Halloween is more than just a day to wear a costume. It's a day we suspend reality and pretend. It's a chance for us to be kids again and let our imagination run wild. We can paint our faces, get dressed up, and gorge on our favorite candy. We can have super powers, be a blond for a day, or impersonate our favorite celebrity.
The Rituals
Halloween is more than just October 31st; it's an experience. We decorate our homes, de-tangle the spiderwebs, put up the gravestones and lay out the body parts. We visit haunted houses, bob for apples and, of course, Trick-or-Treat. We attend Halloween Parties to show off our costumes and check out the creativity of others.
The Costumes
As much fun as Halloween can be, sometimes the thought of actually coming up with our costume can be a bit challenging. This season we'd like to help you tap into the SheSpeaks collective wisdom to help conjure up great Halloween costume ideas for this year and next. Do you have a preference for gory, scary, or witty or are you into the more abstract objects, animals or expressions? Do you like to be something from the past or a trend that's popular today?
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Good Luck and Happy Halloween!
I love zombies - with the Zombie makeup. It's basically carte blanche to wear tattered clothing and gross makeup!
I saw a costume that was a large square basket with the bottom cut out of it so you could get inside with a helium balloon attached to the basket with twine that was above your head like a hot air balloon.
I saw a costume where you cut the bottom out of a square large basket , attach a large helium balloon with twine to the basket and you wear the basket around your waist with the balloon above your head and go as a hot air balloon.
I like homemade costumes. Although we have been dressing up in store-bought or thrift store treasures in recent years. My two youngest are to be an elephant and Pikachu this Halloween :) And my little girl is creating her own costume. She is going to be Lady "Goo-Goo". She is very creative.
My favorite Halloween Costume was my daugter's first Halloween Costume when she was 8 months old. She was a super cute, puffy, pink butterfly. It was an adorable costume!
The best costume I ever saw was Plinko from The Price Is Right. It was basically a big piece of cardboard cut and painted to look like a Plinko board, and it was amazing. Would be fun to pair with other Price Is Right-related costumes.
My favorite costume was when I was four years old... I was a red kangaroo with a red & white striped tummy. The baby kangaroo was sewed to the tummy and the pouch opened to put the candy in! Loved it.
Favorite Halloween costume: baby was about a year and was dressed like a lobster in red with claws. Put her in a huge pot. Son was about 3 and dressed him as a chef. Put the pot with baby in a wagon and "chef" pulled it around. So cute and so easy!!! And baby didn't have to be carried!
My favorite costume was Millie, President Bush's dog.
As an adult, my most favorite costume what that of a bag lady.... gathered a worn out sweater and housedress from Goodwill, a Jonsey hat and added things I owned, like striped leg socks, worn out red ankle high rebocks, and painted my face white, added eye make up, tears coming down one cheek, oversize eybrows and red lipstick.. wish I could upload a photo here, I even won a competition at a party that night!
My favorite Halloween costume was when my son was a baby and I made him a baby dinosaur outfit and he won 3rd prize at a local mall contest. He looked adorable!!
My favorite costume was a friend of mine when I was a child her mother made paper machette heads one was minnie mouse and another was goofy they were so original and added to their families quality time together
I was just diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder and one of the main symptoms is being very dry in the mouth and eyes....so this year I am going as a dry as a bone costume. It is important to keep mysenseof humor
My favorite costume is taking a cardboard box (with hole in bottom) and putting clip on suspenders to make the box hang on the shoulders of the child (who is inside the box). Fill the box with dogs (stuffed animals), put ears and a black nose on the child. Then make a sign that says "FREE PUPPIES!" That is my ALL TIME favorite costume! And it is CHEAP!!!
My fave costume ever is when I was a kid, my grandfather showed up at our family halloween party dressed as grandma. Funniest thing ever. To this day, when I pull out the pics, I still get a good laugh. Thankfully I inherited his wonderful sense of humor (and hers too)