Make your Halloween Costume Unique!

Store bought Halloween costumes may be inexpensive, but they are very ordinary too. Hundreds of other people will be wearing the same thing as you on Halloween, unless you find a way to make a Halloween costume unique and different. There are many affordable ways to personalize a store bought costume.

See our recommendations for props, makeup, contact lenses, and more, that will make your costume stand out from the rest.

Halloween Depot 2011

With just under two months till Halloween, it's time to start the preparations!  In the days and weeks ahead, Halloween Depot will be focusing on fun activities for all ages, contests and sweepstakes, and awesome events for the Halloween season.

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Last minute Halloween decorations

It's not too late to decorate your home for Halloween!  Here are several last minute Halloween decorations you can whip up with plenty of time to spare.  All of these decorations can be used this year and beyond, and they won't cost a lot of money to make either.

So what are you waiting for?  Get started on these last minute Halloween decorations today!

Best Halloween Makeup Kits

Whether you're looking for a very basic Halloween makeup kit or an advanced Halloween makeup kit, we've got you covered. We've compiled a list of recommendations for the most affordable, easy to use, kits available.

Children can use these kits for Trick or Treating or Halloween parties, or they can be the focus of the entire Halloween costume.

All the Halloween makeup kits we recommend are an affordable way to dress up your Halloween night.  See our recommendations here.

Best Zombie Movies

Want to get in the mood for Halloween? Turn off the lights and cozy up with a good old fashioned zombie movie. There’s just something soothing about watching mindless zombies terrorize a group of innocent victims, don’t you think? Enjoy any of these great zombie movies this weekend with the one you love.

See our recommendations for Best Zombie Movies - 

Have a zombie movie that you think should be on the Best Zombie Movie list?  Tell us about it below!

Severed Finger Cookies - A Scary Halloween Dessert

Serve up these wickedly delicious Severed Finger Cookies at your next Halloween party or just make them with the kids at home.  Severed Finger Cookies are basically a homemade butter cookie, decorated to look frightening like a severed finger.  The cookies taste great, and they are a lot of fun to serve up to friends.

Get the Severed Finger Cookie recipe.

Keep kids safe this Halloween

Halloween is such an exciting time for children and parents, safety can be easily overlooked.  A good costume should not only be fun to wear, and cool too look at, it should be safe too.  Use a Halloween Costume Safety Checklist to ensure that your child has a great time on Halloween night, and is safe in what they are wearing.

There is a lot more to keeping your child safe on Halloween than making sure they can see through their costume eye holes!  Even Halloween costumes that use face paint in place of a mask can prove to be dangerous. 

Keep your child safe this Halloween with these Halloween Costume Safety Checklist tips.