2009 Halloween Costumes for Trendy Kids

Choosing a Halloween costume can be a ton of fun for kids! There’s so many hot costumes for 2009, your kids have tons of options to dress up as their favorite TV or movie characters, monsters, and more. With our selection of children’s Halloween costumes for 2009, your kids are sure to have the best costumes on the block!

For girls, Hannah Montana and High School Musical Costumes are ever-popular. This year there are new styles of Hannah Montana and High School Musical Costumes to keep up with trends. The Hannah Montana Pink Polka Dot Dress Costume (pictured right) has a fun black, white, and pink outfit that looks great with our Hannah Montana Wigs and glitter microphones.

Girls who love High School Musical will love the Gabriella Prom Costume. The white and pink floral dress includes an adorable matching headband. We also carry a Sharpay Prom Costume with a shiny pink dress, petticoat, and matching hair accessory.

Camp Rock fans will look cool in our Mitchie Torres Costume, which includes a top, leggings, and fringed boot covers. It looks awesome with our Mitchie Torres wig and glitter microphone.

Our Skeleton Bride Costume is a great choice for girls who want something spooky for Halloween. The Skeleton Bride Costume includes a dress with a hood and a chian belt. It looks great with white tights and a Zombie Bride Bouquet.

For boys, our Star Trek Spock Costume, inspired by the 2009 summer movie, is a great choice! Each Spock Costume includes a shirt, dickie, and pants. Another awesome, movie-inspired costume is the Iron Man Costume, with matching Iron Man Gloves!

Little guys will look cute in our Wee Werewolf Costume, including a jumpsuit with faux fur accents and a headpiece. Our Toddlers’ UPS Man Costume is another sweet choice.

For boys who want something scarier, our Transylvania Vampire Costume is a frighteningly cool choice. The costume includes a jumpsuit with wings and a half mask. Our Zombie Pizza Boy Costume and Zombie Mailman Costumes are a terrifying choice.

We also have costumes for adults, so the whole family can dress up for Halloween fun!

Scariest Presidential Candidate Costumes for Halloween

After counting nearly 100,000 votes, visitors to the party supply web site ShindigZ.com decided that Barack Obama would make the scariest Halloween costume of all the 2008 presidential candidates. A poll on the party company’s website asked visitors which presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume and Democrat Barack Obama received 57% of votes.

Senator John McCain was voted the second scariest at 36%. Third party candidates placed far behind the Democratic and Republican candidates. Ralph Nadar of the Green Party was considered scariest by 4% of voters while Robert Barr of the Libertarian Party, Charles Baldwin of the Constitution Party and Cynthia Ann McKinney each received 1% of the votes.

Along with hundreds of different Halloween costumes, ShindigZ makes having a scary political Halloween costume easy with their affordable  Obama and McCain masks, as well as of former Democratic contender Hillary Clinton mask.

The election season continues past Halloween and ShindigZ has patriotic party supplies, red, white and blue decorations, custom vinyl banners and yard signs perfect for “Get Out the Vote” parties this election season or hosting election events such as rallies, debate watch-parties or Election Night celebration parties. With an election this heated, there’s plenty of reason to put a party together and watch the 2008 presidential race unfold.

Halloween Costumes Get Political

As people are purchasing costumes for Halloween 2007, ShindigZ asked visitors to their website which 2008 Presidential candidate would make the scariest costume. The site receives over 25,000 visitors each day and thousands of people responded to the question in a poll posted on the home page of the website over the past four weeks.

Hillary Clinton (53.2%) was voted the scariest costume, leading Al Gore (10.3%) by over 40 percentage points. Next was Rudi Guiliani with 9.4% of customers voting him the scariest. Rounding out the ballot were Barack Obama (7.2%), Fred Thompson (6.7%), John Edwards (6.1%), and John McCain (4%). Mitt Romney was voted the least scary Halloween costume of the major presidential candidates with just 3.1%.

Overall, the Democrats (76.8%) were found scarier than the Republicans (23.2%). With Hillary Clinton’s scary majority removed, however, the two parties are about equal with the Democrats taking 23.6% of votes and the Republicans 23.2%.

