A COVID-19 Halloween: How to Work a Face Mask into Your Costume

Are you searching for a Halloween costume this year that includes a face mask?  Whether you are planning a socially distanced trick-or-treating adventure or a virtual costume party, we have ideas for easy-to-make costumes that include a face mask so that you can still dress to celebrate the occasion in 2020 style. 

For these ideas, we brainstormed traditional Halloween costumes that might naturally include a face mask to come up with our looks. But Halloween and masks have gone together for as long as we have been celebrating Halloween, so the possibilities really are endless.  

Costume Ideas with Face Masks for 2020

Step right up for the Amazing Harris Sisters, featuring (left to right) Madame Deanna the Gypsy Lady who offers palm reading and fortune telling, Donna the 5000-year-old Egyptian Queen Mummy who mysteriously comes to life, and Misty Rose the Fastest Gunslinger in the West who dazzles with her trick shots.  

The Devil's in the Details

For my gypsy costume, I used a black cloth face mask and attached a sheer belly dancing veil across the top of the mask with safety pins and then tied it in the back.

For Donna's mummy mask, she used a disposable mask and then attached strips of muslin over top of the mask with hot glue. She dyed the strips of muslin with tea to ensure it matched her mummy costume.

For Misty's gunslinger mask, she used a traditional red bandana folded into a triangle and tied in the back.

Halloween Costume Ideas That Work with COVID-19 Face Masks

This Halloween, you can either use a plain colored face mask to match your Halloween costume (for example, use a black mask to match your witch's costume) or you could choose a costume that would be easy to decorate a mask for or to conceal a plain face mask underneath. Here's a list of Halloween costumes that easily lend themselves to working with a face mask:

1. Genie
2. Belly Dancer
3. Doctor/Dentist/Nurse
4. Bank Robber/Bandit
5. Michael Jackson
6. Wilson from Home Improvement (with popsicle stick "fence" to cover face mask)
7. Ghost 
8. Football Player 
9. Hockey Player/Jason Voorhees 
10. Nacho Libre
11. Masked Singer Characters
12. Superheroes - Ironman, Deadpool, Black Panther, Spiderman
13. Minecraft Characters
14. Big Head Costumes
15. Astronaut
16. Scuba Diver
17. Welder

Whatever you decide to be for Halloween 2020, we hope that you get creative with your costume! 

Happy Halloween from The Harris Sisters!