In this post, we’ll look at forty of the most clever and cute mom dad and baby Halloween costume ideas for new families!
Published: 7/17/24
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One of the absolute best parts about becoming a new mom is getting to experience holidays as a family for the first time.
Halloween is no exception!
Trick or Treating and costumes make Halloween one of the best family holidays to celebrate.
You’re probably already planning out the photo shoot in your head to capture your baby’s first Halloween dress up!
These are the kind of pictures you will treasure your whole life, so you want to make sure your first costumes as a family are some of your best.
Having a baby unlocks a whole realm of trio costumes that you never got to try when it was just Mom and Dad before baby.
Now you have the opportunity to make your family costumes even more clever, creative, and cute!
I’ve compiled forty of what I believe to be the best and most creative Mom Dad and Baby Halloween costume ideas and I hope they inspire you to make your baby’s first Halloween everything you dreamed of.
40 Mom Dad and Baby Halloween Costume Ideas
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1. The Mr. Clean Trio
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If your baby is like mine and has absolutely no hair on their head, play up the joke by dressing them up as Mr. Clean!
Mom and Dad can play along by dressing up as bubbles and a magic eraser sponge. Plus, that little baby earring is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
2. Chefs and Their Lobster
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How adorable is this baby lobster costume? And what better way to coordinate with baby than by dressing as chefs!
Mom and Dad get to match and baby gets to look cuter than ever. It’s a win win!
3. Squid Game
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If you watched and loved Squid Games as much as I did, then you’ll appreciate these mom dad and baby Halloween costume ideas.
The base of these outfits is fairly simple with Mom and Dad in red jumpsuits and baby in a green track suit. If you have a creative streak, you can even DIY the masks!
4. Trolls
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Cue the nostalgia for Mom and Dad with the Trolls themed costumes. Not only are they fun for parents who grew up with Trolls, it’s fun for littles who are seeing the new movies as well!
Go all out like the mom in this photo with a nude body suit, or stick to just the wigs for a last minute costume idea.
5. Baby Shark
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Just in case we don’t hear the Baby Shark song enough as parents, why not dress up so every kid who comes to your front door will sing it at you?
But all jokes aside, this mommy shark, daddy shark, and baby shark combo is seriously adorable (and look seriously comfy!)
6. Peter Pan, Wendy, and Tinkerbell
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I love a family costume that recreates characters from a book or movie. These Peter Pan themed costumes are the absolute cutest!
Copy the family above with Dad as Peter, Mom as Wendy, and baby as Tink, or pull inspo from other characters like Captain Hook and Smee.
7. Hocus Pocus
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Hocus Pocus is THEE Halloween movie of all Halloween movies, so why not recreate the iconic characters with your family?
I love how this family has dressed up as Max and Dani with the baby playing Thackery as a cat!
8. Jurassic Park
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Getting your hands on a dinosaur baby costume is incredibly easy considering it’s a very popular Halloween costume for children.
But not every baby is blessed with cool enough parents to recreate these iconic looks from Jurassic Park. Be the coolest family on the block with these classic film characters.
9. Hot Dog and Condiments
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If you’re looking to be out on the town with your baby on Halloween to go trick or treating, you may want to think of a fun way to disguise the stroller!
Turn the stroller into a hot dog stand with the family as your hot dog and condiments. This is perfect for larger families as well because you can have ketchup, mustard, pickles, relish, and anything else you can think of.
10. Three Little Pigs (And the Big Bad Wolf)
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These mom dad and baby Halloween costume ideas would be especially perfect for a family with twins!
Whether you have three people to play pigs or not, you can always sub in a stuffie like the family above to complete this storybook classic.
11. Mean Girls
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You’re not a regular mom, you’re a cool mom! Or at least dressed up like the one from Mean Girls this Halloween.
There are many great looks from the movie Mean Girls you could recreate in your family, but you can’t go wrong with this classic trio.
