For families who love to match, Halloween is the perfect time to show matching family spirit.

Do-It-Yourself costumes require just a few materials and creating your matching family costumes can be a fun family activity. Matching fleece sweatshirts, hoodies, pants or rompers make the perfect starting point. Gather other simple craft materials for finishing touches. Craft paint can be used for fine details while hot glue can attach felt, yarn, beads, pom pons, ribbon, feathers, rhinestones and even heavier materials such as sunglasses and posterboard.

If you need help to get your creative juices flowing, try these readers' suggestions for matching family Halloween costumes:

M&Ms
Every family member picks their favorite color of M&M. Buy a sweatshirt or hooded sweatshirt in each family member's color choice. Use white felt to make an "m" for the front of each shirt. Use craft glue or a hot glue gun to attach the felt letter.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head
Buy matching white sweatshirts for each family member. Add a brown T-shirt with the sleeves cut off. Don't forget matching accessories for each family member, including glasses, hats, purses, and white gloves.

Care Bears
Use a hooded sweatshirt and matching sweatpants for the base. Use felt for the tummy design. Finish with a felt heart glued on the bottom.

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Little sister wears her Sunday dress while Mama, Papa and little brother don brown sweatshirts and sweatpants. Add brown makeup noses and wiskers.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse
Add black felt ears to black hoodies. Pull a pair of red shorts over a pair of black sweatpants. Yellow felt makes great shoes. Use an adult's red T-shirt with white craft paint circles for Minnie's dress. Add a red bow and yellow felt shoes. Hot glue lace along the bottom of the T-shirt for extra pizzazz.

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
To make this simple matching family set requires three pink hooded sweatshirts with matching pink sweatpants and one heather gray hooded sweatshirt with matching heather sweatpants. You can add felt ears and tails.

Winnie the Pooh and Friends
Winnie the Pooh is easily made from a gold hooded sweatshirt with a red T-shirt and white puff paint. Create Piglet from a pink fleece romper. An azalea T-shirt with black painted stripes completes his outfit. Rabbit can be made with a set of yellow sweats. Add long yellow felt ears and a white pompon tail.

Other favorite coordinating family and twins or sibling themes are:

• Buzz and Woody characters from Toy Story
• Milk and Cookies
• Hamburger and Fries
• Pebbles and BamBam from the Flintstones
• Blue Man Group
• Salt and Pepper
• Ketchup and Mustard
• Pair of Dice
• Farmer and Farm Animals
• Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang
• President and Secret Service Agents
• Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz characters

No time to make your own matching family costumes? Try our Crayon Box Costumes, available in seven bright colors. Every family member can pick their favorite crayon color.
For a new Halloween tradition, skip the costumes this year and try a comfy tee with the perfect Halloween message. Our Spooky Tee Collection comes in black, orange or white and features a spooky screen printed design for the "DEADY", "MUMMY", "BAT BOY", or "LITTLE GOUL" in your family. Whatever your family's choice for matching family Halloween costumes, don't forget to take lots of pictures!