With Halloween approaching fast, those participating in the spooky festivities are scrambling to find a costume that’s sure to scare and delight.

Kelly Duffy, Factory Card & Party Outlet assistant manager, said the store is set up for the holiday.

“When you enter the store, aisle one is all of our seasonal things and it continues all the way around to the back of the store,” Duffy said. “We have 348 feet set for Halloween.”

Duffy said Factory Card & Party Outlet, 2350 Sycamore Road, carries men’s, women’s, teens’ and kids’ costumes with more than 100 varieties in the store and over 3000 online. Additionally, the store also has the accessories needed to top off any costume.

“They’re all organized by sections,” Duffy said. “If you’re going to be a pirate, there’s a pirate section that has any accessories for a pirate that we have. We also have different career sections as well.”

Duffy said the store also carries decorations and party supplies.

“We have decorations, themed party supplies for Halloween or just solid colors as well,” Duffy said. “We have all of our hanging props and decor, we have different cemetery decor. We’re pretty much your one stop shop for Halloween.”

Another shopping destination for those in the market for costumes is Walmart Supercenter, 2300 Sycamore Road. Store manager Lance Buser said the store carries 256 different costumes for men, women and kids in addition to accessories.

“We have makeup and all the jewelry, and all that good stuff,” Buser said.

The store also has supplies fit for any scary Halloween bash.

“We have all the paper goods,” Buser said. “Cups, plates, knives, forks, spoons, tablecloths and all that we absolutely have.”

Buser said the big push this Halloween is the availability of online merchandise. Buser said this is where customers can find most of their decorations for inside and outside.

“If you go online to Walmart.com, the last guess was about 500 different kinds of costumes you can purchase online and have sent to the store for pickup,” Buser said. “It takes about three or four days and it’s free shipping. We want to give the customer a greater assortment of more of those specialty items that we don’t carry in the store.” Heather Stuert, DeKalb resident and mother of four, said she prefers to make her children’s costumes. “Sewing is really my passion so when Halloween comes around I really go crazy,” Stuert said. “I’m so proud to bring my kids trick-or-treating in something I made myself instead of a plastic mask from a store.”

This year, Stuert made her youngest son a Bam Bam costume from the Flintstones. She used orange fabric to make a wrap around bottom with black felt spots and strap.

“He’s very excited to be Bam Bam for Halloween,” Stuert said. “He always likes to tell everyone how he helped me make it.”