Looking for a last-minute Halloween costume on the cheap? Say hello to the boxtume

If you have extra cardboard boxes lying around home, you may already have a head start on a creative, last-minute frugal Halloween costume.

Say hello to your boxtume.

The idea comes from Jennifer Klinglesmith, marketing coordinator for Two Men and A Truck moving company. She got the idea of boxtumes wanting to design different and fun Halloween costumes for her 8-year-old daughter while also being able to repurpose common household items like cardboard boxes.

“These costumes took less than five minutes each to make,” Jennifer said. “Carly helped to make them herself, and I think that’s fun, letting them get involved and not necessarily going to the store and buying one.”

Klinglesmith was able to come up with two examples of costumes utilizing boxes.

The first example is a podium of a Jeopardy contestant, complete with colored paper lining the side of the box, a dollar amount cut out from construction paper and the contestant’s name written below.

The second example Klinglesmith had was a gumball machine. Utilizing construction paper, she used balloons tied to the top edge of the box to be the gumballs.

Klinglesmith said she hopes these ideas will inspire those who want to be creative and more frugal with decorating for Halloween. She said each costume design cost less than $2 to make using cardboard boxes, construction paper, scissors and some duct tape.