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Gold Digger: Wear a gold dress, put gold glitter in your hair, gold glitter make-up on your eyes, gold glitter in your lip gloss, paint your nails gold or put gold glitter in clear polish. Paint some rocks and a toy shovel with gold paint. Carry the rocks in a bag as your find and the shovel for digging.
Submitted by Dawn Lally

Spirit Rising Out of the Grave: Dress in white and attach long strips of gauze fabric to your clothes. Cover your hair with the same fabric. Make a sandwich board that looks like a tombstone. Paint your face white for an eerie look.
Submitted by Ralph E. Vining

Leprechaun: Wear an orange wig and dress all in green with striped socks. Spray paint a small bucket gold, and glue gold candy coins around the edge. An added touch is to attach a rainbow to your head made out of felt and pipe cleaners, to prove there really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Submitted by Ralph E. Vining

Waldo from the "Where's Waldo?" Books: All you need is a red and white striped shirt and cap, some blue jeans, and a cane.
Submitted by Philip L. Harrison

Pillsbury Dough Boy: Wear a white sweat suit, stuff it with poly fill, wear a chef's hat with the Pillsbury symbol painted on it, and paint your face white.
Submitted by Courtney Hilow

Jolly Green Giant: Paint your body green with body paint, then create a costume with green, brown and yellowish leaves. Carry a can of Jolly Green Giant green beans.
Submitted by Courtney Hilow

Unshaved Synchronized Swimmer (best for a large, hairy male): Wear a Speedo-style swimsuit, a swim cap, goggles, nose plugs, beach sandals. Take an Afro wig and arrange it in your crotch to simulate “overgrowth.”
Submitted by Carter H.

Gift: Wear a giant gift bag , with holes in the bottom for legs, and sides for your arms. Tie it with a string or ribbon around your neck. Staple colored tissue inside, so it sticks out of the top. Add a giant bow and large gift tag.

Caesar Salad: Make a toga out of a sheet or white cloth. Tie a variety of vegetables, (carrots, Brussels sprouts, lettuce, etc.) to a string to make a belt. Then make a crown out of spinach leaves and croutons.
Submitted by Kristi Baughman

Dirty Laundry: Cut out the bottom of a plastic laundry basket, step into it, and use suspenders to hold it in place. Fill with dirty clothes. Wear a shower cap with more clothes attached.
Submitted by Liz Mire

Swimming Pool: Wear bright blue leotards with bright blue stockings. Hang blue streamers from your arms and make a headband with a cardboard extension (to act as a diving board). Glue a Barbie doll to the cardboard and make it look like the Barbie is diving in.

American Gothic: Dress up like the dour farmer and his wife from the famous Grant Wood painting. He wears a white shirt, overalls, black coat, glasses, and carries a pitchfork. She wears black dress with white collar and cameo, an apron and hair in a bun.

Frazzled Housewife: Wear your hair in rollers, put on a green facial mask or green face paint, wear pajamas, black socks, ratty slippers and a dirty bathrobe tied cock-eyed. Put a TV Guide and a remote in your pocket, carry a crusty spatula, optional cigarette hanging out of mouth and use brown eyeshadow under your eyes to make bags.
Submitted by BOMD07118

Upside-Down Person: Take a pair of old pants, cut small holes for mouth and nose, put arms where feet normally go. Take a large long-sleeved shirt and put it on your legs. Take a mask and staple, tape or sew it on to the collar of the shirt. Finally, take a pair of shoes and put them on your hands.
Submitted by Michael Flagg

Q-Tip: Puff up your hair and spray or powder it white (or wear a wig). Wrap your body in blue plastic wrap. Put cotton over your shoes.
Submitted by TM

The Letterman: Wear a lab coat. Make letters out of stencils and pin them all over yourself. You can also have extra letters to keep in your pocket, so you can ask people if they 'need a vowel' etc.
Submitted by Michelle Benn

Eggplant: Use purple cloth, cut hole for head, place felt leaves around the neck hole. Cinch cloth slightly at the waist, allowing enough room at the bottom to stuff with something. Wear purple tights or shorts. Spray hair green for the stem.
Submitted by Jeanne M. Rozwadowski

Tea Bag: Use sheer white cloth to form tea bags, and stuff with dried leaves. Make up a large a tea bag tag. Wear white clothing underneath (sweat suit, leotard and tights or long johns).
Submitted by Arbadella1

X-Ray Machine: Use a big box, painted white, with a hole cut out for head and arms--legs out the open bottom. Paint a black rectangle on the front, along with the words: "Caution: X-RAY IN USE". Use the torso of a life-size paper skeleton decoration as the image on the black rectangle (the screen).
Submitted by KseaRsea

Hooters Girl: Orange short shorts, tight white tank top with “Hooters” on the front, nylons and white shoes.
Submitted by Changeup25

