48 Kids’ Halloween Costumes So Clever, You Might Wish You Thought Of Them First

The wife wanted to go unconventional for our little guy’s first Halloween. Our little Rocketman was a hit among the grandparents!

Making the best out of a bad situation. She nailed it though.

He absolutely loves it, and luckily, his grandma was able to bring it to school for him so he could wear it all day.

He’s been working on it in various forms for a few years. It finally all came together this year. He’s super proud of it and scared a bunch of kids last night.

My daughter sat in a pot dressed as spaghetti and meatballs for her first Halloween. When I tell you that that was the proudest moment of my life to date, it is not an exaggeration.

I’m a tattoo artist, so I guess the attention to detail I went overboard with.

On year 8 and it is our tradition that my kids request a costume and I freehand crochet it. This year he selected Stripe from Gremlins! He is happy!

I sewed his costume based on a brilliant tutorial online and my husband made the Catbus from an old Cozy Coupe. He is so happy.

For months, he wanted to be a zombie, changed his mind the morning of Halloween that he wanted to be Edward Scissorhands so this is what I come up with from stuff around the house. Really easy costume. I’d like to do it again with longer than a few hours to make and do it properly.

She's been binging The Simpsons since the summer.

I’m a new quilter and decided to make my baby a corn on the cob Halloween costume that used a (very scaled down) puff quilt! I got some inspiration from the video below and then winged the rest! Very happy with how it turned out (if you don’t look too closely at the misaligned seams) and excited to do more intense quilting in the future!

He made it happen all by himself, and won first place at school.

Just wanted to share... my daughter started campaigning to be this Doctor Who baddie for a few years before I took the plunge. It was intimidating as all get out, but about seven or eight weeks of my life and and inordinate amount of trips to the craft and hardware stores later, there we were.

Over the last couple of years, I've improved the arms & hands, and I've redone the "wig" twice and still am not really satisfied (I think it's time to learn how to work with sculpting/molding latex), and I'm going to attempt airbrushing the makeup in the future.

The wings are detachable without having to undo the whole thing to get out of them, and it was 10/10 worth the headache to make them so.

I used a cheap skull mask and glued the material over it but made sure it was imperfect with the creases. Also made sure the eye sockets were deep enough to cut holes in but remain dark enough so that you don’t see his eyes. Then added some paint and stitching!

Can’t wait to celebrate her first Halloween, this is also her LAST first holiday.

Okay, I know it’s cutting it REALLY, REALLY, REALLY close to the buzzer here. But my kid finally agreed to a lifeboat as a costume as opposed to the same one he wore last year (The Titanic we made him) I love that he loves it so much he wants to wear it again. However we don’t have great storage so it’s not in good shape. So he said a lifeboat. I did also suggest a door so he could be the scene at the end with Jack and Rose.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to go dumpster diving for cardboard boxes, draw some lines on it, and either use dowels to connect and use the suspenders system we did last year for the Titanic.

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