Skeleton Family Halloween Costumes: One for Everyone

The Skeleton as a theme for a coordinated a family Halloween costumes plan is the right amount of creepy and dark for the whole family to enjoy.  Nothing says Halloween like a classic skeleton whether for a grown adult or a tiny newborn infant trying on their first baby Halloween costumes.  While fully embracing the darker side of Halloween the classic skeleton does not need to be gory and grotesque making it one of the classic options for mom, dad, and the kids to all enjoy together.  A few of the most popular ideas includes the classic skeleton of different shapes and sizes, dressing up as an animal or special creatures but in their skeletal forms or just using a skeleton as an accessory to another family Halloween costumes theme to make it part of the undead. 

The Perfect Skeleton Costume for kids

The perfect kids Halloween costumes include the following characteristics.

• Head to toe suit.
• Generally, a black suit with white bones painted on the front and back
• Head covering with skull face
• Gloves with fingers. There are more bones in your finger and feet combined than the rest of the body, so it is always important to have a good set of hands.
• A bony friend as an accessory. Whether it is a skeleton parrot so you can round out your undead pirate costume or a Skeleton dog bones the hungry hound life size looking dog by your side.

Skeleton Bone Facts

While it is one thing to be dressed up as a family of undead skeletons for your kids Halloween costumes its another thing to be fully educated on the topic.  Teach your kids the following skeleton facts so that they can share with the neighbors a random and fun bony fact when they get a compliment on the costume while out trick or treating. 

Skeleton Facts:

1. The human skeleton is made up of more than 200 bones.
2. The body actually has two types of bones, one is dense and hard called cortical bone, the is soft and spongy and called trabecular bone.
3. Bones are filled with spongy tissue called bone marrow
4. Babies are born with over 300 bones and then many of them fuse together as they grow.
5. The smallest bone in the human body is in your ear
6. The femur is longest bone in your body.
7. Bones are designed to take a lot of punishment some bones can absorb two to three times your own body weight in force.
8. The hyoid bone in your throat is the one bone in your body that is not connected to any other bone.
9. 1% of humans have a 13^th rib, everyone else only has 12 ribs.
10. Teeth are actually stronger than bones

A few other skeleton costume favorites

• The Rainbow Skeleton Girl costume is perfect for the teenage daughter.
• The Child Skeleton Dragon Costume is perfect for the little brother that has too much energy, put these wings on and let him run and fly ahead of everyone else.
• The Women’s Sexy Skeleton Costume is the perfect sexy costumes option for mom to wear for this frightful family Halloween costumes night.
• The Adult Skull & Bones Skeleton Morphsuit costume is the option for the dad that goes all in every Halloween and wants to be dark and scary and ready to jump out from behind the tree or corner at any moment and scare everybody.

Have fun collaborating with your group of trick or treaters and make for a fun night of undead skeletons haunting the neighborhood.  The skeleton is a great costume that is easy to put on and does not require extensive make up or anything too elaborate for walking around.  Throw on the outfit and the skull face covering and enjoy the night.