How to Make Halloween Costumes for Couples
Creating your own Halloween costume is loads of fun, and creating a costume for two is even better. There are several opportunities for humorous costumes using two people, like "bacon and eggs" or quick and easy styles that take minimal effort.
Bacon and eggs
- Use poster board and self-stick craft foam to create your shapes. For the bacon, cut the poster board so it is the width of your face, plus five-inches. Cut out a face portion in the center, leaving a two-and-a-half-inch border on both sides. The length of your bacon varies, depending on your height, but it should be around 4-feet in length. For an egg, cut a free-form shape, like a fried egg.
- Laminate the poster board for strength using clear contact paper. Then cut the face shapes out from the bacon and egg. Use yellow, brown and white craft foam for the yolk from the egg and the ripples and fat in bacon, and lay lengthwise on the poster board. Attach elastic to fit around your head. You also want to attach elastic on the sides for your arms.
Quick and easy
- Go as a corpse and a widow. The man dresses in a suit with white face powder to look dead, and the woman dresses in all black, with gloves and veil.
- Make a costume from play-on words, like nuts and bolts. One person dresses with assorted nuts in their shells glued onto their clothing, and the other makes lightning bolts out of poster board and contact paper. Attach them randomly over clothing with fabric glue.