Ten Great Last Minute Costume Ideas

Last minute costume ideas need not be simple or boring. If you have been surprised by a last minute party or procrastinated all month, a last minute costume idea may be a lifesaver. My friends and I have tried all of these through the years. Here are ten great last minute costume ideas for you to try.

Weird last minute costume idea ONE: Guru of Lost Socks. With a large white sheet, make a toga. Attach several single socks of varying colors with double side tape or a single stitch. Wear two different socks and sandals.

Weird last minute costume idea TWO: Hairball. Hot glue brown, gray, black, and white tangles of yarn all over a brown or gray sweatshirt. Add small pieces of straw.

Weird last minute costume idea THREE: A Trash. With a hot glue gun, attach paper plates, tin cans, disposable cups, wads of paper, and similar materials on a sweatshirt. Using a hula hoop, create a trash can to wear by sewing a sleeve of gray fabric over the hoop. Attach suspenders to hoop at preferred height.

Weird last minute costume idea FOUR: Treasure Chest. For the ladies, attach Mardi Gras beads, fake coins, and toy jewelry to the top half of a t-shirt using hot glue. The costume is a bad pun.

Weird last minute costume idea FIVE: Dead Celebrity. Purchase a premade celebrity costume for a celebrity who has passed away. Add gray face paint and zombie features. Smudge mud and dirt all over your body and costume, and put dirt in your hair and shoes.

Weird last minute costume idea SIX: Pumpkin Guts. Take an orange sweatshirt and attach wads of orange yarn using hot glue. Loop it all over and tangle it. Use about three skeins. Attach either real pumpkin seeds or make some out of foam.

Weird last minute costume idea SEVEN: Candy Corn. Paint face and spray hair white with special hair spray. Wear a yellow sweatshirt (or orange) and orange or dark brown pants.

Weird last minute costume idea EIGHT: Fools Gold. Using gold metallic hair paint, spray a jester hat until golden. Wear a gold metallic outfit. Make gold curly slippers with bells.

Weird last minute costume idea NINE: Kitty Litter. Using spray adhesive, spray a gray sweatshirt and cover with clay litter pieces. Spray paint packing peanuts with brown paint. Attach these to the sweatshirt. Another method is to use a hole punch to make "grains" of gray, black, and white construction paper to attach to the sweatshirt.

Weird last minute costume idea TEN: Spider Nest. While wearing a white outfit, wind a package of artificial decorating spider web all over the body. Attach plastic spiders and toy flies around which you have wound white thread.

Have a Happy Halloween.