Getting one person to decide on a Halloween costume is difficult.
Now try getting five people to agree.
Good luck.
Someone wants cute.
Someone wants scary.
One friend doesn't want to buy anything.
And there is always that person who says “anything is fine” then rejects every single idea.
So I tried to keep this list VERY mixed.
Some of these group Halloween costumes are easy, others are ridiculous and a few require the whole group to actually commit.
But if everyone cooperates for once, the pictures will be worth it.
20 Group Halloween Costume Ideas Your Friends Will Actually Agree On
1. Scooby-Doo mystery gang
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| @johnnymetro77 |
Scooby-Doo is honestly one of the safest group costume ideas because everybody gets a different outfit.
Nobody has to match exactly.
Velma gets orange, Daphne gets purple, Fred has his ascot and Shaggy barely has to dress up at all.
And somebody gets to be Scooby.
Fight amongst yourselves.
2. Stranger Things squad
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| @uneblinkinyourarea |
If your group loves an 80s moment, this one is easy.
Pick your Stranger Things characters and build each outfit separately.
The costumes will still make sense together without everyone looking identical.
3. Playing card t-shirts
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| @kelaniegarcia |
Four people?
Perfect.
Assign hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades.
Use white clothes as the base and add the symbols somewhere obvious.
Simple, coordinated and you can probably DIY most of it.
4. Wizard of Oz crew
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Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion will probably always work as a group Halloween costume.
And if your group is bigger, start adding more Oz characters.
5. Spice Girls
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| @beaticepau |
The BEST thing about doing the Spice Girls is that everybody gets their own personality.
Sporty doesn't need to dress like Posh.
Scary doesn't need to dress like Baby.
You get the idea.
Huge platforms, 90s clothes and slightly questionable fashion decisions are very welcome here.
6. Clueless
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| @gab_bia |
Plaid.
Plaid.
And maybe some more plaid.
Get the blazers, mini skirts and knee-high socks involved and your group will look like it escaped a 90s high school movie.
7. Mario Kart
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| @emersonself |
This costume can get chaotic very quickly and that's why it's fun.
Mario, Luigi, Peach and Bowser are the obvious starting point.
Then start adding whichever characters your bigger group wants.
I would definitely make little steering wheels or cardboard racing props for the pictures.
Someone also needs to dramatically pretend to throw a banana peel.
Obviously.
8. Tarot cards
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| @mylahsmom |
Okay, this one could look AMAZING.
Instead of everyone dressing as the exact same theme, assign each person a different tarot card.
The Moon, The Star and The Tower alone already give you so much to work with.
Keep some colors or makeup details similar so the whole group still looks connected.
9. Grease Pink Ladies and T-Birds
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| @amynikoleschoelen |
A mixed group costume that actually makes sense.
Pink satin jackets for the Pink Ladies and black leather for the T-Birds.
Easy.
10. Mean Girls Plastics
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On Wednesdays we wear pink.
On Halloween apparently we also carry a Burn Book around.
You don't even need exact movie costumes if everyone dresses in very obvious pink early-2000s outfits.
11. Office Space coworkers
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| @laurendrummond00 |
This is such a random costume and I kind of love it for that reason.
Get everybody into painfully boring 90s office clothes.
Khakis, ties, suspenders, all of it.
Then bring a fake or lightweight printer prop into the situation and suddenly the joke makes sense.
It is definitely better if everyone in your group actually knows the movie though.
Otherwise you're just a group of people dressed for a bad office meeting.
12. Circus sideshow
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| @amandadultra |
If your group wants to go properly Halloween, create a whole creepy circus.
You can have a ringmaster, clown, acrobat and other old-school sideshow-inspired characters.
Nobody needs to wear the same thing.
The dark circus styling will connect everything together.
13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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| @sofipinzon |
Four friends and no idea what to wear?
You know what to do.
Green outfits with different colored masks make this one almost too easy.
Blue, red, orange and purple.
Just make sure everybody agrees on their turtle before somebody starts arguing about being Michelangelo.
14. Skeleton wedding party
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Imagine a full wedding party except everybody is dead.
I mean...very Halloween.
You can have the skeleton bride and groom in the center with undead bridesmaids and groomsmen around them.
Black, white and grey outfits will keep everything looking coordinated.
Then go crazy with the skull makeup.
The group photos could be ridiculously good.
15. Disney villains
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| @aprilcrain |
Why be princesses when everybody can be the villain?
Maleficent, Ursula, Cruella and the Evil Queen are already a very strong group.
And there are plenty more if you need to expand the squad.
16. Wes Anderson characters
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| @lizamorris |
This is for the friend group that wants cute photos more than anything else.
Pick characters or create outfits inspired by that super recognizable Wes Anderson color palette.
Pastels, vintage pieces and weird little props will help.
Everyone should also practice looking directly at the camera with absolutely no expression.
That's half the costume.
17. Pandemic board game scientists
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| @alsiondeboo |
Matching lab coats instantly connect the group.
Then add biohazard symbols, goggles and science props inspired by the game.
It's nerdy, which I mean as a compliment.
18. Fruit salad
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Sometimes stupid costumes are the funniest costumes.
Get one banana.
One strawberry.
One pineapple.
One bunch of grapes.
Congratulations, you're a fruit salad now.
19. Reservoir Dogs
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| @leiahhoy |
If everyone in the group already owns a black suit, you're basically finished.
Add skinny ties and sunglasses.
This one looks especially good if your group wants something coordinated without wearing an obvious costume costume.
20. Renaissance painting characters
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| @katiacanala |
Okay, hear me out.
Everyone dresses like they walked straight out of an old Renaissance painting.
Huge sleeves.
Ruffled collars.
Dramatic dresses.
And the most serious facial expressions imaginable.
Walk around the party looking mildly disappointed by modern society and I think you've nailed it.
Conclusion
Group Halloween costumes are always amazing in theory.
The difficult part is getting the group chat to actually make a decision.
So send everybody this list and demand answers immediately.
For something easy, I'd go with playing cards, Grease or Reservoir Dogs.
If your friends are willing to put in effort, the tarot card group and skeleton wedding party could look INSANE.
And if nobody can agree on anything?
Dress as fruit.
There are enough fruits for everyone and nobody gets to complain.
Whatever your group chooses, coordinate enough that people understand the theme but don't worry about every tiny thing matching.
A little chaos makes the group pictures better anyway.
