halloween costume - Goodwill of Central Texas

CAST OF THE MIDNIGHT SHADOW SHOW
GOODWILL PRESENTS PROFESSOR GRIFFIN'S
HALLOWEEN COSTUME
COOKBOOK
GREAT COSTUME IDEAS INSIDE
COOK UP YOUR COSTUME WITH GOODWILL
GREETINGS NIGHT CREATURES!
Prof. Griffin here.
Halloween is upon us once more. The season of thrills and chills with a healthy dose of Americana! Halloween
as we celebrate it is UNIQUELY American. So make America strong! Celebrate Halloween!
And Goodwill can help. Goodwill Industries has been THE Halloween Costume Headquarters for generations. As
Official Halloween Costume Spokesperson for Goodwill Industries of Central Texas since 2000, it’s been my
pleasure to have assisted so many of you over the years in putting together costumes for your All Hallow’s
celebrations. All ages and all types, it’s been my pleasure to meet and help you all. I wish I could be at all
locations all the time, but until that body splitting experiment pans out, I’ll have to make my yearly appearance
one store at a time.
However, making it’s return this year is this Goodwill Halloween Costume Cookbook which is your guide to
putting together the perfect costume for parties, trick or treating, or just greeting the ghouls on Halloween
night. These “recipes” are just starter ideas…to get your brain-a-cooking and hopefully inspire you to produce
your own monsterous creations!
Goodwill makes it happen, with all the ingredients you need to make yourself the life or “un-death” of the party!
Dig around, have fun and you might be surprised at what you’ll find lurking in the aisles. And if you have any
questions, be sure to ask one of the many Goodwill Halloween Costume Lab Assistants. They know the stores
like the back of their hands…or claws.
Keep in mind, that Goodwill also has items for your home décor as well. Turn your home into a Haunted Mansion
of horrors, and give the kids something to scream about.
Most of all, have fun and please don’t take it too seriously. Halloween brings cooler nights, leaves in the wind,
the magic glow of a Jack O Lantern and the sweet taste of candy. It’s thrilling and chilling and a uniquely
American holiday in the way we celebrate it.
Most of all, it reminds us how wonderful it is to be alive!
Watch out for the Monsters and Happy Halloween!!
Professor Anton Griffin- October 2004
Horror Historian
Goodwill Halloween Costume Spokesperson
www.midnightshadowshow.com
ASK THE PROFESSOR: If you have a costume question and you can’t make it out to meet me in person, feel free
to ask me at [email protected]
It will be my pleasure to help you in any way I can.
Spooky Costumes, Fun Costumes and Classic Halloween!
These are my personal favorites.. Spooky costumes don’t always have to be blood and gore, on the contrary, a mysterious but
beautiful devil-woman can send chills up the spine and a tingle in the heart. Likewise, a little 8-year old Frankenstein’s Monster
can be the cutest THING you’ll ever see. Classic costumes are perfect for a little one’s first trick or treat and the fun costumes
might be just the thing if you’re pressed for time and must wear something to that big party!
Count Dracula/Vampire
Ingredients: white button down shirt, black pants, black coat, white vest, medallion with red ribbon, cape.
Make-up: Hair slicked back. Pale face, with shading on the cheekbones. Dark red lips and dark circles under and around the
eyes. Don’t forget the fangs! Perhaps a little stage blood from Drac’s last meal?
Option: Blood Sucking Attorney: Dress in business suit, and carry a brief case. Wear vampire makeup and fake vampire teeth.
Pass out business cards that say "B.Sucking, Attorney-at-Law, address, etc."
Frankenstein’s Monster
Ingredients: Black or gray pants and coat, black T-shirt or turtleneck, large boots. You may want to hem the sleeves of the
coat short so that the arms appear long and gangly. The entire outfit should be dusted with powder to look old and worn.
