Impressing God's Word on Your Kids' Heart || Kid Wrangler, God Lover, Life Sharer

You are here: Home / me / Giving Up on a Perfect Halloween: 7 Bible Halloween Costumes

Giving Up on a Perfect Halloween: 7 Bible Halloween Costumes

We’re not doing Halloween this year. Lydia is just too fearful. And I’m just too tired to deal with screams over cotton spiderwebs. I’ve been thinking about it a lot and if you’re interested, there are some SUPER FAB posts by some SUPER FAB guest bloggers (and one by moi) about Halloween over at Impress Your Kids. Seriously, good stuff.

So, in light of my NON-Halloween-ness, I thought this was the perfect opportunity to join in with Mary’s Giving Up on a Perfect Halloween. (By the way do you read Mary’s blog, Giving Up On Perfect? Well, you should. She is delightful.)

I’ve been wanting to share this for oh, 14 years now. Please indulge me as I share the

BEST IDEAS I’VE EVER HAD ABOUT BIBLICAL HALLOWEEN COSTUMES.

Tell me that is not a hilarious title. I’m giggling already.

Here goes:

1. Lazarus: an unraveling mummy with a name tag that says “Hello! My Name is Lazarus!” (see John 11)

bible-costume-halloween
photo by ittiebittiesforyou

2. Lot’s Wife: dress completely in white, paint face white and carry a salt shaker. Or randomly freeze. (see Genesis 19)

halloween-bible-costume
photo by zen

3. Plagued Egyptian: dress in standard Egyptian garb but also attach plastic bugs (see Exodus 7-11)

bible-hallowen-costume

4. Jonah: Dress in tattered Bible-time clothes but add a little seaweed sticking out and maybe rub on some fish smell, too. (see Jonah 1-2)

seaweed-bible-costume-halloween

photo by bibliona

5. Delilah: Bible-time outfit while holding a big pair of scissors and maybe even a few more beauty parlor supplies in tow. You know, kind of Bible Costume meets Frenchy:

beauty-school-bible-costume-halloween

photo found at thegoldencloset.com

6. Baby Bible Heroes. There are just so many great babies…let’s see Moses in the basket (cut a hole in the bottom of a basket and wear it with suspenders), baby Jesus (swaddling clothes, anyone?), baby Jacob & Easau (you know, if you were twins, one could be hairy and the other…not hairy) or even young Joseph with a technicolor coat.

halloween costume bible baby
photo by catheyse97

7. Adam and Eve. Pre-sin. KIDDING. (see Genesis 2:25)

So, if I was super-spiritual or was looking for a few eye-rolls from every non-Bible-believin’ person I knew, those are the costumes I’d choose. You know I’m kidding right? (Except for Lazarus. That one IS pretty funny.)

If you’ve got a funny Halloween story to share, link up with Mary. She’s giving away PRIZES!!

Category: me

Comments

  1. I love these! you could also add Jonas inside the Whale (a big whale cut out with the person in the middle).

  2. Too funny. Love the Jonah idea. I seriously took one of our babies to a church carnival dressed in just a diaper with a figleaf sewn on the front.

    Guess that was post – sin. : )

  3. Love it!

    We had a Bible Character Costume Contest at church one year for Halloween–My oldest wanted to go as Jesus–so we dressed him up in a cloak-y/toga thing and gave him a basket. In the basket we put 5 mini loaves of bread, and 2 cans of sardines. It was a hit–and he won! 🙂
    .-= Phoebe @ Cents to Get Debt Free´s last blog ..Keeping My Faith =-.

  10. I love this more than you know.
    And I think they do the Adam and Eve pre-sin pretty often at the ole nudist colony. That’s what they are EVERY year… gheesh… new costume already!
    So many of these own me: Jonah and the fish smell- attractive.
    Lot’s wife- just randomly freeze.
    Hilarious. I love it SO!!
    .-= Hillary @ The Other Mama´s last blog ..Giving up on a Perfect Halloween =-.

  13. My niece was Eve one year. She was a baby in a peach sleeper with fig leaves pinned on. One year my kids were the 3 Hebrew children. We borrowed easter play costumes & I pinned LOTS of orange/yellow/red felt flames all over them. I cross-dressed as King Nebuchadnezzar. Fun times.
    Good list.
    .-= jen´s last blog ..Halloween-y or Hallowon’t-y =-.

  18. Zune and iPod: Most people compare the Zune to the Touch, but after seeing how slim and surprisingly small and light it is, I consider it to be a rather unique hybrid that combines qualities of both the Touch and the Nano. It’s very colorful and lovely OLED screen is slightly smaller than the touch screen, but the player itself feels quite a bit smaller and lighter. It weighs about 2/3 as much, and is noticeably smaller in width and height, while being just a hair thicker.

  21. I just view your write-up and focus about this subject matter.oughout create along with your knowledge and its simply basic and very helpful.. it’s really amazing to see your website.is fantastic whole information. Precious You might be a real excellent doodlekit.we are use this information on my own write-up. Thanks for spectacular details.my partner and i mirielle planning to help save and bookmark your website so I can daily keep coming back here and study your current most up-to-date submit and give the comment ..also i michael planning to refer my pal in your blog site for them to furthermore understand about your imagination as well as deeply really like in this matter.

  24. hey admin thanks for great and straightforward understandable put up i adored your webpage website really much bookmarked also

  25. I tend not to drop a great deal of remarks, but after looking at a few of the responses here Giving Up on a Perfect Halloween: 7 Bible Halloween Costumes | ohamanda.com. I do have some questions for you if it’s okay. Is it simply me or does it seem like some of the responses come across as if they are written by brain dead people? 😛 And, if you are writing on other online social sites, I would like to keep up with anything new you have to post. Would you post a list of every one of your social community pages like your linkedin profile, Facebook page or twitter feed?

  28. I have noticed you don’t monetize your website, don’t waste your traffic, you can earn additional bucks
    every month because you’ve got hi quality content.

    If you want to know how to make extra $$$, search for: Ercannou’s essential tools best adsense alternative

  29. Hi, is anybody here interested in online job?
    It is simple survey filling. Even 10$ per survey (10 minutes
    duration). If you are interested, send me email to hansorloski[@]gmail.com

  30. I have noticed you don’t monetize your page, don’t waste
    your traffic, you can earn extra bucks every month. You can use the best adsense alternative for any type of website (they
    approve all websites), for more details simply search in gooogle:
    boorfe’s tips monetize your website

Hi there!


I like to think of fun ways to lead my kids to Jesus and I like to share them with you. If you're new here, start here for some fun family-time ideas!

Keep In Touch