48 Kids’ Halloween Costumes So Clever, You Might Wish You Thought Of Them First

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The days are getting shorter, the nights longer, and the air a little chillier—with a cozy hint of spice wafting from every house and café. That can only mean one thing: autumn is in full swing, and Halloween is right around the corner.

It’s the perfect time to light your jack-o’-lanterns, rewatch your favorite spooky classics, and hit the streets for trick-or-treating. But no Halloween is complete without a fa-boo-lous costume, and the kids below went all out. Scroll down for costume ideas so good, you might want to borrow them for yourself!

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#1 So Cute

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#2 This Year He Wanted To Dress Up As His Bearded Dragon “Son”. He Legit Calls Me Grandma As He Baby Talks His Lizard

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#3 My Wife Made Our Daughter’s Halloween Costume – As She Does Almost Every Year. This Year, She Really Amazed Me

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#4 My Daughter Went As Eleven For Halloween

Making the best out of a bad situation. She nailed it though.

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#5 Russell Costume

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#6 My Son’s Angler Fish Costume For Halloween This Year

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#7 Im Going To Have A Hard Time Outdoing Myself Next Year

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#8 Mamma Mia

My daughter sat in a pot dressed as spaghetti and meatballs for her first Halloween. When I tell you that that was the proudest moment of my life to date, it is not an exaggeration.

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#9 This Is So Great

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#10 Daughter Dressed Up As Her Grandma For Halloween

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#11 I Turned My Son’s Wheelchair Into A Digger For Halloween

He absolutely loves it, and luckily, his grandma was able to bring it to school for him so he could wear it all day.

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#12 My Daughter Loves Emily So I Did My Best This Halloween

I’m a tattoo artist, so I guess the attention to detail I went overboard with.

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#13 My Son’s Halloween Costume I Made Last Year

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#14 I Crochet Costumes, Gremlins

On year 8 and it is our tradition that my kids request a costume and I freehand crochet it. This year he selected Stripe from Gremlins! He is happy!

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#15 A Happy Belated Halloween From Our Artsy Family

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#16 That’s Just Good Parenting

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#17 Here Is A Tyrannosaurus Costume I Made For My Son, From Mattress Foam And Spray Paint

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#18 First Halloween

The wife wanted to go unconventional for our little guy’s first Halloween. Our little Rocketman was a hit among the grandparents!

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#19 My Daughter, As Anubis, About To Lay Down Some Judgment

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#20 My Kid Wanted To Be A Cup Of Mac N Cheese For Halloween

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#21 This Is So Cute

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#22 My Totoro-Obsessed Baby And His Catbus For Halloween

I sewed his costume based on a brilliant tutorial online and my husband made the Catbus from an old Cozy Coupe. He is so happy.

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#23 Halloween Costume

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#24 My Friends Baby’s Real Name Is Otto. Naturally This Is His First Halloween Costume. His Names Ot-To

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#25 This Is The Cutest Costume I’ve Seen

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#26 My Kid’s Costume 2023

He made it happen all by himself, and won first place at school.

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#27 Check Out My Teenage Son’s Homemade Dark Walker Costume

He’s been working on it in various forms for a few years. It finally all came together this year. He’s super proud of it and scared a bunch of kids last night.

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#28 Very Cute Idea

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#29 Weeping Angel

Just wanted to share… my daughter started campaigning to be this Doctor Who baddie for a few years before I took the plunge. It was intimidating as all get out, but about seven or eight weeks of my life and and inordinate amount of trips to the craft and hardware stores later, there we were.

Over the last couple of years, I’ve improved the arms & hands, and I’ve redone the “wig” twice and still am not really satisfied (I think it’s time to learn how to work with sculpting/molding latex), and I’m going to attempt airbrushing the makeup in the future.

The wings are detachable without having to undo the whole thing to get out of them, and it was 10/10 worth the headache to make them so.

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#30 6-Year-Old Wanted To Be “Creepy” This Year. Here’s My DIY Scary Scarecrow Costume

I used a cheap skull mask and glued the material over it but made sure it was imperfect with the creases. Also made sure the eye sockets were deep enough to cut holes in but remain dark enough so that you don’t see his eyes. Then added some paint and stitching!

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#31 Daughter Was Frodo For Her Second Halloween

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#32 Wife Finished My Kids Halloween Costume

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#33 Made The Millennium Falcon Out Of Wood And Old Electronics. Dedicated To My Little Han And Chewie

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#34 My Boy Was Freddie Mercury For Halloween

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#35 I Know This Is Really Late But My Son Was The Pillsbury Doughboy For Halloween And The Pictures Make Me Smile

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#36 He About To Snitch On Everybody

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#37 My Daughter Wanted Her Baby Sister To Be The Goldfish To Her Cat In The Hat This Halloween, And I’m Quite Pleased With How Dr. Seuss-Like It Came Out

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#38 My Son As Edward Scissorhands A Couple Of Years Ago

For months, he wanted to be a zombie, changed his mind the morning of Halloween that he wanted to be Edward Scissorhands so this is what I come up with from stuff around the house. Really easy costume. I’d like to do it again with longer than a few hours to make and do it properly.

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#39 He’s Beautiful

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#40 Our Kid Wanted To Be Max Verstappen For Halloween This Year

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#41 My Daughter’s Halloween Costume This Year

She’s been binging The Simpsons since the summer.

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#42 Cutest Baby Halloween Costume

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#43 Scariest Halloween Custome

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#44 So Cute

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#45 Turned Daughters Stroller Into A Barn To Match Her Costume

Can’t wait to celebrate her first Halloween, this is also her LAST first holiday.

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#46 Little Corn On The Cob Puff Quilt

I’m a new quilter and decided to make my baby a corn on the cob Halloween costume that used a (very scaled down) puff quilt! I got some inspiration from the video below and then winged the rest! Very happy with how it turned out (if you don’t look too closely at the misaligned seams) and excited to do more intense quilting in the future!

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#47 Too Cute! This Is My Daughter When She Was Little As A Flower

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#48 My Kid’s Costume

Okay, I know it’s cutting it REALLY, REALLY, REALLY close to the buzzer here. But my kid finally agreed to a lifeboat as a costume as opposed to the same one he wore last year (The Titanic we made him) I love that he loves it so much he wants to wear it again. However we don’t have great storage so it’s not in good shape. So he said a lifeboat. I did also suggest a door so he could be the scene at the end with Jack and Rose.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to go dumpster diving for cardboard boxes, draw some lines on it, and either use dowels to connect and use the suspenders system we did last year for the Titanic.

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