Creative Group Halloween Costumes That’ll Leave No One Behind (2024)

FAQs

What should a group of 5 be for Halloween? ›

The Incredibles are a superb costume idea for a family of five! Five characters, five costumes. What could be easier? Your family will be super this Halloween—superhuman that is.

What are common Halloween costume contest categories? Popular categories include best group, best couple, and best single. Categories for kids and pets are also common. Some contests dive deeper, looking for scariest, cutest, funniest, most creative, and so on.

Body-shaming and objectifying costumes

Think about it this way: If you wouldn't say it to a friend's face, don't wear it as a Halloween costume. Outfits that make fun of people's size, objectify human beings or otherwise make light of a person's lived experience are all inappropriate.

Watch out for costumes that represent cultures that your child doesn't identify with, as well as controversial figures like Confederate soldiers or serial killers. Costumes that stereotype prisoners, unhoused people or any other marginalized people aren't cool either.

Costumes, Masks, and Accessories

Staples of everyone's Halloween repertoire, costumes and masks are the biggest expense of each household's budget. Accessories (like fake weapons, blood, or others) are next, followed by decorations and candy.

Google Trends released a list of the most popular Halloween costumes for 2023. According to Google's “Freight Geist” tally, Spider-Man, Wednesday Addams and Taylor Swift made the list (though Swift is feeling No. 22, just outside the top 20), along with the usual dinosaur, fairy, rabbit, pirate and witch costumes.

Yet, the Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-win”), a pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.

Past surveys have suggested that 12 might be a good cutoff age for trick-or-treating. But in an ongoing Today.com poll, 46% say you're "never" to old to trick-or-treat. Also in that poll, 19% did say 15-16 is too old to trick-or-treat, while another 18% said 17-18 was too old.

Four types of costumes are used in theatrical design: historical, fantastical, dance, and modern.

What is the most popular costume on Halloween trivia? ›

Adults dress as witches most frequently, according to the National Retail Federation.

Pick an idea that's unique, original, and reflects your personality or the brand of the contest's sponsor. Cute or funny costumes have an advantage over costumes that are gruesome (unless the contest is calling for something scary) since people tend to have a positive feeling toward them.

The US has a population 5 times bigger than the UK, so estimates for how many Halloween costumes are thrown away in the US are around 35 million. A truly scary amount.

Halloween is a widely celebrated tradition in the United States, with around 70 percent of Americans planning to participate in Halloween celebrations in 2023. In 2020 and 2021 planned participation fell noticeably, likely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three-fourths say fewer trick-or-treaters came in 2023

Echoing observations about a decline in trick-or-treating: an admittedly unscientific USA TODAY online poll found about three-fourths (74%) of more than 17,000 respondents said they had fewer trick-or-treaters come to their home this year.