The days are getting shorter, the nights longer, and the air a little chillier—with a cozy hint of spice wafting from every house and café. That can only mean one thing: autumn is in full swing, and Halloween is right around the corner.
It’s the perfect time to light your jack-o’-lanterns, rewatch your favorite spooky classics, and hit the streets for trick-or-treating. But no Halloween is complete without a fa-boo-lous costume, and the kids below went all out. Scroll down for costume ideas so good, you might want to borrow them for yourself!
#1 Mamma Mia
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.
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#2 Best Costume Ever
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#3 Russell Costume
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#4 Im Going To Have A Hard Time Outdoing Myself Next Year
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#5 My Son’s Angler Fish Costume For Halloween This Year
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#6 First Halloween
The wife wanted to go unconventional for our little guy’s first Halloween. Our little Rocketman was a hit among the grandparents!
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#7 My Wife Made Our Daughter's Halloween Costume - As She Does Almost Every Year. This Year, She Really Amazed Me
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#8 A Happy Belated Halloween From Our Artsy Family
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#9 This Is So Great
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#10 Wife Finished My Kids Halloween Costume
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#11 I Crochet Costumes, Gremlins
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!
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#12 My Daughter Went As Eleven For Halloween
Making the best out of a bad situation. She nailed it though.
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#13 Halloween Costume
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#14 I Know This Is Really Late But My Son Was The Pillsbury Doughboy For Halloween And The Pictures Make Me Smile
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#15 So Cute
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#16 My Friends Baby's Real Name Is Otto. Naturally This Is His First Halloween Costume. His Names Ot-To
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#17 Here Is A Tyrannosaurus Costume I Made For My Son, From Mattress Foam And Spray Paint
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#18 Daughter Dressed Up As Her Grandma For Halloween
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#19 Our Kid Wanted To Be Max Verstappen For Halloween This Year
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#20 My Son’s Halloween Costume I Made Last Year
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#21 My Son As Edward Scissorhands A Couple Of Years Ago
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.
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#22 So Cute
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#23 I Turned My Son’s Wheelchair Into A Digger For Halloween
He absolutely loves it, and luckily, his grandma was able to bring it to school for him so he could wear it all day.
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#24 Scariest Halloween Custome
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#25 My Little Boy Wanted To Share His Springtrap Costume
He’s 7 and has been obsessed with "Five Nights at Freddy's" for years and will tell anyone and everything all the lore and back stories. He’s also obsessed with role playing the characters and hopes to go to a Con at some point. He’s proud.
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#26 My Kid’s Costume 2023
He made it happen all by himself, and won first place at school.
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#27 My Kid’s Costume
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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#28 Too Cute! This Is My Daughter When She Was Little As A Flower
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#29 He About To Snitch On Everybody
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#30 Very Cute Idea
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#31 My Kid Wanted To Be A Cup Of Mac N Cheese For Halloween
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#32 6-Year-Old Wanted To Be “Creepy” This Year. Here’s My DIY Scary Scarecrow Costume
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!
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#33 My Boy Was Freddie Mercury For Halloween
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#34 This Year He Wanted To Dress Up As His Bearded Dragon "Son". He Legit Calls Me Grandma As He Baby Talks His Lizard
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#35 My First Attempt At A Costume For My Son On Halloween
My son wanted to go trick or treating as "The Knight" / "Little Ghost" for halloween this year. He's only 5 and he's super happy with it.
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#36 Daughter Was Frodo For Her Second Halloween
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#37 He’s Beautiful
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#38 This Is So Cute
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#39 This Is The Cutest Costume I've Seen
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#40 She's Got Your Eyes. And Your Beard. And Your Shirt
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#41 He Proceeded To Ask/ Beg Non Stop To Be A Traffic Light. After 2 Days, I Had To Give In. This One Lights Up And He Is Thrilled
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#42 My Totoro-Obsessed Baby And His Catbus For Halloween
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.
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#43 My Daughter Loves Emily So I Did My Best This Halloween
I’m a tattoo artist, so I guess the attention to detail I went overboard with.
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#44 Made The Millennium Falcon Out Of Wood And Old Electronics. Dedicated To My Little Han And Chewie
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#45 My Daughter's Halloween Costume This Year
She's been binging The Simpsons since the summer.
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#46 My 2-Year-Old Son As Pennywise. I Made The Entire Costume And Am Extremely Happy With How It Turned Out
He is only 2 so he didn’t have much of an opinion.
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#47 My Daughter Wanted To Share Her Luna Lovegood Costume
Luna is her spirit animal.
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#48 My Son, 8, Won 2nd Place For 3rd Grade In His School's Halloween Contest!! Stanley Ipkiss, The Mask
It's a homemade costume. Nearly impossible to find a good one for kids.
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#49 Turned Daughters Stroller Into A Barn To Match Her Costume
Can’t wait to celebrate her first Halloween, this is also her LAST first holiday.
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#50 My Daughter Wanted Her Baby Sister To Be The Goldfish To Her Cat In The Hat This Halloween, And I’m Quite Pleased With How Dr. Seuss-Like It Came Out
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#51 My Son Wanted To Go As A Tyranid On Halloween, And I Don't Know A Thing About Cosplays, But I Guess It's Something
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#52 Cutest Baby Halloween Costume
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#53 My Daughter, As Anubis, About To Lay Down Some Judgment
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#54 Go Go Gadget Helicopter! Inspector Gadget Costume With Motorized Propeller
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#55 That's Just Good Parenting
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#56 My Wife Have Been Waiting For This Halloween Since We First Heard We Were Having Twin Girls
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#57 Halloween 2003. I Desperately Wanted To Be A Giraffe And My Mom Did Her Best. My Eyes Haunt Me
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#58 Amazing
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#59 Little Corn On The Cob Puff Quilt
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!
