The 29 Best Maternity Halloween Costumes
Now that fall is here, it’s time to come up with the perfect Halloween costume idea. Being pregnant shouldn’t limit you—in fact, it opens up infinite possibilities! Here are 29 maternity costumes perfect for your Halloween party.
(And if you'd rather find maternity clothes for work, we have you covered too.)
29 Pregnant Halloween Costumes
1. Deviled Egg
Price: ~$15
Work Appropriate: Yes*
DIY: Yes
Category: Food
This adorable costume is super easy and cheap to make. All you need is a piece of poster board, string, scissors, a pencil, a hole punch, and a pair of devil ears.
Lay the piece of cardboard on the floor and place the plate in the center. Draw a circle around the plate. Then draw an uneven, egg-like shape around the yoke. Cut around the plate tracing and the egg shape. Punch one hole on each side of the top and thread the string through. Make sure to double or triple knot the ends. Don a yellow shirt and devil horns, and tie the poster board around your neck.
2. Magic 8 Ball
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Can be
Category: Funny
For the laid-back mom-to-be, this costume is easy and fun. You can buy it on Etsy or make it yourself by tracing the Magic 8 Ball design on white felt and attaching it to a black shirt with safety pins.
3. Gumball Machine
Price: ~$25-30 including outfit (more for the glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Creative
It takes a little patience and a lot of glue, but you’re sure to turn heads with your gumball machine costume. You’ll need a few bags of multi-colored pom poms, a safety pin, brown and black felt, glue, scissors, a plate, and a tee-shirt you won’t wear again.
Trace a plate on the shirt. Depending on how “full” you want the gumball machine to be, draw a line somewhere near the top. Applying glue to each pom pom and hold it in place until it cools. Cover the entire marked off area. Then make the gumball tag. It’s best to trace or draw the numbers on felt and cut them out, then attach glue them to a square piece of felt. Safety pin the tag below the “bowl” on your shirt.
4. Baseball
Price: $20.00 on Etsy
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Sports
For baseball-loving moms to be, this costume is easy and fun. Just don this tee-shirt and a pair of jeans, and you’re ready to go trick-or-treating. You can also wear it to the next game.
5. Cat with a ball of yarn
Price: ~$20.00
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Animals
This adorable costume is relatively easy to make—all you need is yarn, a tee-shirt, and a pair of cat ears. Trace around a plate on a tee-shirt you don’t mind not wearing again, and thread yarn within the circle in an uneven pattern. (A needle with a wide eye is helpful for this.) Throw on a pair of black pants, don a pair of cat ears, and you’re ready to go.
6. Pumpkin
Price: $39.98
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Classic
For a tried-and-true Halloween costume, don this easy and cute pumpkin tee with a pair of leggings.
7. Avocado
Price: ~$30.00 (more for hot glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Food
Who doesn’t love avocados? You and your bump will be a hit with this DIY costume.
You’ll need a piece of foam, yellow and green tempera paints, a paint brush, elastic, an Xacto knife or scissors, and a hot glue gun. Cut out the foam in the shape of an avocado (you may want to draw the shape first) and a rough outline of a pit in the middle where your bump goes. Paint a dark green outer rim, a lighter green inner rim, and yellow-green “flesh.” Mixing your paints first allows you to get the right hues. Attach straps to go over your shoulders with a hot glue gun. Let dry. Don with a brown tee-shirt.
8. Pirate
Price: $37.36
Work Appropriate: If you leave the sword (sold separately) at home
DIY: No
Category: Fierce
Even if you’re not the boss, you’ll be a boss in this pirate costume. The set includes the shirt and attached vest, sash, pants with attached boot tops, and hat.
9. Winnie the Pooh
Price: $50.00
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Animal
There’s little work required with this DIY Pooh Bear. All you need is a yellow maternity unitard, a red crop top (or just cut off the bottom of a tee-shirt), some bear ears, and you’re good to go! Don’t forget to give yourself a bear nose with a dollop of face paint.
10. Fishbowl
Price: ~$25.00 (extra for hot glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Creative
This is possibly one of the easiest costumes to make—and one of the coolest-looking. You’ll need a black dress you don’t plan on wearing again, blue felt, and fish stickers. Cut out the blue felt in the shape of a circle and glue to the dress. Attach the fish stickers, and voila! You’re an aquarium.
11. Troll
Price: $50.00 (including unitard
Work Appropriate: No
DIY: Yes
Category: Cute
Just iron a sequin patch like this one onto a unitard or dress, don a troll wig, and start...well...trolling. (Maybe not online, though.)
12. Pumpkin smuggler
Price: $29.98
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Fun
Who says you can’t wear this cute tee out on days other than Halloween? Just pair it with a simple pair of black leggings, and you’re ready to go smuggle some pumpkins!
