20 Punny Halloween Costume Ideas for Kids
Every Halloween for the past several years, Mark and I have found our costume inspiration in visual puns.
Puns—you know…a word or phrase used to suggest more than one meaning. “I mustache you a question,” for instance. The same cheeseball humor your Uncle Henry used on you as a kid. It used to make us groan and roll our eyes. Now, we’ve developed a palette for the pun’s wit and cleverness. Especially when you need to see it to appreciate it. Especially where Halloween costumes are concerned.
In fact, let’s take a quick walk down memory lane, shall we? Here are our punny costumes from the past four six years.
Can you guess the puns? To see if you’re right, click around the collage below (it’s magical and will take you to the answers for each one).
These puns are very much intended. {Yuk yuk.}
20 Punny Halloween Costume Ideas for Kids
Every year, I like to round-up 20 punny Halloween costumes not only to help inspire our next set of costumes, but also to share with you all in the event that there are other cheeseballs out there with our same silly sense of humor. And when our baby girl, Juniper, arrived and we went from a family of two to three…it was a no-brainer. Naturally, I needed to pull together a kids edition of the round-up.
So, here you have it! 20 Punny Halloween Costume Ideas for Kids. And that includes babies, multiples, big kids, fur-babies, families…the lot of ’em.
UPDATE: And yes, we totally attempted one of these ideas this year. Are you ready to check it out? Ready or not, here we come–all three of us:
Get it? We’re the Vanilla Ice classic hip hop song, “Ice Ice Baby!”
Pretty puntastic if I do say so myself. I wrote up a whole post on how we made our costumes, which you can find HERE. And it also includes a lot more goofy photos from our backyard photo shoot that I think you’ll enjoy.
2017 Update: Here’s our latest family costume: introducing the Eggo-lovin’ Eleven and her “Stranger Things!” Fans of the Netflix series are going to get a lot of knee-slappin’ pun out of this one. Click HERE for the full photo shoot and blog post.
But I digress! Let’s get back to the round-up, shall we?
Babies
3. Bookworm
4. Cutie
Multiples
5. Deviled Eggs
7. Lovebirds
Kids
8. Smart Cookie
10. Pig in a Blanket
11. Spelling Bee
Parents with Babies
14. Ice Ice Baby our 2016 version | our inspiration
Family
17. Fantasy Football
Fur-Babies
18. Watch Dogs
19. Rufferree
20. Hairy Pawtter
More Punspiration
Remember, this round-up is part of a now five-part series {insanity, I know}. So, there are still many more puns at which to groan and shake your head as you plot out your clever, clever costume for this Halloween! Here ya go:
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Cool costume. I love how you and your hubby much up. Awesome!
The baby ones are so cute! And the ginger bread man made me laugh.
This is quite a collection of punny baby/kids costumes. So looking forward to seeing what Junie and you will choose! Such a positive spin on Halloween!
We’re starting to buy candy and treats…maybe we’ll do some tricks, too! We read an interesting article on great places to go trick or treating and one is near you. We’ll let you know about it later! 🙂
CUTE!!