With NYC Comic Con having just passed and Halloween on the horizon, we’ve been obsessing over comic book hero costumes! We’ve collected some of our favorites to give you inspiration for your costumes. And since we know that Halloween is the ultimate holiday for playing pretend, we gathered up some of the less-savory super villains as well!
This Halloween we’re planning on featuring one of our favorite flying mammals: bats. These tiny flyers are synonymous with all things sinister including vampires, blood and the spookiest night of the year! Here are a few easy ways to add bats to your decor this season.
These decorative bat branches are so simple to recreate. Just tie black satin ribbon to branches, and boom! Halloween decorations that are easier than tying your shoes.
Nothing like the “bat mobile” we’re familiar with, this awesome decoration is perfect for your next party!
This Halloween cloche is the perfect decoration for those who like a little glitter and sparkle around the holidays.
This subtle DIY may go unnoticed until guests peek at the ceiling, but once they do, prepare for awe and wonderment.
Simple yet sinister, this DIY features a flurry of bats swarming onto a doorway. Only the brave will knock on this door.
If you’re looking for an easy DIY that will instantly make your doorstep more festive for your favorite frightening holiday, Halloween, this is it! Instead of going the traditional carving route, we decided to make use of our leather cord to create a unique embroidered effect. We also used a craft foam pumpkin for this DIY so that it can last multiple seasons, but you can swap it out for the real thing too!
What You’ll Need:
Spooky Image of Your Choice
Pumpkin
1. Cut out your image.
2. Pin paper cut-out to pumpkin.
3. Cut out top of pumpkin. If you’re using a real pumpkin you’ll want to clean out the insides.
4. Make a knot at the base of the leather cord.
5. Either drill or puncture small holes into the pumpkin using your cutout as a guide.
6. Start weaving your leather cord through all of the holes. Make sure every hole has a complementary hole close by.
7. Continue weaving until the image is complete. For small areas you can tie a knot and weave back through one hole, as we did with the spider fangs.
The skeleton is a classic symbol of Halloween, but sometimes creepy and cool intersect and we’re left with accessories we want to wear well past the scariest night of the year! There’s something inherently intriguing about skeletons and bones. Whatever the reason is, we’ve definitely got them under our skin!
These insane exoskeleton shoes by shoe designer, Janina Alleyne, are sharp.
This skeleton bracelet is a subtle accessory for the obsessed.
Skeletons go sartorial with this golden bodysuit!
This shirt is business in the front, and spine in the back!
Anyone who loves a tight hug will love this skeleton belt!
For kids, Halloween is one of the best holidays of the year. They get to dress as their favorite characters, and walk from house to house retrieving candy. Who wouldn’t love that? But there are perks for adults too, like seeing all of the adorable costumes that the little ones don each year! If you’re looking for some cute costume ideas for your tiny tot, look no further. Here are some of our favorite costumes for kids!
Dress up your little wild thing in a costume inspired by Maurice Sendak’s famous book, Where the Wild Things Are!
Everyone thinks their child is sweet, but with a cotton candy costume you can let the entire world know!
Your child can be the coolest bird on the block in a flamingo costume with matching hot pink shades.
This Frida Kahlo costume is perfect for cultured kids, and parents who love seeing their kids with drawn on facial hair.
Why not aim high on Halloween, and set the bar to scientist? In a few years they’ll attribute their Nobel Prize to this very costume.
If you’ve ever wanted to realize your inner goddess, we have the first step to your transformation. This epic statement necklace features chunky pendants, chains in an assortment of sizes and shapes, and beautiful beaded trim.
2 5/8” Bugle/Seed Beaded Fringe*
Teardrop Pendant
Pliers
Wire Cutters
1. Create a long necklace using your small round chain. Add a jump ring and lobster clasp to the back.
2. Lay the necklace out in an oval. Place a piece of the square chain to the center. Connect the corners with jump rings. Attach the jump rings to smaller pieces of the small round chain.
3. Take the larger round chain and attach pieces to each side.
4. Repeat step 3 with the small round chain.
5. Add the teardrop pendants to the bottom on each side, and one on the top overlaying the square chain.
6. Add the sunflower pendant to the bottom center.
7. Cut a 5 inch piece of the beaded fringe. Fold over and glue each ribbon side together, then glue the ribbon to the back of the sunflower pendant so that only the fringe is exposed.
8. Create a smaller fringe pieces doing the same process in step 7. This time add a hole in the center. Add a jump ring and attached on to each side next to the teardrop pendent in the center.
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Halloween isn’t only the time to get creepy. It’s also the perfect occasion to get clever! Check out these pun-tastic costumes, and get inspired to make your own hilarious creation!
This social butterfly costume is #winning in our books!
Get literal and literary with this fun 50 Shades of Grey costume!
A clever costume for couples who have an appreciation for a classic food pun.
Spice up your life with actual spices! The best part about this group costume? There are more than five characters to go around, and no one has to fight over who gets to be Baby Spice.
With a Taco Belle costume, you can still dress up as a princess while also being hilarious! Everyone wins.
Looking to really freak out your party guests this year? You’re not alone. These terrifying decorations are sure to scare the living daylights out of your Halloween party pals.
Nothing screams Halloween like a creepy severed head. When it comes to Halloween, cheesecloth is one of your best tools.
And you thought turning off the lights was scary! Turn them on for a creepy-crawly cockroach surprise.
Your guests won’t believe their eyes when they look up at your ceiling. All you need for this terrifying decoration is a blood-curdling mask, a wig and a sheet.
Spiders have their secrets too. Let the mysteries of their secret lives unravel in these creepy cocoons.
Keep the creepy all in the family with these ghastly portraits!
Everyone loves decorating pumpkins for fall, but do you know what nobody loves? Dealing with pumpkin guts. That’s right! Having to clean up the ooey-gooey insides of gourds is probably the least fun activity of autumn. Our solution? A bunch of pumpkin decorating DIYs that don’t have to be carved! Another added bonus? You pumpkin stays in tip-top shape too!
Add feminine flair to your fall decor with this floral and glittered pumpkin from PBTeen!
This string art pumpkin from Dream a Little Bigger ensures you can still make the creepiest pumpkin on your corner, without dealing with all of that cleanup.
These gold leaf pumpkins from The Home Steady are beyond elegant, and are beautiful enough to earn a spot on any dining table!
If you love the look of metal on pumpkins, check out these copper-accented beauties from Home Oh My!
Have a talent for typography? Take a look at these chalkboard pumpkins from Fairgoods!