Make-Up: The monster is traditionally green in color, but can also be gray, or pale blue. Lips black, black circles under eyes,
red scars on right forehead and left neckline. Hair should be combed straight down over forehead. Use Spirit Gum to attach
the neck bolts (available at Goodwill) and don’t forget to growl- RRRRRRRRRRR!
The Wolf Man/ Werewolf
Ingredients: Pants and shirt can be of any color. The older the better as you’ll be shredded the edges, and ripping holes in the
fabric. (Werewolves are never tidy) The traditional Wolf Man wore green (or gray) button down shirt and pants.
Make-Up: Two schools of thought on a werewolf, crepe hair and spirit gum, or line drawn fur. If you apply crepe hair,
remember to work with bottom layers first and paste hair over the top. Brown skin, dark around the eyes, and the tip of the
nose should be black (Like a dog). Fangs are important, but remember, bottom fangs only for werewolves. (Top fangs are for
vampires)
The Mummy
Ingredients: Cover-alls (yellow or white) several (3 or 4) white or yellow sheets, slippers or thick white socks. This is a tough
one, but it’s unforgettable if done correctly! Cut the sheets into long strips. By sewing or using hot glue (be careful!) attach the
strips to the coveralls, and slippers. Wrap carefully and you should cover all of it with 3 sheets. Save the last sheet of strips.
The entire costume should be dyed Gray or Yellow or Brown. (Use RIT) After it dries, use lighter colored fabric paint to add
highlights to the bandages. After you put on your Mummy suit, wrap the loose bandages around you but leave them dangling
and loose at the ends. (NOTE: The cover-alls work best for obvious bathroom reasons!)
Make-Up: A very old dusty gray or brown corpse face works best, with hair slicked back and soaped and sprayed with yellow
or white hair color. There are also some great Mummy masks out there! You can also wrap up your face with the extra
bandages! Shuffle off to the party!
Option: Mummy-To-Be: Wear all-white clothes, and add padding to your belly to look pregnant (even better if you actually ARE
pregnant). Then wrap yourself in gauze to look like a mummy. Paint your face with white paint and add black all around your
eyes.
Halloween Safety Tip #1:
Trick or Treating has been a tradition going back centuries. It’s a fun and exciting way to get your claws on some
fabulous goodies. However, always have an adult check out all the treats in your bag before you dive in…after all,
you never know what could be lurking in there!
Ghost
Ingredients: A White Sheet. (Just kidding)
Today’s more sophisticated specters usually avoid the white sheet (also known as a burial shroud). You can really have fun
with your phantoms, by making them distinct. The best effect however is to create illusion of a ethereal wispy spirit. White
clothes, white make-up, white hair… white everything!! The spirit effect will play if you just look otherworldly. Also Glow in the
dark make up is available. Of course, the old reliable sheet (sorry, burial shroud) is still effective. Be sure to leave your entire
head (or face) exposed and make it up. A skull face or cadaver-like white face is perfect. A hood is also effective, but the eye
holes of a traditional apparation can be a major impairment to vision. Add plastic chains (white). BOO!
Mr. Hyde
Ingredients: Black suit, cape, Top Hat, cane, dress shoes.
Mr. Hyde the evil alter-ego of Dr. Jekyll, so his clothes are always neat and pressed, even if he himself is not. Hyde is beastly,
like a cave-man, and his make-up should reflect this.
Make-Up: Deep circles under eyes, beard stubble, blacken the nostrils, and the lips should be dark brown. Dirty, oversized,
snaggle teeth (Billy Bob) are a must, and crepe hair can be added to cheeks and jowls.
The Phantom of the Opera (Erik)
Ingredients: Black suit or Tuxedo. Black Cape. Black fedora hat.
Make-up: The Phantom of the Opera is one VERY ugly monster. Pale-Yellow skin, fine wrinkles and lines all around the mouth
and eyes, DEEP dark circles under eyes, hair parted in the middle and slicked down, black lips and oversized monster teeth (not
fangs). The Phantom’s most startling effect, his missing nose, can be re-created with make-up (black circles around the nostril
holes) Another possibility (producing a more romantic Phantom) would be to wear a plain white half mask.
