If you make a creative homemade costume, you can ensure that you won't run into other trick-or-treaters or Halloween partygoers with the same outfit. Have fun coming up with a humorous or clever costume that your friends will want to photograph and replicate in future years.
Upside-Down Person
Create the illusion that you are walking on your hands with this simple upside-down person costume. Wear paints over your torso, arms and head, and cut holes for your eyes and mouth. Wear an oversize long-sleeve shirt on your legs, and wear extra-large mittens on your feet. Attach a fake head made out of craft foam or a balloon to the shirt under your legs, and hold your arms in the air with shoes on your hands.
Wind-Blown Person
Use a few simple tricks to make yourself look wind-blown. Insert wire to the interior of a jacket to make it look like it is blowing in one direction. Hot-glue more wire to one side of a scarf to hold it up in the air to one side. leaves to your jacket with hot glue, and carry an umbrella turned inside-out. Use hair spray to fix your hair in place, pointing the same direction as your jacket and skirt.
Paintings
Put yourself inside a famous painting with this homemade costume. Find a large box, such as one for a flat-screen television, and cut a large rectangle out of one side. Paint the border of the open side with gold or yellow paint to create the illusion of a picture frame. Then draw or paint the background of the painting you have chosen, such as "American Gothic" or "The Mona Lisa." Cut a hole in the bottom of the box so you can stand inside it, and dress as the figure in the painting. This also works well for couples or small groups if you choose a painting with more than one figure.
Puns
Costumes based on puns or word plays often require minimal work to assemble, and they will make your friends laugh. For example, you could dress as a "ceiling fan" simply by wearing a shirt that says, "Go Ceilings!" or "Ceilings are No. 1!" Or, dress as a "Holy Cow" by wearing a halo and a shirt with black spots on it. Make a "Dunkin' Donuts" costume by painting an inner tube to look like a doughnut, then wearing the fake doughnut around your waist over a basketball jersey.
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