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#60 Selena Halloween Costume
She's a huge fan & couldn't wait to dress up as The Queen for Halloween.
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#61 My Daughter As Gary The Snail
Meow.
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#62 My Daughter Is Obsessed With Opossums, So I Made This For Her Last Halloween
My daughter has been obsessed with opossums for years, and I thought I’d try making her a cool costume of her favorite marsupial! It was impossible to find a decent mask, so I had to make my own. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!
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#63 Check Out My Teenage Son’s Homemade Dark Walker Costume
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.
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#64 Mother-In-Law Bought My 5-Year-Old His Halloween Costume
I’m not looking forward to him waking mom and I up with it on in the middle of the night.
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#65 Doctor Octopus
My son wanted to be doctor octopus so we decided to make it for him. Everyone, and I mean everyone, loved it and most importantly so did he.
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#66 May The Force Be With You This Halloween
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#67 My 13-Year-Old Niece Made This Entirely On Her Own! Happy Halloween
She just turned 13 last month, but has been artistic and crafty since Day 1. She decided to make this Halloween costume based from 5 Nights at Freddy’s, and I think she did such an amazing job!! So proud of this kid and can’t wait to see some of the stuff she’s working on for ComicCon!!
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#68 This Is My Oldest Kid’s Costume This Year. Proud Dad Moment
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#69 Making My Son's Soul Of Cinder Cosplay For Halloween
Our Halloween costumes have been getting a little more involved every year. This year my son, a huge fan of Fromsoftware games, wanted to be Wolf. And then Ornstein. And then finally he settled on Soul of Cinder. I’m not sure what would have been the most work! I started with a paper pattern I had found on Etsy and took it into the “Armorsmith” program. Sizing was one of the most time consuming parts of the process. I did about 5 versions of the chest piece before finding a perfect fit. The patterns were then transferred to EVA foam and glued together with contact cement. The most valuable tool of the process had to be my new Dremel tool, which allowed me to carve into the foam and make the texture. My son and his sister helped prime and paint the base coat of acrylics, and finally it was dry-brushed with a metallic silver paint.
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#70 My Daughter Wanted To Be The Corpse Bride This Year, So My Wife Made The Dress From A Curtain. I Think It Looks Amazing
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#71 My Daughter's First Halloween
She was loving the outfit! So I'm both excited and scared that she might turn out to be Louise.
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#72 My Son’s Halloween Costume
My wife bought some blue face paint and blue spray on hair dye. She also is the one who sewed the costume. Pretty much all I did was introduce him to xmen.
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#73 Weeping Angel
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.
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#74 Happy Halloween
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#75 Homemade Demobaby Costume For My Son’s First Halloween
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#76 My Son's DIY Halloween Costume I Made. He Got 3 Years Of Use Out Of This
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#77 Kids Dressed As Shadows For Halloween. Their Mother Bought Black Morph Suits For Them Then Layered Black Clothes Over Those
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#78 My Son Begged For Three Years In A Row. This Was His Time To Shine! Maurice Was In The House
I started in September haha handmade what I could and thrifted 90% because that’s the whole point of a cheap homemade costume. Plus the outcome is always so much better than store bought any day.
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#79 My 5-Year-Old Daughter Was A Costco Sample Lady For Halloween
My 5 year old daughter and I have a standing date to Costco every Saturday morning. It's our favorite time together. I post videos of her eating samples with commentary. Super cute. She's hilarious.
This year for Halloween she wanted to be a Costco sample lady. This was fun for my wife and I to put together. She's usually shy toward people she doesn't know, but she rocked this all night with confidence!
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#80 My Son Wanted To Show Yall His Costume
He thrifted most of it and did his own makeup.
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#81 Omg! Look At His Knees. I Love It!! So Cute
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#82 I Helped My Son Feel Magical With This Halloween Photoshoot
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#83 This Is My Son, Atreyu! Here Are Some Of His Costumes Through The Years
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#84 My Daughter’s Frank ‘N Furter Costume From Last Weekend
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#85 Pennywise. I Have Been Making My Daughter's Halloween Costumes For A Few Years. I Feel Like This Year Is One Of My Best
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#86 Wow
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#87 My Son's First Halloween As Link
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#88 My Toddler Really Wanted To Be Chappell For Halloween, So I Made Her A Costume
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#89 My Coworker's Son Wanted To Be Medivh For Halloween. Fortunately For Him, His Mom Is An Awesome Tailor
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#90 Finished My Son's Halloween Costume. He Requested To Be A Baby Tiger And Now Refuses To Try It On
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#91 Jellycat Obsessed! Homemade Cordy Roy Costume
Jellycat has been her lovie since she was a baby, and when she was in kindergarten she insisted on dressing like her for Halloween (and then wore it all the time!) Painting all those stripes was a labor of love. Now she is 11 and still sleeps with Jelly every night.
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#92 The Muscles
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#93 My Baby Niece Dressed Up As Loonette The Clown From The Big Comfy Couch For Halloween And I Am Not Okay
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#94 My Son’s Dog Man (The Bark Night) Costume
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#95 Happy Halloween From My Daughter
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#96 Wrestling Has More Than One Royal Family
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#97 She's Adorable
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#98 Simply The Best
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