Witch
Ingredients: Black dress/robe. Witch hat, white or gray wig, broom, press-on nails, Various bags, sacks, belts, rope. Old
apron.
Witches do not all have to look like Margaret Hamilton from the Wizard of Oz, but the green skin, hooked nose look is a classic.
Consider this alternative: A sexy witch…..a young witch in training…..a silly witch…or a famous ‘witch’ in history. Marie
Lavueux, or even a Salem Witch. Make-up can be an exaggerated beauty or extreme crone appearance. Just remember to
cackle! Hehehehehehe!!
Beggar/Hobo/Tramp
Ingredients: Old suit, old coat, ill-fitting pants.
Make-Up: Lots of brown and black to make yourself dirty. Carry a knapsack on a stick. Remember, it can also be a tribute to
Charlie Chaplin and his incredible ‘Tramp’ character. An old hat or a walking cane works well with this costume.
The Bride of Frankenstein
Ingredients: Two white sheets. High platform shoes. Foam shoulder pads (the thicker the better), white and black spray hair
color. Tear one of the sheet into strips (like mummy bandages) and wrap your arms all the way up to shoulders. Cut a small
slit in the center of the other sheet and wear that over you like a pouncho. The Shoulder pads should be attached to the inside
of the sheet. The ‘gown’ should go all the way to the floor to hide your platform shoes.
Make-Up: The most distinct feature of the Bride is her hair. After teasing the hair, attach a light mesh (fabric store) crown to
the top of your head with hair pins. The teased hair should then be combed up and over the crown and held in place with the
pins. Be sure to cover it all over. Spray the hair with LOTS of strong hair spray, and then spray it black. After it dries fully,
spray white streaks on either side of the hair crown, starting at the temples and going halfway back. Face is pale white or gray.
Cupid bow lips, deep shading around the eyes, and eyebrows sharp and extended. The bride’s one and only visible scar is all
across the neckline where the head is attached.
Halloween Safety Tip #2:
Costumes are all part of the tradition that is Halloween. Your costume should be loose and comfortable if you are
walking all night! Black, although popular, should always be accented with something reflective.
Grave Robber
Ingredients: An old coat and dark pants, turtleneck, scarf, fingerless gloves.
Make-up: Not much. Maybe just some brown and black for dirt. Carry a shovel (plastic shovels are made as well!) Also, a
lantern is an appropriate prop as well. (They make battery operated Halloween Lanterns too!)
Wizard
Ingredients: Long robe, graduation gown, or even a house-coat. Cape is an option too.
The robe can be decorated with stars, planets, glitter, or just left a solid color. A belt is essential, and you can hang bags of
ingredients from it. A large old book (spellbook) can be carried as well.
Make-Up: Wizards can look like anyone, but in a classic way, a long white beard is appropriate and Ben-Franklin type
spectacles.
Zombie/ Ghoul
Ingredients: Any old suit will work as will just about any type of clothes. Remember, Zombies used to be US, and they dress
like we dress. There are just…living impaired. Traditionally, Zombies are more tropical, so simple beige or green loose fitting
shirts and pants are good. Solid colored Pajamas are great for this. These clothes need to be dingy and tattered. Lots of dying
and aging with powder. Don’t be afraid to use spray paint (adult supervision required and be sure to let it dry fully overnight)
Make-Up: Zombies are drab, pale gray in color. Latex flesh is good for a zombie effect, as it peels and flakes. (Goodwill
carries latex make-up) You can have some fun with greens and yellows for mold and rot. Remember to blacken the lips and
around the eyes. Hair should be soaped flat for that crusty look.
Option: Working Stiff: Wear an old t-shirt and write or paint "Working Stiff" on the front. Make your face up like a zombie or
ghoul.
Scarecrow
Ingredients: Old coat, and pants – preferably brown and a couple of sizes too big. Rope, old shoes, raffia or straw, a burlap
sack, an old floppy felt hat.
