Some Creative And Cheap Halloween Costume Ideas

-Bunch of grapes

Blow up a number of purple balloons and affix them to a dress or unitard with safety pins and you're good to go.

-Bag of jelly beans

Start with a clear trash bag from the grocery store, and cut holes for your arms and legs. Next, print out or draw a jelly bean package label onto a piece of paper, and mount it to the inside of the trash bag, facing out. Finally, fill the bag with an assortment of bright colored balloons, and loosely tie a ribbon into a bow around your neck at the top of your bag to "seal" the package.

-Geisha

Grab a silk robe and slippers from your closet (or a local Asian market), and toss your hair up with chopsticks from the kitchen drawer. Cinch your waist with a sash, then mix some cold cream and cornstarch together (with a little water) for a pale face. Powder with a little flour, add red lipstick, and finish with a fan.

-Miss Piggy

Just go for glamour in anything, from a dreaded old bridesmaid dress to your favorite evening gown that is collecting dust, find a fake pig nose and ears and add a blond wig.

-Where's Waldo

Pull on your favorite pair of "true blue" jeans and slip on some brown shoes. Next, find a red-and-white striped turtleneck, black glasses and a hat.

-iPod ad

Using a neon green, blue or pink poster board, affix the Apple iPod logo to the top corner and attach arm straps with black elastic or rope. Dress in all-black head-to-toe

-'Count on Me'

Dress in all black and use double-stick tape to secure cut-out numbers all over your body. Your friends will love that they can "count on you" all night long!

-Dry cleaning

Simply slip on the plastic garment bag from your most recent round of returned dry cleaning over your outfit.

-Got milk?

Using a solid white T-shirt, write "got milk?" with a sharpie, or try printing out an iron-on T-shirt transfer using your computer. Finish with a "milk moustache."

-Facebook

All you'll need is an oversize old book and elastic. Punch a hole in the top right-hand corner of the middle pages, slip the elastic through and tie a knot on each end to secure. Slip your head into the book so that the elastic works like a headband.

-Pinup girl

Attach safety pins to a T-shirt in the shape of an arrow pointing up.

-Smarty pants

Attach Smarties candies to your waistline or belt, add nerd glasses, a pocket protector and graduation cap if you have one to be transformed into a "smarty pants."

-Self-absorbed

Dress in all black and use double-stick tape to secure sponges to your body.

*Courtesy of Bobbie Thomas, TODAY style editor and author of the Buzz column in InTouch Weekly