Looking for a last minute costume idea? We have you covered! I have compiled a list of all of my favorite costumes we have either done or seen over the years, and have polled you all over on Instagram for ideas as well! If you love a good themed costume as much as we do, we’ve broken these down by Couples, Kids & Family costumes. Hope you enjoy these lists!!
Kids/Siblings
Darla & Alfalfa
Monsters of Monsters Inc.
Ellie & Carl (Up!)
Magician & a Rabbit
Toy Story Characters
Candyland Game Characters
Little Red Riding Hood, Wolf & Grandma
The Three Little Pigs or Three Bears
The Grinch & Cindy Lou Who
Snow White & (some of the seven?) Dwarfs
Trolls
Anything sweet (muffin, cupcake, cotton candy!)
Couples
Tyler Durden & Marla Singer (Fight Club!)
Johnny Cash & June Carter
Forest Gump & Jenny
Sam & Suzy (Moonrise Kingdom, so well done by our friends at our Halloween party last year!!)
Wayne & Garth
Popeye & Olive Oil
Bee & a Beekeeper
Jim & Pam (The Office, and again done so well by our friends last year!)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mary Poppins & Chimney Sweep
Santa & Mrs Clause (or Clark & Ellen Griswold!)
The Bachelorette & Chris Harrison
Anything from SNL (depending on your sense of humor)
Chip & Joanna (#shiplap!)
Family/Theme Costumes
Hocus Pocus (always and always!!!)
Wizard of Oz (so many characters to choose from, even for mom & dad to go as the good witch & the wizard, and kids/babies to go as flying monkeys!)
Circus (greatest showman style!)
The cast of Coco
Farmer & Farm Animals
The cast of Peter Pan
Baseball Theme (players, refs, hot dog or popcorn concessions!)
Alice & Wonderland Characters
Sandlot Characters
Care Bears
Sesame Street Characters
Emojis (salsa dancer, anyone?!)
The Addams Family
Home Alone (Harry, Marv & KEVIN!)
Is your costume on this list?! There are just never enough opportunities to dress up because I would love to do ALL of these!!! Cannot wait to see everyone’s costumes & to share ours this year! In the meantime, leave any more fun ideas below & have the BEST Halloween week ever!!!!! XO
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So many good ideas!!! Your Hocus Pocus has got to be by far my favorite idea I’ve ever seen !
How did you get her hair to stand up so well?! My son is going as Alfalfa and no amount of gel and hairspray is keeping it up! ?
I pulled a super long piece actually from the base of her neck and bobby pinned it up the back of her head! 😉
I can’t wait to see what you guys are doing this year!!! I LOVE all of your family costumes. It really is the best time of year lol
Our son is going to be a lobster and the hubs and I are going to be fishermen ??
Happy Halloween!
Cute! My boys are going as the monsters from Monsters Inc. I can’t wait to get them dressed up and take their pictures!
We are all dressing up as sharks from the baby shark song since our 2 year old listens to it 100x a day.
Scooby Doo and ‘the Gang’, Ace Ventura (with the tutu!), John Travolta & Uma Thurman from Pulp Fiction, any characters from The Princess Bride, the Big Lebowski bowling team (or The Dude – basically pajamas!) and if you have a crafty streak we loved going as painted portraits (Van Gogh and Lichtenstein)!
Not the most original, but I’m doing a fireman and Dalmatian puppy! Hoping to get some great pics of them at my husbands station (he’s a firefighter) since he’s working Halloween and I plan to bring the kiddos to see him!
My 2 girls are dressing up as Lucy & Ethel. Over the summer they fell in love with the show and ironically their personalities are a perfect match up! Can’t wait to see your family’s costumes this year!
My oldest is a pirate and my baby is a parrot. We turned our wagon into a pirate ship and won our towns halloween costume contest! Was NOT expecting that! Super easy and cute! 🙂
Oh my goodness, throwback too Eloise as Dorothy! So little!! Can’t wait to see y’alls costumes this year!
We’ve done several of these! This year our three girls are doing Monters Inc, Sully, Mike, and Boo. My husband and I are going as Forest Gump and Jenny. Our first year not doing a family costume.
Our little man’s first Halloween and he is going to be a chicken and my husband and I as farmers ☺️ Love love your fam’s costumes every year!
We are going as Hocus Pocus this year and I’m so freakin excited!!
Jack and Sally from Nightmare before Christmas
My husband and I also did Quailman (Doug) and Carmen SanDiego
Star Wars
Alice in wonderland
Super mario bros (and company) -this was a group effort of 8 of us.
Our family is doing the wizard of oz this year! And hearing my 3 year old say “I’ll get you my pretty and your little dog too!” Never, ever gets old! 🙂
After many ideas tossed around and unable to work we landed on School of Rock this year. And it will be epic. It’s our boys’ favorite movie and we went to the Broadway show last week at the Fox, so they are pretty pumped!
LOVE your costumes always! We’ve dressed up as a family of vampires, cave people, Harry Potter & Hermoine, Captain America & Wonder Woman, Race Cat driver & Pit Crew, Frankenstein & Bride of …and many more! Can’t wait to see what you have planned this year!!
Want to do hocus locus so badly. We’re a family of five so this year we did Peter Pan! So excited that everyone got on bored.
My oldest (4 yo next month) asked to be a ghost so we are going Ghostbuster-themed. Olivia will be a ghost, Penny will be Slimer, our Yorkie-Poo/Chihuahua will be the Stay Puft Marshmallow (wo)man and my husband and I will be the Ghostbusters.
You are too cool! When do you find the time to be so creative 😀 And go thorugh with it!
Yes! My dream is coming true and one of my friends is being Wayne to my Garth next week. I’m so excited!
These are the BEST! My favorite costumes were Cinderella and Gus Gus (my kids) while chad and I were prince charming (aka he showed up in his work clothes just before trick or treating) and I was the Fairy Godmother. When I was in college I showed up as Pippy Longstockings and literally unwrapped a coat hanger from my closet to make my braids stand up! I poked people in the eye with my hair ALL NIGHT LONG! HAHAHA!
My husband is going as Sully, I am pregnant so I am Mike Wazowski, and my daughter is going to be Boo!
My infant is going as the Very Hungry Caterpillar and my 4 year old is a butterfly
We’ve done Toy Story, Harry Potter, Pokémon (ugh), and this year Avengers. I have three boys this year, so it’s getting more challenging as our family grows!
So many great ideas! We are superheroes this year as my 4yo son requested. I know the years are limited that he wants to dress up as a group, so I didn’t fight. ?