Stuff yourself full of the straw, and leave a lot of it hanging out of sleeves, pants, shirt etc. The coat and the pants can be
“patched” by gluing squares of colored felt to different areas. One corner of the burlap sack is cut out and worn like a hood,
with a SMALL piece of rope to hold it around neck. Other piece of rope are tied around (or glued around) arms, legs, waist.
Make-Up: The make up should blend in with the burlap sack. Try to match the color and give yourself the doll-like appearance
of a painted face.
Option: A Spooky Scarecrow can also be made with sinister looking make up and with burlap and clothes shredded and
hanging. Several fake ravens perched on shoulders complete the effect.
Pirate
Ingredients: Brightly colored or striped shirt, dark pants, bright scarfs, leather belts, black dress shoes, knee socks, or tights.
Big hoop earring, plastic sword, Pirate pistol, hook, bottle, treasure map, sack of gold coins, parrot on shoulder.
Wear the shirt and pants and shred the bottoms. Scarves can be worn around waist or around head. Clip on earring and
maybe an eyepatch make a great pirate. Give yourself a scar or two and maybe blacken out one of your teeth! Ahoy!
Pirate Captain
Ingredients: Same as Pirate above, but add a long brightly colored coat, More belts criss-crossing the chest, vest, a tri-corner
pirate hat, and a commanding presence. Shiver me Timbers!
Option: A Cursed Pirate. Use Zombie make-up and make the pirate clothes dirtier and more torn and ripped. Stretchable
cobwebs over various parts of the body are good and add a lot of powder (dust).
Halloween Safety Tip # 3:
When Trick or Treating, NEVER go into a stranger’s house! If you have any doubts whatsoever, leave immediately!
A Survivor castaway/ shipwreck survivor
Ingredients: some dirt on your face, beaded necklaces (preferably big beads), sandals, and swim trunks.
Shredded clothes and a long beard or wig are also options. The popularity of the reality series might be waning, but it's still an
easy option.
Austin Powers
The International Man of Mystery will never go out of style (okay, at least not for a while).
Ingredients: velvet suit; ruffled shirt; pointy leather boots or shoes; and lots of color. Tacky is what you're going for, and don't
worry if your teeth don't look like Austin Powers'. Yeah, Baby!
Make-Up: They make lots of additions for Austin Powers costumes. Looks for beatle-type mop top wigs, and the very
important black rimmed glasses.
Gangster
Dress like Al Capone, a member of The Untouchables, or Clyde of Bonnie and Clyde (this one's the perfect "couple" costume).
Ingredients: Dark pin striped suit, white carnation in lapel, dress shoes, spats, fedora hat.
Make-Up: This one’s all about the attitude…See?
Cowboy
Ingredients:
Strap on a pair of jeans, chaps, a plaid button-down shirt, and a cowboy hat, and ride off to your party.
Devil
Ingredients: Red Turtleneck, Red pants (tights, long johns), Red cape. Horns, Red Make-Up.
Make-up: Red skin and heavy black eyebrows and goatee. Pointy ears appliances and horns can be attached with spirit gum.
Another classic Halloween costume. This diabolical dealer is usually costumed in red, (harking back to medieval morality
plays), depicting his rather warm home. It can be fun costume as you caper, prance and laugh over friends shoulders.
Consider though these options.
Business Devil: A corporate business suit, with red accents (tie, scarf, medallion) carrying a briefcase filled with contracts.
Sexy Devil: A very popular costume for adults, a sexy devil costume can consist of a very fetching red evening number, red
fishnet hose, or red tights. Be devilish, but remember, it’s all in fun! You wicked thing, you!
Construction worker
Ingredients: Wear a pair of tight jeans (a great opportunity to wear those 10-year-old jeans of yours); a white T-shirt, tank top,
or no shirt at all; (if you have the build for it) a construction hat; and a tool belt.
Zorro
Ingredients: Zorro mask to cover your eyes, black pants, a white or black shirt, and a cape. A black scarf around your waist
AND around your head is a must.
