even afford to go to the first one. I wonder what they would have said had you dressed up as Olivia in those skin TIGHT pants LOL I'm sure you looked GREAT :)
Load More Replies... Really a lot of extremely creative ideas!!! Awesome! (Still some don´t get the concept of Halloween. It´s about Death, Horror and ghost world)
Nah, Halloween is about being anything you want to be.
Load More Replies... Wow that’s incredible! When I first looked at it, I thought you photoshopped yourself into the poster. It takes real skill to put together a costume that well.❤️❤️
Load More Replies... People take Halloween so seriously! I've never known anyone dress up other than the occasional mask, face paint or store bought costume. If some of these arrived at my door I'd totally freak out!
You know the order is not fixed, right? So which one was your 69th?
Load More Replies... These are all so insanely creative and fun! Wonderful post!
I'm old enough that we used to just buy the cheap costumes from K-mart and call it good. My son picked out a prisoner costume - a jumpsuit with the white and black stripes and the little cotton striped hat. I painted a thin mustache on him and out we went. And people would say, "And what are you dressed up as?" He would answer "A zebra!!" I didn't have the heart to tell him....
How can I submit my family’s costumes??!! When I upload it never works 🤷🏽♀️😕
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What is up with parents putting their kids in costumes from totally kid inappropriate media?
How far you want to go back? Parents have dressed their kids up as ghosts, pirates, zombies, famous 80s slasher movie icons....for decades. Are you even a parent?
Load More Replies... People keep saying stuff like this and then it doesn't happen.. because everyone says stuff like this
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