20 Children Halloween Costumes Your Little Ones Will Love

Praying Mantis

Have recycled cardboard mendacity round? Use it to make this praying mantis costume. Following our template, reduce the top, arms, and tail out of broken-down bins and canopy them with spray adhesive and inexperienced felt. Glue antenna wires and plastic eyes to the headpiece to make the face. Full the look with a inexperienced long-sleeve shirt and leggings.

Rooster

Your little hen will look cute crossing the highway this All Hallows’ Eve after they’re dressed on this costume. You solely want feather boas, kitchen gloves, tights, and a pilot’s cap topped with a felt comb. Beneath the boas—meant to resemble plumage—two leotards are full of batting to make the costume look additional plump.

Dandelion

This no-sew costume takes dandelions to new heights. The headpiece is produced from plant-based consuming straws, that are snipped, frayed, and hot-glued to a swim cap. For the remainder of the costume, add felt leaves to a inexperienced leotard utilizing our easy template.

White Swan

This elegant costume is straightforward to vogue from items of white felt for the physique and head and black and orange felt for the face. Use our template to chop out the form of the costume, then assemble. For cygnet ft, pull black knee-high socks over white tights.

Superhero

Allow them to select what kind of superhero they wish to be, then customise their cape accordingly. Every of those outfits begins with leggings and a long-sleeve T-shirt. Equipment end the look: headbands, eye masks, chest letters, lightning bolts, belts, and—after all—capes.

Our cape requires only one straightforward seam. To begin, fold over one aspect of the material by 1 inch, and press with a cool iron. Sew down the flap, making a 3/4-inch channel. Connect a security pin to at least one finish of ribbon and thread by means of.

Zombie

In the event that they wish to go as one thing spooky this Halloween, do this DIY zombie costume. A plaid uniform is straightforward to seek out from the thrift retailer, however it’s also possible to use garments from their current wardrobe to create this un-dead look. To take it a step additional, we have created a crest template so you possibly can customise the costume in your zombie. Safe it to their shirtfront utilizing sizzling glue or needle and thread.

Octopus Costume

Making this deep sea creature is a cinch, so long as you might have some fundamental stitching expertise. A belt of soppy tentacles is original from blue material and batting (be certain that to get the peak proper so your little octopus does not journey). A beanie hat adorned with googly eyes completes the cute look.

Dinosaur

This extinct species is again for one evening solely—and it is prepared for some Halloween sweet. The prehistoric outfit is made by working scales (produced from a inexperienced tarp and cord) down a ski hood, T-shirt, and leggings. Glue press-on nails to gloves and sneakers for the “claws.”

Cowboy

Yee-haw! To recreate this cowboy get-up, spherical up some brown paper grocery luggage, then reduce them into the form of a vest and chaps. Snip the bottoms to provide the ensemble a fringed look. Use aluminum muffin liners for makeshift conchos and gold fasteners to decorate the vest and pants. A mop-maned horse serves as the proper trusty steed.

Harlequin

Have a jokester within the household? This costume is the one for them. It is impressed by Harlequin, a centuries-old character from improvisational European theater identified for clownish habits, acrobatics, and brightly coloured garments. To make it, you may want an extraordinary white button-down shirt, white tights, white ballet sneakers, and dance shorts. Multi-colored diamonds made by ironing on satin shapes in various sizes give the costume its jester-like look.

Storm Chaser

Good for siblings or pals, this costume has two elements: the storm and the storm chaser. For the chaser, tape strips of wire to the again of a shawl and the within of a skirt. Twist the wires to make the clothes appear to be they’re being pulled up and away. An inside-out umbrella drives the wind-swept look house.

Twister

Each storm chaser wants a storm. To create this twister, wrap grey tulle round a tomato cage then adhere material leaves, mannequin fences, and toy cows to provide the phantasm that they had been swept up within the storm.

Woman Bug

In want of a final minute Halloween costume? This candy outfit comes collectively within the blink of a watch(lash). Merely stick black felt dots to a crimson gown or t-shirt and glue massive fake eyelashes onto spherical sun shades. The feelers are made by twisting pairs of pipe cleaners collectively and sticking the wires of every right into a pom-pom. Wrap reverse ends of the feelers round a headscarf and twist to safe.

Fairy

These fairy-inspired headpieces will transport them to a different world. Lower out fake flowers or butterflies and connect them to a headscarf with glue. Pair the crown with an identical gown or outfit from their closet to tie all the costume collectively.

Pegasus-Unicorn Costume

Carry their favourite mythological creature to life with this pegasus-unicorn mashup. An iridescent fringed get together curtain, glittery material, and an LED candle (for the horn) make up the headpiece, whereas a pleated dancer’s cape serves because the wings.

Bat

Everybody is aware of bats solely come out at evening—and your baby will probably be amongst them this Halloween. Assembled from midnight black felt items, this costume is straightforward to make so long as you know the way to stitch utilizing the working sew.

Violet Flower

She’ll be your favourite flower of the bunch if you gown her on this darling costume. Whereas it might look intricate, when you can reduce and glue felt, you can also make this ensemble. The highest 4 petals connect to a headscarf, the underside two to a ribbon that ties beneath your blossom’s chin. The “leaves” are safety-pinned to the gown, so it may be worn once more as soon as Halloween is over.

Little Miss Monstrous

A do-it-yourself wig and a mattress sheet are all it takes to make this hauntingly unimaginable costume. It begins with an outsized curly black novelty wig, which is trimmed down—utilizing our template—and given an electrified streak with white yarn. A mattress sheet is used to make the shroud and bandages are dyed grey and wrapped up her arms for a wonderfully un-dead look.

Jellyfish

Your jellyfish will make a splash on land this All Hallows’ Eve with our enjoyable and simple costume. An identical blue set serves as the bottom of this costume, whereas a white or translucent umbrella is topped with tentacles produced from bubble wrap and iridescent cellophane.

Tremendous Spider

The bottom of this costume is easy—begin by dressing your baby in all black. Then stretch webbing round their physique by having them put their legs and arms by means of the openings like they’re placing on a shirt and pants. Tangle just a few plastic spiders into the webbing and your spider is able to hunt for Halloween sweet.