Funny Group Costume Ideas for Halloween

Whether your group consists of your family, co-workers or friends, group Halloween costumes can create visually striking effects and provide an opportunity for group bonding. People of all ages and types will enjoy putting together costumes that play off their group's values, relationship and identity. Plus, many of these costumes can be purchased on sites like Amazon or made yourself as DIY projects that you put together with thrift store purchases for your next Halloween party.

Children will get a kick out of transforming themselves into a pack of wolves, a school of fish or a gang of zombies, and adults will have fun fighting over who gets to be whom when dressing up as famous ensembles, such as the cast of ​Friends​ or the Rolling Stones.

If arguments over the group Halloween costume ideas become heated, keep in mind that a gang of identically dressed people is just as funny as a gang of people dressed up as members of a famous group.

In other words, if all the people in your group want to be Han Solo or Cleopatra, let them!

The history of television and film is rich with various iconic groups, so groups of all ages should have no trouble finding suitable costume ideas. Children can go as members of ​The Little Rascals​, the Muppet gang from ​Sesame Street​ or characters from ​Peter Pan,​ ​Harry Potter​ or the Netflix series ​Stranger Things​.

Family costume inspiration can come from famous families, such as the Addams family, the Partridge family or the Brady bunch.

You can also get inspiration from animated films and dress as the minions from ​Despicable Me​ or dress as the cast of ​Scooby-Doo​. Many Disney and Pixar movies, including ​Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cruella​ and ​Toy Story​ as well as DreamWorks films, like ​Trolls​. Disney princesses and princes also make great couples costumes.

All-male groups can dress up as the cast of ​The Dirty Dozen​ or ​Ocean's Eleven​. An all-female friend group can dress up in girls' costumes, such as:

• ​Sex and the City​
• ​Mean Girls​
• ​Golden Girls​
• ​Steel Magnolias​

Groups of mixed adults can dress up as the cast of:

• ​Star Wars​
• ​Twilight​
• ​MAS*H​
• ​Gilligan's Island​
• ​Ghostbusters​
• ​The Wizard of Oz​
• ​Game of Thrones​

Uniform costumes ensure that your group's costume concept will be instantly recognizable and are a great choice for a last-minute costume since they will likely be easy to find. Your group could dress up as a sports team, army troop, firefighting division, police squad, pirate crew, cowboy gang or bowling league.

You can also be a bit more abstract and dress as different-color crayons.

Your group can also create throwback DIY Halloween costumes and dress up as a famous historical group or as people from a specific era or cultural movement.

Historical group costume ideas include dressing as political protesters, famous explorers, hippies, founding fathers, punks, Renaissance gentry and peasantry, 1920s flappers and bootleggers, beatniks and monks.

Comic books provide a fertile source for amusing group costume ideas. Your group could choose to go as a famous superhero team, such as:

• ​The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen​
• ​The X-Men​
• ​The Incredibles​
• ​The Super Friends​
• ​The Justice League​

Group members could also go as characters from a specific comic-book universe, such as the worlds of ​Wonder Woman​, ​Batman​ or ​Superman​. Peruse your favorite Marvel and DC comic books for inspiration and ideas.

Other comic-strip characters can provide costume ideas. Families could go as the ​Family Circus​ crew, or children could dress up as the ​Peanuts​ gang.

Groups of children might enjoy dressing up as characters from ​Winnie the Pooh​ or ​Charlie and the Chocolate Factory​, and adult groups can dress up as characters from ​Little Women​, ​A Christmas Carol​, ​Pride and Prejudice​ or ​Arabian Nights​.

Bands and musical ensembles usually have flamboyant, easily recognizable looks and costumes, making them some of the best group Halloween costumes. All-male groups can dress up as:

• The Beatles
• Rolling Stones
• The Monkees
• Guns N' Roses
• Run-DMC
• Jonas Brothers

All-female groups can dress as:

• The Runaways
• The Supremes
• The Marvelettes
• En Vogue
• Bikini Kill
• TLC
• Destiny's Child
• Spice Girls
• The Pointer Sisters

Mixed groups can dress as such acts as the Mamas and the Papas or the Carter Family or as characters from musicals, such as ​West Side Story​, ​Hamilton​, ​South Pacific​ or ​The Rocky Horror Picture Show​.

If your group enjoys crafting, you can make your own costumes. Costumes that mimic objects are simple and fun to make.

Members of your group could wear similarly colored leotards, to which they could attach headdresses that resemble objects, such as flower blooms, tree tops, animals heads or planets. Your group could resemble a bouquet, a forest, a pride of lions or a planetary system.

Myth and folklore contain many iconic figures, from fairies and ogres to vampires, werewolves and zombies. A gang of elves or unicorns can make an exciting entrance at a costume party. Your group could go as a mythical group, such as the three fates, the three billy goats gruff or the sirens.