Halloween is a great reason to get creative! You get to share your creativity with your family and neighbors, but you don’t have to figure out a place to permanently display your art in your home. Trashmagination began with Halloween costumes as I tried to win a day-off-with-pay in the annual costume contest at my work. I learned a lot about what types of costumes tend to win as I made 11 creative reuse costumes. Hopefully it inspires you to make your own Halloween costume from recycled materials.

You can listen to my podcast episode on Halloween costumes made from recycled materials in this YouTube video. It originally aired in October 2017.

Check out the full story about my Halloween costumes over the years at this blog.

Halloween Costume Contests

• Take Back Halloween – costumes that portray strong women
• Inhabitat’s Green Halloween Contests – This is a link to the 2016 contest – hopefully the 2017 contest is announced soon.

Octopus costume, 2002

2003 Halloween costume – armadillo made from metal juice lids, milk jug head

2004 Halloween costume – Raiser’s Edge database – with Kim as Toucan Sam

Spider Web Costume with Kim

Renewable Energy Halloween Costume

Zebra Costume from Keurig cups

Snow Storm Halloween Costume, 2009

Double Rainbow Costume

Four Seasons Costume, 2011 – with David’s Wind Turbine

Green Roof on PS 41 Halloween Costume, 2012

Dressed up as Atlas for Halloween with my plastic cap globe

Show Details

1. • Script for this podcast episode about Halloween costumes from recycled materials (not a transcript but gives the main ideas)
   • The Trashmagination podcast theme music is Kitchen from the Marian Circle Drum Brigade.