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tonight's moon
Computed fresh every night. We never ask for your location.
Make a costume from your closet.
Costumes for Halloween and any party. Tell us who it’s for.
Who is dressing up?
5 questions · about 2 minutes · free · no signup
Example
You answer: couple, funny, couch-level, house party, food & snacks.
You get: Ketchup & Mustard.
Red tunic and cap for one.
Yellow for the other.
Make it any night
126 of the 169 costumes you can start after dinner and finish before bed.
Use what you have
Tell us what you own. We rank all 169 by what you can make.
See all 169 costumes on one map.
Zoom, wander, find something new.
See the costume map →
What America searched for
Ranked by how fast searches climbed in the last weeks before Halloween.
Real costume search data from Pinterest Trends, week ending Oct 26, 2026, the last full week before Halloween. Tap one to make it yourself.
Elphaba costumeMake it: Emerald Witch
Ghost costumeMake it: Classic Ghost
Nightwing costumeMake it: Superhero Family
Glinda costumeMake it: Good Witch, Bad Witch
Lorax costumeMake it: Fuzzy Monster
Halloween by the numbers: Americans planned to spend $13.5 billion on Halloween in 2026. Half of consumers planned to dress in costume. Nearly half of shoppers planned to use AI to help with Halloween shopping. (Source: NRF 2026 Halloween survey, Sept 2026.)
Search all costumes directly.
Start with a classic
Three easy builds to get you going.
Halloween 2026, wrapped
What people viewed, shared, and saved most on this site.
#1 viewedBaby Pumpkin34 views of its guide
#1 sharedEnchanted Castle Crew11 shares
#2 sharedPickle7 shares
#3 sharedLost Tourist6 shares
#4 sharedFairy Tale Princesses5 shares
#1 savedIce Kingdom Crew15 saves
What people searched for
Counts from this site, Sep 1 to Nov 1, 2026. Searches are the top Google searches that found this site, Oct 7 to Nov 3, 2026.
Kid favorites
The classics kids ask for every Halloween. Tap one to see the plan.
🌙 Bedtime stories
Short tales for the night before Halloween.
Costume games
Guess who’s hiding, pair the pieces, or build a costume from a mystery basket.
New costumes
Beekeeper & Bee
✨ New
Little Prince
✨ New
Block Party Duo
✨ New
Little Lifeguard
✨ New
Fossil Hunter
Tools
Common questions
Take the quick quiz. One pick, free guide, build time and supplies up front.
Make Tonight means fast. 30 minutes of work or less. 126 of the 169 costumes make the cut.
Take the quiz as a couple. Builds use thrift-store and closet basics, listed up front.
Yes. Take the quiz for your kid. Picks fit their age, with safety notes.
Yes. No account, no ads, no checkout. It is a hobby project, free forever.
Yes. Add Pick My Costume to Claude.
Ask for costume ideas in chat.
We don't sell costumes, supplies, or anything else: there is no store and no checkout here.
Your quiz answers stay in your browser, on your device.
We ask for quiz answers only.
Email comes only if you ask: one plan email, one reminder if you tick.
We only track anonymous usage stats.
Made by a dad, on the side
I’m Billy, a dad in Redmond, Washington. I build these tools on the side, with AI, one idea, one website, no company behind it. Pick My Costume picks one you can make from your closet, with the supplies and steps up front.
Works with your AI
Your AI can run this site's costume picker. It ranks the same 169 checked costume ideas this site uses, so the pick fits your crew, your time, and what you already own.
Connect this site to Claude, Cursor, or any other MCP client. It is free, and it takes about a minute.
1. Copy the server address
https://mcp.pickmycostume.com/mcp
2. Add it to your AI
Claude Code — one command
claude mcp add --transport http pick-my-costume https://mcp.pickmycostume.com/mcpClaude Desktop or Cursor — paste into the MCP settings
{
"mcpServers": {
"pick-my-costume": {
"url": "https://mcp.pickmycostume.com/mcp"
}
}
}3. Ask your AI: “Pick a costume for a family of four that we can build tonight.”
Also on ChatGPT: Pick My Costume is published in the ChatGPT plugin directory. Open the directory and search “Pick My Costume” to add it there.