30 Homemade Halloween Costumes for Couples – Creative & Easy!
Safari Halloween Costume for Couples
You don’t need to be crafty to make a costume for two! These homemade Halloween costumes for couples aren’t complicated – they’re creative, easy, and fun.
First, a Halloween poem:
Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight
make me a child again
just for to-night!
~ Elizabeth Akers Allen
Become a child again – and take your sweetheart along for the ride this Halloween!
If you have no time to make your own Halloween costume, check out the Macho Lion and Safari Huntress Halloween costume for couples on Buy Costumes.com.
Or, Amazon has a fun Muppets Couples Costume (Miss Piggy & Kermit) - it’s not homemade, but it’ll give you ideas for a DIY couples costume.
30 Creative, Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes for Couples
A Salt and Battery: One person dresses like a salt shaker and the other like a battery.
Baker and A Bun-In-The-Oven: This is great Halloween costume for couples if she really is pregnant! She wears a cardboard stove around her neck with a large cutout in the center for her belly. Velcro or tape a cardboard bun, bread, cookie, etc. in the middle of her belly. He wears a chef’s hat and apron.
Batman and Robin: One partner attaches little fake bats and the other attaches fake birds all over black T-shirts and black pants.
Blind Leading the Blind: Both people carry canes and wear sunglasses.
Cardiac Arrest: She dresses up as a big red heart (cut out of cardboard or cloth) and wears handcuffs. He dresses like a cop (of course, Halloween costume idea for couples can be switched so the woman is the cop).
Cat Got Your Tongue: She wears a black cat costume and holds a rubber tongue. He puts a little fake blood around his lips and doesn’t talk. Anytime someone tries to talk to him, the woman should wave the tongue around.
Clue Characters: Mrs. White wears a French maid outfit. Mrs. Peacock wears a long blue dress and blue feathered hat. Miss Scarlett wears a sexy little red number with a long cigarette holder. Prof. Plum wears a purple suit, top hat, glasses, and carries a cane. Mr. Green wears a green suit. Col. Mustard wears a yellow shirt, safari suit, monocle in his eye, and a safari hat. Everyone carries a different prop: rope, knife, candle stick, lead pipe, revolver, wrench.
Corpse and Widow: He wears a suit and make-up to make him look like a corpse. She wears all black, black veil, black gloves, etc.
E-Male and Attachment: He dresses in normal clothes, with a large letter “E” on his chest. She wears paperclips all over her clothes.
Hawaiian Punch: One person dresses like a boxer, and the other like a hula girl. This costume idea for couples is a great conversation starter at Halloween parties!
His and Her’s Hershey’s Bars: Use large garbage bags and white contact paper to reproduce Hershey’s bars. She is Hershey’s Bar Plain, and he is Hershey’s Bar with nuts!
Jack and Jill: Get two t-shirts and write JACK and JILL on the backs of each. Jack can wear a broken crown and have lots of blood coming from his head. Jill should have lots of bruises from tumbling after, bruised face and bloody lips. They can both carry around tin pails of water!
Lady and the Tramp: She wears fancy clothes (ballgown or evening gown, long gloves, etc.). He dresses like a tramp (dirty, ragged clothes, etc.). This is one of my favorite Halloween costumes for couples.
Magnetic Poetry: This Halloween costume is for families or large groups: everyone wears all white. Each person has a sign on their chest with one word on it. Have people make sentences out of you by moving you all around.
Men In Black: Both partners wear black suit, white shirt, black tie, black shoes and socks, and dark sunglasses. If there is a third person, have them dress like an alien!
Mouseketeers: Another good Halloween costume for groups of two or more: everyone wears jeans, a t-shirt with your name written on the front, and mouse ears.
Nuts and Bolts: He wears clothes with peanuts, walnuts, etc. attached (he’s nuts). She wears clothes with cutouts of lightning bolts attached (she’s bolts).
