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Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas

From Holly Ashworth, About.com Guide   October 25, 2009

Halloween is just a couple of days away! If you still haven't come up with a costume yet, try one of these easy-peasy costumes that won't require you to shop much further than your own closet:
  • Wear a bathing suit, shorts and flip flops, put a towel around your neck and sunblock on your nose, and go as a lifeguard.
  • Wear your regular clothes, cover your face in grey makeup and spray your hair so it's all messed up, and go as a zombie version of yourself.
  • Make a toga out of a bed sheet and go as an ancient Roman.
  • If you've got a friend with totally different style than you, swap clothes and go as each other.
  • Wear all black, paint a black nose and whiskers on your face and go as a black cat. You can make a simple cat ear headband out of construction paper.
  • Wear your fanciest dress, make a sash out of a strip of white fabric, buy a cheap tiara and go as a beauty queen.
  • Wear torn jeans and a t-shirt, tie a bandana to the end of a stick and go as a hobo.
  • Wear a robe and fuzzy slippers, roll your hair in curlers and go as a housewife.
Got any other ideas, or just wanna share what you'll be going as? Leave a comment!
Comments
October 28, 2009 at 1:15 am
(1) General Nikolai :

Another great one! Wear a baggy tshirt and put a pillow in it and be an old lady or old man or whatever pleases you

October 28, 2009 at 10:05 pm
(2) Alex :

if u play paintball or like to hunt so much that you bought a ghillie suit, go as a sea monster or you could be the friendly neighborhood bush xD

October 29, 2010 at 1:55 pm
(3) kathy :

dress as red riding hood and make up face in ghostly white with black rimmed eyes…little dead riding hood! my daughter (at 16) did this and it was a big hit

October 29, 2010 at 3:25 pm
(4) sharon :

Wear your pj/jammies and paint red bite marks all over your face, neck and other skin areas. On the clothing paint black marks all over. On your back take a stuff animal (black would be great) and pin it to your back. You are being attacked by the bed bugs. If you have a young child they could be the bed bug and you the victim.

October 29, 2010 at 5:15 pm
(5) spyridoula :

Just wear your more baby-like pijamas, make two braids with your hair, put on your slippers and socks and create some freckles with an eye pencil and you re a baby! You can buy a huge dummy to complete the look an act well..like a baby, thats the fun part!

October 31, 2010 at 1:36 pm
(6) bob mead :

where a tux and a scary mask and make ur hands all bludy then go as a zombie bissues perison…make agustments if needed

March 17, 2011 at 6:37 pm
(7) ramesh :

What I can say is very nice and helpful as well as informative post…really help me very much more!! Thanks..

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