Halloween Costumes?

[geowalkmama]

I am so excited I just finished ds Halloween costume... He is going to be the Hawiian Punch Boy... I finished dying a dixie cup (sailor hat) yesterday and it is [glow=red:d0d14be699]BRIGHT RED [/glow:d0d14be699] it is so cool... :cheer

Has anyone else made a costume that they are excited for their children to wear?

[hunnybumm]

I am still looking for some ideas. I don't know what to do. My mom alway made our costumes so we have never had to buy them. But I don't have a sewing machines and I don't want to buy a crappy plastic one from WalMart. My DS will probably be a bum, get some old jeans, put holes in them, a bandana for a bobo bag, some brown eye liner for a beard. (my sisters idea)

[Arwyn]

My DS will probably be a bum, get some old jeans, put holes in them, a bandana for a bobo bag, some brown eye liner for a beard. (my sisters idea)

That's a good one! Others:

(These are also all costumes that either I or one of my friends wore for Halloween when we were kids - usually made by our parents in a couple of hours the weekend before, or by us that afternoon when we were older. Fond memories...)

for a princess, take a thin piece of cardboard, roll it into a cone, staple it shut, and drape with some playsilks or other pretty fabrics for a princess (or vampire princess :devil) hat;

white sheet with holes for eyes for a ghost (WAY underdone these days - I think it's a classic whose time for revival has come!);

same basic outfit as bum but add straw sticking out at hands, feet, other random places for a scarecrow (very seasonal without being overly frightening, sigh);

for the older kid, slick back the hair, black shirt, black pants, and a piece of black or red fabric tied into a cape - add a 99c pair of teeth, and y'have yourself a groovy little vampire for practically nothing!;

ANYTHING (maybe some really old clothes you were about to give up on anyway) slashed up and covered in fake blood;

this one's good for those who like heroism with their halloween - make/buy a uniform (maybe an old button up shirt with some eppaulettes sewn on), rough it up a bit, and add an old-fashioned cloth bandage (preferably with some blood) on the arm, over one eye, across the chest, etc.

Can you tell I'm a believer in the good ol' ghoulish pre-firefighter and fairies Halloween days? I also am way more fond of the homemade (cheap!) costume than of anything store-bought.

Not that bumblebees, fairies, and firefighters aren't absolutely adorible, but I do wish we weren't so willing to allow the comericialization (and "PC"ization) of the day. (So go geowalkmama and your little Hawaiian Punch Boy! :cheer)

For those who do "do" Halloween, we should definitely have a picture swapping forum. I wanna see all y'alls' little monsters!

Not having any of my own, I might just give my poodle a mohawk, stick a vampire cape on my shepard, and, well, black cats don't need halloween costumes...

[geowalkmama]

Does anyone even remember the Hawiian Punch BOy? My DH said that it was so obscure that no one was going to know who he was...sigh...I didn't think of the commercialism...oh well next year I suppose...

[pmcgary]

I want to dress my 5 yr old son as Charlie Bucket from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate factory...He has the blond curls, I have an old backpack/satchel....

When he wears his red turtleneck and kakhais I think that is exactly what he look like.

He told me he wants to Robin from King Titans....Took me 3 days to figure out that Robin of this show is the same Robin from Batman....boy I am getting old.

DD who is 7 wants to be a CHEERLEADER.

The "baby" at almost three I want to dress as Emily Elizabeth and have her walk our large blondish/red lab.......

Some how I don't htink my ideas will be well received.

[geowalkmama]

I think your Ideas are great... charlie and emily elizabeth!! how cute...:) I can remember when I wanted to be a cheer leader for halloween...it was kind of gory though...I wantet to be one that had been in a car accident...eewwyuck...I don't know what I was thinking...it didn't happen though...parents wouldn't let me out of the house...ahh... to torment parents...long days gone...

[Arwyn]

I do remember the Hawaiian Punch Boy (vaguely), but that wasn't the kind of "commercialism" I was thinking of (example: store-bought Hershey Kiss costume: boring. Homemade with LOTS of tinfoil Kiss costume: COOL!)

Um... Emily Elizabeth? :hmm

I've done the dead cheerleader bit! It was fun. :sly: My parents just always took the basic precautions so that I only played one, not became one... :yikes

[CraftyMommaOf2]

Emily Elizabeth is the little girl from Clifford the Big Red Dog.