Con Artist: White sweat suit with black stripes (using black tape, streamers, etc.) to simulate a convict. Add an artist's pallet (cut out of cardboard and colored with markers) and a beret.
Submitted by MCCFRS

Chucky's Bride, Tiffany: Wear a long flowing black dress. Poof up your hair and make it really frizzy. Use a lot of black eye-liner and black lipstick and put on heavy/dark makeup.
Submitted by klueless_kid

Sandwich: Dress as witch, black hat, black dress, etc. Pin Ziplock bags of sand to dress. Now you're a "sand" witch.
Submitted by Cindy Thompson

Jellyfish: Take an umbrella (a clear or light-colored umbrella works best), and some ribbon of a different color. Cut the ribbon to sizes a little longer than your height. Tape the ribbon to the edge of the umbrella. When you knock at the door open the umbrella, when your done just close it. It's easy and the best part is, you don't even have to dress up or put any makeup on.
Submitted by Ann

A Shower: Take some flexible tubing and form it into a circular shape (the shower curtain will hang from this piece). Suspend the tubing over your head using PVC pipe, attaching it to your body with a couple of belts. Attach a shower head to the top of the PVC piece. Hang a shower curtain from the tubing using curtain rings.
Submitted by Tracee

Germ: Wear a green danskin and tights (or dye them green) and buy packets of ping-pong balls. Place ping pong balls under danskin and tights - paint face green and spray hair green as well.
Submitted by Kerry Ann Gennace

Y2K Bug: Make little wings out of nylons and wire. Make two antennae out of pipe cleaners. Wear a sign that says "Y2K BUG."
Submitted by Cateyez96 (similar idea submitted by SailorJupiter512)

Television: Use a cardboard box. Cut holes for arms, etc. Draw a "show" on the front and use a hanger or pipecleaners to make rabbit ears.
Submitted by KillinTme2

Freak of Nature: Put hair up and entangle leaves, vines, etc. Wear a green shirt with the words "Freak" on it, then glue more leaves and stuff all over yourself.
Submitted by Shelley, age 14

Retired Construction Worker: Wear jeans and a long-sleeve shirt. Tatter the edges to make them look worn out. Put holes in the clothes and tear them. Take a hardhat and attach screws and nails so they are sticking out all over (do this very safely). Tear off one sleeve of the shirt and sew the opening closed at the shoulder (your arm will stay tucked inside the shirt). Sew a glove to the end of the sleeve and stuff both so they look like a severed arm. Nail the severed limb to your hardhat and put "blood" all over your face and around the severed limb. Wear the matching glove on your real hand.
Submitted by ADAM14IL

Carrot: Wear an orange sweat suit. Paint your face green and rat your hair and spray with green hairspray.
Submitted by Lindskoogs

Iced Tea: Fashion a hat into a long rectangle using posterboard. Wear clothes of the same color as the hat, and adorn yourself with icicles and fake snow.
Submitted by Brian Morgan

Basket Case: Wear solid-colored clothing (dark works best) with lots of baskets pinned all over. Top it off with a basket with a handle on your head.
Submitted by Ivie

A Refrigerator: Use a cardboard box big enough to fit from your shoulders to above your knees, and cover your head with something big, like one of those giant Cheerio boxes.
Submitted by Missy

A Money Tree: Brown pants, green shirt, and fake money (from a discount store) pinned to the shirt!
Submitted by Jennifer NJ

Bubblegum Machine: Gray sweat suit, a clear garbage bag and a bag of small, round balloons, a ribbon long enough to tie around your neck and a red ball cap. Cut holes in garbage bag for arms and legs. While wearing the garbage bag, fill it with the balloons. Tie the top closed around your neck (don't choke yourself now!) with the ribbon of your choice and top with the red ball cap.
Submitted by Jennifer NJ

A Jigsaw Puzzle: Wear blacks sweats with puzzle pieces glued all over.
Submitted by Molly, 12 years old

Mary Catherine Gallagher (the nervous Catholic school girl from Saturday Night Live): Red headband, short full plaid skirt, white knee socks, horned-rim glasses, Peter Pan collar, white shirt, vest, etc.
Submitted by ELR

Bowl of Spagettios: Wear red sweats and sew brown pieces of felt together to make meatballs. To make the spagettios you sew tan pieces of felt in doughnut shapes.
Submitted by Molly, 12 years old

For A Very Young Child - Jack in the Box: Use a baby walker, put a large box over the walker, with a flap on top as the lid. Paint the box and put in a pretend crank. Dress the child as a clown, with a jester's hat.
Submitted by Kris Glashoff

All Dolled Up: Wear a white paper coverall and attach dolls all over yourself.
Submitted by Cindy Smithers

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