12. Gumball Machine
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For the parents looking to keep things simple this Halloween, make the costume all about your baby so you don’t have to go crazy with costumes.
This little gumball machine look is perfect. Baby gets to dress up in bright colors, and all you have to do is throw on a T-shirt!
13. The Little Mermaid
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I’m actually obsessed with this The Little Mermaid trio of costumes. Mom as Ariel, Dad as the chef, and baby as Sebastian trying to avoid the chef’s pot!
This family takes the cake for one of the most photogenic family Halloween costumes I’ve seen.
14. Aladdin
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You truly can’t go wrong with Disney movies and this Aladdin themed family proves that.
Not only will Mom and Dad have fun dressing up as these classic (and kinda sexy!) movie characters with Aladdin and Jasmine, but you always get to put baby in an adorable monkey costume for Abu!
15. PJ Masks
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If your baby is old enough to have a favorite show, it will make them so excited to get to dress as their favorite characters!
I just know these PJ Masks themed mom dad and baby Halloween costume ideas fulfilled a huge wish for the kiddos in this family.
16. Caught a Fish
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Now I know the photo above doesn’t have mom pictured, but I was so obsessed with this costume idea that I just had to include it.
Mom could easily dress up as another type of fish, a fishing rod, or even some kind of colorful bait piece (cue the dad jokes). Getting this photo with dad and baby alone makes this costume idea completely worth it.
17. Where the Wild Things Are
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Where the Wild Things Are is one of those stories that exudes the feeling of fall. The characters in this story are so fantastical looking that they make perfect costumes!
Whether you’re a family of three or more, there’s plenty of great characters to choose from for the perfect Halloween costumes.
18. Mario, Luigi, and Peach
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Mario and Luigi is one of those classic duo Halloween costumes that you see every year.
Elevate the classic combo, though, by including your little one as another Mario character! Peach is the perfect choice for a girl but Bowser or Yoshi would be adorable too.
19. Flower Fairies
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This a great low maintenance option for DIY or last minute family Halloween costumes.
For those with a creative streak, you can make these adorable flower fairy hats with felt or construction paper. The best part is you get to wear whatever you’d like as an outfit and the costume is all in the hat!
20. Safari Guides
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Sometimes it feels like our babies are little wild animals, and we’re the onlookers just trying to respect their natural habitat.
Play up the metaphor with these Safari guide costumes! Pick whatever cute grassland animal is your favorite for the baby, and all Mom and Dad need are some hats and binoculars.
21. Tiger King
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I can’t believe Tiger King is already four years old, but I certainly haven’t forgotten about these larger than life people.
Everyone can embrace their silly sides as dad bears a mullet as Joe Exotic, mom the flower crown as Carol Baskin, and the baby as, of course, a tiger!
22. 101 Dalmations
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The perfect costumes for the tale as old as time couple where Mom likes to dress up and Dad prefers to keep it chill.
An all black look with a hat is all Dad needs to play the puppy burglar in this 101 Dalmations look. Mom gets to have fun going all out and looking hot as Cruella De Ville!
23. Magicians and Their Rabbit
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The magician, the magician’s assistant, and the cutest every bunny rabbit they pulled out of a hat.
I’m in love with this perfect look for a family of three and wish I would have thought of it when my son was little just to see him in a rabbit costume!
24. Mary Poppins
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The ultimate elegant and classy mom dad and baby Halloween costume ideas for a family of three!
I adore Mary Poppins and the looks they sport in the movie are so beautiful that they’d be a blast to recreate for Halloween. Mom can be Mary, Dad can be Burt, and baby as on of the dancing penguins.
25. Wizard of Oz
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Lions and tigers and bears oh my! Or should I say, Moms and Dads and babies oh my!
You can never go wrong recreating these familiar characters for Halloween. There’s so many great characters to choose from that you could really customize who dresses as what. Other characters to consider are Tin Man, Scarecrow, and the Wicked Witch of the West!
