10 DIY Food-Themed Halloween Costumes
All of these costumes are cheap, pretty throw-it-togetherable, and will make other people around you hungry.
1. Food Mascots
From left: Sun Maid Raisin girl, Morton Salt Girl, Jolly Green Giant, and the Chiquita Banana lady. [Photograph: Tressa Eaton]
- Sun Maid Raisin Girl: A bonnet, white blouse, head scarf, and basket full of grapes. (Bonus points for sunshine rays emanating from your body)
- Morton Salt Girl: Wear a yellow dress (preferably with a huge bow) and hold an umbrella. (Fun fact: that would be our own Serious Green columnist Tressa Eaton in the photo!)
- Jolly Green Giant: Green shirt, green leaf-bearing toga, and green headband. Act jolly.
- Chiquita Banana Lady: A woven hat full of fruits piled on top, big hoop earrings, and a poofy dress.
2. Deviled Egg
Most ladies probably have a devil horns headband and tail lying around from a previous devil costume. Multiply that by a white blob with yellow center—ta-da, everyone's favorite finger food.
Get two pieces of white poster board, cut two large ovals (of the same size), and color in a yellow yolk on one. Punch two holes at the top of each egg and string yarn through the holes, connecting them so they sit on your shoulders. Or you can always use a white sheet instead of poster board, and cut it into a poncho shape.
3. Trader Joe/Josephina
The unofficial Trader Joe's commercial.
Because dressing up as a cashier from any other grocery store just wouldn't be as cool. Wear a Hawaiian shirt, lei, and name tag (include your hometown).
4. Sriracha Tube
This requires super advanced puffy paint skills. Get a red shirt and white puffy paint squirter from your local crafts store and, with a Sriracha bottle nearby, recreate the rooster design and "HUY FONG FOODS, INC." labeling underneath. Find a green hat; wear it.
5. Gummy Worm
This is not an actual person, just inspiration. [Flickr: digipam]
Basically just wear one shade on top and one on the bottom for that classic duotone gummy worm look. Squiggle around with awful posture all night.
6. Fruit Tree
Wear brown pants and a green long sleeve shirt. Pick up some artificial fruits at a crafts store or 99-cent type place and wrap them around your arms and torso haphazardly.
7. Bag of Jelly Bellys
That would be my lifelong friend on the left who's been rocking this costume since we were little. [Photograph: Tovah Moss]
Blow up a bunch of multi-colored balloons, but not too huge. Take a dry cleaners bag and cut two leg holes at the top (the hanger side). Step into the bag and fill it with balloons. Punch out two arm holes and tie the top around your neck with a big bow.
8. California Raisin
California Raisins commercial, circa 1986.
Take an extra-large black trash bag (if they start making a purple version, opt for that), hold it upside-down and cut a hole towards the top for your face. Put the bag over your body (please do not suffocate) and poke holes for your arms. Wear big sunglasses, white gloves, high-top Converse, and pants of some sort. Toy saxophones are also encouraged.
9. Top Chef-testant
Top Chef Las Vegas. [Photograph: Bravo]
Wear a white lab coat and try to bring up topics like olive oil-poached halibut and turnip foam as much as possible. For a creepier twist, pick a specific person from this season's Top Chef Las Vegas.
10. Chipotle Burrito
How often do you get to use an entire box of aluminum foil at once?! Exactly. Just wrap yourself up until you're covered and look like approximately 1,000 calories.
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16 Comments:
These are pretty great ideas.
I'm confused as to why most ladies have devil horns though... I've never dressed up as a devil and I'm female.
gingercookiewithlime at 7:43PM on 10/29/09
Concerning #10, you failed to mention that if you dress up like a burrito and go to Chipotle, you get a free burrito on Hallow'Sween.
Nebagakid at 8:48PM on 10/29/09
YES! California Raisin! My friend did it last year. Just like you describe. Here's a photo. http://www.mightysweet.com/mesohungry/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/19-californication.jpg
chinolam at 10:03PM on 10/29/09
Dude, I was SO a deviled egg last year. It was awesome. Also, mine was hand made out of fabric and looked like a big plush egg, way more awesome than foam core. My husband wore a red shit and went as paprika.
omnomnom at 10:48PM on 10/29/09
That is them most hilarious typo ever...I mean red SHIRT
omnomnom at 10:49PM on 10/29/09
I am full of typos today. FML.
omnomnom at 10:49PM on 10/29/09
I suspended a green citrus over my head and was sublime.
shoneyjoe at 11:30PM on 10/29/09
No doubt the deviled egg is my favorite. There's nothing I like more than a costume that plays on words. However, I must confess that even more endearing to this Colorado girl is the Trader Joe's jingle. Because of our liquor laws (we just started selling on Sundays in liquor stores), we won't be seeing Trader Joe's any time soon. Thanks for the great costume ideas!
CarolB at 11:58PM on 10/29/09
Here is another great idea, courtesy of my brother and his gf:
http://www.roopaandmatt.com/_/rsrc/1231912421867/mr--boh---the-utz-girl/ad%20copy%20-%20just%20boh%20utz.JPG?height=363&width=420
wilma at 9:31AM on 10/30/09
I love the Jolly Green Giant! That rules
hungrychristel at 10:18AM on 10/30/09
morton salt girl also needs a white umbrella, yellow flats and a blond or blond blue wig. http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v352/84/1/906131/n906131_41158328_7021.jpg
howrad at 11:12AM on 10/30/09
I was thinking of going as a lab rat using my labcoat from org. chem lab and mouse ears, but I may shake it up and go as a top chef contestant instead! Carry around cooking utensils all night =) Freakin' awesome
LexieLo at 12:57PM on 10/30/09
How about Gyclops Fieri, Padma "Black Sheep" Lakshmi, Gor"Don Corleone" Ramsay
http://foodmarathon.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/costume-ideas-for-the-food-minded-pt-3/
Just One Plate at 2:05PM on 10/30/09
..and don't forget Super Mario Batali, Bobby Flayvor Flav and Surgeon Gemeril
http://foodmarathon.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/costume-ideas-for-the-food-minded/
Just One Plate at 2:07PM on 10/30/09
Last year I wore a sparkly gold dress, made a "bubble" headpiece out of little clear glass Xmas balls and was Champagne.
Gipsygrrl at 3:05PM on 10/30/09
Ha! I love these. I had a Jolly Green Giant and a Morton Salt Girl in my group on Halloween, too. I dressed up as sushi. Super easy--white packing peanuts in a clear plastic bag, a dark green t-shirt cut into a band for the nori, a salmon-colored shirt, and a paper-and-fabric "soy sauce, wasabi, and ginger" brooch.
monicalong at 2:36PM on 11/02/09