Some of the best costumes in contests during Halloween and at costume parties have not been expensive store-bought costumes. These award-winning costumes are easy and inexpensive costumes that usually only require a little creativity and a few key pieces most people have hanging around their homes. We did some of the work for you and gathered together a few ideas for quick and easy creative costumes.
Bubble Gum on a Shoe
This is one of the easiest costumes in the book. It is also one of the cutest costumes. When a child shows up at a contest dressed in this costume, he or she is a shoe-in for a win.
To dress up as bubble gum stuck to the bottom of a shoe, put on a pink sweat suit, or some type of pink pants and pink top. Then, simply take a shoe (make sure the bottom of it is clean) and a piece of string and tie the shoe to the top of your head, with the bottom of the shoe on the top of your head. You are now gum on the bottom of a shoe.
Baked Potato
Here we have yet another one of the easiest costumes to assemble in a hurry. It is another one of our award-winning costumes because it takes everyday items and creativity to make a fun outfit.
Baked potato costumes are extremely easy. Grab a roll of aluminum foil and some silver duct tape. Wrap yourself in the aluminum foil and tape carefully with duct tape. If you have batting (the stuffing you put into pillows or quilts) stick it in a line down your front. It is the inside of the potato coming out. You can also modify the costume with padding inside to make it look more like a potato.
Adam and Eve
These costumes are fabulous for a couple costume parties. You will definitely be a hit when you show up in Adam and Eve costumes. Laughs will resound and you will be applauded for your creativity.
Adam and Eve costumes will probably require a little more pre-planning than the other costumes. Take long johns and dye them a skin color, or wear a skin colored body suit. If you women are brave, you may decide to wear a skin colored leotard with pantyhose. Then simply cut out green felt fig leaves to go on the costumes and tack or tape them on the costumes in the appropriate places.
Invisible Man
Here is an extremely easy and yet hardly ever seen costume: the invisible man. This one usually beats out all other costumes at contests and parties. If you have a husband and a first aid kit, you will more than likely have the supplies for this costume on hand.
Talk your husband into letting your child borrow his trench coat for the evening. Wrap your child up in the trench coat. Put him or her in a turtleneck shirt and gloves. Then wrap your child’s head and face completely in gauze (make sure to leave breathing room). Add a pair of sunglasses and a hat — preferably a fedora — and cover any visible skin with clothes or gauze and you’re done!
By D. Blair Thompson