INDIVIDUAL COSTUMES

• 1950's Look: Untucked, solid-color button down shirts; jeans rolled up to mid-calf; socks and penny loafers. Girls wear pony tail and boys slick-back ducktail with grease
• 1960s Hippy: Tie die clothing, long wig (in the old days we called a "fall", sandals, headband, anything with fringe on it (vests, purse...), light colored sun glasses
• Abe Lincoln
• Absent minded professor
• Addams Family: Cousin It, Gomez, Lurch, Morticia, Pugsly, Thing, Uncle Fester
• Adolph Hitler• Ahab (Moby Dick)
• All Space Aliens: Use turtle neck sweaters with tight pants. Use old bathrobes. Drape yourself in a tie-dyed bed sheet. Glue sequins and felt designs on old suits with Elmer's glue
• Always a bridesmaid
• American tourist: Guys loud Hawaii shirt, shorts (if weather permits), Large straw hat. Gals bright loud dress, flats, big sun hat, straw bag. Don't forget to have a camera, and maps hanging out, and that look of being lost. Guys can use a tourist bag, (like you get from travel agents, and gals can use the straw bag for their treats
• Andy Warhol
• Angel
• Animaniacs: Black cotton cap for hair, use pipe cleaners and felt for forming ears which can be glued to hat. Use a small slinky (stretched and wrapped in black felt for the tail. Black pants & shirt, white gloves for hands. Use lip stick for nose, white face paint for face, black face paint for neck. (For Dot, add a red polka-dot skirt and yellow silk flower on hat) (For Wacko, Use a baseball cap turned around (ears will be glued to it) with Blue sweat shirt with the sleeves cut 1/4 length) and (for Yacko, Wear whit pants)
• Archie & Friends: Jughead, Betty, Reggie, Veronica
• Art student
• Aunt Jemima
• Autograph Book: Wear a white shirt and pants. Carry a Sharpie pen and have people sign you!
• Autopsy: Tear up old clothes and splatter red paint on them.
• Baby: Old t-shirt and a Depends diaper.
• Babysitter: Strap a baby doll to your behind and sit on it.
• Bag of Jelly Beans: You'll need a clear plastic bag. Step into it making holes for the legs and arms out the side. Fill the bag with different color balloons and use a flashy scarf to tie around the top of the bag. You may want to place a sign that says Jelly Beans 5¢ in front of the bag. For the clothing underneath just about any color leotard will work
• Basketball player
• Batman: Alfred, Batgirl, Catwoman, Commissioner Gordon, Joker, Mr. Freeze, Riddler, Robin
• Bam-Bam: Using leopard skin material, cut out a diaper size piece of cloth for the waist. Cut a ragged edge and then use the same material to make a sash for the shoulder. Use a dog's rubber bone for the back. Use hot glue to attach at the rear. Cut a card board circle and glue on a circle of material. Use bobby-pins to attach to the hair
• Baseball player
• Bearded lady
• Ben Franklin
• Betty Rubble: Wear a black wig done "Betty" style, take a blue halter dress and cut the length with a pair of scissors so that the ends are jagged. Wear a bow in your hair. Glue a small rock to the top of the halter dress
• Beverly Hillbillies: Ellie May, Granny, Jane Hathaway, Jed Clampett, Jethro
• Black-Eyed Pea: Take a fabric pen and draw or pin a giant "P" on a shirt. Put black makeup around one eye and you have become a "Black-Eyed P."
• Black widow spider
• Bobblehead: Dress up as your favorite sports player. Then, when someone asks what you are, start wobbling your head around
• Box of crayons
• Boxer
• Brady Bunch
• Butt Head: Glue cigarette butts to a baseball cap.
• Buccaneer: Attach a dollar to each ear (buck-an-ear).