Carry a rapier sword (plastic please) and wear a black goucho hat. (That’s GOUCHO, not Groucho, as in Marx!)
Brain Donor
Ingredients: Get a hospital gown, blacken both eyes and wrap your head in gauze with some fake blood spots. Get a clear jar,
put small amount of water in the jar with some cauliflower. On the front of the jar put a big label that says "Brain Donor.”
Lightning Victim
Ingredients: Take old clothes, cut out some holes, then carefully burn the edges (kids get help from your parents with this!!!).
Tease your hair so it sticks straight up, smudge your face and any exposed skin with black make-up. SHAZAM!
Halloween Safety Tip #4:
When Trick or Treating, stay away from dark shadowy corners where you can’t see well. It’s Halloween after all,
and you never know what might be lurking there!
Static Cling
Ingredients: Wear any kind of mismatched clothes, pin one pant leg up, pin dryer sheets on you as well as socks, small towels,
etc., and then use hair gel to make your hair look like it has static.
Igor/ Hunchbacked assistant
Ingredients: Use a white lab coat (or very large white men's shirt). Stuff a small pillowcase with cloth, close it, and sew it to
the inside of the coat where the "hump" should go. Wear an old pair of dirty brown pants with the legs torn off raggedly just
below the knee. Use a rope as a belt. An old ugly brown or gray t-shirt should also be ripped at the collar, sleeves, and bottom
hem. For a finishing touch, carry a jar with brownish water (use mixed food coloring), with a chunk of cauliflower in it, which
you have soaked in the brown water for at least a day (this is the brain). A shaved head is optional! Walk hunched over.
Mommy Dearest (with apologies to Joan)
Ingredients: The ultimate in creepy! All you need is an elegant robe (or a wrap dress, preferably black or white); add a gaudy
brooch for the lapel. Paint on some thick black eyebrows and heavy red lipstick. (Practice baring your teeth.) Make sure to be
armed with a clothes hanger! Easy costume for an adult.
Grim Reaper
Ingredients: Black or brown hooded robe, gloves, cape optional. For the sycthe (reaper): Take a wood broomstick and saw
the broom top off. Then cut a slit on the top large enough for 2 pieces of cardboard to sit snugly side by side. Use duct tape to
tape everything together.
Make-Up: A skull face. White with yellow highlights on cheekbones, brow and jawline. Deep black circles around eyes (on
your eyelids as well, for when you close your eyes, you’ll appear to have empty sockets!) Draw a skull nose opening on your
nose and paint it in with deep black. White lips with painted on teeth make a great rictus grin.
Option: Death is not always depicted as a man, he could be a woman just as easy. Pale, beautiful woman in black with a
scythe would be pretty obviously death.
Option #2: Death on Vacation: Wear a grim reaper costume (hooded cape, black cape, white make-up with black around the
eyes). Then over this, wear a loud flowered shirt, goofy hat, Hawaiian lei, camera around your neck, etc.
Regan from ‘The Exorcist’
Ingredients: A nightgown, with bed-head brown hair. Wear torn strips of cloth on wrists (her straps).
Make-up: Use white make-up on the face. Give it some green shading and dark green around eyes. Finish with bloody slash
marks on face and legs. Make your teeth look yellow and rotten and make-up your lips brown with white specs (chapped lips).
Talk like Mercedes McCambridge!
Half Devil, Half Angel
Ingredients: Sew a white and black t-shirt together, so it is white on one side and black on the other. Then sew a black and
white skirt together, the same as above. Spray half of your hair black, and half blonde. On the devil side do your makeup dark
with black lipstick and black fingernails. On the angel side wear natural makeup with a rosy pink blush and pink fingernails.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ingredients: Green tights or leggings, brown tunic, or leather coat. Be sure that whatever shirt or coat you wear, that it’s much
larger than you need. Remember you’ll have a hump! Wear old slippers, or slip on shoes.
Make-Up: Wear a messy wig, black out some teeth, put deep shade lines on your face with an eye pencil and add some moles.