In a related poll, ShindigZ asked customers what George Bush should dress up as for Halloween. In the poll, 41.2% of customers thought President Bush should dress up as Sharpay, the antagonist of Disney’s High School Musical. 25.4% thought he should dress as the “scariest” candidate, Hillary Clinton. 14% voted for Spiderman while 11.9% thought the president should embrace his roots and dress as Walker, Texas Ranger. Another 5.2% voted for the president to dress up as his father, George H.W. Bush and finally 2.2% thought he should dress as Donald Rumsfeld.

President Bush, and all Americans, can find some of those costumes and many others at online at ShindigZ.com, where the world comes to party.

Celebrate Halloween with Adult Costumes

Even adults—or big kids—like to dress up for Halloween. There are tons of costumes for adults, ranging from scary to sexy. We even have costumes that will crack up your friends.

For women, Masquerade Countess or Queen costumes offer a cool combination of spooky and sexy, perfect for a Halloween costume party. A classic costume for women is dressing like Marilyn Monroe. A Hollywood Starlet costume offers the iconic white dress perfect for dressing like Ms. Monroe.

For something more innocent, try a nun costume or celestial angel costume.

There are also costumes for women inspired by movies and TV, such as a Padme Amidala costume, or an Elizabeth Swann costume from Pirates of the Caribbean.

If you’re looking for humor, try the Pretty Polly costume to dress as a doll, box and all. The cell phone sandwich board costume is a great option for text message addicts, male and female alike.

There are plenty of costumes for the guys too.

For a scary costume, try a body bag costume or evil jester costume. They’re sure to freak out your friends, or any trick-or-treaters who come to the door.

If you prefer a costume that will make people laugh, try a nerd costume or kissing booth costume.

Whether you want to be a wizard or a superhero, there are tons of movie and TV inspired costumes for men. Lord of the Rings costumes include Gandalf and Legolas. Another great choice is a Captain Jack Sparrow costume, sure to be a hit!

If he’s reluctant to dress up, try an EZ Guy costume, including simple t-shirts and accessories for a funny, no-effort costume. A hangman’s noose costume is another easy, creepy costume. A sandwich board costume can be personalized with your own wording!

There are plenty of couple’s costumes too, for dressing up for the parties together!

The More the Merrier! Family Costumes for Halloween

Halloween offers tons of opportunities to have fun as a family; dressing up in matching costumes is just one of them. Plus, you could even win a best group costume award at the party! There are tons of family costumes so each member can play his or her own part in the fun.

Star Wars fans will flip over Star Wars costumes for the whole family. Have each member dress up as a character: Princess Leia, Padme Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, Darth Vader and Jango Fett. There are even Star Wars toddler costumes and Star Wars dog costumes!

Dress each member of the family in a pirate costume and go as the crew of Captain Hook’s ship or the Black Pearl. You could even bring Tinker Bell along for the trip!

Go as a family of superheroes with our Superman Costumes, Superboy Costumes and Supergirl costumes!

Don’t forget to dress up Fido! There are tons of hilarious pet costumes for the furriest member of your family.

Check out our Halloween Party TipZ with more ideas for family fun!

Host an Awesome Costume Party

Costume parties might just be one of the best parts of Halloween. Whether you’re hosting a costume party or just attending one, we have tons of tips for an awesome Halloween party.

Check out our other party tips for decorating your Halloween party for a funny Halloween bash or a scary Halloween party. Hosting a costume party is just like hosting any other Halloween party—you’ll need decorations, food, tableware, and other party essentials.

A costume party, however, has the added fun of a costume contest. Create a runway for costume contestants to display their duds using Halloween gossamer or Spider Web Gossamer Decorating Material for drapes, curtains or a carpet. Have them enter through a doorway decorated with a Halloween curtain, or use an animated bone curtain for a special effect. It opens, lights up and plays scary noises when it senses motion! For a finishing touch, use a fog machine to fill the area with an eerie mist.

Have impartial judges decide who has the best overall costume, or divide the contest up into categories such as funniest costume, scariest costume, most unique costume, sexiest costume, cutest kids’ costume, or any other category you can think of. You could also have each guest cast a secret ballot into a cauldron and count the votes up—that way everyone is involved in the judging.

Hand out prizes to the winners when they’re announced. Try a Sexiest Costume Sash or customize an imprinted sash for each category. You could also hand out Halloween favor packs to each winner or fill a black cat favor box with your own personally selected goodies.

If you’re going to a costume party this Halloween, you’ll need a great costume! ShindigZ not only has party tips, we also have tons of great costume tips too! We have plenty of Halloween Party Supplies for making your party look awesome.