Easy Unique Halloween Costume Ideas: Costumes You Can Make at Home

Kids love Halloween and all the treats-- sugar, candy, costumes, more candy, and more candy. It can be fun to dress up the kids and take them trick or treating. However, shopping for Halloween costumes can be daunting and expenses. Halloween costumes in stores are often too gory, too gruesome, too pricey, too cheaply made, too popular, too last year, too ugly, too skimpy, or too plain. Kids often ask each other: What are you going to be for Halloween? What Halloween costume are you going to wear this year? Some kids have a hard time deciding on what to be and often change their minds several times before Halloween. Halloween costumes can be easily made at home with a little creativity. Here are a few simple, easy and unique Halloween costume ideas.

Be a Halloween Eye Chart

Print out this pdf file of the Halloween Eye Chart. Wear a white shirt and attach the Halloween Eye Chart to it. Wear a goofy pair of glasses and hat.

Halloween Eye Chart

Be Johnny Pumpkinseed

Wear a pot on your head like Johnny Appleseed. Dress in a bright orange shirt. Print out this Johnny Pumpkinseed Name Tag and attached it to your shirt. Use a needle and string to make several necklaces out of pumpkin seeds to wear. Carry a bag of pumpkin seeds with you or glue pumpkin seeds to your Trick-or-treat bag.

Johnny Pumkinseed Name Tag

Be a Halloween Text Message-H-HW

Print out this Halloween text message pdf file and attached it to your shirt. You can also wear a white sweatshirt or t-shirt and use fabric markers to create your own text message.

Happy Halloween Text Message

Be a Halloween Food Pyramid

Check out the newest food pyramid at www.mypyramid.gov Make a Halloween food pyramid similar to the government one. Make several long triangles out of different colors of poster boards. You might choose to use poster boards that are Halloween or fall colors. Glue pictures of Halloween candy, pumpkin pie, sugar cookies, apples, etc on each of the triangles. Dress in exercise clothes. Attach the triangles to your clothes.

Be an Olympics Gold Medalist for Trick or Treating

Make a 2008 Olympic Gold Metal out of card stock and a ribbon. A link to a photo of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Medals can be found below. Dress in athletic clothes which are your countries colors. Download and print the 2008 Halloween Olympic Number and attached it to your shirt wear the homemade metal around your neck. Carry flowers if you like.

Halloween Olympic Number for Trick-or-Treating

Photo of 2008 Olympic Gold Metal

Be a Halloween DVD

Cut a large round circle out of a poster board. Cut a hole in the middle of the circle to resemble a DVD. Label the DVD with something like "The Happy Halloween Movie". Decorate the poster board DVD as you like. Attach a string to each side and wear the DVD.