It’s time for the Mommy Shorts Halloween Costume Awards! Thank you for all your submissions.ย I do this contest every year and your costumes just get better and better. You know, I actually put together another post with all the over-the-top over-stylized costumes I saw on my favorite Instagram accounts this year, but then I decided to nix it. They’re impressive but they’re all too perfect. I like the real people costumes better.
I went through hundreds of entries that were all awesome, adorable, clever, scary, etc. but in the end, I had to pick my favorites. Or at least, the ones that lended themselves to the best captions. Plus, there can only be so many Poppies!
Without further ado, here are…
The Mommy Shorts Halloween Costume Awards:
Most Rebellious Costume
Most Likely to be Pulled out on Family Game Night
Least Threatening Bank Robbers
Most Likely to Get Stepped On in the Dark
Most Likely to Battle it Out with Mazzy and Harlow
Most Likely to Conquer the Seven Kingdoms
Least Likely to Actually Eat their Candy
Best Use of CGI
The “Sharks Don’t Stand” Award
Most Likely to Break Out into Song and Dance
Most Sophisticated Impersonator
Most Likely to be Stuck in front of the TV
Mostly Likely to Reject Gaston
Least Likely to Hurt Anybody with his Sword
Best Bearded Lady
Most Likely to Ace Their SATs
Cutest Farm Crop
Most in Need of Saurkraut
Most Likely to Annoy the Crap Out of His Teachers
Most Likely to Trick or Treat on the Yellow Brick Road
Cutest Villains
Best Magic Carpet Ride
Most Obscure Homemade Zombie
Fluffiest Unicorns
Most Likely to Scare the Crap out of his Parents
Most Fun Prom Dates
Youngest Poppy
Sleepiest Poppy
Most Likely to Go Home that Night and Play Minecraft
Most Likely to Have a Stack of Quarters in his Pocket
Most Likely to Stage an Adoption
Most Likely to Walk the Plank
Most Abominable
Most Incredible Costume Coordination
Best use of a pacifier
Most Likely to Cause People to Scream and Scatter
Most Likely to Kill via Video Tape
Best Use of a Baby Bottle
Most Likely to Snap in Unison
The “I don’t know what this is but it’s awesome” Award
Least Likely to All Fit in the Mystery Machine
The “New Taylor” Award
Best Use of Balloons
Best Use of a Little Brother (Boy on the left wanted to dress as a garbage man so he made his baby brother be a bag of garbage)
Cutest Grandmas
Most Likely to have the Moves to Thriller Memorized
Best Use of Burlap
Most Likely to Float from House to House
Most Deranged Ballerina
Most Likely to eat all his candy and then ask “did I do that?”
Most Likely to Crush a Soda Can with her Mind
Best Homemade Dinosaur
Least Likely to Lose Each Other While Trick or Treating
Most Likely to Die and Come Back to Life
Most Likely to Be Pissed Off at Betsy Devos for Stealing her Costume
Best Wonderland Representatives
Most Likely to be Chased Down by the Police
Safest Costume Award
Most Likely to Ditch the Broom for a Vacuum
Most Likely to Ask if you Want Fries with That
Best Use of a Museum Exhibit
Most Blatant Motive Award
Best Tribute to Barb
Best Human Impersonation of a Feline
Best Human Impersonation of a Canine
Best Canine Impersonation of a Human
The “Who Wore it Best?” Award
Most Horrific Transformation
The “How Far I’ll go for Candy” Award
Best Spielberg Tribute
Least Ferocious Rajah
Most Devoted to the Remote
Best Use of a Baby
Most Likely to Spell Your Name Wrong
Cutest Low-Tech Robot
Most Convincing Headless Inventor of the Low-Tech Robot
Least Favorite Co-Worker
Most Likely to Sign Up for a Singing Competition
Most Terrifying Mantis
Least Scary Skeletons
The Hound Dog Award
The Best Tribute to the Best Movie Ever Made
Least Likely to Blow a House Down
Most Likely to Fight a Ghost
The Girl Power Award
Most Cinematic Photo
Best Tribute to Bubble Tea
Most Excited for Christmas
Most Likely to Sell his Sister
And, I had to give one last award to my husband Mike. Because this pic needs to be seen my as many people as possible…
Most Evil Queen
Thanks again for sending in your pictures. I hope everyone had a very Happy Halloween!
Tell me which is your favorite costume in the comments below! Costume who gets the most support in the comments below will get a signed copy of my book! So, please pick someone besides Mike.
Thanks for including my daughterโs Coco Chanel costume!!! We love your blog!
So many amazing costumes!
Since j have to pick a favorite im going with the toothpaste faniky! Orignial, family costume and bonus, homemade.
Other standouts to me were magic carpet, baby corn, and figet spinner. I LOVED that there were tons of villians too!! ๐ (Althought pretty awesome Moana family too! Mike totally killed Halloween though! ๐
So many amazing costumes!
Since I have to pick a favorite I’m going with the toothpaste family! Original family costume and bonus, homemade, so a double props to them!
Other standouts to me were magic carpet, baby corn, and figet spinner. I LOVED that there were tons of villians too!! ๐ Although pretty awesome Moana family too! Mike totally took the win yhough! The eyebrows!!! ๐๐๐
PacMan!
I liked game night! Original, simple and fun.
I think the safety kid one was amazing!
Love the Hungry Man Salisbury steak TV dinner!!
All the costumes are adorable but PacMan is my favorite!
Homemade dinosaur!! I love costumes like that
Scooby doo’s mystery machine and gang!
My vote is for the garbage man and his trash bag! So cute and clever!
I loved the safety kid! So original and totally random!
Baby scuba diver! So clever!
The costumes were funny, but not as funny as your captions! Had me rolling Ilana!
So hard to pick! I think the Safety Turtle and Boba Tea kids win on originality. The girl dressed as grapes just looks SOOO happy to be grapes. And that wonderwoman is FIERCE!
Toss up between the bank robbing family (baby moneybag with the dollars headband!) and the Moana family. The flying carpet was also clever.
Loving the garbage man and bag of trash.
So many good ones! I love the pac man one, so adorable and easy to wear. Pinned that one since I’m assuming my toddler will resist wearing a costume next year as much as he did this year.
The little milk man! Definitely the best use of a baby bottle!
They are all awesome though!
The Hungry Man!
So I’m the mom of the dental family. My older only kept 8 peices of candy so we ended up donating over 6 lbs of candy to the troops. Looks like we held up to your caption ๐
ET costume is the best. The boy’s expression makes it!
The Raising Arizona kids! Awesome! Plus my Mary Poppins was pretty cute.:)
The scuba diving baby! And magic carpet ๐
Loved them ALL!
Least ferocious raja! Such a cutie!
My vote goes to “Least Ferocious Rajah”…ADORABLE!!!
Cutest! Least Ferocious Rajah!
There were so many amazing ones, it’s hard to choose! But I think the Moana family wins because they managed to cleverly clothe FIVE children AND themselves!?! Amazing.
Sanderson Sisters has my vote!
PacMan has my vote!
Hey,
I love costume with canine one.
Thank you for sharing
The best ones were the David S Pumpkins skeletons! Lol! My husband tried to get my
Kids to do that and they said no.
The little guy dressed as a milk man is by far the most adorable thing I’ve seen in a long time!!!