These 50 fun group costumes for carnival will make you and your friends stand out from the crowd.
Celebrating Mardi Gras with a group of friends or your extended family this year? Our tip: Pick a cool motto for your costumes and present yourselves together in a fun group costume!
Whether you call the season Mardi Gras, Shrovetide, or Carnival, go to a huge Rose Monday parade or a private carnival party, the rule for costumes during the 5th season is: the flashier and more eye-catching, the better!
As a group, you have the opportunity to become the stars of the party with imaginative and funny group costumes or simply have a blast dressing up together.
These 50 fun group costumes for carnival will make you and your friends stand out from the crowd.
Celebrating Mardi Gras with a group of friends or your extended family this year? Our tip: Pick a cool motto for your costumes and present yourselves together in a fun group costume!
Whether you call the season Mardi Gras, Shrovetide, or Carnival, go to a huge Rose Monday parade or a private carnival party, the rule for costumes during the 5th season is: the flashier and more eye-catching, the better!
As a group, you have the opportunity to become the stars of the party with imaginative and funny group costumes or simply have a blast dressing up together.
Whether it’s heroes from movies and TV, legendary bands or matching items – when it comes to group costumes, there are almost no limits to your imagination. These are our Top 50 funniest and most unusual costume ideas!
The 50 Best Group Costumes for Carnival
1. Coven – Ride your brooms into carnival!
2. Viking horde – conquests are their thing…
3. Zombie Horde
4. Hospital staff (doctors, nurses, nurses…)
5. Famous composers (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven…)
6. Escaped convicts
Comic Characters & Superheroes
7. Duckburgers – Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy, Scrooge…
8. The Beagle Boys
9. Disney Princesses (Arielle, Schneewittchen, Cinderella, Belle, Rapunzel…)
10. Asterix & Co. (e.g.. Asterix, Obelix, Miraculix, Troubardix, Roman Legionaries)
11. X-Men
12. The Smurfs
13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
14. Peanuts
15. Sailor Moon-Girls
16. The Avengers
Legendary Rock & Pop Bands
17. Beatles
18. Nirvana
19. Spice Girls
20. Abba
21. Queen
Characters from movies & television
22. Star Wars-Characters (Luke, Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, Storm Troopers…)
23. Star Trek Characters
24. The Minions
25. Clockwork Orange Droogs – Well, well, well Brother Sir!
26. Monsters of Monsters, Inc.
27. The Gummi Bears
28. The A-Team
29. Classical Hollywood-Stars from Black-and-White-Films (e.g. black and white make-up as Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn etc.)
Toys, Games and Digital
30. Lego Characters
31. Super Mario Characters
32. Pac-Man Characters
33. Tetris-Parts
34. Pixeled Faces (Make-Up)
Group costumes inspired by books, fairy tales and legends
35. Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarves
36. Greek Gods and Heroes (Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Ares, Herkules etc.)
37. Characters form The Three Musketeers (Athos, Aramis, D’Artagnan, Richelieu, Milady…)
38. Characters from Alice in Wonderland (Alice, the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, the Smoking Caterpillar, the White Rabbit…)
39. Tolkien-Characters, e.g. the Fellowship of the Rings (Frodo, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli…)
40. The Knights of the Round Table
Crazy and Shrill Group Costumes
41. Layers of a Burger
One is one half of the bun, one is the lettuce leaf, one is the meat patty, one is the cheese, one is the tomato and one is the other half of the bun, together you are the burger!
42. Rider on Exotic Animals: Elephant, Giraffe, Lion, Gorilla…
43. Vegetables: Broccoli, Carrot, Fennel, Chili, Pumpkin….
44. Where’s Wally?-Costumes
45. A Chinese Dragon (1 Costume for Several People)
46. Aliens
47. Pieces of Cake
48. A Swarm of Bees
49. Bottles of Beer
50. Grapes
Note: These group costumes for carnival are of course not only super for groups of friends, but also for families! But we also have a separate post with tips for the best family costumes and also 100 tips for awesome partner costumes. And even if it’s not carnival or another occasion to dress up, you’ll find leisure tips for activities with friends, with the family and with your partner all year round on Greatime.
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