Most of your look will have to be accomplished by you. Squint up on eye, distort your mouth, and slur your words. Carry a bag
on a string.
Halloween Safety Tip #5:
You should always carry a light source with you when trick or treating in the dark of Halloween night. It will help
you find your way and might even protect you from ‘things’ you might find along the way!
Medical Costumes
Ingredients: Doctor’s coat (or butcher’s coat) surgeon’s scrubs. The possibilities of this basic combination are endless. For
example:
MAD DOCTOR: Frizz up your hair, (or oil it up so that it hangs over your face), give yourself dark circles, and a wild look.
Splatter your doctor’s coat with fake blood, and maybe carry around a spare part or two.
LOVE DOCTOR: I’ll let you figure this one out.
VETERINARIAN: Carry lots of stuffed animals wrapped up in bandages.
NUCLEAR RESEARCHER: Paint your face and hands with glow in the dark make-up.
Leprechaun
Ingredients: Wear an orange wig and dress all in green with striped socks.
Spray paint a small bucket gold, and glue gold candy coins around the edge. An added touch is to attach a rainbow to your
head made out of felt and pipe cleaners, to prove there really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Chucky's Bride, Tiffany
Ingredients: Wear a long flowing white wedding dress. Over that, wear a black leather jacket, and black fingerless gloves.
Poof up your hair and make it really frizzy. Use a lot of black eye-liner and black lipstick and put on heavy/dark makeup.
Drowned Ophelia (from Hamlet)
Ingredients: Wear a long dress, long hair with flowers in it, blue face make-up. Pour water over yourself. Carry around a spray
bottle of water to keep yourself wet).
Voodoo Doll
Ingredients: Wear off white sweat pants and turtleneck shirt. Stitch a plaid heart with yarn on the shirt. Stick pins all over your
clothes by using a glue gun on the inside and outside of fabric (so they don't stick you). For your head, sew a long rectangular
piece of off white fabric to an off white beanie so it covers your entire head and goes just past your shoulders. Cut out holes for
your eyes and sew black mesh on the inside, so you can see out. Tie a piece of twine around your neck to hold the excess
fabric down. Use black yarn to make stitches for the mouth.
Fresh from the Shower
Ingredients: Wrap your hair in a towel and wear shorts and a tube top and wrap a towel around yourself. Wear slippers or flipflops. Carry around a rubber ducky and a loofa.
Van Helsing
The swashbuckling monster slayer from this summer’s monster smash hit.
Ingredients: Black vest, dark green pants, black shirt, large black trenchcoat (leather if possible) large black fedora or slouchhat. Black gloves.
"Gatorade" Athlete:
Dress in a work out outfit, or basketball, football jersey, etc. Carry a bottle of Gatorade. Whatever flavor/color of the drink you
choose, buy face paint in that color and apply to your face and body, to simulate the "colored" sweat of Gatorade commercials.
Gulliver and the Lilliputians (from Gulliver’s Travels):
Wear brown Oxford shoes with gold cardboard buckles (rectangles with rectangular holes in them), white knee-high socks,
tight brown knee-length shorts, frilly white shirt. Glue or tie lots of lego men or small figures to string, and glue or tie the string
across your body a few times, so the little men hang off (as though they had been tying you down on the ground and you
escaped).
Undertaker:
Wear a long dark trench coat and stuff all the pockets with ladies’ undergarments. Get it? Undertaker? You take underware?
Ah, never mind.
Mr. Universe:
Wear all black and tape pictures of the sun, moon, planets, etc., to yourself.
Plastic Surgeon:
Wear surgical scrubs. Carry around a roll of plastic wrap to perform on the spot plastic surgery.
Windblown Biker Babe:
Wear leather jacket, boots, etc. Rat your hair and hairspray it so it looks blown back. Run tons of makeup off to the sides to
simulate high speed biking. Add flies and bug splats for realism. Put coffee grounds in your teeth and smile a lot.
