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Funny Halloween Costume Ideas

- Dress Up for Your Spooktacular Events

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Halloween events take place all through October, at theme parks, zoos, kids' museums, and country inns, and more and more families are taking getaways in October that include scary (or not-so-scary) fun. Wherever you go, dress the part! Below, find funny Halloween costume Ideas to buy online or to create at home, including wacky matched sets for the whole family.

Funny Halloween Costumes for Babies

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Check out cute costumes at About.com's Baby Products site: Baby Elvis and Car Air Freshener are a hoot.

Ideas for Babies and Toddlers

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Little Frog Costume Baby, Hot Dog, Toddler Princess Leia, and many more ideas for babies and toddlers.

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Funny Halloween Costume Ideas for Kids

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Dozens of choices you can search by age. Buy online, or get inspired by the ideas here and make a costume yourself.
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Funny Halloween Costumes for Grown-Ups

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Parents should take the opportunity to dress-up too! Halloween's your best chance all year to act like a kid.

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Funny Halloween Costumes : Family Groups

Great ideas from a contest at Family.com. Dress up as a burger family, prehistoric family, funny fruits; check out many pages of photos, all make-your-own, with instructions.

Make Your Own Funny Halloween Costumes

A host of make-your-own ideas at About.com's Family Crafts website: animals and creatures, food items, famous people, and more. See also at Family Crafts: bag of jelly beans, big baby, and more fast and simple ideas.

Make-Your-Own Ideas for Duos, Groups

Would your family look good as a set of hot-dog condiments? Ketchup, mustard, and so on. Or go as Coneheads, a deck of cards... These make-your-own ideas are mixed in with buy-online costumes.

Start With A Cardboard Box

Also at the Family Crafts website at About.com: get creative with a costume by starting with a cardboard box. Check out Batman and a Bat motorcycle, a box of popcorn, bulldozer, head on a platter, and lots more suggestions. View ideas in the photo gallery, then click through to instructions.

Start With A Sweatshirt

Starting with a simple sweatsuit, your child can dress up as a candy cane, chica chica boom boom, hot dog, unicorn...

Simple Make-Your-Own Ideas

How's this for creative? Take white cotton gloves, stuff them, and get moose antlers. Eighteen DIY ideas at Parents.com.

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