I love Halloween, and love to dress up, but I can't ever think of anything creative that's appropriate to wear with my kids, you know, something they would get. (My oldest is 7, youngest is 16 months.) Any fun suggestions?
2006-10-27 05:23:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Unfortunately, my kids won't let me coordinate. My son is set on being the grim reaper (morbidly appropriate since my husband is a funeral director!) and my two older girls both insist on being mermaids. Of course my baby doesn't care what she is for halloween.
2006-10-27 05:30:13 · update #1
Aha! This is what I did when my son was one. I got myself a black 50's-style circle skirt (I got a nice "vintage" velvet one from a thrift store, but ANY black skirt with a pretty wide bottom will do). Then I safety-pinned (pins on the inside) white yarn so that it made a spiderweb pattern (with me as the center of the web) on the surface. Then I got a pair of black sweatpants and a black sweatshirt to fit my tiny son. I got some scraps of fuzzy-looking black fabric from a craft store to glue onto his shirt, but you don't really have to do this. Then I took 3 pairs of old men's black dress socks and stuffed then with newspaper, then pinned them to be sets of legs running down the sides of his shirt. So he was the spider, I was the web. It was a big hit. If your other kids DID want to take part, they could be a fly (my husband made "fly eyes from two small cheap strainers hooked together) or a dragonfly with wire and gauze wings.
2006-10-27 06:22:40 · answer #1 · answered by Leslie D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
here is a cheap idea.
Last year I saw on the Martha Stewart show how they made a witches costume from black garbage bags and duct tape.
you need the drawstring bags. one they cut a slit in the area under the drawstrings so it was a bit longer and they cut ,in a zig zag, the bottom part of the bag off, that part is used for another part of the costume.
this one is for the top half of the costume. It is put on like a tube top with the drawstrings as the shoulder straps. pull and tie to fit.
don't worry about the strings coz they get covered later.
then another bag is cut to be the skirt, zig zag like the first and that is tied around the waist. Duct tape as much as needed to keep the top and bottom together.
they also cut a third bag in half to be the sleeves...they used duct tape to hold things in place. Just tape the sleves to the top.
the cut off parts are used to make the cape and they pulled on the zig zag points to stretch them.(also did on skirt)
It was pretty cool and waterproof but you may need scissors to cut the costume off when done.
I hope I explained enough for you to figure out how to do it.
a half dozen bags and tape are cheap especially if you already have them around
where you cut the zig zag depends on your size.
the sleeves bag is cut down the sides so one half the drawstring can be each sleve gather at the neck...
cut and fit the dress to size.
just add a hat and your good to go.
2006-10-27 20:30:23 · answer #2 · answered by surfnsfree 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
paint the ball structure gray and draw some craters (stumble on a photo of the moon and be conscious what the craters appear like). as for the comet, use yellow structure paper (stumble on a percentfor that too) or mushy yellow foam that hardens. then get some cord (possibly from some old hangers) and make it right into a round structure and glue-gun the comet to the cord and fix the cord to the gown. good luck!
2016-12-05 07:09:58 · answer #3 · answered by kobayashi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always went as a witch. Not with creepy make-up or anything but the dress, the hat and the broom.
2006-10-27 05:31:52 · answer #4 · answered by KathyS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you all going to coordinate?
How about The three little pigs? Or Dorothy, the lion, and the scarecrow? Have fun and be safe!
2006-10-27 05:26:42 · answer #5 · answered by Light 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dress everyone like Raggedy Ann & Andy, then you are the Raggedy Family.
Make everyone a different color crayon.
Or dress everyone like a different animal and go as a zoo.
2006-10-27 05:26:17 · answer #6 · answered by Robyn C 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go as the Adam's family or a Harry Potter lot.
2006-10-27 05:40:22 · answer #7 · answered by Wings*of*Light 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dress you & the littlest one as Kanga and Roo :-)
2006-10-27 05:31:34 · answer #8 · answered by tigglys 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Big bird?
2006-10-27 05:25:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