Not a Happy Camper:
Wear a camp t-shirt and cargo shorts. Tear holes and burn the edges of the clothes, then attach leaves and sticks, burnt and
melted marshmallows and fake bugs to the clothes. Tease your hair; add melted marshmallows and fake welts and insect bites
to exposed skin. For more effect, attach a rubber snake to your ankle as if being bit!
The Dead Little Girl from "The Ring" (best for a petite woman or young girl):
Wear a white nightgown. Get a long black or dark brown haired wig from a costume shop (or if your hair's long enough, use
your own hair). Use lots of gel to make hair appear wet, arrange hair in front of face. You can pour water on yourself to make
your hair and nightgown wet, if you so desire. Whenever someone talks to you, say "Seven days" in the creepiest voice you
can. Scares the pants off of anyone!
Someone You Can Count On:
Wear all black clothes. Cut out big, bright numbers and attach them to your clothes.
Hall and Oates:
Wear ‘80s clothing. Get a burlap sack and fill it with crumpled-up newspaper. Using a stencil, paint the word “OATS” on the
sack. Then lug it around over your shoulder. Tell the curious that you’re haulin’ oats.
Trophy Wife:
Girls - wear a cute outfit, blonde wig (or hair), a huge fake diamond ring, and carry a trophy!
Wild Girl Caught On Tape:
Wear a flesh-colored body suit with a shirt pinned up as if you were flashing. Attach a black cardboard rectangle to the front of
your chest, with the word “CENSORED” painted in white letters.
Costume Ideas for Couples.
Just some last minute “idea” for couples looking for cooking inspiration!
Wind Blown Couple: Two people caught in a windstorm.
Turn an umbrella inside out and paste paper and debris to your clothes. For added effect use a coat hanger inside an old tie and
bend it so that it hangs horizontally across your chest (you can get a similar effect using Velcro).
Caught on Lover's Lane:
He wears shirt buttoned up the wrong way, pants unzipped, looking all disheveled, with lipstick kisses all over his face and neck
(along with some on his shirt and one or two strategically placed close to the zipper of his pants). She wears a dress with the
waist band all bunched up and twisted, lipstick smeared all over her mouth with the back of her hair all messed up, she could
be missing a shoe and have holes in her panty hose.
The Crocodile Hunter (Steve Irwin) and His Wife (Terri):
Each wears khaki shorts and shirts, with hiking boots and socks. Take a white pillowcase or laundry bag and put rubber snakes
inside the bag. "Terri" or "Steve" could have one snake around their neck and the other could carry a stuffed or rubber
crocodile. Have fun, Mate!
A Roll In the Hay:
Dress up like a farmer girl and boy. The girl can have braided pigtails, tight short-shorts, white t-shirt, etc. The boy can wear
dungarees, old straw hat, etc. Take hay and stick it in your hair, make it so it’s coming out of your pant pockets, and so little
bits are stuck all over yourself, etc.
Clothesline Between Two Trees:
Use brown material, draw on tree knots with a brown/black marker. Attach LOTS of leaves with hot-glue. Attach cardboard to
baseball hats and glue on branches and leaves. Paint faces brown and green. String a clothesline in between, and hang on
some "delicates."
Police Officer and Convict
Tinkerbell and Peter Pan (or Wendy and Peter Pan)
Men In Black:
Wear black suit, white shirt, black tie, black shoes and socks, and dark sunglasses. If you have a third person, have them dress
like an alien!
Lucy and Ricky Ricardo
Gomez and Morticia Addams
Skipper and Gilligan: (great costume for man and woman—whoever is skinnier can be Gilligan) For Skipper, wear a white
captain’s cap, blue golf shirt, white pants and a pair of tennis sneakers. Gilligan has white sailer’s hat, red long-sleeved polo
shirt, white pants and sneakers.
