How to Make Halloween Costumes for Couples

Halloween is not just a holiday for children anymore. Adults are attending costume parties and are dreaming up elaborate couples costumes. Purchasing or renting costumes is easy but can be expensive. With a little imagination, you can make your own couples costumes.

Difficulty:

Moderate

Instructions

Famous People

1. Listen to the news and read the newspaper to find which rich and famous people are hot at the moment. There is always a pop star or politician who has captured the country's attention. These make perfect models for costumes.

2. Determine if your celebrity or politician has a famous spouse or friend that your partner can imitate. Your partner can also be a manager, parole officer, DEA agent or a vice-squad cop depending on why your celeb is in the news. Let your imagination run wild.

3. Keep your costume simple. Pick out the most noticeable feature of your famous person and concentrate on that. If it's something like long blond hair or a big nose, you can purchase those items from a costume store.

4. Pick out your clothes from second-hand stores. These places have bargains on fancy gowns, suits and shoes. Since the clothes are inexpensive, you can embellish them or cut them up without regret.

5. Accessorize with fake fingernails, makeup and gaudy jewelry from a one-price store. Depending on why your celeb is on the news, you can make a fake bag of cocaine out of powdered sugar or hang an old car license tag around your neck for that newly-convicted look.

Scary Costumes

1. Choose scary couples costumes for easy yet fun possibilities. Vampires are easy with store-bought teeth, green face paint, black clothes and black capes made from old sheets dyed black.

2. Make scary sports costumes if you and your partner are on sports teams together. Wear your uniforms, paint your face in scary colors and buy some fake teeth. Carry a fake axe instead of a baseball bat or tote a fake head as your soccer ball.

3. Dress as a scary version of your day job for an easy costume choice. Doctors, nurses, lawyers, construction workers and dentists make easy transformations to scary versions. Add fun wigs, fake blood and scary face paint and you're good to go.

Resources

• Browse couples costumes online for choices you can make at home.
• Get ideas for couples costumes from other couples on this website.