• Bunch of Grapes: Dress the child in clothes that match the color of the balloons. Blow up the balloons and with small safety pins attach them all over the body. Make sure you don't restrict either movement or visibility
• Cannibal
• CD Burner: Just tie a computer CD around your neck and carry a lighter. When someone asks what you are, hold the lighter up to the CD
• Chest of Drawers: Pin underwear to your shirt. Works best with a formal looking business suit
• Chicken Lady
• Chinese Doll: My daughter won with this costume! Her face was painted white, she had red rosy cheeks all shaped in a circle, Hair in buns, thong slippers, and a kimono
• Chip on Your Shoulder: Dress in regular clothes, and glue a poker chip to your shoulder
• Christopher Columbus
• Cinderella
• Cleopatra
• Clown: Sweet clothes that are too large. Decorate by using either fabric paint, or markers. For those who dare try tie-die. Tack on some large pop-poms, add a cheap wig, hat, and make-up. You may also stuff the extra space in clothing with tissue. However this could be messy, if you need to make a "pit-stop"
• Cone Head: Use pajamas or regular clothes. Make a cape from a material remnant
• Count Chocula
• Count Dracula: Make a cape out of one square yard of black satin. Use an old black suit for the clothes. Make a white vest from a bed sheet.
• Cowboy/Cowgirl: Jeans, western shirt, boots, western hat, neckerchief and bandanna
• Crash test dummy - After: There is a commercial costume for this, but a good one can be made with sweats and tape to make the markings on it like the crash test dummies. Use bandages and fake blood to decorate. Fashion a seat belt out of webbing and an old buckle and pin in place. (or go to a junk yard as ask for an old seatbelt)
• Creature From the Lagoon: Use green leotards or a wet suit or green body paint
• Cupid
• Dancing baby
• Davy Crockett
• Deck of cards
• Demon: Use a green body suit or bathrobe. Buy two yards of green felt and glue on strips.
• Devil: Use red clothes or red tights and leotard or robe. Use red body paint.
• Devil's Advocate: Wear buttons and carry signs that say "Devil is #1" and "Vote for Satan," etc.
• Dilbert: Wear round wire frame glasses.. Wear a white shirt and black dress slacks. Take a red and black stripe tie and using pipe cleaners glue them to the underside of the tie so that it will form the upward bend that Dilbert wears
• Dolly Parton
• Dragon
• Dresser: Wal-Mart and Kmart sell cardboard dressers in the laundry department. Cut out holes for arms on the sides and hole on top for head. Put foam in the inside for the shoulders to hold it up. Paint the dresser and write on each drawer underwear, socks, etc. Hot glue a doily to top with hairbrush and hair accessories. Hang underwear, socks, shirt, and pants out of drawers. Put a small lamp shade on the head so neck and face are base of lamp
• Easter Bunny
• E-Mail: Dress as a man (if you are not one already!) Tape an "E" on chest. "E"-male
• Electric man/woman
• Fairy Godmother/father
• Fantastic Four
• Father Time
• Field hockey player
• Football Player: Those who have an older brother or father who played football in high school or college can use their uniform. Use foam inside the helmet to make it fit properly, use the teams sweatshirt underneath. Use black tape under the eyes for that touch of the real game.
• Fortune Teller: Attach a bunch of fortune cookies to your clothes. Wear a scarf or towel wrapped around your head.
• Frankenstein: Use an old green coat and black pants. Slash up the coat with a razor blade and slap red paint on it.
• Frankie and Annette: Wear a Frankenstein mask and carry a net (aquarium, butterfly or whatever). Or even simpler wear a nametag that says "Frankie" and carry the net.
• Game Show Contestant: Wear a large, colorful name badge. Keep shouting "I'd like to buy a vowel!", and "I'll take State Capitals for $500, Alex."
• Garbage Bag: Cut holes in the bottom of a large plastic garbage bag and slip on child. Cut holes for the arms. Fill up the bag with loosely crumpled newspaper. Tape bag around neck.
