Enter if You Dare :: A Halloween Costume Contest

Happy Halloween! 🎃

At Duluth Mom, we’re feeling festive and want to spread our spooky joy on to you, our readers. So we’ve brewed up a plan to host our 3rd annual costume contest! We think it’s a great way to stay safe, because it’s a virtual event, but still give families the opportunity dress up your kiddos for sweet prizes.

The contest categories and rules are pretty straight-forward, you can read them below, and we can’t wait to see how creative you all get! To be perfectly honest, we’re really looking forward to cooing at all the cute littles in their costumes. We could all use a bit more light-hearted joy these days, dochya think?

1. Best DIY/thrifted/homemade costume
2. Best Group them costume {including 2 or more individuals}
3. Best Adaptive costume (Does your child or family member use a wheel chair, a walker, special braces, a helmet etc. every day? Did you incorporate the equipment into a costume? Then this is the category for you! Please do not enter this category if you are using adaptive equipment as props for your costume, such as a cane for an elderly character etc. Thank you!)
4. Cutest Costume under 2 years old
5. Best face paint or make-up art
6. Best costume of any aged child

Costumes

• Costumes must be culturally appropriate. {If you have questions about this topic, here is a video explanation we put together}
• No Nudity or suggestive themes
• No blood
• No weapons
• No profanities 
• Duluth Mom reserves the right to use discretion in which pictures are posted.

Voting

• Voting will start Wednesday, November 2nd at noon and will be open until noon on Saturday, November 5th.
• All of the pictures received will be posted in the album on our Facebook page by noon on November 2nd. We will re-share the albums each day until November 5th. The picture from each category that receives the most “likes/reactions” will win a prize! {Pictures must be liked in the album on the Duluth Mom official Facebook page, not on a shared post on your personal page. So please be sure that you are clear with your friends and family when asking them to vote!}
• Duluth Mom will not tolerate any form of hate speech, bullying, profanity etc. You can read more about our Social Media Code of Conduct here.
• Angry face and sad face reactions will not be counted as votes – lets keep this kind!

• Starting October 15th, 2022, submit your costume contest photos by 8:00pm on Tuesday, November 1st using the form towards the bottom of this post.
• Only submit pictures to which you have the legal rights (i.e. they are your children and it’s your photograph). By sending the picture to Duluth Mom, you are agreeing to have the image posted on social media.
• Each reader may submit only ONE (1) official entry per child, and you may only choose one category to enter.
• Duluth Mom will not accept pictures posted in direct social media messages, or through email, as official contest entries.
• We are able to cover children’s faces if needed by request {See form below}
• One winner from each category will be announced on Sunday, November 6th via our weekly email!

Prizes will be from local businesses we love – check back soon for details!