Get your thrift on with these funny DIY couples costumes sure to help you win a costume contest.

If you had any childhood at all, then at least one of these should make you smile.

These funny DIY couples costumes are perfect if you like:

Cardboard

Thrift stores

Childhood classics

Making people uncomfortable

Spray paint

Upcyling

Random objects

Making people laugh

1. Middle-Aged Barbie + Mid-Life Crisis Ken

A funny mid-life twist on the Barbie and Ken costume. Make the boxes from U-Haul Space-Saver Wardrobe boxes, then spray paint them with Krylon Mambo Pink and Island Splash.

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2. Lego People Couples Costume

This is for all the Legos your feet haven’t discovered yet.

The heads are made from Costco pretzel containers with empty packing rolls hot glued on top. The eyes and mouth were cut out and covered with sheer black fabric, and construction paper was used for the lips and eye lashes.

Vanhille Family

3. Cookie Monster + Cookie

“C is for cookie. That’s good enough for me.”

We put this DIY costume together for a total of $10.

Williamson Family

4. Kronk + Yzma

“Pull the lever, Kronk.”

“Wrong leveeeeeeer!”

Core Geek

5. Nacho Libre + Sister Encarnación

“When you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants.”

“Have you ever had feelings for a nun?”

nacho in his blue shirt and stretchy pants, girl in nun costume

Lund Family

6. Severus Snape + Lily Potter

The love that never was… but might make you uncomfortable now.

Animexx

7. Frog + Toad

The old-timey childhood classic.

8. Frodo + the Ring

Frodo is iconic, but you could take it a step farther and do Smeagol and the ring—if you’re the kind of person who’s into Lord of the Rings couples costumes.

frodo and the ring costume dressed as hobbit and girl in golden balloon

9. Trunchbull + Matilda

“You slithered like a serpent into the school kitchen and ate MY PERSONAL SNACK!”

“Much too good for children.”

man in workout sweats holding chocolate cake out to girl in blue dress and red bow

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10. Arthur + Buster

“I’ve got our holiday. Are you ready? Give Me Candy Day. … Not you. Me. Me Me. Give me, Buster Baxter, Candy Day.”

yellow and blue sweaters with ardvark and bunny ears

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11. Perry the Platapus + Dr. Doofenshmirtz

“Curse you, Perry the Platypus!”

man in labcoat, woman in blue top with brown hat, orange belt, and platypus tail

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12. Star Wars AT-AT Couples Costume

“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” —Darth Vader

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13. Boo + Sully

Monsters Inc costumes at their finest. The Mike pumpkin is a nice touch, but giant Boo might be the highlight.

man dressed in pink and purple and pony tails, woman dressed in sulley onesey holding a mike pumpkin

4Dubois

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14. Sebastian + Chef Louis

Forget the mermaid, do this funny take on The Little Mermaid couples costume instead.

girl in red dress over white shirt, red lipstick and crab claws, boy with chef hat, apron, curly mustache and knife

Lemon8

15. Holes Couples Costume

“D-I-G. What does that spell?” — Mr. Pendanski

“You take a bad boy, make him dig holes all day in the hot sun, it turns him into a good boy. That’s our philosophy here at Camp Green Lake.” — Mr. Sir

“You want to know my secret ingredient? Rattlesnake venom.” — The Warden Walker

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16. Mr. Monopoly + the Bank

Pass GO, collect $200. Now you know what to do with that aggrivating boardgame.

man in tuxedo with top hat and white mustache, woman in a dress made of monopoly money

Darlena Eggebrecht via Pinterest

17. Peach + Bowser

Forget Mario. This is classic grumpy sunshine.

girl with pink outfit and crown, man with spikey turtle shell and horns

Melody Dawkins via Pinterest

18. Steve Irwin Wrestles a Croc Costume

Crikey, mate.

“If something ever happens to me, people are gonna say ‘we knew a croc would get him!”

man in kacky with girl in crocodile costume

Sophie Beever via Pinterest

19. Paula Deen and Her Butter

“I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.” — Paula Deen

woman with white blonde hair, an apron, and a spoon; man in a yellow cardboard box of butter with wrapper

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20. Cat + Laser Pointer

Cats and laser pointers go together like cereal and milk. When looking for funny DIY couples costumes, this one is super easy to throw together. Put on a headlamp, cat ears, and pin a printed label to your chest and your costume is done.