• Gargoyle: Use an old fur coat. Buy some plastic chains and sew on the suit
• George Washington
• Ghandi
• Genghis Khan
• Ghost: Position a white sheet over body. Mark where eyes need to be cut out and sheet needs to be hemmed. Take off and hem with tape (or staples - I hate to sew!) and cut out eyes. Cut slits for arms. With a felt pen, make a ghost face. Tie a loose bow around neck to help the costume stay in place, but not so tight that it won't come undone if you trip and fall.
• Ghost 2: Use the same sheet as above, then dress it up a little. Put eye shadow and lashes around the eyes, lipstick for the mouth, a little color on the cheeks. Girl ghosts wear earrings and a necklace; boy ghosts have a beard or mustache.
• Ghost of Christmas Past
• Gilligan's Island: Gilligan, Ginger, Maryann, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Howell, The Professor, The Skipper
• God's Gift to Women: Wrap yourself like a present using romantic wrapping paper. Attach a large tag that says "From: GOD To: WOMEN".
• Goldfinger: Paint one of your fingers gold. Optional: dress like James Bond
• Golfer
• Gorilla: Use an old black fur coat as a base. Cut up black upholstery for accents. Use black gloves for hands.
• Got Milk?: Wear a sign that says "Got Milk?". Paint a milk mustache over your lip with make-up or other non-toxic white substance.
• Grape Vine: Use a brown body suit and shoes. Cover your body with double sided sticky tape. Then fill up purple balloons and attach the balloons to the double sided tape. You may use a garbage bag tie to attach the balloon to the double sided tape. This is preferred if you are going outside in the wind
• Green Hornet
• Gypsy: Get a scarf for your hair, a shawl and a puffy blouse with a flowing long flower print skirt
• Half-man/half-woman
• Head in the Clouds: Stick cotton balls all over your hat or visor
• Henry VIII
• Hippie: Bell-bottom jeans, long jeans, or peasant dress, love beads (long necklace, bead band, peace button and pink-tinted glasses. Tie-dyed shirt optional.)
• Hobo: Large men's pants, large dark sports coat, shirt with patches and a stick with a bandanna. Adults can burn a cork and when charred blow out the cork and then use this charred area for a scruffy look
• Huck Finn
• I Dream of Jeannie: Use a tube top for the top, and cut off a red vest for the jacket. Use baggy pants that can be dyed pink and an old pair of ballet shoes
• Impressionist
• Jackson Pollack Painting: Splatter drips of paint on your clothes and hang a picture frame around your neck (or just hold it up in front of you)
• Jimi Hendrix
• Joan of Arc
• John Phillip Sousa
• Johnny On The Spot: Wear a name tag that says "Johnny" (not necessary if your real name is Johnny). Create a circle out of cardboard or plastic, big enough to stand on. When someone asks you what you are, throw the circle on the floor and stand on it
• Jolly Green Giant
• Judge Judy: Use a graduation robe and dye it black. Wear a curly wig and a lace trimmed blouse under
• Julius Caesar
• Kangaroo: Tape a brown paper lunch bag to your stomach.
• Kodak Moment: Make a large frame out of cardboard and paint it brown for a wood effect. Strike memorable poses throughout the evening. Works well when others want to get into the picture during the party for other interesting photo opportunities.
