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Family Costumes for Halloween Done Right by Our Members

October 26, 2015 by Kevin McKeever

With Halloween coming up this Saturday, we asked some of our City Dads Group members around the country to send us photos of their best family costumes from years past. Let’s just say, we have some pretty creative people among us.

Halloween family costumes: Rocky Balboa and Drago from “Rocky IV”
halloween family costumes kepley rocky drago costume
David Kepley, Dallas Dads Group: “I was the ref.”
Halloween family costumes: “Family Guy”
routly dad, mom and son wearing family guy costumes
Chris Routly, Portland Dads Group: “It’s hard to tell, but Stewie is trying to stab Lois.” (Look closely at the hand “Peter” is grabbing.)
Halloween family costumes: “Star Wars” 
halloween family costumes star wars costume
Beau Coffron, San Francisco Dads Group
Superman and Superboy
Larry Interrante as superman and son superboy
Larry Interrante, NYC Dads Group: “Last Halloween, Peter and I decided to be superheroes. He is wearing classic Superman and I am Superman from the movie, ‘Man of Steel.’ I think Peter is a super boy and, to him, I can do anything, so I am Superman.”
Halloween family costumes: “The Wizard of Oz” 
halloween family costumes aragon wizard of oz
Victor Aragon, Chicago Dads Group
The “Despicable Me 2” cast
Chris Bernholdt, DIY Minion Costume, family
Philly Dads Group co-organizer Chris Bernholdt dressed as Gru; his wife Susie as Lucy; and his son Adam as a minion in 2013. Learn to make the minion costume here.
The “Toy Story” cast
toy story ideas for trick-or-treating
Once again — Beau Coffron, San Francisco Dads Group

And finally, we have three entries from the City Dads Group party king, Michael Moebes of our Atlanta Dads Group:

The “Harry Potter” cast of characters
halloween family costumes moebes-harry-potter-2014
The Von Trapp family from “The Sound of Music”
moebes clan as sound of music von trapps
Halloween family costumes: “The whole Scooby-Doo gang” – Shaggy, Thelma, Daphne, Fred, a ghost and even the Mystery Machine.
scooby-doo gang halloween family costume

Editor’s Note: You can find a few more dads and their families in costume on the NYC Dads Group site. Go check it out and send us some of your best family costume ideas for the scariest holiday of them all.

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Filed Under: events, National Tagged With: cartoons, costumes, dad groups, Halloween, holidays, humor, movies

About Kevin McKeever

City Dads Group Editor Kevin McKeever runs Write On, Kevin Communications when not being an at-home dad to three: boy, girl and canine. He wrote a two-time nationally award-winning newspaper column, blogs at Always Home and Uncool and tweets as @homeanduncool. His work has been featured in USA Today, Canada’s Globe and Mail, the New York Daily News and landfills worldwide.

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  1. Scottish Dad says

    October 26, 2015 at 10:51 am

    These are awesome! Well done to those guys (and mums) for the efforts!

    Reply
  2. Micheal Moebes says

    October 8, 2020 at 1:25 pm

    You left our our “Buddy the Elf and friends” year! Thanks for the props though !

    Reply
    • Kevin McKeever says

      October 9, 2020 at 8:05 am

      We shall update it!

      Reply

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