A Pair of Minotaurs: we wore brown tights and had fake horses end that rolled behind us on wheels
Energizer Bunny: Wear pink clothes, attach a cotton tail, and don't forget the black sunglasses. Find and old hat box for the drum and attach it to your shoulders with rope. Then bang on it all night and drive everyone crazy!
Chicken: huge yellow shirt with hood, red stuffed comb on hood, feather duster at the tush and a car wash sponge cut to be a beak. My boyfriend is going as an executioner (dead or alive - we've not decided), so it's kind of theme.
Dog
Cat
Mouse
Cow and a Butcher: I was wearing a cow costume and my friend went to a uniform supply store and got a butcher's apron and shirt. She also got a plastic cleaver and spread blood all over her apron. We won first place at school!!
Spider's Web: Buy a spider puppet (nice ones at TheNature Co.) or make one... Dress all in black, the tighter the better. A black ballerina leotard is good. If you're a girl, wear black fishnet hose (be sure to wear skin color hose underneath if you'll be spending losa time outdoors trick-or-treating -- or you'll freeze!) Buy or borrow black hair netting -- available at any drug store next to the bobby pins & cheap too. About 4 will cover a gooddeal of most adultsized bodies. Pin the netting on so it drapes from arms & hangs off body in fluid way. Put black glove on 1 hand & spider puppet on the other. If you're artistically talented, you can paint your face with black eyeliner in spiderweb pattern as well.
Small Child as any Animal: In a hurry for someone small that you want to keep warm? Take a king-size white or colored pillowcase and two rubber bands. Take each corner at the seamed end and pull it through a rubber band making ears of any length you choose. The rubber bands can be covered with ribbons or bows. Place this over your child to determine where to cut the oval for the face and the holes for the arms. Cut out the arm holes and face hole and then use makeup for whatever this is going to be - cat, bunny, dog, etc. Add a tail with a safety pin - use a pom pom, string, rope, etc. You can paint the inside of the ears pink with powder rouge, acrylic paint, or construction paper. Make spots with felt or colored paper. Just use your imagination for the rest. This works well because any type of clothing can be worn underneath to stay warm or cool. Let me know if this works for anyone. It sure saved my life one year.
Dalmation: Wear a white T-shirt and white pants or shorts, on which you have drawn spots, and paint your face white with spots also (especially around the eyes). Tie two socks (which you have "spotted") to a headband, for ears.
Roadkill: Wear all black, cut lines out of yellow construction paper, and attach them down the front of your outfit. Then pick your least favorite stuffed animal and pin it to your outfit. Gross but easy!
Golden Retriever: I took a white sweatsuit, 3 white tube socks and a white knit cap and dyed them all the same shade of brown. I used one of the socks as a tail by rolling it up and sewing it onto the back of the sweatpants. I sewed the other two sock to the inside sides of the knit cap for the ears. For the face, I just used face paints to paint a dog face. I also covered up his sneakers with a large pair of white socks then sewed little "toes" on them. He looked great!!! Good-Luck.
Oyster on the half shell
3 Blind Mice: Dress up with three of your friends! Buy mouse ears and a black rubber nose (these things can be found anywhere costumes are sold), wear matching gray sweatsuits, tails, dark sunglasses, and carry canes.
Pregnant Pumpkin: I was nine months pregnant for halloween 7 years ago. We didn,t have much money, so my husband painted a pumpkin on my belly. I wore a button-down shirt buttoned to just below my breast, and pinned the rest of it behind my back. I wore pants that I pulled down below my HUGE belly to leave it exposed. The pumpkin was painted with face paint (I spent $3). I walked into the party with my hands under my belly like I was carrying a pumpkin. I was the hit of the party. My son kept moving around, so the pumpkin was constantly moving. 8 days later, I gave birth to a red head! I tell everyone that's how my son got red hair...the paint soaked in!
Bat
Lab Rat: I am going to be a complete with stitches, id tag and nose.
Cow: I made the greatest costume- take your Gateway Boxes (after they are empty) and cut them into small pieces. Paste the pieces to a sheet. Tape a surgical glove to the front. You will look like one very silly cow- great for laughs and getting attention!
Bumble Bee: From the Blind Melon "No Rain" video.
Lightning Bug: with a tail that actually lit up with light
Dragon
White Tiger: white sweats with magic marker stripes, a fabric tail stuffed with newspaper, and a padded hood of fabric. Use face makeup for whiskers.