• Lady: Mother's old dress gathered at waist with a big ribbon or fancy belt. Temporarily hem bottom or sleeves with tape. Use a big hat with flowers or feathers that doesn't obstruct vision. Use lots of costume jewelry and adult makeup. You can also use fancy gloves, nail polish, a shawl, and a purse. Don't choose shoes that are awkward to walk in. A splash of perfume finishes the job
• Lady Macbeth
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Leaf blower: Wear a baseball cap with a leaf dangling down in front of your face. When someone asks what you are, blow on the leaf
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Leftover: Wrap yourself all over with foil. Stick a label on yourself that says "leftover dinner." For added effect put a clear bag around yourself and label it "Ziploc"
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Liberace
• Little Bo Peep
• Little Lulu
• Little Miss Muffet
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Lizzie Borden
• Macbeth
• Mad scientist
• Madonna
• Magician: Wear a black tux jacket, black pants, white dress shirt, Top hat and stuffed bunny for your tricks
• Marie Antoinette
• Marley's Ghost
• Mary had a little lamb
• Mermaid
• Michael Jackson
• Miss America: Use a old bridesmaid dress or formal, add a pair of gloves, a tiara, some oversized jewelry, and heels. For the banner, a piece of wide ribbon, and write "Miss America" in glitter
• Mole Creature: Use an old black coat, sling mud or brown and black paint on it
• Mother Goose
•Mother Nature: You will need silk flowers and silk plant leaves in a variety of shapes and colors, an old skirt and vest, a face mask , twigs (collected from your nearby park or in your own backyard) to make a nest, a foam bird that you can find at any craft store, glue gun and wire. Decorate the vest & skirt with the silk leaves in a random pattern and glue into place. Decorate the skirt with flowers growing out from the leaves already put in place. Use the remaining leaves and small flowers to decorate the face mask. Gather your twigs and secure with wire to make a nest. Place your bird on the twigs and secure into place with the wire. You can add some leaves and peat moss as a filler
• Mr. Clean
• Mummy: Take white sheets, tear up into long strips and wrap them around the body. Or
wrap yourself in white bandages (rolls of gauze) Use splotches of green paint for "mold". Use white make-up on face with "age lines" drawn on. The stiff-legged gait works perfectly.
• Mummy 2: Wear white, tight fitting (yet warm) clothing under the wrappings. Take a 5 yard role of 3 inch gauze and dip it in weak tea the day before and hang it out to dry. This will be your head wrapping. You will need a 60 yard roll of 1 1/2 inch wide masking tape for your body wrapping. Start with your ankles and work up. Overlap the tape slightly and stop at the knee. Continue right above the knee and go to the top of your thigh. Do both legs. Then start in the middle of your stomach and run it down between your legs, crisscrossing over your hips and between your legs in a diaper fashion. Break off the tape. Just below your hipbones wrap around your body until you get to your underarms. Crisscross over your shoulders to cover your upper chest and back. Start at your shoulder and move down your arm. Stop at the elbow and start again on the other side of your elbow. Do both arms. Now switch to gauze for your head. Tape down the end of the gauze under your collarbone and move upwards to do your neck and your head. Make sure it's not too tight around your neck! Keep your eyes and mouth free. Tape down when you're finished. Rub some dirt on the tape so that you look sufficiently old and moldy. With a black or brown eye pencil circle each eye and smudge out for that hollowed out eye look. Whiten the rest of your face so that it matches your wrappings. This is a very visible costume!
• Mummy 3: Wrap yourself in burlap strips. Shred old oversized clothes. Slop paint on leotards and tights or sew strips on a pair of white coveralls
• Munsters: Herman, Lily, Grandpa
• Mr. Potato Head: Fill a burlap bag with old shirts or rags. Using felt, cut out the eyes, nose and mouth. Attach Velcro to the backs of these items. Use fiber- fill to stuff the parts. Then attach the Velcro backs to the suit. Use black sweat pants or leotard for legs.
• Mucho DeNiro: Photocopy several pictures of Robert DeNiro and attach all over your body
• Napoleon
• Nerd: High-water pants (FLOODS), white shirt, bow tie, white socks, black shoes and dark-frame glasses with masking tape around the nose piece. Slick back the hair, penny loafers, or lace up oxfords, pocket protector, with lots of pens, dark rim glasses (don't forget to tape the corner, or at least paper clip it) briefcase, or backpack for treat bag.
• Nudist on Strike: Dress in normal clothes and carry a sign that says "Nudist on Strike."
