Halloweeeeeeen - Circus family costume

Big big BIG Halloween family over here. We always dress up in a family themed costume.. and usually multiple times. These are some of our family costumes from last year (2019).

First up: The family circus!

Our circus costume had: the strongesttt man in the worlddddd, the popcorn concession man, the Ringmaster with her ringof fire, the lion who jumps through the flames, the redhead clown, and the fortune teller!

My little clown did not want to keep her wig on, and the strongest man broke his weights… family photos are hard

already dipping into their snacks :-)

This costume was really fun to make! I DIY’d pretty much all of it, with the exception of the lion costume and the muscles on my strong man (I am NOT a sewer).

For the clown, I used my oldest daughter’s dress up clothes-> a red tutu dress from iloveplum, that she still wears, an old yellow tulle skirt and polka dot tights (that you can’t really see) but it gets coldddd around here on Halloween. #newenglandproblems. Speaking of cold- I had to make sure the clown would be warm enough to trick or treat all night, so I made sure she had multiple layers. I used an old white onesie that I painted bright colored polka dots with puffy paint and found a pair of hot pink gloves we had on hand.

For the Ringmaster: I bought a cheap red coat off amazon and added the long coattails with red fabric I found at Joann’s fabric. I added gold ribbon trim to the coat to give it some extra circus pizazz, threw on a apair of my black leggings (I have about 5 billion pairs) and topped it off with a cheapy hat I found at party city. My ring of fire was just orange and yellow felt peices hot glued to a hoola hoop.

The lion was a costume I found off amazon, but I did make her a little fluffy headband with ears out of an extra peice of faux fur fabric we had lying around.

Popcorn concession man: I used an old amazon box, wrapped in white paper and glued, paper pocorn boxes to the inside so they would stay up right while we trick or treated. The strap around his neck and waist is just a yellow ribbon I attched to the box. His red flat brim hat is also homemade from an old amazon box. Gotta do something with all those extra boxers we have lying around. I found a tutorial here: and spray painted it red to go with the theme. His outfit was navy blue dress pants and a striped button down that he already owned.

For the strongest man: I bought his muscle shirt off amazon. My daughter had a red and white striped tank top that I thought was the right look, but was very girly. I cut off the ruffles around the neck and made a deeeep circle neck, so his “muscles” could pop out. Red pants, and old newsboy hat were items already in his closet. His 250 pound dumb bells were another DIY. I got a dowel and 2 foam circles from a craft store, spray painted them black and glued them togerher. I wrote the weight on the balls with a white sharpie.

The fortune teller was a completely last minute addition, since my mom was in town during Halloween. It was made completely of items out of my closet, a flowy maxi skirt, a boho sweater, a scarf tied around her head and one around her wasit, tonssss of necklaces and a red bouncy ball from our yard.

The whole costume was one of my favorites!!!

NEXT UP:

Toy Story!!