If you’re still struggling to come up with a costume idea for this Halloween, then look no further than your bookshelves! You can get thousands of great costume ideas from books. All you need is a little creativity and thriftiness, and you can choose from countless original ideas. Don’t feel like you have to stick with the main characters from books to be recognized. You can also go with literal interpretations of the titles, fun side characters or creatures, or dress up as your own character from the novel style, or even just print out a large sized image of your favorite book and go as the book itself! Below are some books filled with fun costume ideas to inspire you right in time for the costume parties to start.
1. Goldilocks and the Three Bears
2. Sherlock Holmes
3. Pied Piper
4. Lord of the Rings
5. Jack and the Beanstalk
6. The Grinch
7. The Borrowers
8. Alice in Wonderland
9. Little Red Riding Hood
10. Harry Potter
11. Nevermore
12. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
13. Madeline
14. Mary Poppins
15. Pinocchio
16. Goosebumps
17. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
18. Pippi Longstocking
19. Rosie Revere Engineer
20. Humpty Dumpty
21. Where the Wild Things Are
22. The Invisible Man
23. Hollow Monster
24. The Paperbag Princess
25. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
26. The Magic School Bus
27. Gone With the Wind
28. The Great Gatsby
29. The Hunger Games
30. Paul Bunyan
31. Rapunzel
32. Three Blind Mice
33. Fifty Shades of Gray
34. The Princess and the Pea
35. Nancy Drew
36. Raggedy Ann
37. Peter Pan
38. Peanuts
39. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
40. Clifford the Big Red Dog
What are some of your favorite and most clever costume ideas from books? Let us know in the comments below.
Happy reading!
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Great ideas now I am going through my books to come up with a few for me