Halloween is a time to be creative and let personality shine through a Halloween costume. With children’s Halloween costumes, they can be sweet, scary, funny or whatever the child wants.  Just be sure you include your child’s input in whatever the final decision ends of being.

There are some costumes that are always popular for kids, like Disney Princesses, firefighters, witches, clowns and  pirates. Others are more timely, and some of the popular Halloween costumes for kids this year will be straight from the movies. Alice in Wonderland costumes, whether from the original Disney film or  the more recent one, will be seen.

Whether a little girl wants to be Alice or the Queen of Hearts, or a boy wants to be the Mad Hatter or White Rabbit, these will be easy to find. Harry Potter and Star Wars characters are always winners with kids, and these can be as scary or simple as they want to make them.

Other costumes favorites for kids are things that go together that siblings or friends can be together, like mustard and ketchup or an ice cream sundae and a cherry. Many of these can be store bought, or be creative and kids can create their own.

For a mustard and ketchup look, dress all in either red or yellow and in white letters, write the condiments name on the shirt. A tall, pointy hat would work for the top of the bottle.

Another way to be creative with a costume is purchase part of it, but make the rest at home. A great fairy costume, which is always popular with little girls, can be made with purchased wings, fairy colored clothing and leaves or flowers entwined in the hair and attached to the clothes. Boys can be creative with capes and scary masks, maybe some make up and being creative with the clothes. Anything from a current movie will be a hit.

Catalogs and websites are filled with great children’s Halloween costumes and ideas to embellish and make their own. Have fun with the costume, be spooky or sweet, and remember, Halloween is not too far away!

Halloween is a time for kids and adults to have a lot of fun with candy, costumes and spooky things. With Halloween not too far away, you may be starting to think what costume you want to buy. Popular movies release this year can make great costumes. There are also traditional ideas that can make fun costumes as well. Here are a few ideas for cool Halloween costumes ideas.

The movie Alice in Wonderland was a big hit in theaters. Many fun costumes can be found or made using this theme. Girls and women can go as Alice, the Queen of Hearts or the Red Queen.

Men and boys could use the Mad Hatter, Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum. The Cheshire Cat and the caterpillar are also cool Halloween costumes ideas. You can find costumes to resemble the most recent film or be a little be more creative and model after the earlier version.

Avatar, Shrek 3 and Iron Man2 were other popular movies that were also big hits and the box office and tons of possible Halloween characters that you can mimic came from those films.

For example, you could dress up as one of the human Na’vi hybrids or you could go as one of the Na’vis like Neytiri the daughter of the Na’vi clan leaders Mo’at and Eytukan. If you choose to dress up like one of the Shrek characters you could go as the donkey, Princess Fiona or puss in the boots.  And who else would you be but Tony Starks aka Iron Man with his invincible powers.

Both you and your children can use characters from these films as inspiration for cool Halloween costumes ideas. Other popular ideas are characters from Superman, Batman and Spiderman. Kids may have fun with going as on of the characters from Super Mario Brothers. Adults can make great Kiss costumes, which would make a great group costume theme.

Other more common ideas for kids and adults are cats, witches, princesses or ghoulish creatures. These costumes can be store bought. However what makes these costumes good ideas is that they can be homemade inexpensively. Try finding props needed for these costumes at discount stores to save money also.

Because Halloween is a holiday about having fun with costumes, if there is some character or real person you want to dress up as, it will make a cool costume. By visiting costume, party and discount stores you will be able to find all of the items needed for making cool Halloween costumes.