(Updated September 2023) I love Halloween and family costumes are a must in this home. Since the summer I start looking up ideas and getting inspiration. I’ve come across so many fun little girl costumes and family costumes that I just had to share a round up of my favorite costumes we’ve worn in past years and some ideas I’ve seen as inspiration for this year.
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
I had been dreaming of doing this one for years, but I knew it would be a lot of work to piece together. I finally did it and it’s hands down my favorite family costume ever. Fair warning, this one wasn’t cheap to put together and I watched a lot of tutorials for the makeup, but I love how it turned out.
Fair warning, I spent a lot of money on this family costume. More than any other year. But it was amazing! I pieced it together and not all of the pieces are exact but they’re the best available to match. Click on the item below and it’ll take you directly to purchase the item.
PETER PAN FAMILY
Halloween 2021 my daughter selected Tinkerbell when she saw the light up wings in Disney. I always let her choose her costume then work around it. Sometimes I do a little encouraging, but this one was all her. She picked what she wanted and then I figured out our costumes. It was a really easy one to put together and we all wore bag costumes I ordered from Amazon. They looked so much better than I expected!
This is a super easy and cute family costume. All 3 are regular bag costumes. I found them all on Amazon. Click on the photo below and it’ll take you directly to Amazon to buy it.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
This year my daughter was obsessed with the movie Alice in Wonderland and she thought Tweedledee and Tweedledum were super funny, so it was perfect for us to do it for Halloween. She was Alice and my hubby and I were Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We kept it simple by doing red shorts with a yellow shirt and blue bow tie. There’s some that look more like the characters, but it was 2020 and I wasn’t spending a lot of money on costumes as there wasn’t much going on anyway.
My brother last minute decided to piece together a few more of the character for himself and my parents. He was the Mad Hatter, he bought accessories so my dad would be Mr Rabbit and some accessories for my mom to be the Cheshire Cat. It was Halloween 2020 so conveniently my moms was a mask…. well, when we asked my daughter the next day about Halloween she said everyone was from Alice in Wonderland except for my mom (her grandma). She wanted to know why my mom was a shark lol.
HIPPIE FAMILY
Halloween 2019 we were on our big 3 month road trip through the US, so I decided we should select costumes that matched with our yellow school bus lifestyle. We left on that trip in August, so I had to buy these costumes in July to take with me. I ended up piecing together hippie outfits on Amazon and they were perfect for Halloween. They’re easy to put together and don’t require a lot of new pieces, which was a major factor since our bus has minimal storage space. We wore our jeans and shoes (or lack thereof) and added in the tops and accessories.
Below are the links to everything we bought for these outfits, except for the jeans and shoes, which were our own. Just click on the photo and it’ll take you directly to Amazon to purchase that item. Both of our outfits were supposed to be dresses, but we are quite tall, so they were shorter than anticipated. I added jeans and my daughter wore shorts with it. I also linked more options that would work for a family hippies costumes on my Amazon Storefront.
OLD LADY
This is my all time favorite costume! Charlie was 5 months old for her first Halloween and I made her an old lady costume. I found an inexpensive Carter’s onesie outfit that already brought the cardigan. Then I made her wig using pom poms, a hot glue gun and a wig cap. I finished off the look with old lady glasses on a pearl chain and some high socks. I will always treasure this picture.
Here’s everything you need to buy to recreate this old lady costume. Just click on an image below and it’ll take you directly to Amazon to buy it. The outfit comes in several colors, but they’re all available under the same link.
GHOSTBUSTERS & THE GHOST
I know this isn’t the traditional Ghostbusters ghost, but this family costume was planned the other way around. I fell in love with the ghost costume on Etsy and had to have it, so the best I could come up for us to match was Ghostbusters. I actually love how it came together.
Once again our family has the too tall issue with our costumes. My husbands outfit was supposed to be a jumpsuit with pants but it wasn’t long enough for him (he’s 6’3). It was last minute, so I cut the bottom half of it off, turning it into a shirt and had him wear it with khaki shorts and he tucked it in so you wouldn’t see the raw edge I never sewed. It’s Halloween, we improvise.
I found our Ghostbusters outfits on Amazon and the Ghost is from Etsy. Just click on the photo below and it’ll take you directly to the store to purchase it. There’s also several other options, so I added all of them to my Amazon Storefront.
MATCHING PAJAMAS
Every single year we have matching Halloween pajamas and we take pictures in them. If you’re looking for something more chill, especially if it’s cold where you live, this is a great option. The best part is that it isn’t completely wasteful for one day because you can continue to wear the pajamas after.
SUPER MOM & SUPER BABY
Actually all 3 of us wore these outfits, but I don’t have a good picture of us together. For Charlie’s first halloween she wore 3 costumes (yes, I’m that mom). The old lady which was my favorite, was only for pictures. On Halloween night it was super hot in Miami and our neighborhood is a trick or treating hotspot. We spend hours outside handing out candy, so we decided on something comfortable. I always told her she was “SUPER CHARLIE” and would fly her around the room, which she loved. So we stuck with it and we were Super Mom, Super Dad and Super Charlie. I can’t find the exact outfit anymore, but I had a onesie made for her with her name on it and I just bought the rest of Superman shirts and accessories.
SNOW WHITE & THE 7 DWARFS
The last of her 3 costumes for her first Halloween was Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. My aunt has this collection of Dwarfs, so I really wanted to photograph her with them since they were bigger than her. She wasn’t even sitting on her own yet. This Snow White costume is made by the same company that made her the Ghost costume the following year.
GHOST GIRL IN A NIGHTGOWN
This is the only creepy costume we’ve ever done but it’s a great one! If I did it again we would have dirtied the nightgown more and I would have added some block eye makeup around my daughters eyes. But it’s a great one that’s so easy and comfortable. Here is the link to purchase it.
MORE FAMILY COSTUMES
I also found so many fun family costumes that have inspired me for this year. Here are some of my favorites that I came across on Instagram.
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Finding a good Halloween idea is like finding a Needle in a haystack. Thank you so much for sharing these ideas.
Thank you! Hope you got some inspiration for your little one this year.