Cheap Halloween Costume Ideas Anyone?

[DisneyMom81]

I'm throwing DD a halloween party! I was all excited about it, till I realized that she wants me to dress up too. Anyone have any good and cheap costume ideas? I can do a little homemade, but not a lot!!! Like, I can staple something to a pair of jeans, but I can't use a needle and thread!

 

[dakcp2001]

You can be an xmas tree! My friend did this one year, it was pretty funny!


Wear a green sweater, wrap xmas lights around you or garland, hang a few xmas ornaments on your sweater and wear a big tin foil star on your head.

or wear a clear trash bag filled with balloons, you can be good n plenty's or jelly belly's

 

[debster812]

Buy a bag of Smarties candy. Use clear packing tape to tape them to a pair of jeans.

Wear a white tshirt with the word MRS. on it.

Voila! You are Mrs. Smartypants. Super cute, super cheap, and nothing cumberson.

 

[etoiles]

In college I needed a Halloween costume for $0 and I made one successfully. I took the side of a big cardboard box and painted a scene of "The Scream". I cut out a hole for the head and voila! I was a painting for Halloween. Someone had some extra makeup that I borrowed to give my face a painted look.

DH also had a cheap costume. We bought a cheapie apron and paper chefs hat and $1 wooden spoon at a kitchen supply store and used red food coloring and water to make him the mad crazy chef.

 

[RangerPooh]

50's---Rollup a pair of jeans, white shirt, ponytail, and scarf (neck or hair)

Sheriff/Robber---jeans, flannel shirt, star badge (made from alluminum foil and cardboard), hat, toy gun, vest............lose the badge and add a bandana to go as a robber.

Detective-----trench coat/peacoat/rain slicker, hat, magnifying lens, notebook

Hair dresser/salon customer-----put your hair in rollers (or only half of it) and find a hair dressers cutting cape, stick a comb in your hair

Tacky Tourist----Hawaiian print shirt, plaid/stripped shorts (basically an outfit that clashes!), socks with sandals, side bad, camera, maps, walkie-talkie...

embarrassing mom---Pj's, bathrode, hair in curlers, cold creamon face, slippers...

 

[JR6ooo4]

Get one of those cheapo tap lights, put it on your chest. Go as Iron Man! Or Iron Mom....

Mikeeee

 

[LaraK]

Go as Lady Godiva....cheap and the added bonus that your daughter will NEVER ask you to dress up again.

 

[scotlass]

Tie kids cars,vans,trucks,lego people,plastic trees ,twigs etc to your clothes with string.

When any one asks what you are spin round and say a " tornado !! "

 

[Handbag Lady]

I once had to do a last-minute costume and I can't sew.

I put on an old pair of pants and my cleaning T-shirt. I got a piece of fish tank air tubing and with masking tape, taped it to the inside of my elbow. I bought a cheap tube of fake blood from the costume shop at the mall and filled the tube with blood.

I then cut up my clothes in three places and every place that had a cut, I added fake blood.

I then tossed my hair upside down and hairsprayed it all crazy.

I went as an insane person who escaped from the ER.

It was the cheapest costume ever.

 

[KLAIT]

Big black garbage bag....cut out the bottom and 2 arm holes as well as a hole to put your head through...put a lose tie around the neck and glue or tape some leaves or "garbage" around the sides and go as a bag of garbage or leaves

 

[DisneyMom81]

These are the funniest costume ideas I've ever heard!!!!! LOVE the christmas tree one, the embarrassing mom, salon customer, tornado, and the 50's one. I don't think I could pull off the painting one because 1, I don't know how to paint for anything, and 2, I have to be able to help kids, and I don't think having a huge cardboard box on my head would work out well!!!!

Thanks everyone, and keep them coming!!!!!!

 

[JackfruitGuava]

You could be a zombie! Just splash a little fake blood on a ratty old outfit, add a little makeup, and you're good to go!

 

[Glynis]

Buy a package of those tiny cereal boxes, plastic knives and red craft paint. Stab the boxes of cereal with the knives and secure the knives with glue. Dribble red paint around the "wound" and down the box of cereal. Hot glue the boxes onto a sweat shirt.

When people ask what you are you tell them you are a "Cereal Killer."


Or, get a really cheap jacket at a thrift store and spatter it with paint, or spray paint it. Go wild! Lots of colors, lots of patterns. Once it's dry, hot glue paintbrushes onto the jacket. Voila! You are a "coat of paint".

 

[PebblesMK]

Big black garbage bag....cut out the bottom and 2 arm holes as well as a hole to put your head through...put a lose tie around the neck and glue or tape some leaves or "garbage" around the sides and go as a bag of garbage or leaves

When my brother was in 5th grade, California Raisins were popular and they wore black trash bags, white gloves and sunglasses and sneakers and were California Raisins.

 

[Disney Doll]

Get a bunch of green or purple balloons. Blow them up. Tie them together, hanging them in different lengths. Wear a green hat.

You are a bunch of grapes.

 

[love2disney]

Get the small size sample cereal boxes and tape them to your shirt. Pass a plastic knife thru each of the boxes and go as cereal [serial] killer!

 

[barkley]

go to the dollar store (or raid your kid's toy box) and get a bag of army men. take out the helicopters and hot glue them to an old t-shirt. bobby pin a couple in your hair.

voila-you are now a 'helicopter parent'

 

[merrily]

Take a white sheet, attach small (think jewelry sized) wrapped boxes to it. Cut a hole for your head to fit through. Paint your face white and wear a Santa hat. Voila! The Ghost of Christmas Present!