26. The Incredibles
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If your baby daddy is anything like mine, he has always had a thing for Elastigirl! LOL, I’m not kidding.
Recreate the ultimate power couple in Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible with their adorable super baby, Jack Jack.
27. Toy Story
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Toy Story was one of the very first movies that really caught my son’s attention and I’ve been eagerly waiting to recreate these costumes ever since.
Plus, what girl doesn’t want to dress up as Jessie? She has the cutest cowgirl outfit! Dad and baby can be either Woody, Buzz, or Bo Beep!
28. Circus Players
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If you have a new baby in the house, your life probably feels a bit like a circus right now.
Make that feeling a reality with these adorable family circus costumes! Either Mom or Dad can be the ring leader, then you have all kinds of kooky circus characters you could choose from.
From circus animals to bearded ladies, these mom dad and baby costume ideas are sure to be a blast.
29. The Nightmare Before Christmas
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For the most dedicated Halloween families, I highly suggest recreating this Night Before Christmas group costume idea.
Jack Skellington and Sally have such iconic looks that everyone who sees you will instantly know the reference. Turn Oogie Boogie from scary to adorable with this baby costume!
30. Ballers and Their Referee
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If Dad has multiple basketball jerseys already in his closet, these Halloween costumes are the ultimate easy option.
Mom and Dad dress as basketball players with baby as the referee! After all, our babies truly are the ones that call all the shots in our homes.
31. Ghostbusters
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This is one of those family Halloween costumes that you just HAVE to recreate while your kid is little.
Why? Because there is seriously nothing cuter than a baby or toddler in a Stay-Puft costume. You can try to tell me that I’m wrong, but just look at the photo above!
32. Bank Robbers
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Often times are parents we look at each other and wonder where all the money goes. The answer is probably always that it goes straight into our money bags (our babies).
This might be the easiest costume for Mom and Dad with an all black look and a couple ski masks! You can either DIY the money bag for baby or buy one from Amazon as well.
33. Napoleon Dynamite
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This trio of costumes is worth it if for not other reason than to draw a hysterical mustache on your baby as Pedro.
Any one of your family can play any three of these characters and the look will be great because of how recognizable these costumes are!
34. Men in Black
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These Men in Black have caught their first alien and I have to say, it’s a pretty dang cute one!
Two suits and one tiny alien costume are all that’s needed for this clever family Halloween costume idea.
35. Nursing Home Baby
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There aren’t many things cuter than a baby dressed in cute baby clothes, except maybe a baby dressed in old lady clothes.
Have fun with this hilarious baby costume idea by turning them into a senior citizen! Mom and Dad can be their accessories like Life Alert and Bingo cards.
36. Batman, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman
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Super hero costumes are here to stay and the best thing about them is how many different heroes (and villains) there are to choose from.
Go classic with Superman, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman, or make your decision based on why superhero shirts Dad already has in his closet!
37. Lumberjacks
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Not many (if any?) of the costumes on this list have everyone in the family matching, but it sure is cute on this family of lumberjacks!
If you live in a colder climate, this is the perfect look to keep everyone warm. Plus, you’ll probably wear these flannels outside of Halloween again.
38. Shark Bite
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All it takes is one little shark to wreak havoc and that’s certainly what babies and toddlers do best.
These kind of coordinated group costumes that create a concept are the MOST clever in my opinion. First you see the shark, then the shark bite, then the lifeguard who saves the day!
39. Classic Halloween Characters
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Ghosts, devils, Draculas, zombies…we all know the classic Halloween costumes that have stood the test of time.
They’re common for a reason! They’re fun, spooky, and easy to make costumes that everyone loves.
40. Greasers and Pink Ladies
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I didn’t know that baby leather jackets existed until this moment and now I’m obsessed.
Whether it’s a baby in a leather jacket or a Pink Ladies bomber jacket, I can’t think of anything much cuter than these Grease themed Halloween costumes!
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