Pair of Dice: Take two perfectly square boxes, turn upside down and cut neck and arm holes, and paint them black with white spots (or white with black spots). This homemade Halloween costume for couples can be a little uncomfortable.
Peace and Quiet: One person dresses like a hippie (jeans, flowered shirt, peace signs, beads, headband, etc.). The other person dresses up like a mime (striped shirt, black pants, suspenders, white face makeup, etc.).
Peace, Love and Happiness: This is a Halloween costume idea for three people: one person dresses like a hippy with a giant peace sign on their chest; one person wears red and white, with a giant heart on their chest; and one person wears bright yellow, with a giant smiley face on their chest.
Princess and the Pea: She dresses up like a princess using an old prom dress or bridesmaid dress. He dresses in green sweatpants and shirt with the letter “P” on them. This is a perfect Halloween costume for when one half of the couple doesn’t like to dress up!
Pumpkin Pie: One person dresses up like a pumpkin. The other wears all black, and on the shirt writes: 3.14925.
Rainbow: Another Halloween costume idea for families or groups: each person dresses in one color of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet), then cover all visible body parts with face paints of that color. If possible, color hair also.
Raisin’ Hell: One person dresses up as in a California Raisin costume, and the other dresses up as a devil.
Royal Flush: You will need two pieces of white felt for each card. Sew them together and stencil them to look like the ten, jack, queen, king, and ace of spades.
Siamese Twins: Use Velcro to attach your clothes together. This Halloween costume for couples is especially creative if you’re both dressed like Siamese cats!
Smart Ass and Dumb Ass: Each person wears a fake plastic butt. Attach Dum Dum lollipops to one, and Smarties candies to the other.
Thing One and Thing Two: Wear red sweatsuits. Use white felt to create circles and attach them to your chests. Use black marker to write ‘Thing 1′ and ‘Thing 2′ on the circles. Use temporary hair dye to make your hair blue, and use gel to make it stick straight up.
UPS Man and His Package: He dresses in a dark brown button-down short-sleeved shirt, and brown shorts, with a UPS logo on the pocket. She wears a large box, wrapped in brown paper, with holes cut for head and arms.
Windblown Couple: Two people caught in a windstorm. Turn an umbrella inside out and paste paper and debris to your clothes. For added effect use a coat hanger inside an old tie and bend it so that it hangs horizontally across your chest (you can get a similar effect using Velcro).
Halloween costumes from BuyCostumes.com:
- Humorous Costumes
- Wizard of Oz Costumes
- Sexy Costumes
- 1920′s Costumes and Accessories
- Pirate Costumes
For more DIY costume ideas, read Couples Halloween Costumes.
Category: Entertainment, Halloween Costumes, Party Tips
Great ideas! Lady and the Tramp gives me a reason to wear all of those bridesmaid dresses!! Love it!
Last year my wife and I went as Beevis and Butthead, even though she didn’t really want to . She wants a more romantic Halloween costume for couples, like Romeo and Juliet. But that’s not romance, I said, they both died! Anyway thanks for these costume ideas, they’re pretty good.
Your Princess and the P inspired me. I want to be a Princess for Fancy Dress Halloween Party 2011… but I prefer the Frog Prince fairytale so I think I have to convince my boyfriend to come as a frog!
This costume is for singles but it’s bloody scary! Check it out below.
Another kind of fancy dress to consider: my website dedicated to just Devils fancy dress. Male and female devils available!
just fyi….pi is actually 3.14159265. You will get no respect from a nerd if you attempt the pi joke and get the digits wrong….use however many digits as you want, but make them correct.
Thanks for stopping by, Corey — and for posting the links to my Halloween articles on your Green Halloween blog!
Love these! What great ways to be creatively green together. We’ll place a link to this article on our Green Halloween website.
Those are some great couples costume ideas. It just goes to show that getting done up for Halloween doesn’t have to be expensive… many would cost next to nothing.
I never would have thought of the Raisin’ Hell costume idea… Nice.