Food Costumes You Can Make at Home – From Beef Tacos to Dates

These food costumes range from beef tacos to dates to food on the floor of a movie theater. A food costume doesn’t have to be hard to make at home – it can be creative, quick, and easy!

Before the tips, a quip:

“You know how I feel about tacos. It’s the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile.” ~ Earl Hickey.

Now that’s a creative homemade food costume, which I don’t have on this list. But, BuyCostumes.com has a fantastic Beef Taco Food Costume for either kids or adults.

I also really like their Pizza Pie Halloween Costume, pictured. It’s comfortable and fun.

These food costumes aren’t nearly as complicated as the taco or pizza costume — but they are more creative!

Food Costumes You Can Make at Home – From Beef Tacos to Dates

Blind Date: An easy-peasy homemade food costume, even if you’re not creative! Simply use a black trash bag and some loose stuffing to make yourself into a giant date (kind of like a big raisin), add sunglasses and a white cane.

Bag of Jellybeans: Take two or three clear dry-cleaning bags and put one inside the other. Punch a large hole on each side next to the opening for the hanger (your legs will go into these holes). Blow up about 15-20 balloons of various colors. Turn the bag upside down and step into the leg openings. With your body in the bag stuff it with the balloons. Tie the bag off at your neck with a colorful ribbon.

Baked Potato: Stuff your clothes with pillows and wrap aluminum foil around yourself. Wear a yellow cap (butter, of course). This homemade food costume requires lots of tin foil, and perhaps some glue.

Black-Eyed Pea: Take a fabric pen and draw or pin a giant “P” on a shirt. Put black makeup around one eye and you have become a “Black-Eyed P.”  This is the quickest, easiest food costume – but people may not be able to guess what you are. Give prizes to the person who guesses what food you are!

Bowl of Spagettios: Wear red sweats and sew brown pieces of felt together to make meatballs. To make the spagettios, sew tan pieces of felt in doughnut shapes. This isn’t a food costume I could make (do I even own a needle and thread? Doubtful).

If these food costumes aren’t hitting the spot, read Book Character Costumes – it’s one of my most popular articles.

Bubblegum Machine: While this isn’t exactly a “food costume”, it’s fun and creative! Wear a gray sweat suit, a clear garbage bag and a bag of small, round balloons, a  ribbon long enough to tie around your neck and a red ball cap. Cut holes in garbage bag for arms and legs. While wearing the garbage bag, fill it with the balloons. Tie the top closed around your neck (don’t choke yourself now!) with the ribbon of your choice and top with the red ball cap.

Food Buffet: Dress as a chef. Use thick cardboard or styrofoam to create a round table with a hole in the middle so it fits around your waist. Make straps so the table hangs from your shoulders. Cover with a tablecloth and add dinnerware and real or fake food.

Bunch of Grapes: Wear purple sweatshirt and sweatpants, and pin purple balloons all over the sweatshirt! Cover all exposed skin with green or purple make-up.  A headband with some twigs attached for the stem complete the look. If you don’t have a purple sweatshirt for this food costume, other colors will do.

Buzz Lightbeer: Dress as an inter-galactic superhero and then attach labels from various light beers. (Is beer food? For some people!).

Carrot: Wear an orange sweatsuit. Paint your face green and rat your hair and spray with green hairspray. The only problem with this homemade food costume is finding the orange sweatsuit! Might be difficult, even at thrift stores.

Cereal Killer: Take a bunch of empty miniature cereal boxes, stick plastic knives in the sides, paint with red paint or nail polish to simulate blood. Pin the boxes all over yourself.

Chicken-Cord-on-Blue: Wear a chicken mask or hat. Wrap an extension cord around you (bright orange shows up best). Dress in all blue. This food costume is very creative, but may go over people’s heads.

If you’re thinking that a food costume isn’t a good idea after all, read Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes for Women. It’s my second most popular article about homemade costumes!

“Chip”-monk: Dress in a monk’s robe, rope belt, etc., then hot-glue (empty) potato chip and/or tortilla chip bags all over.

Chocolate Mousse: Fashion yourself some moose antlers and stencil a Hershey’s Bar onto your clothes.

Cookie Monster: Dress like any kind of monster and attach cookies to yourself. This creative homemade food costume may be gone by the end of your party (people will eat your cookies).

Couch Potato: Dress like a potato (XXL brown sweatsuit stuffed to make a round shape, or wear a stuffed brown garbage bag). Carry a remote and a can of beer.

Couple of Sandwiches Short of a Picnic: Take a stiff piece of cardboard and cut a circle out so it fits around your body. Drape it with a checkered cloth. Glue on four settings (with paper plates, plastic forks, etc.), but put sandwiches on only two.

Or, you could go as a hot dog costume – another food costume on Amazon.

Deviled Egg: Wear all white. Paint or attach a yellow circle to your stomach. Wear devil horns and carry a pitchfork.

Eggplant: Use purple cloth, cut hole for head, place felt leaves around the neck hole. Cinch cloth slightly at the waist, allowing enough room at the bottom to stuff with something. Wear purple tights or shorts. Spray hair green for the stem.

Floor of a Movie Theater: Dress up in all black and tease your hair. Apply candy wrappers, chewed gum, lots of popcorn. If you can, attach real movie theater cups or popcorn boxes for a realistic touch.

Gatorade Athlete: Dress in a work out outfit, or basketball, football jersey, etc. Carry a bottle of Gatorade. Whatever flavor/color of the drink you choose, buy face paint in that color and apply to your face and body, to simulate the “colored” sweat of Gatorade commercials.

Got Milk?: Wear a sign that says “Got Milk?”. Paint a milk mustache over your lip with make-up or white-out. This food costume is the quickest and easiest of all (except for the last costume I said that about!).

For more costume ideas – but not food costumes – read Easy to Make Halloween Costumes.

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