On a side note: John Ritter's little girl watched the show after he died and when she heard his voice she started saying daddy. :cry How sad is that?! It was in some interview.

[Sheena]

I love making my kids costumes, my mom always sewed ours. Max is being a Black Widow spider... easy. The hardest year was the year he was the planet Jupiter... that was a challenge, lol. Last year he was a Jellyfish, which was surprisingly easy, lol.

[pmcgary]

My SIL just called and left a message that she wants to get the kids together this Thurs/Friday in thier costumes.....Hello....is Halloween this weekend? I never have costumes done until the night before the party.....In fact, when my oldest was 3 she decided two weeks before Halloween to be a kangaroo....her baby brother was just over a month old ...and I finished it at 6 on halloween- we went out for candy at 6:30....We got home and she puked all over the floor. To this day she tells people she ate too much candy....Funny thing is she hadn't even touched one peice.

[pmcgary]

My SIL just called and left a message that she wants to get the kids together this Thurs/Friday in thier costumes.....Hello....is Halloween this weekend? I never have costumes done until the night before the party.....In fact, when my oldest was 3 she decided two weeks before Halloween to be a kangaroo....her baby brother was just over a month old ...and I finished it at 6 on halloween- we went out for candy at 6:30....We got home and she puked all over the floor. To this day she tells people she ate too much candy....Funny thing is she hadn't even touched one peice.

[hunnybumm]

I love the devil idea! I think I want to dress DS up as one. I can get some red yarn and knit him a hat with horns and a neck tie (he HATES hats lately). I can then get a cheapo Walmart devil costume or some red sweats and a shirt and a cape... I could probably make the cape but cuting up some red fabric. If I dressed up like an angel it would be perfect. We would match my tatoos. I have a Hello Kitty angel on one side of my chest and a devil Hello Kitty on the other.

[ravingcutie]

My girls are going to be princesses.. or at least it started out that way. Yes, they are only 6 months old, but we always have a halloween costume party at some family member's house.

So here's what we have going (but keep in mind that grandma keeps adding random things to their outfits...)

Sleep N' Play oufits, so they don't freeze their baby butts off, in green and pink - so people realize they're actually two different people. Then they have those ribbony/charmed hair bands that older girls usually wear in their hair, except they have one for each of their wrists and ankles, to match their pink/green outfits. At one point they were going to be clowns, but that frightened DH, so we added the glittery cone hat with ribbons trailing out the top for princesses. However, Mom just brought over angel wings for them for their halloween outfits...so maybe they're halloween princesses/not clowns/angels in our pajamas, this year?

[Sheena]

A devil costume is really easy! What I did was just to buy a red thermal PJ outfit, like a union suit and then but the tail and horns separately. I wired the tail so it would stick out and then sewed it to the butt of the PJs. Add a pitchfork and: Voila! Instant Devil!

http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b2ce09b3127cce912f048ac0690000002610

Can't get the pics to work...

[hunnybumm]

Where did you get the red thermals? DS wears about 18 months size clothes, but could probably fit into a 2 T. I had a HARD time trying to find anything red in new born size (that wasn't girly) at Christmas. Walmart? Target? Guess I will have to take a peek. :)

[Sheena]

I got them at Target... but this was 3 or 4 years ago. I would try Wal-mart...

[hunnybumm]

Thanks, I live in a pretty small military town so stores are limited. ;) Walmart is where we buy just about everything.

[averymybaby]

OK, this is just a shameless brag on my dd, but can I just show you her Halloween costume? I got it at a thrift store for $12 this past weekend:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/julialroberts/604b506b.jpg

(she's sucking on her upper lip, her new "thing" this week)

I was going to make her a fairy costume, I even knit her some pants last month, but after looking up and down for some baby-sized plain fairy wings (just the wings, not the horrid green tinkerbell leotard they're attached to!!! :splat ) and coming up empty-handed DH sorta told me I should probably look for something else. :roll: So this was the next cutest thing. :pink

[amyrobynne]

My son's going to be Paul Bunyan. The outfit itself shouldn't be hard--jeans and a flannel shirt, I think. I need to make a fake axe and dye the stuffed cow I bought blue to turn him into Babe the Blue Ox.