Easy Homemade Costumes for Favorite Book Characters
Favorite Book Character Costumes
Dress up as your favorite book character for Halloween and have a HappyBookish Halloween (or World Book Day)! How about one of these book character costume ideas from the favorite children's picture and chapter books?
Go with a classic character like Alice in Wonderland, Madeline, or Max of Where the Wild Things Are.
Or, choose a more recent favorite character like Elephant and Piggie!
Whatever you pick, it's a celebration of reading and books, right?
And that's something to celebrate!
I've linked to many costumes you can buy and some you can make.
Hopefully, this list will inspire you to find a fun book costume that works for you!
Inspired by board books, picture books, and chapter books, there are so many costume ideas here, I think you'll find one that you can't resist.
(Updated 8/2022; originally published in 2009.)
A to E Book Characters
Ready for the A to E book character costume list? Start with Alice, Amelia, and Artemis and continue on to Captain Underpants, Clifford, and the Cat in the Hat…
Alice in Wonderland
Cheshire Cat
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum
The Mad Hatter girl child style 1 or style 2, boy child size
Queen of Hearts
White Rabbit
Amelia Bedelia
Angelina Ballerina
American Girl Doll Characters
Artemis Fowl
Arthur
Bad Kitty
Book Fairy
Captain Underpants
Cat in the Hat(see more Dr. Seuss below)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka
Charlie Brown (DIY Charlie Brown here)
Clark the Shark
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Comic Book Character
Cow (Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type)
Crayon (The Day the Crayons Quit) / DIY Crayon Costume
Curious George & the Man in the Yellow Hat
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior
Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Dog Man (DIY)
Dragon (Dragons Love Tacos, Puff the Magic Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon, Eragon)
Dr. Seuss Characters:
Horton Hears A Who
The Lorax
Thing 1 and Thing 2
The Cat in the Hat child / adult
Sam I Am
Elephant and Piggie
Eloise
F to R Book Characters
Think of all the characters in fairy tale stories…There are so many good options. But, anyone from Harry Potter is also a great costume choice. Or what about Miles Morales?
Fairy Tales:
Sleeping Beauty / Prince Philip
Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella
Goldilocks & the Three Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White
Fancy Nancy
Fly Guy
Frankenstein
Franklin
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Harriet the Spy
Harry Potter
Kids love to dress up as their favorite book characters from the most popular book series of all time — Harry Potter.
Hermione
Ron
Luna Lovegood
Newt Scamander
Death Eater
Dobby
Voldemort
Dumbledore
Hagrid
Hello Kitty
The Hobbit / Lord of the Rings
Frodo
Gandalf
Legolas
Tauriel
Arwen
How to Train Your Dragon
Toothless
Hiccup
Astrid
Hunger Games
Katniss
Effie Trinket
Judy Moody
Junie B. Jones
Knight toddler, child (King Arthur, The Knight and the Dragon, St. George & the Dragon)
Ladybug Girl & Bumblebee Boy
Legends of Zita (Zita)
Little Critter
Little House on the Prairie
Madeline
Magic Tree House Jack and Annie
Max ( Where the Wild Things Are)
*This might be my favorite book character costume on the list. How cute is this?
Miles Morales Spider-Man
Miss Nelson
Miss Frizzle from The Magic School Bus
Nursery Rhymes:
Mother Goose
Little Bo Peep
Humpty Dumpty
Olivia
The One and Only Ivan
Paddington
Percy Jackson
Camp Half-Blood t-shirt Gladiator Knight Athena
Pete the Cat
Peter Pan
Captain Hook
Tinker Bell
Peter's Escaped Shadow
Pigeon
Pinkilicious
Pippi Longstocking
Prince Caspian
Raggedy Ann
Ramona
Rainbow Fairies
Redwall, Martin the Warrior
S to Z Book Characters
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Winnie the Pooh are two favorite book character costume ideas for babies and toddlers — talk about cute!
Sherlock Holmes
Skippyjon Jones
Splat the Cat
Strange Case of the Origami Yoda
Strega Nona
Tacky the Penguin
Three Musketeers
The Stinky Cheese Man
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Uglies: Tally
Warriors (CATS!)
Where's Waldo adult & kid
The Wild Robot
Winnie The Pooh
Piglet
Eeyore
Tigger
Roo Costume
Witch *see all the books about witches here
Wizard of Oz:
Dorothy
Lion
Tin Man
Scarecrow
Wicked Witch
Glinda the Good
Munchkin
Vampire Academy
Zoey and Sassafras
What other book character costume ideas do you have?
Which Halloween costume ideas are your favorite?
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