Baby Wearing Bowl of Spaghetti:
Use white cotton cloth to make a diaper big enough to fit you. Take a towel and cut a hole for your head where one side hangs
longer than the other so it looks like a bib. Get a bald cap and use spray adhesive to attach cooked spaghetti (colored with food
coloring to look like sauce). Then glue a bowl on top of that. You can also glue spaghetti to your bib & shirt. You might decorate
your bib ("SPIT HAPPENS")
Flapper and Gangster
Alice and the Mad Hatter
Money Grubbing Lawyer and Car Accident Client:
One dresses as a lawyer in a suit with a briefcase and the other dresses as an accident victim with gauze, fake blood, crutch
and a noticeable bruise. Make up some fake business cards and have the lawyer hand them out.
Sid and Nancy
Frankenstein’s Monster and The Bride
Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf.
The Statue of Liberty and Uncle Sam:
For statue, get a gray sheet or fabric and wrap around to make the dress, paint skin gray and use silver lipstick. Fashion a torch
out of construction paper. For Uncle Sam get a old suit and hat, wear a white beard and put a small American flag in pocket of
suit or use an American flag tie.
Barbie and Ken
Medusa and a Man turned to stone:
For the Medusa, a white or yellow toga style gown, with purple of deep green cape and gold accents. Lots of rubber snakes in
your hair and green lips and green shading around eyes. Give your eyes a lot of shading, deep dark colors, and perhaps some
pointy ear tips.
For man turned to stone: Wear all white and make your face, hair, hands etc…white as well. Strike a pose!
Vampire and Victim:
One person wears a classic vampire costume. The other person may wear a Victorian era costume or regular clothes. Use putty
and stage makeup to create puncture wounds and blood running down the neck of the “victim”.
Cat Got Your Tongue:
The woman wears a black cat costume and holds a rubber tongue. The man puts a little fake blood around his lips and doesn't
talk. Anytime someone tries to talk to him, the woman should wave the tongue around. He points to her in response.
A Bruise:
One wears all black (sweats) and the other all blue. They hug for a good picture.
IDEAS
Finally, here’s just a list of costume ideas. Perhaps one or more of these will inspire you. Have fun and Happy Halloween!
Austin Powers
Barney the Purple Dinosaur
Beetlejuice
Buzz Lightyear
Carmen Sandiego
Chucky from the movie Child's Play
Coyote Ugly girl
Cruella Deville
Crypt Keeper
Dr. Evil
Elmo
Felicity Shagwell
Fembot
Gilligan
Hunchback
Incredible Hulk
(I Dream of) Jeannie
Jolly Green Giant
Laura Croft
Mary Poppins
Merlin
Michael Meyers
Musketeer
Oompa Loompa from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Pat (is it man or woman?)
Pillsbury Doughboy
Popeye
Raggedy Ann/Andy
Robin Hood
Rocky Horror Picture Show character
Slim Jim
Star Wars character
Tarzan
The Crow
The Energizer Bunny
The Villain from’ Scream’
Tootsie from the movie with Dustin Hoffman
Toy Story character
Uncle Fester
William Wallace from the movie Braveheart
Wizard of Oz
Dorothy
Tin Man
Straw Man
Lion
Toto
Wizard
Wicked Witch
Good Witch Glenda
Angel
Annie
Arabian Knight
Ariel
Aunt Jemima
Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Big Boy)
Cat in the Hat
Chiquita
Cinderella
Cupid
Curious George
Demon
Devil
Eeyore
Elf
Fairy
Farmer's Daughter
Genie
Godzilla
Grinch
Harry Potter
Headless Horseman
Hercules
Humpty Dumpty
Hunchback
Leprechaun
Little Mermaid
Mary Poppins
Medusa
Merlin
Mermaid
Musketeer
Pippi Longstocking
Pixie
Princess
Queen
Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland
Robin Hood
Ronald McDonald
Santa Claus
Snow White
Sorcerer
Sorceress
Spy from Spy vs. Spy
Tarzan
Thomas the Train
Uncle Sam
Unicorn
Warlock
Wendy from the Restaurant Wendy's
Wood Sprite or Elf