Family Halloween Costume Ideas

Halloween costumes are something I take pride in coming up with. I will admit that every year, around mid-September, I begin looking at inspiration on what DIY Halloween costumes I can come up with. Whether it be a Halloween costume for myself, a family Halloween costume, or a mommy and me Halloween costume, I work really hard to put something together that looks cute. For awhile, I simply focused on creating costumes just for myself – like being a fashionable werewolf or a sultry vampire – but when I married my husband I began focusing on costumes for the both of us. And now that we are a family of three, I get even more excited and creative when it comes to putting together Halloween costumes.

For Carter’s first Halloween, we decided to a Harry Potter family costume that turned out to be perfect for me, as a book nerd, and amazing for our little man since his Harry Potter newborn costume was just the cutest. As Carter gets older, there were a lot more options for our family Halloween costume. There are a lot more toddler Halloween costumes to choose from than there are newborn costumes. Even more, since there are more clothing options for toddlers, you can get a little bit more creative if you want to and work some of that DIY magic where you can find clothes that your child may normally wear outside of Halloween and be able to put it in a costume.

I was super excited about putting together this family Halloween costume especially because there were so many options of what we could put our little man in. With my husband and I both being a lover of Disney, and for the facts that our Beauty and the Beast baby shower and Beauty and the Beast gender reveal were both Disney, we wanted to keep the tradition going.

Though there was the thought to go with Beauty and the Beast, we decided to with Aladdin because Carter had been so connected with the cartoon for the entire year. So I began my search on putting together the perfect Aladdin family Halloween costume, and it actually came together pretty easily and I didn’t feel like we were completely wasting money.

As a parent, I learned that when the little ones are too young to really go trick-or-treating, you don’t need to. You’ll end up walking around with your little on in the stroller, who will end up asleep right at the beginning, and all the candy comes back and you’re the one that ends up eating it or throwing it out.

We typically end up wearing our family Halloween costumes to Halloween parties that are family friendly, and then when it comes to the adults-only Halloween parties, that’s when my husband and I break out the couple’s Halloween costumes and have a good old time.

Like mentioned, a family Halloween costume and can also double as the couple’s Halloween costume as long as you plan accordingly. So though we could have kept it simply and used the Aladdin family Halloween costume as our couple’s costume, we decided to keep the Disney train going and come up with another costume.