• Old Man/Woman: Use old clothes. A man can use a black coat, dark cuffed pants, baggy jacket, dress shirt, flannel hat and walking cane. A woman can use an old long dress (just below the knees), knee-hi stockings rolled down a little, oxford shoes, and big black purse.  Gray the hair, with any of the commercial temporary colors, or dust with a little baby powder or flour
• Old Mother Hubbard
• Old Woman in Shoe
• Pancho Villa
• Pat (From Saturday Night Live): Get a Western shirt 2 sizes too big. Stuff yourself with rolled up newspaper. Use polyester pants that are brown and 2 sizes too big. For the stuffing on the pants, use multiple layers of foam. Use military style glasses. Black curly wig
• Paul Bunyan
• Peter Pan: Captain Hook, Michael, Tinker Bell, Wendy
• Phantom of the Opera: Wear a black suit with a cape. Be sure to scar up your hands
• Photograph in frame
• Piece of Gum Stuck to Your Shoe: Dress in all pink and attach a shoe to the top of your head.
• Piggy Bank: Wear pink clothes and put a piece of black electrical tape on your forehead (coin slot)
• Pillsbury Doughboy
• Pin-Up Girl: For a female only: Pin safety pins onto a solid-colored t-shirt or sweatshirt, forming a large arrow pointing up.
• Pippy Long Stocking: Wear a red wig with two pig tails on each side. Using pipe cleaners, wire the inside of the pig tails. Then attach a piece of fishing string to from the end of the pig tail and attach it to the base of the wig with a needle and thread (This will give the trademark Pippy tails.) Then wear a red dress with a flower pattern and a white apron with a fringe on it. Wear hiking boots and color socks and then apply red marker fake freckles.
• Pirate: Jeans or dark pants rolled up to your knees, tights or knee socks, boots, large gold belt buckle, large blousy long-sleeved shirt, sash or belt, a brightly colored scarf, eye patch, bandana (red or blue or multi colored bandana, folded diagonally to form a triangle. Place on your head so the triangle covers the top of your head, and tie in back), vest. One hoop earring. Makeup ideas: Heavy eyebrows, mustache, scar, skull & crossbones tattoo.
             • Props: Cardboard or plastic dagger stuck in your sash.  Cardboard or plastic hook. If you are wearing a long-sleeved shirt you can pull the sleeve over your hand and just hold the end of the hook with your hand. Parrot: if you have a light weight stuffed parrot you can either sew or pin the parrot to your shoulder.

• Pop Quiz: Wear a t-shirt. Draw a large question mark on the front, with popcorn glued around the edges
• Post-It Note: Cut out two three-foot square pieces of cardboard; glue a yellow large sheet of poster board to one side of the two boards. Then take a sponge and using a light grey paint, apply a light coating across the top 1/8 of the one board to represent the sticky glue. Then using a magic marker, write a short note on the front side of the one board. Use string to attach the two sides together
• Pot Head: Find a cooking pot from the kitchen that will fit nicely on your head
• Professional Wrestler (Gorgeous George)
• Q-Tip: Dress all in blue, and cover a cap and your shoes with cotton balls.
• Quarter Pounder: Carry a quarter and a hammer. If someone asks what your costume is, put the quarter down and pound it with the hammer.
• Quarterback: Wear normal clothes, and tape a quarter to your back
• Race car driver
• Rapper: Large jeans, large shirt. Baseball cap worn sideways or backwards
• Richie Rich
• Robot: Wrap yourself with tinfoil. Get an old set of coveralls and spray them silver
• Ronald McDonald
• Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
• Quasimodo: Cut up burlap to make simple tunic or use old bathrobe. Use old clothes from thrift or second-hand store
• Salvador Dali
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Samurai
Saturday Night Live: Blue's Brothers, Church Lady, Coneheads, It's Pat, Land Shark, Mr. Bill, Samurai, Two Wild and Crazy Guys, Wayne and Garth
• Satyr
• Scare Crow: Add patches to jeans and flannel shirts, add straw to cuffs of pants and shirt (duct tape will allow you to attach straw to under side of pants and shirt)
• Scarecrow: Over sized flannel shirt, faded blue jeans with patches, rope for belt and to tie at the cuffs of his jeans and sleeves, stuff the shirt and jeans with plastic grocery, or paper, a little bit of straw to hang out of jeans and shirt. Add a little bit of make-up
• Self-Absorbed: Attach sponges all over your body.
