The greatest last-minute Halloween costumes hit the trifecta: quick, cheap, and easy. We want to hear from you, esteemed MAKE reader: What are the best last-minute Halloween costumes you’ve seen? Please share ideas in the comments section (and even better if you can include a link to a photo or tutorial).
Last year, Gareth posted a nice collection of last-minute Halloween costumes. Here are a couple from last year’s lineup:
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I went as a “flasher” one year. Put on shorts, shirt and a trench coat. Took an old hot-shoe flash from a film camera and hung it around my neck. Ran wires from the shoe contacts to a switch in my pocket. When I would open y coat, I would “flash” people with the camera flash.
Ha! That’s great, I love it. Do you have a photo?
If he did, it would probably be overexposed…
Zing!
When I was in college I threw a Halloween party at my apartment and I kept black and white makeup at the door. If anyone showed up without a costume, they were deemed “dead” then were given a white face and large black eye holes.
That’s a good idea. In the same vein, my grandfather used to throw “hat parties” where everyone was meant to wear a hat. But he had a bunch on hand, in case someone didn’t come wearing one.
Large safety pin, spirit gum. Clip off the sharp arm of the safety pin and bend the remaining arm (with head) a bit to give it a slight curve (perpendicular to the plane of the head). Then glue to cheek, nose, eyebrow, anywhere–it looks convincingly like a large safety pin stuck through you. Especially with a bit of red marker where the cut ends “go in”.
Put a capital “H” on your forehead and you have become the character “Rimmer” from the sci-fi comedy “Red Dwarf”. (Try an image search for “Rimmer Red Dwarf” to see what I mean.)
One year I went as quail man for a underwater pumpkin carving contest. The goal is to carve a pumpkin underwater about 35ft down with scuba gear with the water usually around 45*F. Fun part is getting the pumpkin down that far, because it likes to float…..
I got 3rd in the costume contest and 1st in the pumpkin carving.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20102150@N06/6296917806/ My pumpkin that won.
That sounds like a challenge! How did you keep the pumpkin down and steady while you carved?