The easiest last minute halloween costumes

So back in August you came up with a genius plan to put together the world's most elaborate Lady Gaga costume, complete with meat hat and Kermit the Frog dress. Then life happened. Now you're costumeless mere hours before the least sacred and most debaucherous of holidays — Halloween.

But fear not! There are countless (mostly pun-based) costumes that can be thrown together with stuff around the house and perhaps a trip to the dollar store. Here are a few favourites that all you procrastinators might want to consider.

Smarty pants

Get some old pants and glue a bunch of Smarties on to them. You're done!

Ceiling fan

This one is all over the place. Get a coloured T-shirt, some dollar store pom poms of the same colour, and some masking tape. Write the word "ceiling" on your shirt with the tape. Shake your pom poms and make up some clever rhyming cheers about ceilings ("Did you ever get that feeling, that you get from loving ceiling?")

Iron Chef

Get or make a chef's hat. Carry around an iron. This a real groaner, we admit, but it gets the job done.

Mime

White and black face paint, white gloves and a striped shirt, and you're France's most annoying tourist attraction.

"Done"

Put a piece of styrofoam under your T-shirt, stick a fork in the styrofoam. And presto: you're "done."

Static cling

Pin a bunch of socks and underwear to your outfit, and maybe a few of those dryer sheets for good measure.

For kids

It's a no-brainer (pun intented) — zombie all the way. Little ones love to cover themselves in face-paint and fake blood — that's basically the point of Halloween. Also, it's an easy costume to personalize, so "zombie" becomes "soccer zombie" or "ballerina zombie" or even "Justin Beiber zombie."

Now start gluing those Smarties on your pants so that you'll be ready this evening to get those zombies out the door.