Any ideas for homemade Halloween costumes for kids?

Answer 1

We had so much fun when the boys were little making their costumes. Being a single working mom of 3 boys we didn't have a lot of money so had to really inventive. The old standby was a hobo: Use old torn clothes, preferably too big, a rope or twine for a belt, old shoes. Buy a cheap straw cowboy had in the toy section and then run it in the dryer or give to the kids and tell them to take it outside and challenge them to make it look ratty, sit on it, walk on it, drag it behind your bike, we even ran over one with our car one time, this was my boys favorite step, then put a plastic daisy in the rim. For a beard we used Karo syrup to paint the beard and mustache on then stick coffee grounds to the syrup.

Good Luck and have fun with this project, take pictures of the whole project you will laugh for years to come.

Answer 2

A simple easy costume that costs barely nothing.
1.) Mouse: A brown shirt, brown pants, ears and a tail, face paint use a little pink for the nose.
2.) Witch or Sorcer: A hat, a broom from the closet, and an old sheet as a cape, a black dress for a girl, black pants and a dark shirt for a guy.
3.) LadyBug: A red shirt, black pants, some black sharpie for the dots on the back of the shirt.
4.) S'more: Card board for the cracker, a white out fit, a piece of card board painted brown for chocolate.
5.) Super Girl or Boy: Red skirt or pants, blue shirt, and a few sharpies to make the superman "s" on the shirt. A Cape.
Or you can check out this website:http://www.robinsfyi.com/holidays/halloween/costumes.htm

Answer 3

I made the cutest scarecrow costume for my child some years back heres what you need,

Yellow yarn
some type of hat (i used a straw hat i picked up from craft store)
suspenders or old jeans
some type of denim shirt

what to do:

cut yarn into desired lengths for hair and either sew (i did made it much sturdier) or glue (hot glue gun) the yarn ALL the way around the inside of hat (once your child puts the hat on cut the "bangs " shorter and out of the eyes)

then sew yarn all the way around the inside of the shirt sleeves (around the wrist) (it will hang over the hands) and also do this at the bottom of the pants (which you need to cut up about 2 inches above the ankles) cut a couple of different places in the pants leg and sew the yarn across on the inside (gives the appearence of them "looking" stuffed) Then day of wearing costume take a black or brown liner pencil and decorate face, my child did win costume contest with this one, its really not hard and once you get started you'll come up with some of your own ideas, the outcome is the CUTEST scarecrow you'll ever see. Good Luck!!!

Answer 4

Leotards and tights are the best o start with,adds things to it, boys cape favorite character icon on the front , girls black one add a tail of yarn with a type of wire to give the tail shape get a headband and glue dog ears on or any other animal, rabbit white with cotton tail and big ears, purple add purple balloons and go as the bunch of grapes from fruit of the loom . You can also use sweat suits and dec them in similar fashion; Orange and make a face on the top to look like a pumpkin add a orange hat. Overall and shirt put patches on add straw and straw head and you got scare crow,

Answer 5

use white sheets as ghosts. cut the eyes out and outline the eyes with a black marker. you can deisgn the sheet if you want or just leve it plain because everyone knows it is a ghost. kids could wera a black dress with black boots for a witch costume. use black lisptick or none at all. for the wiich's hat, use a old hat and pait it black and make a cone out of paper or other material to put on top of the hat. you may have to snip the cowboy hat in the middle to staple or glue the cone.

Answer 6

I always find great ideas on Familyfun.com They have monthly magazines that are sent out and the October issue is always filled with fun and easy costumes to make at home.

Answer 7

Spagetti and meatballs. Just wear a black or white sweatsuit, make a plate out of construction paper. Meatballs are painted styrofoam balls and spagetti is peach yarn. The sauce is red felt. You can even add a hat with some spagetti dangling and a meatball on it.

Answer 8

do a search for crafts for kids and there will be a link to something like dltk crafts for kids not sure of exact letters but it is a great site

also be creative go to the thrift store get and old recticle dress if it's a girl add beads or flowers to it
search the web for home made customs

Answer 9

for a little boy...put on flannel shirt, jeans, they can either wear a cowboy hat and be a cowboy...for a ball cap and be a farmer...just change the hat and shoes to fit the one he wants...

for a little girl....put on a white dress ..sew a white see through scarf to a headband..and she can carry a bouquet a flowers and be a bride.........or she can wear a black dress and wear a witches hat and carry a cat..she's a witch....

these are several that my kids have wore

Answer 10

Anything scarier then opening the fridge and finding something wrapped up and not knowing what it is??? Wrap them in aluminum foil and paint their face green, have them goes as a left over!!!! People will love it and SCORE on the candy.