Last updated: August 18, 2026·🔄 Guide reviewed and refreshed ahead of Halloween 2026.· By Seckin Peker

Halloween Costume Idea For Fantasy Fans

Queen Tara Halloween Costume Guide

The forest queen of Moonhaven, chosen to guard the Leaf People and dies making sure someone else can carry on for her.
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Quick Answer: The Queen Tara costume is a green mermaid-cut skirt paired with a cropped green top.
  • Green Crop Sweater (essential)
  • Light Green Low Blouse
  • White Mermaid Skirt (essential)
  • Green Ballet Flat

Queen Tara rules the forest kingdom of Moonhaven and spends the movie protecting the pod that will carry her power to her successor. She dies doing it, which is a heavier note than most animated queens get. Beyonce voices her in the 2013 film directed by Chris Wedge for Blue Sky Studios (Wikipedia), and she has said the role brought her to tears while recording. Epic never got a sequel, so this one leans niche outside people who saw it in theaters.

Items Total4 Items
DifficultyEasy
VibeForest Royalty
Cost$50-$130

Queen Tara Halloween Costume Items

Queen Tara Halloween costume infographic showing green crop sweater, light green blouse, white mermaid skirt, and green ballet flats

Queen Tara Costume Items

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Queen Tara Epic Beyonce Forest Queen
  • 1 Green Crop Sweater (essential)This is the layered green bodice that gives Tara’s outfit its structure. Cropped and fitted is correct, since it needs to sit above the skirt, not blend into it.
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  • 2 Light Green Low BlouseA softer, lighter green underneath the sweater for some tonal depth. Any pale green top works.
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  • 3 White Mermaid Skirt (essential)The flowing, fitted-then-flared silhouette is what reads as forest royalty instead of just a girl in green. A mermaid cut is worth seeking out specifically, a straight skirt loses the effect.
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  • 4 Green Ballet FlatCheck your closet first. Any plain green flat works.
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Queen Tara Halloween costume outfit with green crop sweater and white mermaid skirt

How to Style the Queen Tara Halloween Costume

The skirt’s shape matters more than the exact shade of green, a mermaid cut that flares at the bottom is what gives the outfit its flowing, regal movement. Layer the sweater over the blouse so both greens show, a single flat green top loses the depth that makes the outfit look intentional. At a party, if the skirt is too straight or stiff, the whole look reads as “girl in a green dress” instead of forest royalty specifically.

Tara moves through the forest like she belongs to it, calm even mid-crisis, and she makes decisions fast when it matters. She picks the smaller, plainer pod over the flashier one offered to her, for reasons she does not explain, and just says “this is the one.” She trusts a stranger with the most important object she has left, without much hesitation, because she has decided the stranger has what it takes.

Steam or hang the skirt the day before

A mermaid-cut skirt that has been folded in packaging loses its shape and does not flare correctly. Hang it up or steam it the day before so the movement actually reads at the party instead of looking flat.

Carry something small and round as a “pod” prop

A small decorative orb or even a painted ornament gives you something to hold and reference in conversation. It is a cheap, low-effort way to signal the specific character instead of just “woman in green.”

Queen Tara Group Halloween Costume Ideas

Couples Idea

Queen Tara & Ronin (Epic)

Strong pairing since Ronin is her canonical love interest and his grief over her death carries a lot of the film’s emotional weight. The visual contrast between her flowing green royalty and his battle-worn Leafman gear reads well even without much explanation.

Queen Tara Ronin

Duo Idea

Queen Tara & Elsa (Frozen)

Might work, but there is no real connection between the two characters beyond both being animated queens with a bond to the natural world. It works as a visual pairing, nature-queen versus ice-queen, more than as a reference anyone will immediately place.

Queen Tara Elsa

Group Idea: The Leafmen of Moonhaven

Queen Tara, Ronin, Nod, Mandrake, Mub, Grub

Might work, but none of these supporting characters have their own costume guides, so the whole group would need to be built from scratch by people who know the film well. It only makes sense to a crowd that has actually seen Epic.

Queen Tara Ronin Nod Mandrake Mub Grub

Group Idea: Radiant Nature-Bound Animated Queens

Queen Tara, Isabela Madrigal, Elsa, Maleficent

Strong group because each of these is an individually recognizable animated queen or ruler with a strong tie to nature or magic, even coming from four completely different films. The shared “otherworldly royalty” theme carries the group even without the individual characters connecting to each other.

Queen Tara Isabela Madrigal Elsa Maleficent
Queen Tara Halloween costume cosplay with green top and white mermaid skirt

Queen Tara Halloween Costume DIY Tips

Building the Look

This is a small, simple list. The skirt is the only piece worth real effort.

  • Green crop sweater: easy to thrift or already in your closet.
  • Light green blouse: check your closet first.
  • Mermaid skirt: buy this one, the shape is what makes the outfit work.
  • Green flats: check your closet first.

Playing Queen Tara at the Party

She is calm, warm, and decisive, someone who makes big decisions fast and does not second-guess them out loud.

  • When someone asks who you are: “Queen Tara. I look after the forest.” Say it simply, not dramatically.
  • If you are handing anyone anything, a drink, an object, treat it like it matters, she trusts people with important things quickly and fully.
  • Move calmly even if the room is loud or chaotic. She does not rattle easily.
  • She has a soft spot for people others underestimate. Be kind to whoever is having an awkward night.

Queen Tara Halloween Costume: FAQ

The white mermaid-cut skirt and green crop sweater are what carry the forest-queen silhouette. Layer the light green blouse underneath and finish with green flats.

Epic came out in 2013 and never got a sequel, so it is not a movie most people bring up often anymore. Recognition depends heavily on knowing the film specifically, though the green forest-royalty look reads fine as a general fantasy costume either way.

She does not have many spoken lines, most of her screen time is physical rather than dialogue-heavy. Two that stand out: her choice of the smaller royal pod, “This is it. This is the one,” and her reassurance to Mary Katherine, “You’re here for a reason.”

Beyonce, in the 2013 film directed by Chris Wedge for Blue Sky Studios. She has said recording the role brought her to tears.

She is fatally struck by one of the villain’s rot arrows while protecting her royal pod, and dies shortly after passing the pod on to Mary Katherine. Her spirit later returns briefly to choose her successor.

Loosely. It draws from William Joyce’s children’s book “The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs,” though the film changes a lot of the story.

No. Queen Tara’s hair is not the identifying feature here, the green mermaid-cut outfit does that work. Style your own hair however is easiest.

Who voices Queen Tara in Epic?

What does Queen Tara pass on to Mary Katherine before she dies?

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