13. Demon baby
Price: $8.99 + tee-shirt
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Funny
If you and your office have a slightly twisted sense of humor, this 3D-printed demon baby is for you. Fit it under a tight tee-shirt for the optimal effect.
14. Kangaroo
Price: $30.00
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Animal
The tried-and-true kangaroo costume is perfect for mamas to be! You’ll need a brown tee-shirt, brown felt, a needle and thread, kangaroo ears, and a stuffed kangaroo.
Cut out an oversized felt pocket large enough to fit the stuffed kangaroo and sew it to the front of your tee-shirt. Wear it with kangaroo and ears and a pair of jeans, and draw yourself a kangaroo nose with face paint.
15. Bun in the oven
Price: $47.59
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Funny
The obvious choice for expecting mothers: Poke fun at yourself with a literal bun in the oven.
16. Emoji
Price: $15.00 (plus the cost of the hot glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Depends on the style of the top
DIY: Yes
Category: Timely
The world is your oyster with this costume. Just cut out your favorite emoji shape out of felt (more intricate ones may require different colors and pieces, as well as tracing), attach it to a tee-shirt with the hot glue gun. Ta-da! You’re your favorite emoji.
17. Soccer ball
Work Appropriate: No
DIY: Yes
Category: Sports
You need a friend or partner with a bit of an artistic streak for this one, but the effect is sure to impress onlookers. Have your friend draw a circle around your belly with a black body crayon and fill it in with hexagonal black-and-white shapes. Just try not to let your belly rub off on anything!
18. Mummy
Work Appropropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Classic
Now is the perfect time to be a mummy...since you’re about to be a literal one. All you really need to do is glue pieces of gauze around a black tee-shirt and pants. To make it a touch creepier, cut a pair of eyes out of felt and glue them to the tee-shirt as well.
19. Pot of gold
Price: ~$15.00 (more for hot glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Creative
For this fun costume, you’ll need the wrappers from Chanukah gelt or other chocolate gold coins, a tee-shirt you don’t mind not wearing again, a hot glue gun, and a rainbow patch. Glue the gelt wrappers to the bottom of a tee-shirt and iron on the rainbow patch. Add these leprechaun hat ears for the optimal effect.
20. Monster eye
Price: $16.99
Work Appropropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Classic
You probably won’t scare people away with this monster eye costume, but you sure will look cute!
21. Basketball
Price: $19.95 - $24.95
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Sports
As with the baseball costume, this is a super easy outfit that you can wear to the next game.
22. Where’s Waldo?
Price: ~$30.00 (more for hot glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Fun
Put a maternity spin on the classic costume. You’ll need a red-and-white striped tee-shirt, felt, clear-lens glasses (if you have a prescription, all the better!), Waldo beanie, cardstock, a Sharpie, and a hot glue gun. Cut a small hat shape from red-and-white felt and glue it to the area on the shirt where your belly. Draw the glasses shape on cardstock, cut it out, and glue it below the hat. Top it off with your own hat and a pair of glasses.
23. M&M
Price: ~$15.00 (more for hot glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Classic
Another spin on a classic, all you need to do with this one is cut a big M from a piece of white felt and glue it to a shirt in the color of your choosing. To make sure the font is correct, you may want to trace the M out first or just draw it on the felt.
24. Snoopy
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Cartoon character
This is really cute and really easy to make. All you need is black felt, a white shirt, and a hot glue gun. Cut out a pair of ears, a pair of eyes, nose, and mouth from the black felt and glue them to the white shirt. If you can, make your partner or friend dress up as Charlie Brown!
25. Pregosaurus
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Funny
Scary? Probably not. But you’re sure to get a laugh with this easy costume.
26. Superhero
Price: $19.99
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Superhero
Show everyone the superhero you are and supermom you’re about to be with this Captain America tee-shirt. Add a cape to complete the look.
27. Kool-Aid
Price: ~$25.00 (including tee-shirt; more for hot glue gun)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Fun
For this costume, you’ll need a red tee-shirt or dress, matching red gloves, black felt, white chalk, and a hot glue gun. Draw the eyes and mouth shape with white chalk and cut out the shapes. Glue them to the shirt or dress. Wear it with the gloves and black leggings.
28. Bump in the Road
Price: ~$25.00 (including tee-shirt and matchbox car)
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: Yes
Category: Funny
For this one, you just need yellow and white (or one color) electrical tape, a black tee-shirt, a Matchbox car, and a safety pin. Cut the tape into two long and several shorter strips and tape to the tee-shirt. Attach the car with a safety pin.
29. Exhausted pregnant chick
Price: $25.00+
Work Appropriate: Yes
DIY: No
Category: Funny
Don’t have time to make a costume? Tell people what you’re really thinking with this hilarious “costume.”
*Assumes your office welcomes Halloween costumes.
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