• Sherlock Holmes: Get a brown cape, a vest, white slacks and a magnifying glass, the sleuth hat
• Sigmund Freud
• Signs: Use foil wrap to make a pointy, Hershey Kiss-shaped hat to keep the aliens from reading your mind
• Skeleton: Use an old black coat or choir robe with a hood
• Someone You Can Count On: Wear all black clothes. Cut out big, bright numbers and attach them to your clothes.
• Spice Rack: Wear an extra-large bra over your clothes. Stuff it with jars of spices
• Spiderman
• Spongebob Squarepants: Wear a black sweat suit and hot glue pieces of sponge to your pants. Also, wear a nametag sticker that says "My Name Is: BOB." It works even better if your name is Bob already
• Star Trek (original): Captain Kirk, Chekov, Dr. McCoy, Klingons, Mr. Spock, Scotty, Uhura, Tribble
• Star Trek The Next Generation
• Starbucks: Make some yellow stars out of paper or cardboard and pin them all over your clothes. Then take several dollar bills and pin them on also. Optional: carry a coffee mug
• Static Cling: Wear anything a solid color is good all white or all black. With safety
pins pin anything to yourself, i.e.: socks, underwear, bounce sheets, etc. You can also spray your hair straight up in the air
• Statue of Liberty
• Stick in the Mud: Wear all brown and attach a stick to your chest.
• Sugar Daddy: Attach candy all over yourself
• Superman
• Swept Under the Rug: Attach a throw rug to your back or head. Carry a broom.
• Tacky Man/Woman: Just butt UGLY, mismatched clothes (polyester and patterns are a plus)
• Tattooed man or woman
• Thanksgiving Turkey
• The Prisoner
• Thomas Edison
• Thomas Jefferson
• Tickled Pink: Wear pink clothes and carry a feather
• Toody and Muldoon
• Touched by An Angel:
       • (Andrew) Wear a white blazer, white pants and white shirt with a black tie. Attach a small portable flashlight to a bent wire hanger that will attach to your back with the wire side out using duct tape and a piece of card board. Aim the light on to the top of your hair
       • (Monica) Wear a long straight reddish blonde wig. Use the same hanger technique under a long small flowered dress
       • (Tess) Use a black curly wig. Spray white spray paint on the top sides of the wig. Use the same flashlight technique. Wear a three piece slacks set with an open jacket
• Train Engineer: A pair of blue jeans, a blue Jean jacket, a red and black bandana. a blue and white engineer hat, a whistle, and play lantern
• Troll
• Uncle Sam
• Valentine
• Valley Girl
• Van Gogh
• Waiter
•Web Pages: Glue pages from a book onto a black sweatshirt and sweatpants. Add spider webbing to your hair. Voila! Instant internet!
• Web Site: Drape fake spider webs all over your glasses.
• White Trash: Wear all white, and attach trash (i.e., milk cartons, paper, candy wrappers) all over yourself. Or step into a white trash bag overflowing with trash
• Winston Churchill
• Witch: Black clothes, cape, witch's hat and broom. (Dye an old sheet for the cape).
• Witch doctor
• Wizard
• Wolfman: Slash up old clothes to wear. Get some brown fur and cut it up and glue it on hands and neck
• Wonder Woman
• Ze-bra: Wear a bra on the outside of your shirt and attach the letter "Z" to it.
• Zorro: Black clothing, black hat, mask (for the cape - dye an old sheet black) and a red scarf wrapped around the waist

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