What age group is this costume for?
Elementary School
Middle School
High School & Beyond

Estimated time required to make this costume:
1 hour, tops

Difficulty level:
Quick and easy - no sewing required

Items you will need: (Hit your return key to start a new line)
Any combination of the below:
lunchbox, backpack or cigar box
construction paper
twigs
yarn
hand mirror
garlic
bottle labeled "holy water"
large cross

Instructions:
--Dress in regular clothes.
--Make two signs or buttons out of the construction paper that say "I'm a vampire hunter: Ask me how." Put one on your front and one on your back.
--Label your lunchbox "Hunting Supplies."
--Make your twigs into crosses, or sharpen them into stakes, place some in the box, and one in every pocket you have.
--Label your hand mirror "Test #1" (vampires don't have reflections).
--Fill your lunchbox with whatever you think a vampire hunter would need (i.e. the garlic, the "holy water," the cross, etc.).
--Have fun "testing" people to see if they're vampires!

Other information to consider:
You can go really nuts with this one if you want. I've filled toy squirt guns and labled them "holy water," made bandoliers of garlic, crosses, or holy water to wear, even carried a box of "blessed toothpicks" that I handed out as emergency stakes (don't go out at night without one!). Regular #2 pencils work well for this too!

For the more gory minded, you can go as a "failed hunter" by painting two red dots on your neck and adding some blue face paint.

It's a simple idea that you can really have fun with.